TRUE BEAUTY PAST THE BREAKERS

I'm trying to see how obscure I can get with the titles and people still understand what the hell I'm talking about. Two more hints: Song. And:


Exactly: 'True Beauty' was accepted into this year's Santa Monica International Film Festival, taking place November 4-10. You're so smart...

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TRUE BEAUTY IN AUSTIN

I like Dallas, I lived in Dallas for over 15 years, but when it comes to the only really cool city in Texas, there's just one: Austin. It's a great place, and they've got a great film festival. Usually at festivals they give out awards to some half-dead celebrity from forty years ago, or Errol Flynn's stuntman's wardrobe assistant. Now in Austin, Michale Keaton is giving Ron Howard an award. That kind of festival. And 'True Beauty' is part of it. So I'm going out there, and if for nothing else then for the filmmaker happy hour Friday night.
The Austin Film Festival runs October 22-29.

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TRUE BEAUTY IN THE LION'S DEN

Maybe I should have translated the titel of this film festival earlier then today when I decided to write about it: 'True Beauty' was accepted into this years La Boca del Lobo International Short Film Festival, taking place in Madrid, Spain, October 21-30. The Lion's Den. From what I hear it's a slugfest with shorts being merciless booed off the screen. I mean, their logo's got two crossed sabres...



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TRUE BEAUTY IN ASHEVILLE

After spending twenty minutes trying to figure out something interesting about Asheville, I gave up, and here's why: Asheville is too nice. Not only because they accepted 'True Beauty' in their festival this year, running November 12 through 15, but because it is one of the '50 Most Alive Places to Be' (Modern Maturity), one of 'America's Top 25 Arts Destinations' (AmericanSytle), the 'most vegetarian-friendly' small city in America (PETA), and even the 'Happiest City for Women (Self Magazine). Well, there goes my cynism, right out the window.



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TRUE BEAUTY IN THE LAND OF THE DÖNER

Polish up them Umlauts: Turkish has got to be the language with the craziest spelling without completely going overboard and throwing the Latin alphabet out the window: 'gerçek güzellik bu gece' was accpeted into the Istanbul International Short Film Festival, running November 4 through 11. For the trivia nerds: Istanbul is the only city in the world situated on two continents, and depending on what side of the Bosphorus the screening is held, this could turn out to be an Asian premiere. But we might never know...

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Tell you what; just out of curiosity, I did a google-translation-thing on 'True Beauty', and I stand corrected: the craziest spelling might be Icelandic: sannur fegurð þessa nótt. what the f&*%? Who comes up with these letters?

TRUE BEAUTY ON THE LAKE

Oh sure, we've all heard about Sundance, Slamdance, maybe Raindance (booh!), or even Dances with Films, but those are just that: well known. Enter Lakedance. In Sandpoint, Idaho. And as of today, that's the only -dance festival I care about (until of course the others - except Raindance - booh! - call; then I do care greatly). 'True Beauty' will play November 5th @ 7:30 at the Panida Theater as part of The Lakedance International Film Festival.

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TRUE BEAUTY, NOW WITH HONORS

I had to dig this up myself while obsessivly googling my film: 'True Beauty' received an "Honorable Mention - Comedy" at the 7th iP Short Film Contest. Funny thing is that they didn't 'mention' that to me. iP stands for Independent Producer, and according to their website they are 'Hollywood's #1 Networking Source'. Great, now all I have to wait for is some bigshot in Hollywood to obsessively google my film and I should be set...

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TRUE BEAUTY AND EUROPE

This one's not just one lousy city in Europe but all over the map: Barcelona! Moscow! Athens! Stockholm! Budapest! ... and so on. You get the idea. It's a traveling Film Festival, the aptly named European Film Festival is, and 'True Beauty's along for the ride. It's Europe's biggest Indie Fest (so they say), and this here has nothing to do with it, it just looks cool:


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TRUE BEAUTY IN SALFORD

One thing European cities got that's very cool is them coats of arms. They all got lions and dragons and ornamental stuff that makes it look oh-so-European-aristocratic-snobbish. The stuff you find on a Marc Ecko shirt. Salford's got this one:
Pretty cool, right? Now here's the interesting part (and not that I'm projecting here), but guess what is the twin city of Salford since 1966? Clermont-Ferrand. Need I say more?
The Salford Film Festival takes place November 20th-24th.

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WHAT STATE LOVES 'TRUE BEAUTY'?

If you answered Kansas, you're wrong. It's Florida! And yet another city agreed to show our film. This time Miami, for the 8th Miami Short Film Festival, November 13-22nd. Maybe it's the heat, maybe it's the women in bikinis or the old people playing golf, who knows, but Florida, how we love thee...

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TRUE BEAUTY GOES MILE HIGH

Not talking about drugs here: 'True Beauty' was accepted into this year's Starz Denver Film Festival. This is big news people. They've been doing this for the last 32 years, and it's a major stop on the festival circuit. I mean, they had that guy on the red carpet a few years back:


Know what I mean?

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TRUE BEAUTY AND OJAI

Am I the only one who thinks of 100% Vitamin C? Or a black dude with an ill-fitting glove? Probably not, but 'True Beauty' was accepted into the 10th Ojai Film Festival, taking place November 5-8 in Ojai, Ventura. Got nothing to do with health or crazy people, see?

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