Revolution was awarded Best Music Video at the 2008 Hollywood Black Film Festival, beating out the Give It To Me video by Timbaland, Justin Timberlake, and Nelly Furtado! This year, HBFF screened 119 films over the course of their 6 day celebration of black film. This was Revolution’s third award, and a great way to end its spree of seven festivals over the past ten weeks.

The Hollywood Black Film Festival (HBFF), dubbed “The Black Sundance,” is an annual 6-day celebration of black cinema drawing together established and rising filmmakers, popular film and television stars, writers, industry executives, emerging artists and diverse audiences from Southern California and around the world. HBFF 2008 attendees enjoyed a whirlwind of six days hustling to see films, attending panels and workshops at the adjunct Infotainment Conference, and partying into the wee hours of the night.

Check out Filmthreat.com for more information on the 2008 Hollywood Black Film Festival winners.

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Trevor Parham, Writer/Producer of Revolution, was interviewed last week by the Oakland Post News Group for a story on film diversity and the San Francisco Black Film Festival. Trevor discusses the inspiration for the film, and the organic process of assembling a production team of close friends to create Revolution…

All of our cast, crew, and extras were just friends of ours. We sent out a mass text message a day or two before the shoot and had about 60 people show up for an all-day Sunday shoot. Some of the people I hadn’t even invited, because I hadn’t seen them in years… they just showed up because they heard it was the place to be.

Click here to read the full interview…

http://postnewsgroup.net/2008/06/06/revolution/

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Revolution was awarded Best Music Video at the 2008 Sweet Auburn International Film Festival on Saturday May 11th. The awards ceremony was held at the King Center - the official, living memorial dedicated to the advancement of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. SAIFF hosted over 40 films this year from three different countries. Revolution was among five films to highlight hip hop music.

The mission of SAIFF is to showcase short films, music videos, documentaries, screenplays and full length features from around the globe. Traditionally the Sweet Auburn SpringFest has been the #1 street festival in the Southeast and it still is today. The festival has been around for 25 years. More than 500,000 patrons visit the street festival each year. With the addition of the film festival several doors has been opened for talented filmmakers.

This year the festival honored Bill Nunn (Pictured Above - School Daze, Do The Right Thing, Spiderman), Afeni Shakur (Tupac’s “dear” mama), and Kenny Leon (Director of A Raisin In The Sun 2008) for their outstanding work in the field of black entertainment. This was Revolution’s first award at a black film festival and it was a privilege to be acknowledged at the King Center amongst such influential leaders in black entertainment .

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Revolution received the Audience Award for Best Music Video at the 2008 Rincon International Film Festival. Over 60 films from 14 countries were screened this year. Revolution was one of ten music videos selected for the competition, and was so well received by the audience that they elected it for this award. The award demonstrated the true power of the people. We got this cool trophy too!

Revolution will be screening next at the Sweet Auburn International Film Festival on Thursday May 8th @6pm at the Auburn Avenue Research Library - 101 Auburn Avenue NE Atlanta, GA 30303.

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JUNE 3 - 8, 2008
BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA

Revolution has been accepted at the 2008 Hollywood Black Film Festival!

HBFF, dubbed “The Black Sundance,” is an annual, six-day celebration of Black cinema, serving as a forum to showcase the talents of Black filmmakers and enhance appreciation for Black filmmaking. The festival has become a focal point for Hollywood ’s African-American creative community, attracting producers, executives, screenwriters, film and television personalities, aspiring artists and diverse audiences from Southern California and around the world.

The slate includes 51 shorts, 11 student films, 2 animated films and 2 music videos… Revolution will be competing with Give It To Me (featuring Timbaland, Nelly Furtado, and Justin Timberlake) for Best Music Video.

This is an exciting opportunity and arose only one week after Revolution’s nomination for Best Short Film at the Arizona Black Film Festival! Revolution is already getting some attention so we’re excited to see what happens in two months at the Hollywood Black Film Festival!

We should have more info on our HBFF screening time soon, but until then…

Revolution will be screening at the following 4 film festivals:

LA United Film Festival: April 18th - 20th in Beverly Hills

Rincon International Film Festival: April 22nd - 26th in Puerto Rico

Sweet Auburn International Film Festival: May 7th - 11th in Atlanta

Florida Music Festival’s Indie Film Jam: May 14th - 17th in Orlando

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Revolution received an official nomination for Best Short Film at the 2008 Arizona Black Film Showcase. 40 short, feature, and documentary films were screened this year, a record in AZBFS history. Revolution was one of three films selected for Best Short Film, and received a a roaring applause when a clip from the final scene played in the awards ceremony in Phoenix on the evening of Saturday March 29th.

Revolution will be screening again at the LA United Film Festival on Sunday, April 20th at 8:10pm at the Fine Arts Theater - 8556 Wilshire Blvd. Beverly Hills, CA. If you’re in the Los Angeles area, come for the screening and stay for the after party!

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Revolution has been accepted to four film festivals in the past two weeks. We’ve submitted to over a dozen festivals and haven’t been rejected from any so far.

We’ve been using withoutabox.com to submit to all of the festivals and it has worked out really well so far. The setup process is pretty quick… and from there you browse through the listings, select festivals, and send in your application fees and discs. They also send regular email announcements about popular festivals.

Here’s our current acceptance list:

Arizona Black Film Festival: March 27th - 30th in Phoenix

LA United Film Festival: April 18th - 20th in Beverly Hills
Rincon International Film Festival: April 22nd - 26th in Puerto Rico

Sweet Auburn International Film Festival: May 7th - 11th in Atlanta

Check back to see if Revolution is accepted at a festival in your city.

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KPFA 94.1 just aired the interview with the Napalm Clique & Eklectyk Creative Media about the Revolution music video.

The interview featured Unity, F.L.O., and Tai Chi of the Napalm Clique, and Trevor Parham & Aled Ordu of Eklectyk Creative Media. Revolution DVDs were also given away to listeners that called in during the breaks.

Big ups to Queen Jeannine, who invited the Napalm Clique to KPFA and conducted the interview! Be sure to check out her show, Chocolate Octave, at 12am on the 4th Thursday of every month.

You can listen to the entire radio show on kpfa.org (2 hours), or click on one of the clips below to hear segments from the 40min interview with the Napalm Clique.

KPFA - Revolution: Entire Interview (~40 min)
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KPFA - Revolution: Part 1 (Unity, F.L.O., Tai Chi, Word to Our Ancestors)
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KPFA - Revolution: Part 2 (F.L.O., Tai Chi, Unity, Revolution)
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KPFA - Revolution: Part 3 (Trevor Parham, Unity, F.L.O., Tai Chi)
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KPFA - Revolution: Part 4 (F.L.O., Unity, Aled Ordu, Trevor Parham, Everyday)
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We just added a few dozen production stills  to the photos section, including stills from the footage that didn’t make the final cut.

We’ve also started adding  short video clips from our behind the scenes footage to the videos section. You’ll see interviews with the cast and crew, plus a few freestyles from the Napalm Clique.

Keep checking back for more updates to our media galleries!

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I spent the last couple days duplicating some giveaway DVD screeners of the video. We’ll probably have some professionally duplicated within the next few weeks, but these should get us by for now. It looks like much more than a DVD-R when you print labels on inkjet printable discs.

For anyone who’s curious, I have an EPSON Stylus Photo R220 that prints directly onto CDs/DVDs. I’ve bought two of these now over the past couple of years and they’ve both been worth every penny. Check out EPSON’s current model here.

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