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Update #26: DRAINED WINS AWARD #4! At the Boston International Film Festival

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Update #25: Last Call for Addresses

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Update #24: DRAINED WINS AGAIN!!! Third Festival, Third Best Short Award

Posted on March 16

WOW! We're really happy to announce that at Drained's NYC Premier, and third festival it picked up it's third BEST ANIMATED SHORT AWARD at the 2012 LES* Film Festival.

The panel of judges consisted of Logan Hill Senior Editor of GQ, and actress Susan Sarandon.

Here's a link for more info: http://lesfilmfestival.com/archives/3167

Best, 

NICK & JON

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      Shaunak Khire on March 29

      Wow ! So proud to have backed this film. Great going guys !

Update #23: Second Festival, Second Best Short Award!

Posted on March 7

Hey Everyone, 

Drained just won the BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT award at the 2012 DCIFF (Washington DC).  

Hopefully we can keep up this pace in future festivals, but we're really happy how well things have been going so far!

Click here:  http://dciff-indie.org/

Best

NICK & JON

Update #22: Drained NYC Premier next week

Posted on March 3

We're very happy to announce the NY Premier for Drained will be next weekend at the LES Film Festival.  It should be an exciting fest with Susan Sarandon as one of this year's judges, and Willem Dafoe attending the Drained screening. (Drained is playing before his feature film.)

I hope all of you in NYC will be able to make it to this great festival. For more info go to: http://lesfilmfestival.com/?s=Drained

They're screening it four different times, so find which date works for you and go!

NICK & JON

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      Tieg Zaharia on March 3

      whoa, was just going to buy tickets but it's already sold out. :D Congrats guys!

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Jon Heder - Producer. A graduate with a BFA in Animation. He was most successful for playing the title character of the 2004 comedy film Napoleon Dynamite. He has also acted in the films The Benchwarmers, School for Scoundrels, Blades of Glory, Mama's Boy, and When in Rome, and provided voice talents in the animated films Monster House and Surf's Up.

Nick Peterson - Producer, Writer, Director. Graduated from Calarts in the Experimental Animation Program. His hauntingly emotional stop motion film “MuM” won numerous awards around the globe, including a Student Emmy, and an official selection at the Sundance Film Festival. Nick Also wrote and directed the Live Action Feature film Dark Mind, and now divides his time between Commercial, Feature film and Music Video work.

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