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      Robert Holt (New Zealand) on January 14

      This dead in the water?

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      Salvatron on August 10

      anything happening with this project anymore?

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      ReelRecognizeReal on September 8, 2009

      YAYAYAYAY!!!

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      marc scrivo on August 26, 2009

      "but I am in the gambling business, for good or ill; it is the business I have chosen, and the only governing rule that we all recognize is: always sit close to an exit and never trust a man who doesn't sweat."
      hunter s. thompson

      somehow this seems appropriate. to kickstart T H I S project...
      WELL DONE ARIN!

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      mikehedge on August 26, 2009

      well done on reaching and exceeding the goal

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      Dietmar Eisenhammer(Germany) on August 26, 2009

      I want to see this film in Wiesbaden(Germany)together with my friend Niklas whos is now with you!!!

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      Eva Marie on August 26, 2009

      Beautiful! I can't wait.

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      Mort on August 25, 2009

      This sounds so beautiful!! I wish all of you the best of wishes. Have a blast at the festival. I went to the National Rainbow Gathering this year and it was a blast!! This seems even bigger and more exciting!! Much love.

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      james k on August 25, 2009

      yo, where's my popcorn?

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Putting real life into film, podcasting to extend the narrative, captivating social network audiences, Google mapping the audience demand for a theatrical release and digitally distributing to millions of internet viewers around the world. The pioneering efforts of Arin Crumley haven’t gone un-noticed as Indiewire, MovieMaker, The Wall Street Journal, The Spirit Awards, The Sundance Channel, IFC TV, & many others have jumped into the echo chamber further demonstrating all that new media has to offer.

Today The Wall Street Journal lists Arin among the top 20 new media moguls, and applauds the co-creation of the popular independent film and online video series, Four Eyed Monsters. The film won the Sundance Channel Audience Award and was nominated for two spirit awards. Millions of viewers have engaged across multiple mediums with the project from podcasting, to MySpace to YouTube, facebook & twitter. The community around the film has participated in DIY theatrical screenings around the world and the audience has created material that has been put back into the project. The phenomena of Four Eyed Monsters has also attracted deals to air the film on IFC TV and the Super Channel as well as other foreign distribution interest.

Continuing his exploration into new media Arin also co-founder a research and development project called From Here to Awesome which has been uniting filmmakers to create the future models of collaboration, funding, production and distribution. All of this has lead to the development of many new films including one that was just shot out in the desert at burning man and is set for release in 2010. Keep track of all Arin’s projects and ideas on his blog at arincrumley.com

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