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First, if you are able to join us in Los Angeles on Friday May 31st at 9:30pm, you can now buy tickets to our Dances With Films screening at the following link. We're expecting tickets to go fast so don't hesitate. We're super-excited to share this movie with everyone that can make it to the show. Most of the cast and crew will be there.

https://www.movietickets.com/purchase/perf_id/707427860/movieid/163497/language/0

You can also help spread the word to friends on Facebook by inviting them to our event page here…

https://www.facebook.com/events/376231239160135/

Finally, I wanted to take a moment to announce that Jamie Cobb has won an award for Best Editing from the Los Angeles Movie Awards. When we screened in Phoenix, the pacing and construction of the movie received quite a bit of praise and was always acknowledged by someone in the audience during each of our Q&As. We're all very proud of Jamie's contribution to this movie. 

The movie also won an Award of Excellence, but for my money, acknowledging the lady who sculpted and shaped this movie from all the raw material we provided is the one that means the most.

Bien hecho, Jamie!

Early this morning, John T. Woods and I were interviewed on the Dave Pratt Live radio show. It was a nice opportunity to start talking about the movie as we ramp up to our World Premiere this Friday Night at the Phoenix Film Festival. You can listen to the five minute interview in the attached audio file.

I'm very proud of the movie that our backers enabled us to make and we're falling over ourselves with nervous anticipation of playing it before a theatrical audience this weekend. Some of our backers have made the trip from New York, Texas and elsewhere to celebrate  the occasion with us. I'll be active on Facebook and Twitter where you can follow our journey here in Phoenix through the weekend.

Zak Forsman

JOHN T. WOODS & ZAK FORSMAN ON DAVE PRATT LIVE!

With our world premiere screening at the Phoenix Film Festival on the horizon, it's a good time to give you a preview of the movie you helped us to make. There's really not much else to say but, "thank you."

You can show your friends this trailer for the movie you helped fund by sharing the link to this update on Facebook or Twitter, or by sending them directly to the video with this link:

TRAILER – https://vimeo.com/50881570

The music in this trailer is by our composer, DEKLUN. And the last song "Think of Tomorrow" is by LEITBUR and available for download.

On a personal note, I want to acknowledge two people. I'm very proud of the work John T. Woods has done here. He's a true star, a true leading man, the kind of actor you want to watch get in and out of trouble a hundred times before the credits roll. 

And I want to thank my editor and wife, Jamie. She logged more months crafting this movie than any of us. She single-handedly took all the material we shot and built the movie shot by shot and cut by cut. 

OFFICIAL SITE – http://downanddangerousmovie.com

Hello everyone, I'd like to introduce you all to Paul Boxer. He's what I'd call a uniquely principled smuggler, if there is such a thing. He helped us put together the "Smuggler's Mystery Box" packages that we sent out last week to the backers that chose that perk. I'll let him take it from here… – Zak

PAUL BOXER: Most people want to know how I got into this business. And frankly, it's not too different from any other business. You have the buying, importing, sales, advertising. I let everyone know when I'm back from South America so they know it's fresh and good. But to me, the cocaine trade is a wonderful game – to meet the different people, to read them – it's like living a movie. Now listen, I'm not a hard person and I'm not even that strong physically, but I can put on a look and I can act like I'm carrying heat. If there's a couple of men behind me I act like they're my back-up. I just make it happen. And of course I get by on an awful lot of luck to pull off a dozen smuggles from South America and not get touched. Some might call it idiot's luck.

So I guess the real question you have is how do I do it? Well… I'll tell you. Every time I'm carrying, I always go through once without anything, using the same method. You always do a blind run. And if that run gets hit, I scratch it. Further, all my scams are designed so that the person carrying the load can walk away clean if the cocaine is discovered. That's why I never hide it under my clothes. How are you going to deny it's yours if you're wearing it? 

But hey, enough about me… It's been a pleasure meeting Zak and the team behind this movie. They invited me to put together their "Smuggler's Mystery Box" – a gift that contained some secret files on a USB Key. It was pretty entertaining to see how much fun everyone had with them. Here's a photo that backer Bernie Leinfelder took when she received hers. 

As for me, I'm recently back from my 13th trip to South America and I thought I'd share some short video clips. You may notice at the end of each, that I'm a big fan of Michael Caine – even got an autographed picture. And I wouldn't be true to myself if I didn't make a little game out of it for you. 24 of you have already followed the clues that a few backers uploaded to Facebook and Twitter from that USB Key. If you can figure it all out, you'll be rewarded with your very first look at Down and Dangerous.

Enjoy,

– Paul Boxer

I. GOING SOUTH

II. SNOWBOUND IN MÉXICO

III. AIR TRAFFICK

IV. LOCAL CUSTOMS