publicity?
I am in this project, and keep trying to find any kind of publicity o press for it online and there is NADA. Anybody have any info?
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My son did one scene at the Musicians Institute in Hollywood and is supposed to get copy and credit and I haven't seen his picture or name up on the cast list. I wonder if it's because it isn't being released until the end of February. If you have any 411 could you let me know and if I see or hear something I will do the same.
Thanks,
Joan
Q&A story with director of the film.
Director Gregory Hatanaka explores musical obsessions in 'Violent Blue'
Continue reading on Examiner.com: Director Gregory Hatanaka explores musical obsessions in 'Violent Blue' - Los Angeles Asian American Movie | Examiner.com
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Wtf was with the pig slaughter scene. What a terrible movie.
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Just got the movie and the first scene showing a slaughter of a pig, then left by iteslf, was enough for me to return the movie for a full refund. It is a perfect example of how cruelty is done in the name of "art". How can those who created the movie justify killing an innocent creature for a 30 second lead into the movie to supposedly show how character die. You want to do this, do it with CGI or other means, not a true killing. Whether ones will comment on how the pig would have died anyways, in this manner it was done was just a complete waste of a life. Period. If I needed to see slaughter, I could watch the videos freely available on a PETA site. How many others thought this might have been a good movie, seen the first few seconds and seeing the pig slaughter, then turning it off? I would bet a lot. With the trauma people see in the news, in seeing their various family members killed off in the wars the past few years, in seeing their lives destroyed in flooding in New Orleans, in quakes in Haiti, in tsunamis in Japan, in twisters in Joplin, *this* killing of a innocent pig for the "greater good of the movie plot" is what truly exemplifies how Hollywood is more into selling bloodporn in movies vs a great movie. Gregory Hatanaka should be ashamed of producing this scene in a movie which may have had more folks watch it if the slaughtering of the pig wasn't scene in the movie.
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For the record, as part of the production team, I can assure everyone that the filmmakers did NOT slaughter a pig. The video came from Youtube, and as the "reviewer," and I use the term loosely, said, there are "videos freely available on a PETA site."
He was correct in interpreting the scene. It was meant to be provocative and disturbing. It accurately depicts the lead character's mental state.
And just because the movie was filmed in L.A. does NOT mean that it came from Hollywood. The entire point of being an independent filmmaker is to show that Hollywood is made up of freelancers, not one big conglomerate.
T. L. Young