$8,000 Award Winning Kiwi Film in Third Festival

$8,000 Award Winning Kiwi Film Selected in Competition for a Third Festival

Eight Broken Fingers, the second no-budget feature film by Michael Thorp, has been selected in competition for a third festival, the Brilliant Light International Film Festival of Los Angeles, in February http://www.brilliantlightfilmfestival.com/officialselections.html

Admittedly, it's not earth shattering news by any stretch of the imagination, but for an $8,000 film - in its own little world, it's a minor achievement :)

Eight Broken Fingers won the Best Foreign Film award at the L.A. FAIF International Film Festival last October, and screened in competition at the Tokatsu film festival in Tokyo shortly after.

Eight Broken Fingers begins with the following strongly worded Director's note, which addresses the central theme of the film; the noble abuse of power.

DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT

I find it an incredible and perverse state of affairs that the only people in the U.S. really benefiting from the hundreds of billions of U.S. tax dollars spent on the continuing 2003 Iraqi war and occupation is an elite group of U.S. oil, armament, and logistical support companies, many with past or present ties to the Whitehouse.

The return to the U.S. public, who have been fed a fearful campaign of half-truths and outright lies about Iraq, is an ever- weakening U.S. economy, accelerated oil prices, over 100,000 Iraqi deaths, increasing terrorism, extremism, religious and racial stigmatism, and hatred towards the U.S. around the world, and the destabilization of the Middle East.

The extent to which power remains unchecked and unaccountable, will be the extent to which it is open to abuse, as appears to be the case with the present G.W. Bush administration.

Michael C. Thorp
August, 2006

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ENDS

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