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Five-time Emmy winner and Independent Spirit Award nominee Paul Devlin’s new film, THE FRONT MAN, premieres in Los Angeles and then in Orange County at the LA Comedy Festival,  followed by screenings at the Newport Beach Film Festival. Director Paul Devlin and star Jim Wood will attend both screenings. 

THE FRONT MAN is a departure for filmmaker Paul Devlin, whose documentaries (Power Trip, BLAST!) have won him over a dozen film festival awards, an Independent Spirit Award nomination and a global audience. Thirteen years in the making, THE FRONT MAN is a rare nonfiction rock ‘n roll comedy love story. 

TEST written and directed by Chris Mason Johnson will open in Los Angeles, and on VOD platforms, on June 6th and New York on June 13th via Variance Films. TEST which won the award for Outstanding U.S. Dramatic Feature at OUTFEST 2013 stars Scott Marlowe, Matthew Risch, Kristoffer Cusick, Rory Hohenstein, Damon Sperber, and James Sofranko.

Set in the free-spirited San Francisco of 1985, Test lovingly portrays this exciting and harrowing era as young Frankie (Scott Marlowe) confronts the challenges of being an understudy in a modern dance company where he’s taunted to “dance like a man.” Frankie embarks on a budding relationship with Tom (Matthew Risch), a veteran dancer in the same company and the bad boy to Frankie’s young innocent. 

The captivating dance sequences were especially choreographed for the film by acclaimed U.S. choreographer Sidra Bell, and the film’s vibrant soundtrack includes work by ’80s icons Jimmy Somerville (Bronski Beat), Klaus Nomi, Romeo Void, Laurie Anderson, Martha and the Muffins, Cocteau Twins and Sylvester.

A River Changes Course

12 independent films will make their digital debut this spring through a variety of platforms and storefronts, via the Sundance Institute’s Artist Services program. Titles began premiering this week, and will roll out through June 3.  Among the films making their digital premieres is A River Changes Course, which won the World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and paints an intimate portrait of the lives of three families struggling to maintain their traditions and way of life amidst the rapid changes and hard choices forced by globalization in Cambodia.