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LA BLUES RELEASING ON DVD 4/22/2008. AVAILABLE NOW FOR PRE-SALE ON AMAZON!FILM FESTIVAL SCREENINGS:METHOD FEST April 4, 2007 9PM www.methodfest.comNEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL April 25, 2007 8:30PM www.newportbeachfilmfest.comPACIFIC PALISADES FILM FESTIVAL OPENING NIGHT FILM MAY 17, 2007DGA FINDER'S SERIES May 18, 2007 3pm www.directorsguild.comTIBURON FILM FESTIVAL March 14, 2008Written and directed by Ian Gurvitz, (Wings, Becker and the recently published “Hello, Lied the Agent, and other bullshit you hear as a Hollywood TV writer”) LA Blues is an independently made dramatic comedy, starring Anthony Michael Hall (The Breakfast Club; 16 Candles; The Dead Zone), Dave Foley (Kids in the Hall; Newsradio), Kevin Rahm (Judging Amy), Sean Maguire (The Class), William Ragsdale (American Pie; Brother’s Keeper; Grosse Point), Nicholas D’Agosto (Election), and featuring Marsha Thomason (Las Vegas). Following in the tradition of Diner, Swingers, and Sideways, LA Blues is a story about guys and the way they communicate, through insults, trash talk and usually burying their true feelings but still, when needed, manage to be there for one another. As the narrator says, “Women share; guys bitch.”Opening in a Hollywood parking lot on New Years eve, as a crowd gathers around an ambulance and a guy is being loaded in on a gurney. The story is told in flashback by one of the characters to a female detective who comes on the scene of what may have been an attempted suicide and he unravels the story of a year in the lives of 6 guys who hang out in a blues bar in Hollywood, watch sports, trash talk, and bitch about their lives, as they go through problems ranging from divorce to construction nightmares to gambling addiction, alcoholism, child custody fights, and all the headaches and heartaches men go through in the course of their lives. As the story unfolds, the audience is left wondering which one of these guys ended up in the ambulance, and why.The blues soundtrack is true to the nature of the music itself, and to the movie, as it’s about heartache and longing, loving and losing, striving and failing, and all the hell in between. And just like the blues, the movie is about joy and sadness, humor and sorrow, and ultimately about hope and killing your demons and, as one of the characters says in the end: “having a few friends around to watch your back as you do it.”.. Send my pics and video to your cell phone!
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DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT:For most TV writers, no matter how well they’re doing, making a movie is still a goal. While working in TV for 20 years, I wrote several screenplays in my spare time, and sent them around via agents and manager to various studios. I optioned one. Did a rewrite on another. Had sporadic interest here and there, but nothing more. About 10 years ago, I wrote a script I liked and decided to go the independent route, putting together a cast and director and going in search of financing. And after a decade of having actors, producers, directors attached at different times, it eventually fizzled out. So when I found myself with another script I liked, I decided to bypass even that system entirely and self-finance the film as a way of expediting the process and getting actors aboard and leaving development executives completely out of the mix.In Hollywood, money buys creative freedom. If you can pay for it yourself, you can make it the way you want. And that’s what we did. In tandem with the casting director and producer, we simply set up shop, cast the film, and through a network of contacts established over years of working in TV, put together a talented group including set designers, art directors, wardrobe people, lighting, DP, and, made this movie exactly as we wanted.

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L.A. BLUES DVD RELEASE

L.A. BLUES WILL BE RELEASED ON DVD ON APRIL 22. NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-SALE ON AMAZON!
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