In a dishy piece, The New York Post calls out Bill Gates for cavorting around Sundance 2010 like a drunken spring lamb, as he “busted some moves amidst beauties and flirted up a storm all over town.”   And who did Bill rub shoulders with, according to the piece?  “Gates chatted up filmmaker Ondi Timoner, the auteur behind documentaries ‘DIG!’ and the upcoming ‘We Live in Public’…”   Our very own Ondi!  And Ondi totally scooped their story by tweeting the below pic at least two days before they ran with it.   Read about Bill’s dorky dance moves and more HERE.

If you FOLLOW ONDI ON TWITTER, you are getting the updates on Ondi’s glamorous stint as a documentary juror this year.   As she does the dirty work of judging the competition films in preparation to pass on her 2009 Grand Jury crown, we at Interloper Films are getting ready for the DVD and video-on-demand release of WE LIVE IN PUBLIC at the start of March.  PREORDER the film, and also brace yourself for the big March 1st release festivities in cities across the country — more details to follow.

Gravitas Ventures and IndiePix are going to be releasing WE LIVE IN PUBLIC on March 1st, 2010 into tens of millions of homes on VOD (video on demand) and across digital platforms. The video on-demand release will be accompanied by a multi-city simultaneous theatrical event that will utilize the very technology the award winning documentary explores. After our digital debut, WE LIVE IN PUBLIC will have its national DVD release March 2 through New York-based independent distributor IndiePix.

The March 1, 2010 Multi-City Simulcast Event is a trail-blazing conclusion to what has been an aggressive 2009 festival tour, online campaign, and 15-city theatrical run. The excitement generated our release over the last year has already caused five major cities in the US and Canada to sign on to participating in this ground-breaking March 1st event. These include Los Angeles, CA, Denver, CO, Chicago, IL, New York, NY and Vancouver, BC – where a simultaneous screening of the film will take place followed by an interactive Q&A with Timoner and Harris from a performance space in Chicago. Distribution company, IndiePix, will host the New York screening. Each of the participating cities will be linked via a live webcast, with attendees able to participate in the live Q&A in theater and online audiences able to participate via Twitter. Celebrities are scheduled to participate from their home computers and webcams, and the event will include live performance pods, including fire throwers, trapeze artists and celebrity DJs that will continue the live webcast following the Q&A. The multi-city simulcast event will be webcast live on weliveinpublicthemovie.com. Our film is currently available for pre-order with a 15% discount prior to the DVD release!

Gravitas Ventures releases over 300 films annually in cable VOD including feature films, documentaries, animation, alternative sports, wrestling/mixed martial arts, comedy, and music concert programming. Gravitas’ acquisitions include: Lance Hammer’s Ballast (Sundance), Anat Baron’s Beer Wars, Stacy Peralta’s Crips and Bloods Made in America (Sundance), Jay Jonroy’s David and Layla (Cannes), Kate Churchill’s Enlightened Up!, Ryan Little’s Forever Strong, Marianna Palka’s Good Dick (Sundance), Kevin Rafferty’s Harvard Beats Yale: 29-29, Deborah Kampmeier’s Hounddog (Sundance), Georgina Riedel’s How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer (Sundance), Benson Lee’s Planet B-Boy (Tribeca), Stephanie Soechtig’s Tapped, Michael Keaton’s The Merry Gentleman (Sundance), and Robert VanAlkemade’s What Would Jesus Buy? (SXSW).

IndiePix is a New York-based distributor that delivers a highly-curated collection of the best Independent Films from around the world. They have a catalog of over 3,500 independent film gems – art-house, foreign, and documentary the IndiePix team selects the best titles from the international festival circuit. Avenues for distribution include event driven public exhibition, domestic and international broadcast licensing, and major Internet and cable digital channels. IndiePix’s proprietary distribution includes its patented Download-to-Own technology, its partnership with Streamami for its industry leading On-Demand streaming hi-resolution full screen presentations, and its proprietary retail sales and marketing capability.

We are so excited to team up with these amazing companies to get our film out there and into the hands of those of you who have supported us and cheered us on through this process, as well as in front of lots of new faces. Bring it on!

Tags: dvd release, simulcast, vod release

Oregonians!  We are bringing our Sundance 2009 Grand Jury Award winning doc to Portland, Oregon’s very own Hollywood Theater, beginning Friday, January 8th.

Hollywood Theatre  /// 4122 Northeast Sandy Blvd. Portland, OR‎  ///  (503) 281-4215‎

Click for a map of the Hollywood Theatre

We appreciate the warm welcome from the Oregon press.  The Portland Mercury calls WE LIVE IN PUBLIC a “fascinating, sick documentary worth seeing…  [STAFF PICK]” and The Oregonian describes the film as “timely and lively.”  Thanks!

We are also thrilled to be included in uber-film critic Roger Ebert’s top ten documentaries of 2009.  In his Chicago Sun-Times review he raves, “This is a remarkable film about a strange and prophetic man [FOUR STARS].”

Tell your Portland friends to get their tickets now — this is a limited run!

CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS AND SHOWTIMES

Portland is the final American city of our current theatrical tour.  We are looking forward to releasing WE LIVE IN PUBLIC on DVD and via video-on-demand at the start of March!

Happy holidays!
As the end of the year approaches and journalists compile their best-of-year (and best-of-decade)  lists, we’ve been excited to see WE LIVE IN PUBLIC get a lot of nods from various people who *clearly* have excellent taste.   One of our favorite reviews from the past year came from legendary film critic Roger Ebert, who gave us a four star review in October.  We are thrilled to be a part of his year-end round-up of the best docs of 2009, alongside some other amazing docs including TYSON, THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE, and ANVIL! THE STORY OF ANVIL.

“Josh Harris… was a myopic visionary, a man who saw the future more vividly than his own life… Filmmaker Ondi Timoner was on the scene from the start… Fascinating.”

Have a fun and safe New Year’s Eve and we’ll catch you next year!

We are launching our Washington DC theatrical run **tonight** at the Landmark E Street Cinema.  Our film screens at 5:30, 7:40 and 9:50 tonight, Friday December 11, and will continue to play all week.
E Street Cinema
555 11th Street NW
Washington DC 20004
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Screening times and ticket info

Roger Ebert recently raved in the Sun-Times, “This is a remarkable film about a strange and prophetic man.  [4 STARS]“  And just today, the Washington Post writes, “The title of Ondi Timoner’s Sundance award-winning documentary about the loss of privacy in the Internet age says it all: “We Live in Public.” Don’t believe it? Just try Googling “Tiger Woods” or “Michaele Salahi…”

Tell your DC-area friends!  Woo!