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Diane speaks out about her family’s deportation

Throughout my childhood I watched my parents try to become legal but to no avail. They lost their money to people they believed to be attorneys, but who ultimately never helped. That meant my childhood was haunted by the fear that they would be deported. If I didn’t see anyone when I walked in the door after school, I panicked.

And then one day, my fears were realized. I came home from school to an empty house. Lights were on and dinner had been started, but my family wasn’t there. Neighbors broke the news that my parents had been taken away by immigration officers, and just like that, my stable family life was over.

Not a single person at any level of government took any note of me. No one checked to see if I had a place to live or food to eat, and at 14, I found myself basically on my own.

My parents were deported” by Diane Guerrero in the LA Times

Watch ‘Ashley/Amber’ FREE on IndieFlix this Week

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Ashley/Amber is IndieFlix’s “FreeFlix” of the week. This a very sweet deal: you get to watch the newly remastered version for free if you register for a free IndieFlix account – no credit card required – and IndieFlix pays me for every minute watched, regardless of whether it’s a paying subscriber doing the watching.

WATCH ASHLEY/AMBER FREE ON INDIEFLIX

If you’d prefer to not register for IndieFlix, or if you are finding this post after the week ends, please click here for all the other ways to watch.

‘Ashley/Amber’ Re-mastered

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You may recognize Diane Guerrero as Maritza on Orange Is The New Black, the second season of which premieres this Friday. But I’m can smugly say I discovered her, when I cast her as the lead in my short film Ashley/Amber.

In a shameless attempt to ride on the coattails of OITNB’s success, today I’m releasing a remastered, color-corrected version of Ashley/Amber on demand through VHX and Vimeo for one dollar (actually, VHX allows you to pay more than that, should you be feeling generous). Your support goes directly to the development of my next film.

Ashley/Amber is also streaming on IndieFlix. Using these referral links, you can purchase a discounted subscription for $5/month, first month free or $35/year and access a curated collection of tons of sweet indie films, short and long.

Curious but don’t feel like shelling out a buck? You can still watch the less sexy, un-remastered version on Youtube.

For those of you who haven’t seen it yet, Ashley/Amber is a 22min dark comedy about an antiwar activist who becomes an internet celebrity after being outed as the one-time star of porn video. It premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2011 and has since screened around the world. Travis Keune of We Are Movie Geeks calls it “an introspective short film about American politics and a skewed sense of morality.” sonnycarson86 of Youtube.com says “I liked the movie but show more tits next time.”

Will there be a next time? In addition to throwing me a dollar, you can help me make it easier for me to make the next film by sharing this one on your preferred social networks:

http://ashley-amber.com/watch

trailer: http://vimeo.com/ondemand/ashleyamber/95555956
twitter: @ashleyamberfilm
fb: https://www.facebook.com/ashleyamberthemovie

official press release: http://ashley-amber.com/2014/06/from-porn-to-politics

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Thanks!
Rebecca

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ASHLEY/AMBER screening in Williamsburg this Sunday, 7/14

This may be the last time Ashley/Amber screens at an actual movie theater! And in Williamsburg no less — maximum convenience for all you yuppie scum who can still afford to live there (jk I love you pls give me $$ for next movie thnx). Still easy, and $5 beer special, for all you broke proles who live on lesser stops off G & L trains (jk u r yuppie scum too).

Cinema Club Vol. XVIII

CINEMA CLUB PRESENTS

Volume XVIII:
Short Films

Sunday
July 14th

Indie Screen
289 Kent Ave @ S. 2nd st
Doors – 4 PM
Show – 5 PM

$5 tickets
(cash only)
+
$2 Raffle Tickets
–Winner gets 2 FREE tickets to any film at Indie Screen —

Featuring films by:

David Bly
Addison Mehr
Rebecca Rojer
Geroni J
Max Sherwood

HAPPY HOUR 4-5PM
$5 Draft Beers

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ASHLEY/AMBER screening Mar. 29 in Prospect Heights

Super excited that Ashley/Amber is part of the first-ever Brooklyn Girl Film Festival! Hope some of you can make it! Also, check out the reviews in The Independent Critic and We Are Movie Geeks.

Ashley/Amber at the BROOKLYN GIRL FILM FESTIVAL
Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 6:30pm
Launchpad, 721 Franklin Ave, Brooklyn, NY, USA
screening in Short Films, Block 2
tix: $10 or $20 for day pass – purchase online
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ASHLEY/AMBER now on the Internet

I am so pleased to write that as of the past month, my short film has become outdated. Ashely/Amber is now a relic of another era.

The American protest movement has found it’s fighting spirit. Throughout the nation, the people are out in the streets. Normal people, by which I mean people who’ve never lived in a nudist cooperative house in the Bay Area, are debating the merits of consensus-based decision making and self-governance. We are openly asking: should we play by the rules, control our image, present a simple & easy message? Or is protest not just a means to an ends, but an assertion of democratic sovereignty, which therefore must accommodate the messiness of many opinions, values, and approaches?

The Occupy Movement has thus far negotiated this dilemma beautifully, adopting as its slogan a simple and appealing statement that asserts the rule of the people. The means is the end. We are the 99% and we want a government that represents us. So we assemble in the streets, and represent ourselves. But beyond the initial catharsis of overthrowing our apathy and helplessness, can we keep this going? I hope so, and I hope my film can contribute in some small way, if only to remind us of how impossible this moment felt half a year ago.

This film is dedicated to the occupiers.

ASHLEY/AMBER screenings in Berlin, Toronto & NJ

[cross-posted at www.ashley-amber.com]

Lots of screenings coming up!

NJ Film Festival

Fri 10.14.2011 / 7p / Rutgers University
Voorhees Hall #105, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ
Best of 2011 New Jersey International Film Festival
Best of 2011 New Jersey International Film Festival #1

Brotfabrik Berlin

13, 14 & 15 October / 18 Uhr / In der Brotfabrik
Back To Politics Teil 1

Toronto’s National Film Board Cinema

Sat. 22 October / 7p / National Film Board Cinema, Toronto
150 John Street, Toronto, CA
Wildsound Toronto Film Festival
For free tickets, email info@wildsound.ca

ASHLEY/AMBER screening tomorrow afternoon at Knitting Factory BK

ASHLEY/AMBER at the Williamsburg Int’l Film Fest
A short film about an antiwar activist who finds fame after being outed as the one-time star of an internet porn video.

** afternoon screening **
Friday, September 23 · 2:00pm – 4:00pm
The Knitting Factory
361 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Screening in the Student Film Program I @ Willifest
$10 – purchase tix
www.ashley-amber.com / www.willifest.com