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You may remember the review here of the micro-budget indie movie ...Around, about a homeless film student, made by a homeless film student. Now filmmaker David Spaltro writes to me that it has achieved distribution:

"...Around" is officially available to be rented/downloaded and streamed at Amazon.com through Amazon On-Demand. It's a first of the platform release through Cinetic Media-Cinetic Rights Management that will soon include iTunes, Netflix, DVD and various other outlets.

I'm writing this email to inform you and ask for your support, please...

Know this isn't about money. Without digging into the complicated folds that are various reasons I'll never be able to see a penny from this film, I'll assure you I cannot but that there's something far bigger to be gained than finances from this film being seen, shown and making an impact. It's about something much more. It's about a group of talented and passionate people coming together over 26 days two summers ago, coming together in this city to work hard and overcome all obstacles while doing what they love and sharing the experience. The work that they put in that made this project and that experience something special, making that known and given it's just dues has always been the mission.

Many of you I'm writing now directly or indirectly were and are involved in this project and it's journey. Even those of you who really were not involved in this particular project, in a way you still are. All of us are out there trying, believing and attempting to pursue something in one way or another. We live with the doubt, the struggles, the questioning glares of others as we push-on through our own personal journeys. The story of the "...Around", the film, the behind-the-scenes war of it stands for something that is truly universal, that we can all relate to no matter where we come from or where we're going.

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I'll be completely honest. For someone who's led a fairly peripatetic life in more ways then one... this whole journey and fight may be the only place I've ever called "home" and really meant it and felt it with my whole being. The simple, uncontrollable love for it...

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Thank you for all your support!

I give my best to you all always,

David.

...Around (Digital Purchase)
...Around (Digital Rental)

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