Halo-8 gets NEW EROTIC

HALO-8 GETS NEW EROTIC

- Indie studio acquires award-winning filmmaker’s erotic-art / altporn documentary -

Los Angeles, CA, August 25, 2009 – Halo-8 Entertainment has secured worldwide distribution rights to award-winning filmmaker Ramzi Abed’s documentary on the erotic-art/altporn movement “THE NEW EROTIC,” featuring alternative-XXX-filmmakers Eon McKai (“GIRLS LIE”), Kimberly Kane (“LIVE IN MY SECRETS”), Vena Virago (“EASTSIDE STORY”), Dave Naz (“SKATER GIRL FEVER”), Jack the Zipper (“BLACKLIGHT BEAUTY”), and erotic photographers Alejandra Guerrero (“CORPORATE VAMPIRE”) and Ed Fox (“GLAMOUR FROM THE GROUND UP”) in a deal that marks Halo-8′s third collaboration with Abed after 2008′s erotic-horror THE DEVIL’S MUSE and the psychedelic-horror IN A SPIRAL STATE, which comes to DVD September 29th. Halo-8 has slated the documentary for a limited theatrical run followed by a DVD release in early 2010.

“Ramzi Abed has created this generation’s DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION with his thoughtful and provocative look at the erotic-auteurs creating transgressive, countercultural art in a field primarily known for exploitation,” said Matt Pizzolo, President of Halo-8. “Unlike most filmmakers on either side of the Hollywood Hills, the artists Ramzi focuses on are young, risk-taking visionaries who are creating startlingly new and daringly confrontational visual stories that evoke a brash sensibility unique to the internet-generation. These creators are every bit as fresh and dangerous as the punk pioneers profiled in Penelope Spheeris’ classic DECLINE.”

“I’m ecstatic about Halo-8′s confidence in my vision as a filmmaker and their upcoming release of THE NEW EROTIC, which is the first and only documentary I’ve ever directed,” said Abed. “It’s a great feeling knowing that I have their support on such an exciting and unique project. I admire Halo-8′s commitment to distributing cinematic art, and am very proud to have them in my subversive court.”

THE NEW EROTIC is the first documentary focusing on the fearless erotic artists working in the so-called “altporn” scene, where punks, gallery artists, and visual designers create edgy, pornographic films that fly in the face of conventional eroticism and redefine beauty. Renaming themselves after punk heroes and serial killers, they eschew the previous generation of cosmetically enhanced professional pornstars, instead filming their naturally figured, mostly non-blonde hipster friends in a unique style that borrows its edge from NYC’s Cinema of Transgression and mashes it up against a mumblecore aesthetic with a post-Suicide-Girls/post-American-Apparel sensibility.

Ramzi Abed is an award-winning filmmaker whose narrative work centers on themes of taboo-breaking, self-destructive youth-on-the-edge… a cinematic style that makes him uniquely suited to document such passionate and unhinged artists. Abed’s upcoming psychedelic-horror feature film “IN A SPIRAL STATE” focuses on the flawed artists, frauds, drug addicts, suicidal actresses, and murderous femme fatales in the underbelly of Los Angeles. It comes to DVD courtesy of Halo-8 on Sept 29th, 2009.

Halo-8 Entertainment (www.halo8.tv) is a Hollywood-2.0 movie studio using bleeding-edge strategies to create and distribute daring new films and lifestyle videos. Recent releases include the legendary NY hardcore documentary N.Y.H.C. (which Cinematical called “smashing… a terrific, well-told, engaging story”), the arthouse-horror film THE DEVIL’S MUSE (which Rue Morgue called “intoxicating and sensual”), the award-winning hardcore-punk thriller THREAT (which Urb Magazine said “makes KIDS look like an after-school special”), and the campy, interactive horror-DVD-game SLUMBER PARTY SLAUGHTERHOUSE: THE GAME (starring Tiffany Shepis, Joanna Angel, Melissa Bacelar, Masuimi Max). Upcoming releases include the iconoclastic hero’s journey GODKILLER (starring Lance Henriksen, Danielle Harris, Bill Moseley, Tiffany Shepis, Nicki Clyne, Lydia Lunch, Justin Pierre, Davey Havok) and the psychedelic-horror IN A SPIRAL STATE (coming to DVD September 29th from NEW EROTIC director Ramzi Abed).

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