[BCNA] Mantra at Vinegar Hill

[Brian Wimer]

Hello Belmont neighbors,

My feature film Mantra is coming to a theater near you! Next stop,  
Hollywood? Amoeba Films is unveiling its award-winning feature film  
Mantra at Charlottesville's Vinegar Hill theater for a pre-release  
limited engagement in September and October. Here are the screening  
dates/times:

• Saturday, Sep. 26 noon
• Wednesday, Sep. 30 9pm
• Saturday, Oct. 31 midnight

Mantra just won Best Feature Film at the Fright Night Film Festival.  
It is a Buddhist horror film. Six strangers on a spiritual retreat  
find themselves hunted by their lives’ transgressions. No one saves  
them. It is a graphic, unflinching meditation on desire, delusion,  
death and the origins of suffering – resolving in rebirth and  
redemption – perhaps a first for a horror flick.
Mantra is loosely based on my experiences practicing “bardo” death- 
state mediations with Buddhist monks in Dharamsala, India (mixed with  
a small dose of Peruvian Ayahuaska). It is intended for both horror  
fans and the spiritual cinema. The marketing pitch is: ten minutes of  
nudity, twenty pints of blood, Four Noble Truths.

It’s scored with heaps of local music from Thrum, Straight Punch to  
the Crotch, the Love Tentacle Drip Society and Jim Gagnon’s  
Dreamtime Project, with trip-hop sound engineering by Abel Okugawa  
Wright and Kris Bowmaster.

For trailers and film info, go to:

http://www.mantramoviesite.com

As far as filmwatching goes, Amoeba Films is your “buy local”  
brand. Mantra was shot (on grueling schedules with a lot of blood,  
sweat and Bodo’s) with local talent at familiar spots, supported by  
places like Mona Lisa Pasta and the Starlight Express (with a bus  
cameo).

Put it on your calendar! Pass it on! Tell all your friends and  
coworkers! Put it on your Facebook! Twitter it! Talk it up!

Tickets are $10. (Officially this is s a pre-release "fund raiser"  
since distributors don't want you to have previous public screenings.)

See you at the movies!

Brian Wimer
Amoeba Films
brian at amoebafilms.tv
434.249.8759
Production note: Amoeba Films, rolling with momentum, is now in  
preproduction for several films to be shot in the area including a  
four-part film-within-a-film-within-a-film project The Method  
Anthology, and the rock doc Dad Band. Proceeds from ticket sales will  
help fund these endeavors. Charlottesville may not be Hollywood.  
(Heck, it’s not even Austin.) But we can make movies worth the $10  
ticket price.












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