OAS Node #1 [9/21]: David Spaner

Occupational Art School Node 1 at Bat Haus is pleased to present an evening with David Spaner, who is visiting New York City to talk about his book SHOOT IT! Hollywood Inc. and the Rising of Independent Film. Friday from 7-9PM, David Spaner will read a few passages from SHOOT IT! and engage in an open forum on the global corporate movie industry and its positive and negative effects on burgeoning alt.cinema. Copies of SHOOT IT! will be available for purchase and signing. Event is free for first-time visitors to OASN1@Bat Haus. Barter-gifts can arranged with OASN1 for returnees. 

CONTACT: OAS co-organizer Paul McLean artforhumans [at] gmail [dot] com

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ABOUT DAVID SPANER: 

David Spaner has worked as a movie critic, feature writer, reporter, and editor for numerous newspapers and magazines. Spaner's writings about culture (mostly film) and politics have appeared in alternative (The Open Road, Yipster Times, Georgia Straight) and mainstream publications (Vancouver Sun, Ottawa Citizen, Montreal Gazette, Vancouver Magazine). His movie coverage and other cultural writing was featured in the Vancouver Province daily newspaper from 1999 to 2008, and won the Publishers Award for best feature writing in the paper. Spaner's column on independent film, "Indie City," also appeared in the newspaper.

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ABOUT SHOOT IT!:

Shoot It! is a revealing history of how Hollywood, with its eye on the bottom line, arguably lost its ability to support the work of creative filmmakers; it is also a passionate portrait of the independent filmmakers around the world who have risen up to fill the void.

While the studios envisage a generic universe, repressing local film cultures along the way, talented independents continue to tell local stories with universal appeal. This book is a celebration of those determined filmmakers who, despite it all, overcome every obstacle and just shoot it!

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OTHER OPPORTUNITIES TO SEE DAVID SPANER THIS WEEK IN NYC: 

Wednesday, September 19th, 7:00pm

Shoot It! reading, screening of Cassavetes' Shadows, & a discussion w/ Leila Goldoni

Strand Bookstore, 828 Broadway (at 12th Street), 3rd floor, New York, NY

Ticketing info: $10 Strand gift card or purchase of Shoot It!

Thursday, September 20th, 6:00pm (Doors: 5:30pm)

"Meet the Scholar" clips & discussion with David Spaner

3rd floor Screening Room, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Centre

111 Amsterdam Ave., 64th-65th Sts, New York

FREE EVENT

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AUTHOR DAVID SPANER DISCUSSING SHOOT IT! ON URBAN RUSH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PezskcbmxM

READING + DISCUSSION WITH SHOOT IT! AUTHOR DAVID SPANER AT BOOK SOUP: http://youtu.be/SSfrnmLWD5Q

PREVIEW AND/OR PURCHASE SHOOT IT! ON AMAZON: http://www.amazon.com/Shoot-It-Hollywood-Rising-Independent/dp/1551524082