First three screenings of Heist - and what's next!

Hi Heisters,

We just wrapped premiering "Heist" to sold-out crowds at the 34th Mill Valley Film Festival. Organizers added a third screening due to overwhelming demand!

After spending five years making this film, we were very eager to hear audience feedback in the post-screening Q & A sessions. In our screenings, we knew we were “preaching to the choir” to some extent. But we worked very hard to make a movie that was a FACT- BASED, balanced tic-toc of the crimes against the 99% of us who have not benefited from the last 40 years of economic/ political decision making in this country.

The feedback in the post screening Q & As were both validating and enlightening. We heard over and over again comments like ”you nailed it”…”you managed to make a very difficult, dense and complex subject straight forward and easy to understand!”

Without a doubt, "Heist" got the majority of our audiences really, really angry! Many of the questions were about how and when we were getting the film to the rest of the country. Rest assured, we are working hard this week to do just that. Our biggest hope is that Heist gets it into the hands of the millions of Occupiers across the globe, helping to keep the movement alive and well.

As our "Heist" audiences now know, the 1 percent has conveniently framed the Occupy movement as one that does not have “direction." Can millions of people be wrong? Of course not but this is the “powers that be” message machine again at work. As illustrated in "Heist" widespread systemic corruption cannot be distilled down to one convenient sound bite.

Onward!

Frances and Donald