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Bronx Paradise has just garnered two awards from the Los Angeles Reel Film Festival. Best Picture Honorable mention and Brea Cola has won Best Supporting actress. Congratulations to Brea Cola on that wonderful award.
Bronx Paradise has finished its highly successful festival run winning 15 awards, including 9 best pictures. We are currently seeking development into a cable series along with a proper distribution deal. To date we have turned down many offers for distribution in lieu of the right suitor.
Bronx Paradise has won two awards in the Chicago Hip-Hop Film Festival - Best Picture, and Audience Choice Award for Best Film.
Ralph Squillante (Frankie Sunshine) has won best villain in the Action on film Festival. He beat out notable actor Michael Madsen.
Bronx Paradise has won the Gold Pass Award for Best Feature Film in the Long Island International Film Expo.
Bronx Paradise has been nominated in six categories in the upcoming Action on Film Festival. This festival has been rated in the top 25 festivals in the United States.
Bronx Paradise Nominations:
Best Cinematography
Best Action Sequence
Best Guerilla Film
Best Actor - Wayne Gurman
Best Director - William Lappe
Best Villain - Ralph Squillante
We just won Audience choice award for best feature film at the Staten Island Film Festival.
We are happy to announce that to date Bronx Paradise has played in 20 festivals across the globe and has won or been nominated in 16 of them. Brea Cola and Wayne Gurman have recently been nominated for best actress/ actor in the Tenerife film festival recently.
Wayne Gurman has been nominated for best actor in the Tenerife International Film Festival.
Just got back from the Appalacian film fest in West Virginia where Bronx Paradise picked up another best film award. That is 11 awards out of 16 festivals played in. We are thrilled with this success. We also were given a $1,000 cash prize this weekend in West Virginia. Keep checking the web site news section for future screenings.
Bronx Paradise had a great weekend winning best picture in Two festivals. The Da Vinci Festival in Oregon and the Lake county Film Festival in Chicago. These two fantastic wins brings the awards total to five for Bronx Paradise. The encouraging thing is Bronx Paradise has only played in seven festival and brought home awards in five of them.
Wayne Gurman and the film makers of Bronx Paradise can be heard on the Joey Reynolds show WOR 710 AM in the early morning hours Thursday February 26th at 1:AM.
Bronx Paradise just won Best Screenplay in the Treasure Coast Film Festival in Florida. The film was also nominated for Best Picture and Best Director in the same festival. Bronx Paradise also has won The Gold Kahuna award for excellence in film making in the Honolulu International film fest and excellence in film making in the Indy Fest.
Interview with filmmakers Wayne Gurman and William Lappe to air on December 20th at 2pm on the VoiceAmerica.com radio network.
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After a few test and private screenings of Bronx Paradise we are about to hit the festival circuit with the film in 2009. Keep checking the news section as I will list the many festival screenings all over the U.S. and abroad. We are thrilled with the final product of Bronx Paradise. The feedback has been tremendous. We are soon going to actively seek distribution for the film. We already have a video deal in place but we have been encouraged to target the major companies due to the tremendous product we have in Bronx Paradise. 2009 should be a fantastic year for Bronx Paradise. We all look forward to it.
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Bronx Paradise review in the Bronx Times Reporter!
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The Bronx Paradise screening is mentioned in the NY Post.
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September 15, 2008
Today is a wonderful day in the development of Bronx Paradise. Today we finally finished post-production on the film. 16 months after the first day of filming we are finally done and now enter into the next phase of Bronx Paradise - festivals and getting a solid distribution deal. Stay tuned.
August 12, 2008
Bronx Paradise article in today's Daily News
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