SMILE 'TiL IT HURTS @ TRIBECA CINEMAS TONIGHT 5/24 @7:30pm

For those of you in NYC, please join the entire crew for a screening of SMILE 'TIL IT HURTS: The Up With People Story tonight at Tribeca Cinemas. This is part of the Tribeca Cinemas Doc Series from Tribeca Film! Hope you can join the us for a Q&A and reception to follow. It's going to be a hoot!

TRIBECA CINEMAS

54 Varick St (at Laight St)
Tribeca | Map

212-941-2000

Subway: A, C, E, 1 to Canal St. | Directions

Read more: http://newyork.timeout.com/venues/tribeca/1115/tribeca-cinemas#ixzz0or7hAfbP

http://newyork.timeout.com/events/art-house-indie-cinema/341295/smile-til-it-hurts

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Tweet for Tribeca Film Doc Series! May 24, 2010!

We are thrilled to tell you that our documentary on Up With People, SMILE 'TIL IT HURTS, will screen at the Tribeca Film Doc Series in NYC on May 24! Do you tweet? If so, please go to the Tribeca Film Doc Series link below and hit the tweet button! Tweet Tweet and Retweet this announcement for SMILE 'TIL IT HURTS and be sure to ask fellow tweeters to retweet as well!
http://www.tribecafilm.com/docseries/52410_Smile_Til_It_Hurts_The_Up_With_People_Story.html

Penelope Falk Wins Sundance Documentary Editing Award!

Everyone at SMILE 'TIL IT HURTS is sending high fives and big smiles to Penelope Falk who won The Documentary Editing Award at the Sundance Film Festival for her work on JOAN RIVERS--A PIECE OF WORK. Penelope Falk is the brilliant editor that also tackled 40 yrs of archival history and over 800 hours of footage when making SMILE 'TIL IT HURTS: The Up With People Story. Congratulations Penny!

BIG SKY, SEDONA and SALEM film festivals!

After an amazing 2009, we are off to a great start in the New Year with three new screenings of the award-winning documentary, SMILE 'TIL IT HURTS! Please check it out at these amazing festivals. For tickets in MT, AZ and MA, follow the link in blue. We hope to see you there!

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival - Missoula, MT
DIRECTOR PRESENT FOR Q&A
Saturday, February 20 @ 3:40 pm
http://bigsky.bside.com/2010

Sedona Film Festival---ARIZONA PREMIERE!!!
DIRECTOR PRESENT FOR Q&A
Thursday, February 25 @ 11:45 am
Saturday, February 27 @ 7:30 pm
http://www.sedonafilm.org

Salem Film Fest - Salem, MA
PRODUCER PRESENT FOR Q&A
Saturday, February 27 @ 9:00 pm
http://salemfilmfest.com

With smiles; keep singing!

Happy New Year from SMILE 'TIL IT HURTS

2010! 2010! 2010!

TEAM GENIUS made 2009 fantastic for SMILE 'TIL IT HURTS, and 2010 promises to be equally rewarding.

We premiered!
We partied!
We sold out shows at film festivals across the US!
We received a Best Director Award!
We had theatrical screenings at the IFC Center in NYC and ArcLight in LA!
We qualified for Oscar consideration!
We delighted movie critics and generated thousands of fans!
We sold our first broadcast --- abroad in 2010!

(Ah yes, we are still in debt but hope our distribution plan will offset that reality in 2010.)

2010 opens with more screenings of SMILE 'TIL IT HURTS at soon-to-be-announced film festivals, and we are working toward theatrical screenings in various indie art houses.

SO PLEASE STAY TUNED!

Everyone at SMILE 'TIL IT HURTS wishes you continued happy viewing in 2010!

No red carpet for SMILE in 2010!

Hello all:

After much consideration and anxious awaiting, it's now official: SMILE 'TIL IT HURTS did not get short-listed for the 2010 Oscars. Still, it's amazing that we made it to the pool of applicants! How rare that is indeed!? What a challenge and incredible experience it has been meeting Academy standards: not to mention screening at the IFC Center in NYC and the ArcLight in LA as part of the IDA's Docuweeks. The press has been fantastic and the crowds enthusiastic---all well worth qualifying for the race!!!!! And our run is not over by any means: we are in the process of negotiating limited theatrical distribution and getting our DVDs in order. Foreign sales are coming in for the short version of SMILE 'TIL IT HURTS. Who would have dreamed that our first sale would have been in Israel?! We are delighted to watch how the story of this story unfolds: there are twists and rare opportunities all along the way. SMILE 'TIL IT HURTS truly has a life of its own!

More to come on our lively experience at the Rocky Mountain Women's Film Festival, so stay tuned!

SMILE 'TIL IT HURTS screening in Philadelphia, Oct 24

Hello friends and fans!

I'm off to Philadelphia soon for our next screening of SMILE 'TIL IT HURTS at the FirstGlance Film Festival. What a fitting place to screen a documentary on the singing phenomenon, Up With People, which started in the 1960s on a mission about Freedom. It's an enduring concept that strikes at the heart of our cultural history. The youth group proudly sang "Freedom isn't Free" during the Vietnam War years. And "Freedom isn't Free" after all, now is it??? Not surprisingly, like the Liberty Bell, Up With People developed a major crack (or two) over the decades but in the end, its members' idealism for a better world continues in spite of it all.

Please spread the word about our Philadelphia screening this Saturday, October 24 at 6pm at the FirstGlance Film Festival. It's going to be a great crowd and tickets are selling fast.

Franklin Theater at The Franklin Institute
222 North 20th Street
Philadelphia
October 24 @ 6pm

http://www.firstglancefilms.com/philadelphia/boxoffice

www.smiletilithurts.com

This is a great opportunity to see SMILE 'TIL IT HURTS on a really big screen, so please tell everyone you know and let's fill the house!

It's definitely something to SMILE about!