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DESCRIPTION:Barry Levy, the award-winning indie filmmaker will be in attendance, 
 Thursday, May 14th, when 'Division Denim' makes its world debut at The 8th 
 Annual Santa Cruz Film Festival.\n\nLevy made the short film after a 
 humorous conversation he had with co-writer Rick Mosier.  He recalls, “We 
 were talking about the commercial Lenny Kravitz did for the GAP a few years 
 ago.  The question came up, what would the kid in the third world sweat 
 shop do if he could somehow crash the shoot for Lenny’s 
 commercial?”\n\nThe answer, needless to say is pretty explosive.  Barry 
 worked with the renowned animation house Monkey Paw Media, 
 http://www.monkeypawmedia.com/mainpage.html  of ‘Skunk Fu’ and ‘Edgar 
 and Ellen’ fame.  Levy recalls, “I can’t draw, in fact I can barely 
 sign my own name, so we worked at putting together contemporary images of 
 rock stars, built a bunch of cliché’s on top of each other, and went for 
 a look that Todd McFarlane, (‘Spawn’) would put out.  Once we arrived 
 at the final characters, I just let Monkey Paw go nuts.”\n\nThis will 
 mark Barry’s second appearance in Santa Cruz.  His live action short 
 film, ‘Check Brights’, the dark tale of a highway vigilante won the 
 Audience Award for Best Experimental Work at the fest last year.  It also 
 went on to win Best Dramatic Short at The Berkeley Video and Film 
 Festival.\n\nLevy burst onto the indie film scene in 2003 with his highly 
 controversial feature film, ‘Spook’ which ended up winning 8 festival 
 awards.  He has a full feature script in the works for ‘Check Brights’ 
 that he would love to shoot in the Santa Cruz area.  “This part of the 
 world is spectacular.  I fell in love with it when I was here in 2008, and 
 started planning shots during my drive back to Los Angeles on the Pacific 
 Coast Highway.”\n\nNext in the pipeline for Barry is a cartoon tv series 
 for kids and family called ‘The Hollywood Adventures of Freedom the Polar 
 Bear’, inspired by his staunch support for the Green movement, and his 
 own long adventure that eventually got him to Hollywood.\n\nLearn more 
 about Barry Levy and his work at http://barrylevy.com/\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/04/18/18590318.php
SUMMARY:Controversial Child Labor Cartoon
LOCATION:Award-Winning Los Angeles Filmmaker Barry Levy will screen his 
 controversial child labor animated short film, ‘Division Denim’, 
 Thursday, May 14, at 3:30 pm, at The Santa Cruz County Veterans Memorial 
 Building, 846 Front Street, in Santa Cruz, Ca, during the 8th Annual Santa 
 Cruz Film Festival.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/04/18/18590318.php
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