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Please share this with your friends, click on the “like” buttons, post it on facebook, and retweet the links!  The bigger the audience we build now, the bigger the impact the film can have when it premieres in a few weeks.   Composer Peter Tinari and I are finishing up the music and sound,  and the film will be complete soon.

For more frequent updates follow us on Facebook, Twitter, or the film’s website.

Thanks as always for your support.

Sincerely,
Paul Cuoco
Writer/Director – The Specimen

For those of you who’ve subscribed to the Specimen newsletter,  it’s website or follow it on Facebook or Twitter should already know we’ve finally hit our “Picture Lock” milestone. That means I’m done editing the film and ready to finish it off with sound, music, color correction, and titles. In fact I’ve already met with our composer Peter Tinari to start laying down the first of the music tracks. And from what I’ve heard so far, I’m very excited.  If you do read the Specimen’s website you’ll also notice I just cut and past a lot of that from the latest Specimen blog post.  I admit it.  I’ve been very busy.

There will be a few more announcements coming, as we continue to put finishing touches on the film, including revealing a new trailer, and announcing the the on-line premiere. In the mean-time I’d like to extend a big thank you to my cast and crew for all your patience, help, and support throughout the whole process.  If you peruse Notafraid.com and want more frequent updates on the film, please like it on Facebook or follow the film on twitter and you’ll always be up to date.

Many of my friends have been hearing me talk about this for some time. While I advocate not waiting, I’m also not foolish enough to go into production without a great script.  That said, I’m finally going into production on my new short comedy, The Specimen. Based on personal experience, The Specimen is the hilariously embarrassing tale of a man, a public restroom, and his intimate moment with a specimen cup.

Currently in pre-production, the film stars Brian Pope and will be shot by Geoff Knight on my Canon 7D.  I’ve recently launched a Facebook Page, Twitter Account, and website to help promote the film.  Many of you may be wondering why I would create all this before we’ve even started shooting.  You’d be right to wonder, it’s not how things are typically done, however I wanted to do something different with this film and start building our audience sooner rather than later.  To keep you all engaged I plan to post updates during every phase of the project including on the set photos, behind the scenes videos, blog posts and more.  While I will post some duplication of this information here the bulk of it will be on Facebook, Twitter, or the website so be sure to like, follow, and subscribe to catch up on all the latest.

Thanks as always for your support.

Paul

In addition to it’s new look, we’ve also updated the official website www.glazed.notafraid.com and created a Facebook Fan Page to help spread the word and hopefully enlist some new fans.  So please become a fan and share it with your friends.

Enjoy.

As I mentioned last month, we have been working on a new Inheritance DVD, and today we are pleased to announce that it is now available on DVD in partnership with Create Space and Amazon.com. We know the film is available in it’s entirety on-line right here, but with the DVD not only do you get a high quality image with none of the web artifacts, you’re also financially helping to further the education of the holocaust, because all proceeds from the sale after production and duplication fees will be donated to the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. Plus we intentionally didn’t include the normal DVD encryption that prevents you from making copies so you can freely make additional copies of the DVD to share with friends, neighbors, and strangers. It’s not about the money, it’s all about reminding people that this can not happen again.

Each DVD is only $10 and includes:

• Newly remastered film from the original source files and enhanced for playback on widescreen televisions
• Photo gallery featuring a sampling of Anthony Cuoco’s original photographs, including some not used in the film
• Digital copy of the original screenplay and press kit.
• No CSS copy protection. We encourage you to make additional copies to spread the word.

Please help us remind the world that the holocaust was real by buying a copy now through the Not Afraid! Create space store.