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We are excited to announce that we are now available for download on Amazon.com UNBOX.  Check it out!

SHIFTED is now available for rental and sale on Amazon's new video download service UNBOX.  This is an important distribution outlet for all indie films. CLICK ON THIS LINK OF THE LOGO BELOW TO DOWNLOAD SHIFTED.



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You can read about UNBOX below. This was copied from

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Check out Beau Smith's great review of SHIFTED on Silver Bullet Comic Book's website



(It's about halfway down the page, so scroll on down)

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Passion In Film Making Gets SHIFTED

For any of you that have ever read, created or published an Independent comic book you know that it takes money out of your own pocket and time away from your family, but what it does give to others is your passion. Theres no major publisher funding your efforts of putting your creation in the headlines of the top media. Anything that happens comes from you and your grit to get it done and get it out there.

Its the same in making films. As most of my regular knuckleheads know Im always looking out for new things in pop culture to bring back to the cave. Recently I was lucky enough to find a new film that was not only entertaining but extremely informative as well.

The film Im talking about is SHIFTED. SHIFTED is an un-rated 88 minute film from Nelson Madison Films. Now most of you Knuckleheads might jump to the conclusion that SHIFTED is a jaw busting, multi-explosion action movie well its not.



SHIFTED is a modern Frank Capra / Jimmy Stewart type of film that not only shows you where you go when you lose it all, but where you end up. SHIFTED was made on an ultra-low budget by the films actor/director/producer/editor Michael Madison and his partner producer / writer Linda Nelson. By ultra-low budget I mean ULTRA LOW. Thats a fact and not a bad thing. If anything, it made me admire the film even more to think how they pulled off such a good movie on their own smarts, resources and the kindness of others.

The film is about a corporate executive that has the company he works for shut down amongst scandal and dirty dealings by those higher up. The character, David soon finds himself going from the fast lane to skid row in a hurry. The meat of the movie shows what its like to live on the fringe of life and reflects how one simple turn in life can shift you from one end to the other. SHIFTED is a story with a moral, but not in a preachy way.

Just so you wont think Ive gone completely soft there is a knee to the nuts scene, open wounds with blood, some tough guy intimidation and gun fire. There is also the lovely, leggy, Jill Wagner (Past Busted Knuckles Babe Of The Week) star of the new hit TV series BLADE done my friend and yours, Geoff Johns. Scarlett Johanssons sister, Vanessa is also in this as well as one of the best tough guy actors in film, Rhino Michaels. Hes everything you want in a tough guy and more. SHIFTEDs star, Michael Madison at 6 feet 1 inch and a former top notch baseball player is dwarfed by Rhino as is everyone else in the movie.

One of the highlights for me and will be for you is the special feature with commentary by Michael and Linda. This is anything but boring. It is a wonderful class in film-making and not by jaded creators that find their own remarks witty and clever. This is great bare bones behind the scenes stuff. Its like getting a war story from the grunts in the trench and not the Generals back in Washington. I learned a lot from this and will no doubt refer to it again in my own creative process.

Michael even had the De Niro factor in this by not cutting his hair and beard for a year and a half to be realistic during the down in the dumps portion of the films story. I think my female Knuckleheads will love the clean-cut version of Michaels character a lot. Not that Id know if a guy was good looking or notmy wife tells me those things.

Here is all the info you need to check this film and now DVD out:

http://www.nelsonmadisonfilms.com

http://www.myspace.com/michaelmadison

http://www.imdb.com


You can also buy it at Amazon.com and customflix.com

If you stop by Michaels site just tell him Beau sent ya.

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Check out our review on Film Threat

SHIFTED
by Rory L. Aronsky (2006-09-01)
2006, Un-rated, 88 minutes, Nelson Madison Films

Los Angeles is heavily stacked with fast-moving losses, as David Anderson (Michael Madison) quickly learns when Primo Mortgage, the high-powered financial company he works for, suddenly disappears as swiftly as most of the computer files so that the feds cant find them. What can he do now? Where can he go? It becomes even worse when his semi-lavish L.A. lifestyle is threatened when the corporate bank accounts and credit cards are frozen by the government in the process of the fastest-moving investigation of any company in film history. But theres reasons for that because the company doesnt matter all that much. Its Davids story.

David sounds like fodder for a wildly-played comedic caricature staggering around L.A. in a daze, wondering how it all went wrong, while making a fool of himself in an attempt to try to build a new life. But this is not that kind of film and co-writer/actor/director/editor Michael Madison (The first quadruple threat Ive been witness to who doesnt strain under the weight of all that responsibility) has such a sensitive soul and a good heart through all he does for Shifted that not only do his fellow actors follow suit, but it becomes a film just as much about us as it is about David. What would we do in this situation? Is it worse not to have any money and completely lose our lifestyle or to learn that we were part of a company that swindled millions of dollars and left a lot of investors and customers in the lurch? Primo Mortgage isnt Enron-big, and its off-screen investors are assured by the police that their money will be recovered, based on what the police tell David, who is unknowingly involved by the boxes he takes with him from the company that include various folders with important papers and his laptop computer which contains the necessary data that will implicate the heads of the company, one, a burly hard-faced broad-shouldered man (Rhino Michaels) who acts on the orders of the former East Coast head of operations, running the last of things from prison. But Enron-big, small enough to be insignificant, whats worse?

Unlike his girlfriend Rachel (Jill Wagner, who strikes the right balance to us between being ticked at Rachel because of her shallowness and understanding what makes her that way. When youre in L.A. and theres a potential modeling career being molded, what else can one be?), David isnt one of the L.A. types who are so hopelessly two-dimensional that they can only see their own lives happening. Other lives do not happen around them. The bedragged homeless guy wandering the sidewalk is a 50 mph blur.

When he learns of the companys downfall, David is more worried about those people whom he promised jobs to and one of them he calls with the bad news is extremely quiet toward him, barely blurting out words of acknowledgement. Clearly, when theres the promise of a job, it means more than the next sunrise, especially for this one guy who looks like he could have used the work.

And at the same time, Shifted is also about class distinctions. Youll find a lot of that in movies set in Los Angeles and especially here, where David goes from a well-furnished apartment to living at the local storage facility, inside one of the storage spaces, under the eventual tutelage of Marcos (Jeris Lee Poindexter) and Joe (Frankie Ray), who simply live their lives. They know the streets. They know when the facilitys proprietor has someone walk around to inspect the spaces to make sure no one is hanging around, and thats the time to make sure theyre inside one of the spaces, making no noise until that person is gone. But most of the time, despite this, its always the woman with the blonde wig walking around. Besides Madisons innate sensibilities toward David as well as his attention in his writing towards the other people who share their lives with this new inductee to the streets, Jeris Lee Poindexter is the other major revelation. He is as reliable as the method Marcos uses to get free pizza, as certain as David is in wanting to try to get his old life back before just deciding to find some sort of a life that keeps him a person. Poindexter uses his entire body for the role. Besides Marcos words, his face speaks as much as his height. To others who might walk by him, hes nothing, but to David and certainly to us watching, hes definitely something.

Madison also has an uncanny way of luxuriating in the confines of the running time. He introduces a potential new love interest in Catherine (Vanessa Johansson, the older sister of Scarlett) who works at the Midnight Mission homeless shelter which David goes to while in denial about his rapidly unfolding situation, telling her that hes just there to help out. But Madison doesnt let the attraction immediately happen and leaves her for later, and its wise, because Davids story keeps building and building, slowly and with much concentration.

However, there are contrivances afoot with that burly co-boss of the fraudulent company rushing to search for David (predictably, the man roughs up a few people), but with how rich and character-driven all of this turns out to be (even two montages involving David and Marcos deepen the friendship without corniness), its not entirely forgettable, but easily forgiveable.

Its a testament to Madison and all others with him that when the storage facility owner approaches the floor Marcos, David, and Joe are on, its actually a moment of suspense in wondering if theyll make it back to the storage space quick enough to hide. Theres a lot within these characters to care about and it keeps on working, all the way through.

Hey everyone.  We are in the Dances With Films Film Festival.  We are screening July 21st at 5pm.  Get your tickets online because they say it will get sold out.  Can't wait to see you there.www.danceswithfilms.com

 

We are excited that SHIFTED will be in the Wichita Falls Film Festival.  Please check them out on my Top 8. 

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