BEHIND THE HEDGEROW, an exclusive look inside old-money Newport, won't premiere until August 10 and 14 at the 2010 Rhode Island International Film Festival, but the coverage started early, with publicity beginning in the spring of 2009 and continuing in early 2010, with much more to come:

2010 coverage

-- The July 26 issue of Providence Business News cites the film.

-- On July 22, a great mention on the home page of industry-leading indieWIRE, out of New York City.

-- Story in the July 14 edition of Broadway World, the New York City-based entertainment site.

-- Also on July 14, a story on ABC-6 TV's web site.

-- Included in July Summer Film Festival edition of glossy trade magazine Imagine, out of Boston.

-- Included in June's Newport Daily News Summer Guide.

-- On May 27, very prominent mention in The Providence Journal's Lifebeat section.

-- On May 13, great coverage in a Hollywood East email to the Northeast-based film industry.

-- Prominent coverage -- and a mention of our New England Emmy nomination for ON THE LAKE in the April 30 e-letter from the Rhode Island Film Collaborative.

-- A mention in a press release from the University of Rhode Island on April 28.

-- On April 22, a nice story and photo on page 5 of the Westerly Sun's widely-circulated (in Rhode Island and Connecticut) arts and entertainment magazine, The Guide. Comes up as a PDF file, click on Page 5 to read.

-- Providence Business News on April 22 rated our Roger Williams University early screening as one of the weekend's Top Ten Things To Do!

-- Newport's Salve Regina University community learned of our April 28 on-campus screening of HEDGEROW in an April 15 mailing from the school's News, Events and Media Office. The screening was by invitation only, with the Salve family among those on the list.

-- On April 13, Eagle Peak Media's 2009 critically acclaimed film, ON THE LAKE: Life and Love in a Distant Place, was nominated for a New England Emmy in the Best Documentary category by the New England chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Awards will be presented May 22 at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Mass., home of the New England Patriots. Hedgerow, EPM's next feature film, is mentioned in the publicity. Read more here.

-- News item in the widely circulated Hollywood East Connection, on April 11.

-- In early April, publicity began about out featured panel discussion and advance selects at the 2010 Roving Eye Film Festival, Roger Williams University and Flickers, 3 p.m., April 25, 2010.

-- Listing on IMDB, the Internet Movie Data Base, the leading authoritative movie site, February 2, 2010.

-- Coverage on Providence TV station ABC-6's website, January 22.

-- A mention in The Rhode Island Film Collaborative, January 22.

-- Hedgerow was included in a January 14, Providence Journal story about the winners of major grants from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities. On January 13, 2010, Dave and I attended the Statehouse press conference announcing the grants. We received ours to help with Hedgerow's post-production costs. We graciously thank the Council for their continued support -- this is the second grant for HEDGEROW that they have awarded us, and these two grants follow one from the Council that helped push ON THE LAKE toward its completion in early 2009. Thanks also to George T. Marshall and his Newport-based Flickers Art Collaborative, which serves as our fiscal sponsor. And another rounds of thanks to the Rhode State Council on the Arts, which awarded us a Hedgerow grant in 2009.

-- Breaking News feature, Rhode Island International Film Festival site, January 13.

2009 coverage

-- Producer/writer G. Wayne Miller wrote a second piece for DocumentaryTech, published on December 13, 2009, illustrated with a photo of a Hedgerow shoot featuring Salve Regina University historian and professor Dr. Michael Budd, who will be in the film -- and is serving as scholarly adviser. The Doc Tech story was about managing a documentary film crew and post-production staff.

-- During an hour-and-a-half appearance on John DePetro's popular morning drive-time news/talk show on WPRO AM-630, Producer/writer G. Wayne Miller talked about his upcoming biography of Senator Claiborne Pell, A VERY DIFFERENT SENATOR, but also discussed HEDGEROW with DePetro and producer Tara Granahan, both of whom are looking forward to the final film.

-- Miller wrote a piece about narrative storytelling on the page and on the screen for DocumentaryTech, a web site devoted to "exploring the techniques and technology of documentary filmmaking," Sept. 25, 2009. Hedgerow was prominently included, along with a photograph of an on-location shoot of prominent Newporter Nick Brown.

-- The Providence Phoenix published a story about A VERY DIFFERENT SENATOR, Miller's forthcoming biography of Claiborne Pell, in its issue of Sept. 24, 2009, and Hedgerow was included.

-- "Film Examines Newport Society Through the Eyes of One of its Own," a fine story in Newport Now, August 14.

-- Newport Daily News, August 13.

-- The Sun Chronicle, circulating in Foxboro, Taunton, and the Attleboros, Mass., August 11.

-- USA Today, August 11.

-- Hollywood East Connection, the New England Movie, Television News and Career Resources publication, August 11, a very fine article.

-- The Valley Breeze, August 11.

-- The Rhode Island Film Collaborative, August 7.

-- The Huffington Post, August 6.

-- Rhode Island State Council on the Arts blog, July 20.

-- The Warwick Beacon, July 2.

-- The Johnston Sun Rise, July 2.

-- Newport Now, June 30.

-- The Rhode Island Film Collaborative, June 29.

-- The Providence Journal, May 19.

-- Roger Williams University Documentary Filmmaking Course, following panel discussion at the 2009 Roving Eye Documentary Film Festival at Roger Williams University, May 11.

Please contact us for information about sponsorship opportunities that would bring you and your company to a substantial screen and DVD audience to a critically acclaimed film. Meanwhile, follow us as we make the movie, on Twitter, on Facebook, and on our BEHIND THE HEDGEROW blog. As of January 2010, we are being supported by grants from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities and the Rhode State Council on the Arts. Thanks to both!

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