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NEWS HELL YES:FREE SHIPPING ON ALL ORDERS -- WORLDWIDE! To celebrate the opening of our international online shop, we're offering FREE shipping on all orders, worldwide. Also, we have a great DVD/book bundle which saves you 45-50% when you buy together. Support indie filmmaking and buy today! LEARN HOW TO MAKE YOUR MOVIE Quality of Life producer Brant Smith has been invited to teach a class at Cal State East Bay this coming March, 2008. This intensive filmmaking course is a shorter version of the popular class he teaches at UC Santa Cruz with director Benjamin Morgan. If you're in the Bay Area and interested in making your movie, check it out:  DIY Filmmaking: From Writing to
ReleasingIf there’s one class you need to take before you shoot your first feature film, this is it! Discover how to get your film MADE and SEEN in this practical course offered by Continuing Education at Cal State University East Bay. Take advantage of inside information provided by Brant Smith, a local award-winning filmmaker behind the underground hit Quality of Life, who brings real-life experience to the class helping you to avoid costly hardships. Beginning in March, in just four meetings, uncover many important yet often overlooked aspects of independent filmmaking and distribution. Courses take place Saturdays, March 1-22 from 11am-4pm at the dowtown Oakland Center of Cal State East Bay. You can take the class for academic credit or continuing education credit. For more info or to register, visit www.ce.csueastbay.edu/info/film or call (510) 885-3605. In other news.... And don't forget the holidays are upon us. Give the gift of graffiti this year. |
WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT QUALITY OF LIFE......
A raw slice of street culture.
MARK OLSEN, LOS ANGELES TIMES
Supreme acting and great music...captivating.
STOCKHOLM INT'L FILM FESTIVAL JR. JURY
(WINNER - Best Youth Film)
Vivid performances by leads Garrison and Burnam.
MAITLAND MCDONAGH, TV GUIDE
Mission accomplished: a credible SF-based graffiti saga.
JOSHUA LAND, VILLAGE VOICE
Streetwise honesty...powerful.
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
Well-acted, sharply observed and authentically gritty.
NEW YORK MAGAZINE
Despite the onslaught of fictional films with graffiti as a central theme, director Benjamin Morgan made the one that actually counts. The plot is intriguing, the dialogue is on point, the acting is solid, the subject matter is portrayed in an authentic light and last but not least, the graffiti in the film is actually good.
VAPORS MAGAZINE
One of the best real life graffiti movies ever made.
JASE (legendary San Francisco graffiti writer)
Respect and love to Quality of Life. Finally there is a film that honors the writing culture. The filmmakers took on a bold challenge when they chose to explore our need to paint and express ourselves. QoL is a film about the inner and outer demons that plague us all, but the true success of QoL is that it is smart and beautiful enough to be a great film, not just "a graffiti movie". QoL compels us to consider life issues, existential and socio-political, without ever becoming pedantic or sentimental, and this to me is the measure of great art. Thank you for Quality of Life, a critical, timeless work of art that we can all be proud of.
ZEPHYR (legendary NYC graffiti writer)
A story that many of us have lived and ... the first film to get it this right.
PEEL MAGAZINE
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