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		<title>Countdown to HBO&#8230; and Beyond</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The HBO premiere of The Kids Grow Up is only days away and the dvd release is just over a month away.  And, while we&#8217;ve had months and months to prepare for both, it&#8217;s still kind of a stunning prospect. Between the film festival circuit and our theatrical release, the film has been screening in front of enthusiastic audiences for over a year-and-a-half now.  So it&#8217;s exceedingly strange to think that we&#8217;ve only begun to scratch the surface in terms of numbers of people who will ultimately see it. The temptation at such a moment is to call undue attention to myself, and to boost my ever-so-brilliant career as a filmmaker.  And I don&#8217;t mean to discourage anyone, feel free to say nice things.  But gradually over the past year, I&#8217;ve come around to pushing a considerably different agenda.  Let me go back a bit to explain. When you tell [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thekidsgrowup.com/2011/06/16/countdown-to-hbo-and-beyond/</link>
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		<title>A Special HBO Screening</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In advance of our HBO premiere on Fathers Day (June 19), HBO is hosting a NYC invitation-only screening of The Kids Grow Up for bloggers and press, complete with wine reception and Dad 2.0 panel, on Tuesday, June 14, starting at 6pm.  The panel features Roland Warren, President of the National Fatherhood Initiative, and acclaimed parent bloggers Doug French (Laid Off Dad) and Catherine Conners (Her Bad Mother).  It will expand on the changing notions of fatherhood explored in the film, and explain more about the exciting Dad 2.0 movement. If you and a guest are interested in attending, send us an email and we&#8217;ll follow up with an official invite and details: info (at) thekidsgrowup (dot) com.  If you&#8217;re interested in writing about The Kids Grow Up and can&#8217;t make the screening, email us and HBO will get a dvd screener to you a week or two before the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thekidsgrowup.com/2011/05/27/a-special-hbo-screening/</link>
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		<title>So Much Catch-Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s all gone by in a blur&#8230; Screenings galore from Honolulu to Helsinki. Doing dozens of interviews. Unexpectedly coming aboard a new doc as Executive Producer. It wins the Best Director prize for U.S. documentaries at Sundance. Continued praise for The Kids makes my hat size swell. It&#8217;s enough to make a boy feel, well&#8230; resurrected!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thekidsgrowup.com/2011/03/28/so-much-catch-up/</link>
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		<title>Opening Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Holy crap, the day of our theatrical premiere is here at last!  I did a tech check at the Angelika this morning and came away happy with the projection, especially given that they&#8217;re not used to digital projection.  The manager couldn&#8217;t have been nicer &#8211; treated me to a double cappucino and moved the blow-up of our humongous Sunday NY Times article outside right next to the box office window. It&#8217;s not like I&#8217;m hardened to all this, but we have a group of eager young people in our office here, and they&#8217;re super excited about the upcoming weekend.  And everyone&#8217;s thrilled with the incredible coverage and many great reviews we&#8217;ve gotten. A. O. Scott in the New York Times calls The Kids &#8220;remarkable&#8221; and gives it a Critics&#8217; Pick, as does New York Magazine. Eric Hynes in the Village Voice calls it &#8220;nakedly personal&#8221; and &#8220;profoundly universal,&#8221; and Andrew [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thekidsgrowup.com/2010/10/29/opening-day/</link>
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		<title>The Subject Strikes Back: Lucy Block on &#8216;The Kids Grow Up&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whenever you make a personal doc, you have to brace for people ripping you, and sometimes in a very personal way.  I&#8217;m still amazed that so few slings and arrows have come my way for &#8217;51 Birch Street&#8217; over the years.  But with &#8216;The Kids Grow Up&#8217; opening this Friday in NY, I&#8217;m steeling myself again, and probably with more reason. It&#8217;s one thing to put your parents under the probing lens of your camera, quite another to put your young daughter there.  So I&#8217;m gonna get shots taken at me.  In fact, I already have (for the record, Doug Block does like his daughter Lucy).  Luckily, I also have my strong supporters. But one important thing is that the shots will come at me and not Lucy (or so I&#8217;d like to believe).  Another is that I not only made exactly the film I wanted to make, but that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thekidsgrowup.com/2010/10/27/the-subject-strikes-back-lucy-block-on-the-kids-grow-up/</link>
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		<title>Countdown to Launch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In advance of our premiere at the Angelika Film Center this Friday, two great articles on The Kids in the papers today. The New York Times piece goes more in depth (and gives the film some serious real estate), The New York Daily News opts mainly for a director interview. More press coverage coming in the days ahead, as well: The Village Voice, Wall Street Journal and indieWIRE, among others. Thanks and kudos to our extraordinary publicist, Susan Norget, who&#8217;s believed in the film from the moment she saw it at our first industry screening last fall.  Our entire print ad budget will pay for exactly two postage-stamp sized ads in the Times.  And journalists, face it, generally aren&#8217;t interested in any film that isn&#8217;t celebrity driven, much less a personal documentary.   So you can see what kind of job she&#8217;s done. And now it all comes down to getting butts in the seats [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thekidsgrowup.com/2010/10/24/countdown-to-launch/</link>
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		<title>Modern Media Man &#8211; A Look Back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our country is apparently suffering a serious shortage of modern media men.  There couldn&#8217;t have been more than 75 people attending this first national gathering of men-folk bloggers, almost all of whom, like me, were flown down to be speakers.  While seriously depressing for the M3 organizers, not to mention the dozen or so sponsors sitting all alone at their booths, it was a bonanza for Yours Truly.  Just a fantastic opportunity to network and bond with some top dad bloggers and organizations, swap stories and tap into what will inevitably become a growing social force (even if it currently lags far behind the &#8220;mommy blogger&#8221; movement). And, I might add, to personally get dozens of dvd screeners of The Kids into some very eager hands. I tried not to harp so much on how they might help me, though obviously I&#8217;d like them to get word out to their readers or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thekidsgrowup.com/2010/09/13/modern-media-man-a-look-back/</link>
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		<title>Modern Media Man Summit &#8211; Day 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[9:50 EST &#8211; Ok, I give Cal Ripken credit.  Expected he&#8217;d just roll in, do a 15-minute shtick, collect his substantial fee and beat it.  But he spent almost an hour giving a talk by the indoor pool, telling baseball stories with leadership themes, answering questions, posing for photos and signing autographs (the dire warnings apparently didn&#8217;t come from him).  Can&#8217;t say he said anything particularly memorable but it was a living example of his impressive ironman work ethic.  Couldn&#8217;t bring myself to hand him a dvd, though I had my chance.  It just felt too cheesy. Afterwards, talked to a few bloggers over drinks and chicken wings.  They seemed genuinely excited by The Kids, eager to see it.  These guys want to shoot an interview tomorrow.  Another is pushing a book driven by his popular blog and is clearly knowlegable about how to drive sales online.  Collected a handful of business cards, now flavored with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thekidsgrowup.com/2010/09/09/modern-media-man-summit-day-1/</link>
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		<title>Starting Tomorrow, Call Me Mister Modern Media Man</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you have a movie opening soon in theaters that&#8217;s essentially a documentary about your daughter (ok, it&#8217;s a lot more, but still) and you have little money to market it, you better get pretty damned creative with your marketing.  And you better get your sorry ass in gear and start blogging, too. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;ll be in Atlanta for the next 3 days at a noteworthy event called the Modern Media Man Summit.  Saturday morning I&#8217;ll be speaking on a panel called &#8220;Over-Sharing: When it comes to your family, how much is too much?&#8221;  It&#8217;s meant for bloggers but could there possibly be a more apropos topic for someone who makes personal docs about his family (not to mention, his teenage daughter!)? If nothing else, the Summit should bring up lots of food for thought.  How are men experiencing fatherhood these days?  How are they writing about it?  Will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thekidsgrowup.com/2010/09/08/starting-tomorrow-call-me-mister-modern-media-man/</link>
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		<title>The Edge of Dreaming on POV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So you know, the last three years haven&#8217;t been exclusively about THE KIDS GROW UP. A truly extraordinary personal documentary that I helped produce will air in the U.S. on POV tomorrow night (Tuesday).  Amy Hardie&#8217;s THE EDGE OF DREAMING takes on the subject of dreams.  And particularly what happens when Amy &#8212; a science filmmaker, skeptic and happy mother of three &#8212; dreams that her own death will take place within the year.  Then her health progressively starts failing. THE EDGE OF DREAMING is one of those rare films that will stay with you long after you&#8217;ve seen it.  I&#8217;m very proud to have played a role in it, and want to acknowledge the contributions of my fellow producers &#8211; Amy, Lori Cheatle and George Chignell.  It&#8217;s been a long haul, but tomorrow is one of the great payoffs. So make a date with your local PBS station, 10pm [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thekidsgrowup.com/2010/08/23/the-edge-of-dreaming-on-pov/</link>
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