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Make a date - August 22, 2008 - the movie, like the music group, that started as Germ and spread….

WHAT WE DO IS SECRET, the amazing docu-drama, is now premiering in Los Angeles at the Nuart and in OC at the Regal Irvine Six starting this Friday - August 22, 2008. 

Get your punk on and don’t miss it!

IT WAS A MOVEMENT THAT CHANGED MUSIC. IT WAS MUSIC THAT CHANGED THE WORLD. AND IT ALL STARTED WITH A GERM.

1970s Los Angeles—Nihilist Philosophy, Glam Rock, Drugs, Booze, Closeted Homosexuality, Dianetics, a Yen for Rock and Roll Immortality—a convergence that shaped the short, self-destructive life of Jan Paul Beahm, a fatherless boy with an alcoholic mother and an older brother who died of a drug-overdose—a kid who reinvented himself coming out of a high school for outcasts, as the one and only DARBY CRASH, the legendary lead singer of the seminal Los Angeles Punk band, The Germs.

Shane West (”ER”, LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN), Bijou Phillips (CHOKE, BULLY, BLACK AND WHITE), Rick Gonzalez (OLD SCHOOL, COACH CARTER) and Noah Segan (BRICK, CHAIN LETTER) star in WHAT WE DO IS SECRET, a biopic that chronicles the rise of The Germsand their charismatic leader Darby Crash, whose image—the contorted, screaming face and death grip on the microphone, has become an icon of the U.S. punk movement and a rapt influence on bands since. Darby’s cultivated punk attitude, resplendent with the hardcore, infamous onstage self-mutilation antics and volatile energy that inspired the band’s mesmerized followers to riot, ultimately banned The Germs from playing every venue in the greater Los Angeles area….now watch the drama unfold - WHAT WE DO IS SECRET = NOW SHOWING!!!

http://whatwedoissecretthemovie.com/index.html

Independent filmmakers are invited to stop by the Hollywood Film Office booth at the June 20 and 21, 2008 at the Universal Studios Back Lot and discover the unique and generous savings using HFO affords you.  And, some serious SWAG too! 

Now open in Michigan and Iowa.  New Mexico, Louisana, New York and more coming soon…..stay tuned!

Making Movies Move - HFO! 

The time has come to shoot your International movie and Hollywood California is the place to spend your Euros.  Hollywood Film Office is here to facilitate any and all international projects interested in shooting in the United States of America.  Right now - save money while using EUROS  and world-class technicians and equipment. 

Let Hollywood Film Office help, and show you how…213-235-1777 or info@hollywoodfilmoffice.org

Hollywood Film Office in association with Parkchester Pictures proudly announces COMMUTER CONFIDENTIAL to begin airing June 2, 2008 on TBS during “Sex in the City”. 

TBS, television’s top-rated comedy network, will showcase an entertaining look at life among a group of women who travel to and from work together each day in COMMUTER CONFIDENTIAL, a new commercial event presented by Revlon and Match.com.  COMMUTER CONFIDENTIAL features four very different women—Carmen, Daisy, Paula and Sylvie— and their no-holds barred conversations. Caffeine-free days, day-care dilemmas and food cravings are some of the many topics the women will discuss within the 20 episodes airing across four consecutive weeks on TBS. COMMUTER CONFIDENTIAL will premiere each weeknight from June 2-27 within a branded commercial pod from Sex and the City at 11 p.m.  Immediately following each episode of the microseries, TBS will feature both Match.com and Revlon creative adjacencies. Each episode will then become available through the custom COMMUTER CONFIDENTIAL microsite at TBS.com. COMMUTER CONFIDENTIAL stars Dorie Barton, Idalis De Leon, Keri Lynn Pratt and Dee Ryan. The microseries was written by Wendy Biller and Chris Hawthorne, and produced by Jerry Offsay, David Gadarian and Bruce Wayne Gillies.  Thom Eberhardt  directed the microseries.

Tremendous news - TRUCKER has been officially invited into the World Narrative Feature Competition at Tribecca.  Plus, this is the World Premiere, April the 24th - get your tickets now. 

For more we encourage you to visit:

http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org/filmguide/Trucker.html

This is a wonderful film directed by James Mottern and produced  Plum Pictures and line produced by Bruce Wayne Gillies of the Hollwood Film Office.

It’s been 100 years since the first filmmakers from William Selig’s Chicago based film company Selig Polyscope Company arrived in Los Angeles California and began movie making. 

Selig’s first studio was reportedly located on a vacant lot behind the Sung Lee Chinese laundry on Olive between 7th and 8th in Downtown Los Angeles.  Pioneering filmmakers Francis Boggs and Hobart Bosworth, now barely remembered, established Southern California filmmaking back in 1908 and would soon become, and remains, the movie making capital of the world. 

Now, that’s truly something to celebrate!!! 

~ Hurray for Hollywood ~

If you’re planning to be at the AFCI Locations Trade Show Expo this week April 10-12, 2008 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium – please make sure to stop by our booth and celebrate 100 years of movie making in Los Angeles and support local Los Angeles / Hollywood filmmaking.
 The best location on Earth is right here! Plus,
find out how you can take advantage of a nearly
40% savings off of the standard film production
insurance portfolio cost by engaging HFO on your
next project.

Hollywood Film Office - Hollywood’s indie-friendly & cost
effective motion picture production services company. HFO
provides studio support to independent filmmakers on features, television, pick-ups and re-shoots, music videos, commercials, new media and more.

We’ll be there from 3-8pm on Thursday and Friday and from
11am-5pm on Saturday -and- we’ll be giving away one (1)
free indie budget and schedule per day.

For more info visit - http://www.hollywoodfilmoffice.org

Also, right now - order an indie film production budget and
get an indie film production schedule at no additional charge -
A $1000 savings! (Limited time offer - some restrictions apply)

Bonus, don’t forget to pick-up on some sweet HFO SWAG.

Be well and see you soon…

Hollywood Film Office motion picture production service is able to offer an amazing savings on standard production insurance portfolio  - up to 40% off normal fees. 

The best indie-friendly deal in town - studio rates for independent projects - call us to find out more….213-235-1777.

Team HFO - Resident Experts! 

Here comes streamlined production services catering directly to the large Hollywood independent film community.  HFO is speficially desgined to advocate local filmming in the Los Angeles and capitalize on advantages of equipment, crew and amazing locations.  Anywhere else you go in the world to shoot you’ll most likely be able to find a production services company to help guide you through the local economy. 

 Now, the same help is available to all who need an effective, efficient, economic and experienced motion picture production service company in Hollywood.  The Hollywood Film Office is perfectly positioned to lend a hand and take advantage of volume discounts indie films rarely are able to benefit from, such as a nearly 40% discount on your production insurance portfolio - just ask us how.  On a $4M dollar project it is equal too an estimated $30K - Making Movies Move, HFO!

With so many of the recognizable faces here at Sundance walking down Main St. gift bags in tow and with some even bringing luggage bags with wheels to haul their booty back to their suites, it is understandable that Robert Redford, the founder of the festival, would comment on this influx of non film related celebrity presence.

However, despite Reford’s recent comment that “Paris Hilton and so forth doesn’t have anything to do with anything.” The H.F.O team has observed that the paparazzi want to tell their own story and at the top of their list is their usual headline grabbing stars.

Nevertheless, the weather, the purpose of the festival and the remoteness of its location continue to level the playing field. Star studded house parties are requiring that shoes be left at the door and with the below freezing temperatures and the massive amount of clothes required to make the scene, there is still the feeling that anyone could be the next someone despite their lack of the latest fur lined boots.

H.F.O. is very inspired by the success stories and the non traditional routes these independent film makers are taking and hope to continue this inspiration back in Hollywood.

Cheers to all those with a vision and a will.