IndiePix-Backed Film, 'Billy The Kid,' Wins Best Documentary at Los Angeles Film Festival

IndiePix-Backed Film, 'Billy The Kid,' Wins Best Documentary at Los Angeles Film Festival

Watch the IndiePix Exclusive Filmmakers Interview with First-Time Director Jennifer Venditti, Producer Chiemi Karasawa, and Billy The Kid at IndiePix.net

NEW YORK, June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- IndiePix, a company celebrating independent film by bridging the gap between filmmakers and independent film fans, today announced that "Billy The Kid," an intimate verite portrait by first-time director, Jennifer Venditti, was honored with the prestigious Target Documentary Award for Best Documentary Feature at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 28, 2007.

Funding for "Billy The Kid" was provided, in part, by IndiePix. Danielle DiGiacomo, Documentary Film Coordinator, and Jordan Mattos, Dramatic Features and Shorts Coordinator, introduced the company to Venditti, Karasawa and Billy The Kid in early 2006. DiGiacomo and Mattos are Associate Producers on the film, while Bob Alexander, President of IndiePix, and Barnet Liberman, Chairman, are Executive Producers.

The IndiePix Exclusive Filmmakers Interview with Venditti, Karasawa and Billy The Kid can be viewed for free at http://www.indiepix.net/. "Billy the Kid" is currently doing the festival circuit and is seeking distribution.

"The success of Billy The Kid and the recognition it has earned is why IndiePix exists - to help independent filmmakers make great films and to give film lovers access to works of art that might otherwise go unseen or, worse, never created," said IndiePix President, Bob Alexander. "Jennifer and Chiemi are incredibly talented women who have guided this project from its development to the Grand Jury award at South-by-Southwest, through the competition in Toronto, to this wonderful award in Los Angeles. We're honored that IndiePix played a part in bringing their vision - and Billy's story - to the screen. And we are continuing to support their work to gain the best possible distribution for this film."

"Billy The Kid" stands out as a work of art for the way it extends and expands the documentary form and as a work of great humanity for the way it addresses the basic drive each of us has to be respected for who we are. "Billy the Kid" introduces audiences to Billy P., the remarkable 15-year-old subject of Venditti's engrossing verite portrait of life, love and growing up different in small-town Maine. At first, Billy seems like any other awkward teen -- into air guitar, professional wrestling and girls. Gradually, however, Billy and his mother reveal to Venditti's empathetic camera a darker history of behavioral problems, institutionalization and medical treatments. Against such a background, that which initially seemed normal - choir practice, a first crush - becomes heroic, while Billy's disarming humor and startling wisdom become all the more affecting.

"IndiePix is proud to have provided finishing funds for 'Billy The Kid' and to support it through an incredibly satisfying festival run," said Barnet Liberman, IndiePix Chairman. "We will continue to provide the resources for filmmakers like Jennifer and Chiemi to produce and distribute independent works of art, while offering fans the chance to not only see these films, but to support the filmmakers in the process."

IndiePix' mission is to provide consumers with both traditional and non- traditional means of discovering and acquiring the works of independent films from independent filmmakers.

Using the proprietary IndiePix Disc Factory download manager, film fans can "Download-to-Own" select films from the IndiePix catalog and write their own full-featured, store-bought quality DVD. Film fans receive a DVD over the internet, written on their computer's DVD-writer that lets them see the film they own the way the filmmaker wanted them to see it, wherever and however they watch DVDs.

IndiePix is the only place to download a true DVD - the equivalent of a store-bought DVD - via a Mac or PC that includes the proprietary PixelTools watermarking technology. Users get full, home theater quality video and audio that can be played wherever DVDs are usually viewed. And through the IndiePix business model enabled by watermarking, users can be confident that more than half the purchase price of every download is going directly to the filmmaker.

IndiePix also offers traditional shipments of DVDs from its filmmakers and from its curated online catalog of truly independent arthouse, foreign, and documentary films. IndiePix DVDs - by shipment or through the Internet - are available around the world.

For more information, visit http://www.indiepix.net/.

Source: IndiePix

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