Everyone’s favorite moustachio’ed movie is playing at the Ashland Independent Film Festival in Oregon.  The movie will screen once a day from April 2 – 6, 2009.

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“Good solid acting, some amazingly professional camera work, and a quirky story set it apart as an indie that will hopefully gain some ground and pick up distribution along the way.”

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Matt and Eric travel to San Antonio to show Happy Birthday Harris Malden at Robert E. Lee High School. They visit The Alamo, take a Greyhound Bus to Austin, ride a unicycle with Emily, and head home.

Matt and Eric travel to San Antonio to show “Happy Birthday Harris Malden” at Robert E. Lee High School. Matt eats Puffy Tacos at a local Mexican restaurant.

Matt and Eric travel to San Antonio to show “Happy Birthday Harris Malden” at Robert E. Lee High School. The folks at the high school send over a limo to pick us up. We are dropped off at a promo event with many kids and a megaphone.

Matthew Sanchez and Eric Levy will be there for an hour long Q&A after each screening.

San Antonio // NESA Presents…

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Date: February 25th, 2009
Time: 7:30 pm
Location:
Robert E. Lee High School
1400 Jackson Keller Rd.
San Antonio, TX 78213 [ Map ]

Cost: $8 for General Admission, $4 for Student with School ID

Austin // AFF Presents…

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Date: February 26th, 2009
Time: 7:30 pm
Location:
Alamo Drafthouse: Lake Creek
13729 Research Blvd,
Austin, Tx 78750 [ Map ]

Cost: Free for AFF members/$4 for non-members

Attention New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut:
Tune your televisions to WNET, Channel 13.
They’re presenting Harris Malden as a part of their Reel 13 Indies program.

Schedule:
Sat. Feb. 21 11:05 PM
Sun. Feb. 22 2:35 AM
Wed. Feb. 25 1:00 AM

We’re on TV.

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“Happy Birthday Harris Malden” is out on ITunes. The preview movie is in HD and looks fantastic. You can rent it for $3.99 or own it for $9.99.  I am excited!

Maybe this means it’s time for you to buy the movie.  Everyone else seems to be doing it.  Even Zach Braff.  Thanks Zach.

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Date: December 5th – 11th

Time: 12:10a 2:30 p 4:30p 6:30p 9:10p

Location:

Cinemagic Hooksett Imax

www.cinemagicmovies.com

1226 Hooksett Rd
Hooksett, NH 03106
(603) 644-4629
Get directions

I look forward to this show every week, more for the Bobby than the Short Films.

Please click on the movie until YouTube pops up, and leave ol’ Robert a comment.  Also, would it kill you to rate the movie?  It’ll take like two seconds, pal, just do it.

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Molly Eichel of the Philadelphia Citypaper wrote an article about Sweaty Robot and “Happy Birthday Harris Malden.”

“The real trouble with the climate of [film] distribution is the model is broken,” says Sweaty Robot’s Matthew Sanchez. “We’re forward thinking enough to take advantage of this new media and [are] finding new outlets for our films and future projects.”

Dave McLaughlin’s “On Broadway” and Rob Epstein’s “The Times of Harvey Milk” are two of the titles debuting this month on Amazon Video on Demand in the wake of a new partnership with Cinetic Rights Management (CRM) that will bring independent films to audiences via Amazon and CreateSpace DVD on Demand. The deal between CRM and Amazon will place about twenty films on Amazon each month, one debuting exclusively each month. Others on tap for Amazon this month include Sweaty Robot’s “Happy Birthday, Harris Malden,” Curt Johnson’s “Your Mommy Kills Animals,” and Vern Oakley’s “A Modern Affair.” Additional November films have not yet been announced. “Audiences are no longer required to live in a specific city to see new and classic independent film,” CRM’s Matt Dentler said today, in a statement. “All they need now is an Internet connection.” “On Broadway,” profiled yesterday by indieWIRE, is November’s CRM exclusive on Amazon. [Eugene Hernandez] 

Internet, here we come.  [ Link to IndieWIRE Article ]

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In it, we meet Harris Malden, a regular guy on the eve of his twenty-fifth birthday — well, regular except that he wears a fake mustache that makes Groucho Marx’s pre-Love Happy grease-paint whiskers look convincing. – JOEL FRANKE, UWishUNu

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While living together in New Jersey, Gregorio and Levy decided to borrow a camera from their job editing wedding videos. Having written some material already, the two punched out their first short film in a single night.

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Nobody beats the Wiz!

Kelly Williams, the programmer for the Austin Film Festival, asked us to screen our film in the Comedy Vanguard, which highlights “new voices in comedy,” in this year’s festival.  We are excited and honored to announce we’ll be playing two dates in Austin.

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We’ll be joined by another CineVegas alum, the movie, “Visioneers.”

Upstate Films I – 10/03/2008

Woodstock Town Hall – 10/04/2008, 10PM

Tickets are $8. The movie will be projected in HD. See you there!

ABOUT THE WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL
The 9th annual Woodstock Film Festival takes place October 1-5th, 2008. The “fiercely independent” festival in the colony of the arts will include more than 150 films, panels, concerts and special events featured at venues in Woodstock and the neighboring towns of Rhinebeck and Rosendale. For more information, visit www.Woodstockfilmfestival.com

Since 2000, the Woodstock Film Festival has established itself as one of the foremost independent film events in the country by premiering exceptional films; hosting the most talented emerging and established professionals in the movie industry; presenting A-list concerts, parties and panels, and creating stimulating, innovative programming year-round.

The screening dates have not been officially announced, but it’s rumored we’ll play nights on Oct 3rd and Oct 4th. Tickets go on sale September 10th.

Don Lewis from FilmThreat.com writes…

“…the film is really funny as long as you realize there’s a kind of straight-faced silliness to the whole affair much like the films of the Zellner Brothers or even Charlie Kaufman. If you enjoy that kind of off-the-wall humor, “Happy Birthday, Harris Malden” can’t miss.” [Read Full FilmThreat review here]

Eric D. Snider from Cinematical…

But most of the jokes do work. As you might expect given the film’s premise, the Sweaty Robot guys are fond of absurd, surreal humor, though they’re careful not to let the movie become too bizarre. [Read the full Cinematical review here]

Cal Kemp at Collider…

Somehow, “Harris Malden” is both down to earth and over the top. It’s sweet, funny and real in a way that only fiction can be. [Read the full Collider review here]

David Cornelius with eFilmCritic…

I admire the way the filmmakers manage to have so much going on at once, with natural, overlapping dialogue filling each scene with an Altman-esque collage of story and character. [Read the full eFilmCritic review here]

Even the bloggers got into the fray…

LOVED this movie!! LOVED IT! this is the 2nd film that really made me happy to be at CineVegas. [Read full review here]

Interviews
[Collider Interview]
[ReelzChannel Interview]
[Fox Las Vegas Video Interview]
[eFilmCritic Interview]

What is a real Sweaty Robot? So many pictures come to mind.
Picture the group in our underwear after an All-You-Can-Eat Seafood Bonanza, each sitting on their own tiny, tiny mechanical horse on a hot summer day in the middle of the parking lot of a Pay-None convenience store. Is that what you were imagining?



You know you want to read the rest.

The article showed up as the front page of the Lifestyle section, with a big picture of the guys looming over the words beneath.

World renowned film critic, Michael Lau had this to say:

He saw the film and says he was entertained the whole way through.
“I loved it. I thought it was a great movie,” Lau said…
Lau thinks the movie will go over well in Las Vegas.
“I think they told the story in a unique way,” he said. “It wasn’t the typical storytelling platform.“

A few selections will be of particular interest to actors. Happy Birthday, Harris Malden, which screens in the fest’s Jackpot Premieres section, was made by a five-man group that goes by the name of SweatyRobot. “It’s five guys working together, and they’re all credited as the directors, and they wrote it together, and four of them act in it, and one of them actually did the cinematography,” says Plante. “It feels like a full story, and there are really rounded characters; it’s not just like a five-minute skit that’s stretched out. And since they worked on all aspects of the film, it’s low-budget, but it doesn’t feel like it’s trapped or limited; it feels like there’s a lot of work put into it.”

Thanks Mike, that means a lot to us.

World Premiere: Saturday, 6/14 at 6 p.m.
Second Screening: Monday, 6/16 at 7 p.m.