In other news, we are excited to add a new member to our Man Bites Dog Films family: Aaron Mikel. Aaron is assisting us with the Red V Blue project as well as with the Graff Lab movie. And he’s a Kentucky boy, so we know he ain’t squeamish

We are proud to announce our partnership with the nonprofit Keepers of the Mountain Foundation, established by MTR activist Larry Gibson. Larry Gibson’s family has lived on or near Kayford Mountain since the late 1700′s. More than 300 relatives are buried in the cemetery on Kayford Mountain. Larry and his family used to live on the lowest lying part of the mountain, and looked “up” to the mountain peaks that surrounded them. Since 1986, the slow motion destruction of Kayford Mountain has been continuous — 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Eighteen years after the “mountain top removal” project began, Larry Gibson now occupies the highest point of land around; he is enveloped more than 7,500 acres of destruction of what was previously a forested mountain range

Man Bites Dog Films is donating 100% of the revenue earned by the short film “Mountain Man” to the Keepers of the Mountain foundation in order to further Larry’s mission to end mountain top removal as well as to protect what remains of Kayford Mountain. Stream the award-winning short film for just $4.97 or download it for $9.97. The DVD is coming soon!

• Monday December 5 @ 7:30 pm “Battle for Brooklyn” short TBA The filmmaker will attend
• Tuesday December 6 @ 7:30pm “Medium Hot” short TBA The filmmaker will attend
• Wednesday December 7 @ 7:30pm “Toxic Soup” short “Mountain Man”
• Tuesday December 13 @ 8pm “The Orange Chronicles” The filmmaker will attend.
• Wednesday December 14 “Granito, how to nail a dictator” short TBA The filmmaker will attend.
• Thursday December 15 “Bigger than the Beatles” The filmmaker will attend.

For more information contact Charles Krezell at 917-514-2197.

Sahaya International is a non-profit organization based out of Davis, California. Its mission is to promote awareness and education of social, medical and environmental issues in developing countries, particularly in India.

In other news, Toxic Soup will soon be on HULU. We are also finalizing a deal with French Connection Films to have Toxic Soup broadcast in France and French-speaking territories around the world. The Graff Lab documentary is still in progress as is our mockumentary Sawmill Outlaw.

Right now my best guess for a release date for the Graff Lab documentary will be sometime in 2013. We have over 4 terabytes of footage so far so the editing process will be grueling. However, the final product will definitely be worth it. We are also planning on releasing a coffee table book of Graff Lab photographs in conjunction with a DVD with a portion of the proceeds to benefit the Graff Lab. Be sure to “like” Graff Lab on facebook. Cheers to Suzanne Wu for putting this video interview together on the Graff Lab documentary.

Also, because of the encouraging response to “Mountain Man,” P.G. and I are considering cutting at least one more short doc from the footage that was originally shot for “Toxic Soup.” The short will be about two-party politics in America, but what makes it unique is that it tells the story of the Mountain Party candidate Jesse Johnson’s run for governor of West Virginia in 2008. We hope to have the film complete and ready to hit the festival circuit in 2012 just in time for the elections.

Through such efforts we hope to continue to promote “Mountain Man” as well as the larger brand of “Toxic Soup,” while also encouraging people to take third party candidates more seriously.

Last weekend I met up with director Andy Lauer from Reel Aid and Dr. Koen Van Rompay from Sahaya International to work on the editing and general post-production of their short documentary. The meetings were a huge success and we made a TON of progress on the film. Although there is still some work to be done, we are very close to a final cut and a 2 minute trailer will be available even sooner.

We initially shot the footage that became “Mountain Man” as part of our feature length documentary Toxic Soup, which we released in 2010. Unfortunately, Larry Gibson’s story ended up on the cutting room floor. But his story of survival and leadership was a story that we had to tell.

So when Nashville-based producer P.G. Banker came out to Los Angeles, we sat down and revisited the footage, rescuing Larry’s story from the cutting room floor — who knew that it would be destined for the big screen in London!

Also, “Toxic Soup” and our short documentary “Mountain Man” about MTR activist Larry Gibson are currently screening as part of the 2011 Culture Unplugged Film Festival so make sure you take in the show and spread the news!