Award-winning documentary filmmaker Robert Greenwald ("Outfoxed," "Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers") and princess of punk-rock porn Joanna Angel (www.JoannaAngel.com) ("Joanna's Angels," "Re-Penetrator") have joined the Alt-Film Fest as speakers at its inaugural event on Friday November 16th, 7:30pm at the Borders Books in Westwood CA. The festival is an independent filmmaking primer featuring unique filmmakers who choose to make provocative films outside the Hollywood/Indiewood systems.

In addition to Greenwald and Angel, the event will feature a range of young filmmakers whose work challenges the established methods and content of contemporary cinema; including James Spooner ("Afro-punk"), Esther Bell ("Exist"), Matt Pizzolo ("Threat"), and Curt Johnson ("Your Mommy Kills Animals").

"Each of these filmmakers has faced daunting challenges in their efforts to create films that articulate their unique points of view," said festival organizer Maddy Dawson. "The passions that inspire them and the clever methods they use to solve problems are inspiring and empowering to young artists and filmmakers."

The Alt-Film Fest is slated to expand nationwide in Winter 2008, with "how-to" panels at Borders Books stores followed by weekend-long festivals of midnight movie screenings.


About Joanna Angel:

Joanna Angel is an award-winning filmmaker, entrepreneur, model, and actress in the "altporn" adult film world. She has been featured in The New York Times and Esquire Magazine, and she wrote a sex-advice column for Spin Magazine. After graduating from RutgersUniversity, Angel founded the punk-themed adult website Burning Angel, which grew into one of the most popular and heavily-trafficked web destinations. She developed the website into an adult film studio, directing traditional adult films while also producing erotic-horror films with horror filmmaker Doug Sakmann ("Punk Rock Holocaust"). Her award-winning films "Repenetrator" and "Xxxorcist" will crossover into the mainstream with cult film distributor UnitShifter Films' release of the 'unrated editions' in early 2008. Angel recently contributed a chapter to the book Naked Ambition: Women Pornographers and How They Are Changing the Sex Industry.