Press Release

August 7th, 2007
For Immediate Release

Contact: Bob Cooper, prguynow@yahoo.com 00-1-401-447-6474 Days/Evenings

Canadian Film Breaks all Language Barriers
Arthur’s Paradise uses Music and Visuals to tell its tale

(Quebec, Canada – Providence, Rhode Island, USA) The film “Arthur’s Paradise / Le Paradis d’Arthur” selected to be screened at the Rhode Island Internatinoal Film Festival was conceived by Filmmaker Luc Beauchamp as a film that would be universally understood in any language. His goal was to make a documentary film whose only dialogue was music combined with visuals to depict ordinary life on a Canadian farm, but with an “added twist to keep it interesting.”

Written, directed and produced by Beauchamp, an award winning Canadian filmmaker, the film uses visuals and music to stir emotion in any audience no matter what language they speak. It documents how a Quebec pig farmer named Arthur goes about his day to day chores that gives his audience a clear and insightful view of ordinary life on his farm.

Then suddenly the documentary becomes something else as Arthur’s life is turned upside down. Chaos erupts and the secure and quiet humdrum life turns into a surrealistic and often humorous situation after situation of visuals and music.

Originally premiered at the Visions du Réel film festival in Montreal, critics called it a documentary, a fiction and some even called it a “UFO” movie. Academy Award-winning veteran filmmaker Frederique Back summed it up as, "…a tour de force of imagination and work."

The film premiers in the United States this Thursday, August 9th at the Annual Rhode Island International Film Festival, upstairs at the Columbus Theater, 270 Broadway in Providence at 2:00 pm.

Tickets area available from the RIIFF office (next to the theater) or online at www.RIFilmFest.org.

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Filmmaker Luc Beauchamp will be in town for the screening and is accepting interviews.

RIIFF info is here:
http://www.film-festival.org/ticketspasses.php

News Reporter info on the film is here: http://leparadisdarthur.com/DOSSIER_DE_PRESSE.html