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PRAISE FOR "NOTHING SO STRANGE"

SALON.COM:
"The irony was that while the powerful studios and distributors were swarming over Sundance, many of the best discoveries were two miles up the mountainside in the relative obscurity of the alternative Slamdance festival, which has recaptured much of the youthful, scrappy spirit that Sundance had before it became so absurdly famous. Slamdance had this year's best hope for emulating the cultish following of 'The Blair Witch Project.' It was 'Nothing So Strange,' a fictional film about the internal politics in an activist group investigating the conspiratorial coverup of the assassination of Microsoft's Bill Gates. The film, which pretends to be a documentary, is an homage to classics of the documentary genre, such as Erroll Morris' legendary 'The Thin Blue Line.' It picks up brilliantly on the strange culture of conspiracy theorists, drawing inspiration from the JFK, RFK and Martin Luther King cases and from LAPD scandals such as Rampart."

VARIETY:
"Brian Flemming's 'Nothing So Strange,' with its anti-capitalist fever-dream premise about the assassination of Bill Gates, created heavy buzz all up and down Park City's ski slopes before it even premiered. The film itself is more than just a novel premise, going off in myriad unexpected directions and setting something of a high bar for the mockumentary subgenre."

WIRED.COM:
"As a pseudo documentary, 'Nothing So Strange' is pitch perfect, more closely resembling Errol Morris' crime film 'The Thin Blue Line' than 'This Is Spinal Tap'. And it comes with a brilliant and ingenious Internet component -- an entire Web universe of memorials to Bill Gates and conspiracy theorist sites."

indieWIRE:
"It's a mock documentary of the first order, with a verisimilitude that rivals Christopher Guest's films. It's also a major investigation of group dynamics, a perfect subject for a culture where special interests rule the roost."

"Uncomfortably realistic." "Chilling." "Controversial and eerily realistic."
--New York Post --Seattle Times --Drudge Report


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