ALL ABOUT ANNA
U.S. Theatrical Premiere Set For
January 18th, 2007 In Chicago

DATELINE January 7, 2007 | Daniel Metcalf Public Relations, Boston MA

LOS ANGELES, CA - (January 7, 2007 DMPR) -In anticipation of its Spring, 2007 DVD release, the first U.S. theatrical screening of All About Anna is set for Thursday evening, January 18th, 2007 and will be hosted by the University Of Chicago's Doc Films society.

The society has long been a friend to independent films and filmmakers. In a prepared statement on their website, they cite a track record of hosting "a number of Chicago premieres, giving the city its first glimpse of such masterpieces as The Rules of the Game, An Autumn Afternoon, Au hasard Balthazar, The Loyal 47 Ronin, Masculin-Feminin, and countless underground landmarks by Andy Warhol and others."

Thursday evening's screening is part of a ten week series entitled "Cinematic Sexualities in the 21st Century." Other films in the series include 9 Songs and Irreversible.

Please click here (http://docfilms.uchicago.edu/calendar/thursday2.shtml) to read details about the series at the Doc Films website.

All About Anna's U.S. website (http://www.myspace.com/Allaboutannathemovie) gives netizens access to an up-to-date EPK with cast and crew biographies, interviews with some of the film's creators, breaking news on the movie from around the world, and an exclusive photo gallery.

All About ALL ABOUT ANNA

ALL ABOUT ANNA is a new type of erotic film, based on real life rather than on the wish-fulfilling fantasies that characterize traditional sex movies. It portrays a type of woman with whom we all are familiar, fighting with problems most women know all too well.

The film is also an attempt to integrate explicit sex as part of the storytelling and character development. Thus, the film’s sex scenes are part of defining the characters and their relationships. Without the sex scenes, the film’s drama would fall apart.

Striving for optimal realism, ALL ABOUT ANNA was shot on location in Copenhagen and Paris. The romantic prologue and flashbacks were shot at sea on an Greenlandic icebreaker, a bittersweet conversation was shot in front of the Eiffel Tower, and the story’s emotional climax features such landmarks as Copenhagen’s Royal Castle, usually off-limit to film crews. The scenes in Anna’s apartment were shot in the real apartment of actress Gry Bay. Here, the film’s first major sex scene was performed repeatedly by Gry and Thomas Raft in front of a huge window, witnessed by astonished neighbors while traffic and everyday life passed by on the busy city street outside.

ALL ABOUT ANNA marks the culmination of the gradual move towards the use of explicit images in art house cinema which was initiated by Lars Von Trier’s The Idiots. Renowned for their search for cinematic truth, realism and new means of expression, Lars Von Trier, Zentropa, and Innocent Pictures have truly brought erotic cinema into the 21st Century.

To request DVD screeners of ALL ABOUT ANNA, or to arrange an interview with Gry Bay please contact:

DANIEL METCALF PUBLIC RELATIONS
(818) 266-7910
daniel@danielmetcalf.com
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ALL ABOUT ANNA is an Innocent Pictures production
in association with Zentropa Productions.
The ALL ABOUT ANNA DVD will be distributed in the U.S. later this year
exclusively by Wicked Pictures.