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UPDATE: More Shoes won a few awards at our most recent festival screenings. Also, we are screening next in Chicago, Texas, Michigan, and twice in South America. See below for details. MORE SHOES won both "Best Documentary" and "Best Musical Score" at DocuFest Atlanta (http://www.docufest.com). At the River's Edge festival in Paducah, Kentucky MORE SHOES was given the Avery Crounse award, "an award given by the directors of the film festival for a filmmaker showing vision, integrity and soul." I am humbled to receive the awards and my thanks go to the committees, as well as the composers and musicians such as Pascal Troemel, Matt Knight, and Jason Levasseur whose work makes up the soundtrack that allowed us to win the musical score award. Our screenings in September and October include our first Chicago screening at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, as well as screenings at the Thin Line Film Fest in Denton, Texas, the Hell's Half Mile Film Festival in Bay City, Michigan, and two SOUTH AMERICAN premieres: the Sao Paulo Film Festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and the Bogota Film Festival in Bogota, Colombia. 1. First and foremost, the CHICAGO screening is this Friday, September 26th 7.30pm at the UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE OF MODERN ART. This is our very first public screening in Chicago. I will be in attendance for this to present the film and give a Q&A. The UIMA is at 2320 W. Chicago Avenue, 60622. This is a significant event for me as it represents the last of three presentations I will give at the UIMA concerning the MORE SHOES project. As the UIMA was a major supporter of my project, this is something of a homecoming. I hope to see you there. 2. Texas screening at the THIN LINE FILM FEST is Thursday, September 25th at 6.30pm at Campus Theater. For tickets and directions please see here 3. At the HELL'S HALF MILE FILM FESTIVAL in Bay City, Michigan, MORE SHOES will be the opening night film. That screening is at 8pm on Thursday, October 2nd at the State Theater. The film will also screen at 1pm on Saturday, October 4th at the Delta College Planetarium. *I will be attending this festival*. More information on this fest is at their website 4. At the 32nd SAO PAULO FILM FESTIVAL in Brazil, MORE SHOES will screen sometime during the 17th to 30th of October. I don't have the screening dates yet, but they will be posted on their website here 5. Finally, MORE SHOES will also screen out of competition at the FESTIVAL DE CINE DE BOGOTA, Colombia. More information will be posted at their website Hi, I'm Lee. This is the official website of More Shoes, a documentary film I made about a long walk I took across Europe entirely on foot. The journey took me from Madrid, Spain to Kiev, Ukraine. I passed through seven countries in total and it took me six months. I covered somewhere in the neighborhood of 5,000 kilometers, or 3,000 miles. More Shoes has just completed post-production and is playing at festivals throughout the year. It is the filmed record of this journey, a diary picture that tells the story of the people I met, the places I saw, and how it all affected me. I hope that you can see this film at a festival this year, details of which I periodically announce on this site. In the meantime, you can find links at right to journal entries I made during the trip, with photographs. If you haven't read any of the entries before, try beginning at the beginning. It was through this website that I raised most of the funding for my project, which came in the form of donations from friends, acquaintances, and outright strangers who elected to join my Fellow Travelers plan. Thank you for your visit to my site, and I hope that the story of my walk will interest you.
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