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Kristen DiAngelo and I will be attending the Sacramento International Film Festival taking place Saturday April 20th through Sunday April 28th. We’re excited to be attending and look forward to seeing a lot of films and meeting a lot of people.

We are looking to network with film professionals in the Northern California area. We plan on shooting our next film, which will be a narrative, exclusively in the Sacramento area and would like to connect with local talent.

We plan on attending as many films and events as we can, time and work permitting, but will definitely be at the screening of our documentary, American Courtesans. We hope you’ll attend and introduce yourselves.

This is going to be an awesome festival! I plan on having a great time!

I hope to see you there! Bring your business card!

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While the idea for American Courtesans may have been sparked by a visit to an S&M club in NYC (see http://www.americancourtesans.com/about2.php); the actual creation took place on the opposite coast in Sacramento CA. Our company, Centex Enterprises, is located here in Sacto.

Kristen DiAngelo (Producer) and I began writing and brainstorming our documentary here. It went together quickly, taking only a couple of weeks to hammer out the frame work for the film. Within two months of our original idea we had assembled a crew, found thirteen women who were willing to share their lives with us, and did our first week of shooting; which began in Sacramento with Pearl Callahan, Kristen DiAngelo, and two other women who are not in the film. We then moved to San Francisco where we interviewed Juliet Capulet, Emma Dupree, and did numerous street interviews (a compilation of which is coming soon on our website www.americancourtesans.com).

After the first week, we took a break for the holidays and spent it planning the last  two weeks of filming. The making was quite an adventure that took us to LA (Norma Jean Almodovar), Las Vegas (Erin Marxxx), New Orleans (Skylar Cruz & Hilary Holiday), New York (Gina Depalma), Washington DC (Gina Robinson & Tamsen Crown), and back to Sacramento where we finished filming and had our wrap party; which was attended by the women in the film.

So, Sacramento is not only a home base, but a majority of the filming took place here.

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