Wayne Darwen & Burt Kearns have been friends and colleagues for more than 25 years. Darwen's exploits and accomplishments were chronicled in Kearns' 1999 book, Tabloid Baby.
High There star WAYNE DARWEN with producer BURT KEARNS on the Green Carpet at the Cannabis Film Festival
Wayne Darwen & Burt Kearns have been friends and colleagues for more than 25 years. Darwen's exploits and accomplishments were chronicled in Kearns' 1999 book, Tabloid Baby.
HIGH THERE coming to DVD: An interview with the directors
The Directors Tell All! Wayne Darwen & Henry Goren discuss the making of the award-winning nonfiction comedy, HIGH THERE!
'HIGH THERE' OPENS FIRST ANNUAL CANNABIS FILM FESTIVAL WITH DISTRIBUTION ANNOUNCEMENT
Minor technical difficulties aside, the first annual Cannabis Film Festival opened with a bang with the screening of Wayne Darwen & Henry Goren's dark nonfiction comedy High There, and producer Burt Kearns announced that the film has been picked up for distribution by premier independent BRINKvision.
High There will be released on DVD and On Demand June 23rd nationwide.
The High There team made their usual splash at the festival in the heart of the 'pot farming capital" Humboldt County, fanning out among festivalgoers and filmmakers, and setting up a crowd-pleasing life-size cardboard replica of Darwen's Dave High character at the door to the historic Garberville Theatre.
Darwen and Goren signed large posters depicting the High There DVD cover and other items-- including the Cannabis Film Festival t-shirt win by theatre owner Brigette Brannan.
Dave High, Garberville Theatre owner Brigette Brannan and Roland Jointz at a well-stocked lobby concession.
The festival was kicked off just before high noon by the CFF's charismatic director, Kellie Butterfield Dodds, who introduced the day's lineup and handed the show over to Kearns, who introduced High There.
CFF superstar: Kellie Butterfield Dodds
Festivalgoers alternate between laughter and gasps of shock as Wayne Darwen's Dave High fills the screen.
Press Release: BRINKVISION TO RELEASE 'HIGH THERE' on DVD & ON DEMAND JUNE 23
For immediate release:
HOLLYWOOD (MAY 2) -- HIGH THERE, the nonfiction
comedy film directed by and starring "gonzo" television pioneer Wayne
Darwen, will be released on DVD and On Demand across North America by BRINKvision
on June 23rd.
The distribution deal was announced this afternoon
by producer Burt Kearns after the film was screened at the first annual
Cannabis Film Festival in Garberville, California.
High There is a dark nonfiction comedy following
Darwen in the guise of journalist-producer "Dave High," who heads to Hawaii
to film a marijuana travel series, only to become lost in a fog of drugs, sex
and paranoia as he uncovers a government plot to control the marijuana trade.
It is directed by Darwen and cinematographer Henry
Goren.
Darwen is a veteran tabloid journalist and
television producer who was the inspiration for Robert Downey Jr.'s character
in "Natural Born Killers," has been compared to Hunter S. Thompson
and is credited as a godfather of both tabloid television and "gonzo
producing."
"Wayne Darwen was one of the first old school
journos to make the transition from alcohol to weed," Kearns said
Saturday. "It may not have helped his career, but as with Hunter S. Thompson and Willie Nelson, it unleashed new lines of
creativity that led to the unique participatory journalism, raw honesty and
wild flights we see in High There."
High There is produced by Sam Peters International
Productions Unlimited, Good Story Productions and Rat Lung Pictures.
BRINKvision is known as "the last real
independent film distribution company." Founded in 2001 by indie film pioneer
Danny Vinik, it carries a diverse catalog of titles spanning a wide valley of
genres and themes, from punk rock docs to critically acclaimed dramas to
micro-budget features to blood-curdling horror films.
Added Kearns:
"BRINKvision is the perfect match for High There. They support the
avant garde and the rebels. And they recognize that High There is unlike
anything seen before."
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"TWO TICKETS FOR HIGH THERE AT HIGH NOON, PLEASE!"
The night before the Cannabis Film Festival at the Garberville Theatre.
UPDATE: DAVE HIGH ARRIVES IN GARBERVILLE FOR THE CANNABIS FILM FESTIVAL!
Henry Goren, AKA Roland Jointz, greets Wayne Darwen, AKA Dave High, on Main Street in Garberville, California for the Cannabis Film Festival. The pair directed the film, which screens tomorrow at HIGH NOON!
UPDATE: DAVE HIGH ON THE ROAD TO GARBERVILLE & THE CANNABIS FILM FESTIVAL!
Wayne Darwen AKA DAVE HIGH, left Los Angeles at 4 a.m. on the way to a screening of High There at the Cannabis Film Festival in Garberville, California in the heart of Humboldt County.
Producer Burt Kearns drives as Darwen prepares for his appearance,
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