Press Release: High There star set for July 1st appearance on RT America television

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Wayne Darwen to promote newly-released VOD & DVD on 'Watching The Hawks'

HOLLYWOOD (JUNE 28) -- Wayne Darwen, director and star of the award-winning nonfiction film High There, will be the featured guest on RT America's 'Watching the Hawks' program on Wednesday, July 1.

The tabloid television pioneer and newly-branded "420 hero" will be interviewed by hosts Tyrel Ventura and Tabetha Wallace, and is expected to hit controversial topics including marijuana laws, government intrusion into personal privacy, network news scandals involving figures including Brian Williams, and the influence of Fox News.

Darwen, who worked many years as journalist for Rupert Murdoch's organization, was the model for Robert Downey Jr.'s newsman in Oliver Stone's film, Natural Born Killers.  Stone's son Sean is a co-host of Watching the Hawks.

High There has soared up the DVD and VOD sales charts since its release by BRINKvision on Tuesday.  The nonfiction "gonzo" comedy is both internationally-acclaimed and award-winning, having taken the prestigious People's Choice award at the Cannabis Film Festival in May.

Darwen is beginning a round of television and radio appearances to promote the film, in which he appears as "Dave High," who arrives in Hawaii to film "a travel series for stoners," but falls in with the local hippies and stumbles upon a DEA plot to imprison a local cannabis advocate.  According to The Australian newspaper, Darwen "has been described as the new Hunter S. Thompson-- the new king of gonzo journalism."

Since its debut in March, Watching the Hawks has attracted a young, intelligent audience four days a week, as it gives viewers a fresh perspective and honest debate on many issues ignored by the rest of the mainstream media.

RT America is based in Washington, D.C.  It is available on cable systems to 85 million households throughout America as well as online.  The show airs at 6 p.m. Check your local listings for updates.

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Press Release: As "HIGH THERE" nears release, everybody loves Wayne Darwen

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"Dave High" hits radio, television and podcasts for June 23rd VOD & limited edition DVD

Wayne Darwen & fan show off High There DVD cover art

HOLLYWOOD (JUNE 17) -- With less than a week until the release of his award-winning, internationally-acclaimed nonfiction comedy HIGH THERE, the film's director and star Wayne Darwen just may be the most wanted man in America.

The veteran producer and tabloid television pioneer, who appears in the film as "Dave High," is in demand -- and available -- for interviews on television, radio and podcasts.

Topics for the colorful Darwen include:

* High There's beginnings as a misguided attempt at filming a television travelogue series -- for stoners;

* Darwen and co-director Henry Goren being mistaken for DEA agents ("narcs") when they arrived in Hawaii;

* How High There helped free Hawaiian marijuana activist (THC Church founder) Roger Christie from four years of federal detention without a trial;

* Roseanne Barr's uncredited cameo in the film;

* Whether Darwen was actually stoned for the entire High There shoot;

* The depiction of mature, sexual women in High There, hailed as a revolutionary smack at Hollywood sexism and ageism;

* High There's win as "Viewers' Choice" at the first Cannabis Film Festival in marijuana growing mecca, Humboldt County;

* How Darwen came to be the model for Robert Downey Jr.'s newsman "Wayne Gale" in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers;

* Darwen's international headline-generating  blast of Downey Jr. after the movie star's attack on journalists and independent films;

* Comparisons of Darwen to Hunter S. Thompson, Cheech & Chong -- and Peter Sellers(!);

* Changing marijuana laws, political correctness and free speech issues;

* Darwen's pioneering work in the early days of tabloid television, and its influence on television today;

* His work and relationships with personalities including Geraldo Rivera, Michael Jackson and Son of Sam Killer David Berkowitz;

 *His reputation, immortalized in the book Tabloid Baby, as an "Aussie pirate with rock star locks and an exorcist growl."

High There will be released June 23rd on VOD and limited edition DVD by  independent distributor BRINKvision. In recent weeks, the film has generated headlines and overwhelmingly positive reviews.  Accolades have come from publications including Los Angeles' LA Weekly, ("A trip,  full of comedy and chaos!") Alaska's Anchorage Weekly ("Absurdly funny!") and the national newspaper The Australian ("hailed as a minor masterpiece, reignites a film genre made popular decades ago by the likes of Cheech and Chong!").

High There is a dark nonfiction comedy following Darwen in the guise of journalist-producer "Dave High," as he heads to Hawaii to film a marijuana travel series, only to become lost in a fog of drugs, sex and paranoia -- and uncover a DEA plot to keep a local marijuana activist in prison without a trial.

It is directed by Darwen and cinematographer/co-star Henry Goren.  High There is is a Sam Peters International Productions Unlimited and Good Story Productions presentation of a Rat Lung Picture.

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