Activism Announcement: The ZRC Will Be at ‘III Slices of Life’ DVD Release Party
The Zombie Rights Campaign has had a long and eventful history with the film today known as ‘III Slices of Life’. Even before we had begun formal operations the proto-ZRC saw the first published segment of ‘III Slices of Life’, then called ‘W.O.R.M.’ and now incorporated into the final anthology as ‘Work Life’, at The Dark Carnival Film Festival.
Later, we attended the official World Premiere of the film at the historic Portage Theatre in Chicago, being in the very first audience to see the larger project, which in contrast to W.O.R.M. is much more sympathetic to the plight of the Differently Animated. ‘III Slices of Life’ thus received an Anti-Zombie rating from The Zombie Rights Campaign.
(At the Premiere)
Then at this last year’s Dark Carnival we had the table next to the ‘III Slices of Life’ crew at the VIP Banquet and got the chance to exchange pleasantries and register our objections in person, and over time the ZRC’s Facebook activity has been much brightened by conversations with Deneen Melody and Anthony Sumner.
Perhaps in some small fashion due to our advocacy, Mr. Sumner’s next project, ‘By Her Hand, She Draws You Down’ was much more sympathetic in its treatment of the Differently Animated and received a Zombie Tolerant rating from the ZRC.
Let’s also not forget the valuable contributions to the ZRC’s charity fundraiser for Japan made by an at-least-partially repentant Mr. Sumner.
Since that time ‘III Slices of Life’ has rocketed into the upper echelons of independent filmmaking, having a very successful wide release on Video on Demand, an ever-more important film distribution method for independent film in particular.
(Though I do have to wonder if some of these donations were made just to see if the ZRC would auction off an Anti-Zombie film for charity; the answer, obviously, was yes.)
Now the time has come for ‘III Slices of Life’s DVD release, and to mark the occasion a number of events around the country have been scheduled. Here in the Upper Midwest there are two release events the week of June 7th:
The ZRC will be attending/protesting the second of these events on June 9th at the lovely Woodfield Mall, which, perhaps not coincidentally, is where we had our RE: Afterlife protest interrupted by The Man.
I suppose this is the enemy’s turf, a stronghold of prejudice about Zombies and the Undead, but we’re not afraid, and will fight Anti-Zombiism wherever we can find it.
For those of our readers on the East Coast, there’s also an event on June 7th in Jersey City where the extremely talented and entertaining Alan Rowe Kelly and Judith Lesser will be signing DVDs.
The Zombie Rights Campaign will be available during the signing to offer counterargument and valuable insight into the emerging field of White Collar Zombie films that has arisen since the original release of W.O.R.M., bringing unfortunate Anti-Zombie prejudice to whole new audiences who are unfortunately taking up the Undead-hating message all too well. Join us for a day of learning, outreach and of course, pamphleteering.
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