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Hollywood, California..., BWP Press...It has just been  announced that the entire catalogue of Bob Bryans' Multi Award-Winning Documentary Series GRAFFITI VERITE' 1 - 5 has been picked up by NETFLIX for worldwide rental distribution. The Graffiti Verite' Series NOW joins other outstanding Award-Winning Documentary titles like:   
Super Size Me, Riding Giants, Born Into Brothels, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, Fahrenheit 9/11, Outfoxed: Murdoch's War on Journalism, The Fog of War, Control Room and Jerry Seinfeld: Comedian.  
  
The GV Series is NOW available for DVD on the NETFLIX virtual Rental shelf .  
  
And In another bit of good news, the GV Series Videogram Licensing Rights has been just purchased by a major DVD Distribution Company in Greece, for DVD replication in that territory (translation into Greek).   
 

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GRAFFITI VERITE' DOCUMENTARY VIDEO SERIES AWARDS   * National Educational Media Network "Gold Apple Awards"  * Council of International Non-Theatrical  Events "Golden Eagle Award"  *  Accolade Competition "Award of Excellence"  *  2003 Urban Independent Music Awards "Best Documentary"  *  AVC Regional CINDY "Silver CINDY Award"  *  Honolulu Underground Film Festival "Best Documentary"   * Colorlab Award "Outstanding Documentary"  *  The Communicator Awards "Award of Distinction"  *  Texas A&M Film Festival  "Audience Choice Winner  for Documentary"  *  Worldfest Film Festival "Political Issues Category"  *  The Freaky Film Festival  "Best Documentary"  *  Telluride Indiefest "Best Documentary Award"  *  Chicago Film Festival  "Silver Award" *  Videographer Awards "2001 Videographer Award"  * Accolade Competition "Art Instruction Award Winner"  *  2003 Urban Independent Music Awards "Soundtrack of the Year" *

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GV5 Video Order  Multi-award winning Filmmaker Bob Bryan takes his camera on the road (in search of Hip-Hop) to the heartland of  America. "I figured if Hip-Hop exists here, then it's pretty much everywhere!"

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GV4: Basic Techniques for Creating Graffiti Art on Walls and Canvas    A NEW FILM BY  AWARD WINNING FILMMAKER  BOB BRYAN GV4  pulls you into the Underground Art form by showing the concepts, aesthetics, techniques, and style needed to complete a perfect semi " Wild Style " masterpiece (on a Legal Wall) as well as Aerosol Art on Canvas. GV4 is a "must-have-Video" for Art Instructors, Art Students, Galleries, Museums, Libraries and Educational Institutions who've been bewildered at Spray Can Technique. As a "unique lesson plan," no other program exists in the marketplace of ideas, that can compare to the inspiration, skill and intelligence of GV4.

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	GV4   Reviews   LIBRARY JOURNAL Vol. 128. No.14 -Video Reviews "Despite the still prevailing view that graffiti is not an art but urban blight, GV4 reveals just how mainstream graffiti art has become since this documentary series was first released (Video Reviews, LJ 9/1/96). Winner of international graffiti competitions, featured graffiti artist "Sano" demonstrates his artistic process and techniques,first by drawing elements of a piece on a sketchpad and then donning a protective mask and transferring his expression to a legal Graffiti Pit in Los Angeles's Venice Beach area..." (continued) VIDEO LIBRARIAN  Vol. 18 - The Video Review Magazine for Libraries-No.4 "The fourth entry in the Graffiti Verite' series (see review of Graffiti Verite’ {VL - 5/96} covers the basics of becominng a graffiti artist, with instruction by graffiti artist SANO in the techniques of sketching, outlining and fading, highlighting and shadowing, “can control," 3D effects, and more. Declaring his absolute love of the genre, SANO sketches ideas on a pad while sitting in the sun, and talks about translating his vision onto the wall..." (continued) SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL July 2003 Issue - Multimedia Review of GV4 "The term graffiti brings to mind vandals spraying subway walls with four-letter words.Viewers may be surprised to learn that not only is this a legitimate art form, but there are contests (the narrator is the two-time winner of The International Graffiti Art Competition), legal graffiti walls (one in Los Angeles is shown), and a variety of techniques and procedures used to produce top quality aerosol art...." (continued)  CLAMOR MAGAZINE New Perspectives on Politics, Culture, Media and Life "Good news for all you artists craving to vandalize your city walls with aerosol art - the new installment of Graffiti Verite' is in ! Graffiti Verite' 4, by award winning filmmaker Bob Bryan, captures the genius of spray can artist SANO. SANO informs us that all art is a personal experience - and that through his art he wants the general community to understand him..." (continued) http://www.africasgateway.com/ SOUTH AFRICA "The world is a canvas and I'm expressing my thoughts on your walls! " I recently had the opportunity to peep out Graffiti Verite Volume 4, a 68 minute documentary on the art commonly referred to as graffiti. A well laid out movie starts out with two time winner of the International Graffiti Art Competition SANO writing some of his ideas in his book and explaining to us how you start with the concept of your piece and doing a ruff outline of it...." (continued) SHIFT MAGAZINE ON GV4  “You know graffiti art has hit the mainstream when you go over to your mom's to use her VCR, pop in a graffiti instructional video, and she's just as keen to learn spray-can techniques as you are. "Shove over," says my mom, settling onto the couch beside me, "this looks interesting.....(continued)"   CAZAWA MUSICBIZ GV4 REVIEW  "Two-time winner of the International Graffiti Art Competition SANO teaches you the basics of the Graffiti Art Form. The GV4 Graffiti video presented by moviemaker Bob Bryan gives you a refreshing insight into the Underground Art Form. SANO guides you patiently through both the basic and the more complex spray techniques for both walls and canvases..." (continued)   NoHo LA MAGAZINE ”One can watch the instructional video Graffiti Verite’ 4, featuring award-winning graffito Sano, completely guilty-free. That’s because Sano and video director Bob Bryan have ensured that this is a nice, entirely within the confines of-the-law production. The video begins with Sano delivering the voice over, “I can’t even tell you what I’d be doing outside of aerosol art.  Aerosol art saved my life.  It gave me a foundation and a focus..." (continued)  THE E-FANZINE OF DIVERSE FILM ESOTERICA  -Ray Young, Flickhead  "The “GV” of the title stands for Graffiti Verité, Bob Bryan’s eye-popping endeavor to document the world of aerosol art. On his website, GraffitiVerité.com, Bryan quotes from Bertolt Brecht: “Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape  it.” Through Bryan’s GV series of instructional videotapes, the outsider can glimpse a part of this shaping which is commonly dismissed and (in some cases erroneously) regarded as vandalism. Bryan’s subject in GV4 is the spray can artist Sano (at work in the photo to the right and below), who points out that the concrete he works on here is indeed legal. The Graffiti Pit walls in Venice, California, are approximately sixty feet long  by six feet high, and are open for community expression..." (continued)   OUT4FAME.COM.AU Australian Hip-Hop and Culture Magazine "While the Graffiti Verite' series is not easily accessible to people in our part of the world, GV4 somehow found it's way to the Out4Fame reviewing desk. Unlike other documentaries centered around Graffiti such as StyleWars, GV4 does not educate the general public about the culture of Graffiti but instead provides an insight into the process of creating graffiti art, as demonstrated by LA Graf artist SANO. This demonstration is divided into two parts, the first being the creation of a large scale semi-wild style piece at a legal wall in Venice beach...." (continued)  -Reviewed by AKE MARE 139 GV4 REVIEW “Regarding GV4, I liked it allot !  It was timely that an instructional tape would be produced not only to instruct but inform viewers of the broad range of issues involved with doing a production. Sano is a really talented artist and he gave a good mention of artistic influences which reflect well on the tape, because it offers potential artists an opportunity to broaden their scope of creative influences. The irony is of course, where you shot it. I thought that spot was hot and could no longer be used.  We are in a time where writers share more of their resources and talents more openly; that open tutelage was the essence of subway graffiti back in the day. Now with so many spray can brands, tips, styles and reasons to write your name on the wall, your tape provides still another resource for writers to learn from. Props to you and SANO.”  -Mare 139 (Graffiti Artist and Designer of the BET Awards)  Writer / Field Producer, StyleWars DVD  @149st (The Bronx)  “I just got to sit down and see it (GV4) on Sunday night. It was great. I really enjoyed it! At my site I get allot of mail each month from University Students, Professors, young Graff heads, fine artists, housewives and people from all walks of life, asking questions regarding the creative process and the technical aspects of creating a piece. Now I will refer them directly to GV4. It will be a great resource. It was great that in addition to being a talented artist, Sano is also very articulate. You did a great job of capturing the man and his art.”  “This is the fourth film in the Graffiti Verite’ series by Los Angeles based director Bob Bryan. Bryan documents the process of a single artist creating a work of art. Bryan reveals Ohio artist SANO's step-by- step creative and technical processes from concept and sketch through completed art work. What also emerges from the film is an intimate portrait of  SANO as an artist.  This film is an essential resource for educators, students, artists and anyone who has been curious about the technical process of creating graffiti art paintings.”  Peace!  -ERIC aka DEAL CIA  @149st Web Master   Additional GV4 Movie Reviews
GV Video Reviews / Articles   Airbrush Action Magazine: " This documentary helps dispel the prejudices against Graffiti Art..."  Angry Thoreauan: " For years, the lifestyle that evolved around hip hop and Graffiti went unnoticed..."  Big Time Magazine: " You have to understand something, Los Angeles CA is Hollywood ..."  Blockbuster Video: " This fascinating documentary chronicling urban street art...to let 24 young LA..."  Booklist Review: " The colorful neon like murals seen here (far removed from the ugly gang, territory..."  CNNfn Interview with Bob Bryan: " Bob Bryan, multi-award winning filmmaker from Los Angeles..."  Committee for the LA County Office of Education: " Appropriate and useful classroom material."  Downlow Magazine: " 24 Artists whose creative tools of choice are paint spray cans are captured..."  Eye Magazine: " If you regard Graffiti as defacement of property - something that gentrification..."  Graffiti is Art! by Chaz Bojorquez : " Any drawn line that speaks about Identity, Dignity and Unity is Art!.."  Groundswell Surf Magazine: " GV2 is a gem of a video, covering a broad base of street artists..."  Guam Pacific Daily News : " Building owners on Guam would argue that nick-names, gang tags ..."  Hip Hop Now: " Director Bob Bryan is extremely successful at depicting Graffiti Art as an unsung..."  KCET News: " A revealing look at the underground world of Graffiti Art."  Library Journal : " Interviews with two dozen Los Angeles Graffiti Artists cast little doubt..."  Los Angeles Times :  " The documentary narration is done by the spray painters themselves..."  MSRRT Newsletter: " A mind expanding experience in people's - as opposed to commercial culture..."  Museum of Broadcast Communications:  " I kept being reminded of the works of Keith Haring and..."  Public Art Review:" The documentary Graffiti Verite' began by chance when Producer / Director..."  Rap Pages: " GV2 dropped with a more edgy feel! GV2 can be considered the younger..."  Remote Jockey Digest : " If you've ever discovered first hand how the 405 freeway in Los Angeles..."  Smithsonian Institute: " The minority artists are so well represented and come across with such..."  The Source Magazine: " GV2 is a stunning look at the hip hop culture that has developed a lifestyle..."  Subculture Magazine: " Driven by fate, Producer/Director Bob Bryan rode his car one day..."  Underground Newz:  " Nerv, a LA Graffiti Artist emphatically states, "I want people to know who I am..."  Video Librarian Review:   "The work shown in the video is very impressive, even more so when you..."   4080 Hip Hop Magazine: " Graffiti Verite' is a documentary on Spray Can Artists and their subculture..."

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Reviews of the Graffiti Verite' DVD Series 
 
Graffiti Verite': Read the Writing on the Wall  (DVD) 
Graffiti Verite' explores the underground graffiti scene of urban Los Angeles.  The documentary interviews 24  
graffiti artists and features footage of their bold, colorful outdoor work. The interviewees draw a connection  
between their work and ancient hieroglyphics and cave paintings and also describe graffiti art as a subversive  
means of counter-programming the culture.  After all, graffiti art on walls and fences contends with equally large  
advertising billboards, and strives to convey something separate from commercialism. Painting a fresh picture of  
graffiti enthusiasts, the documentary annihilates the image of the graffiti vandal and introduces the graffiti artist.  
~ Betsy Boyd, All Movie Guide 

Graffiti Verite': Read the Writing on the Wall  (DVD) 
This fresh and honest documentary dispels myths about the impact of graffiti art in American urban culture.  
Interviews with East Coast and West Coast graffiti artists discuss the impact of hip-hop culture and how important 
the role of graffiti plays as a positive creative force for young people, while at the