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| October 7, 2004 - The first ten minutes online now. To commemorate the third anniversary of the first day of shooting on THE WAR EFFORT, we're presenting the complete first ten minutes of the movie. Go here to watch. December 15, 2003 - DVD now shipping! The pre-order
process is over and THE WAR EFFORT is now officially shipping! Click
here to order while supplies last. If you didn't order in time to
receive a poster, watch this site for further ordering premiums from
Camp Chaos. September 9, 2003 - No cameras! A new character-specific trailer is online now. Learn all about the ass-backwards misadventures of America's favorite backwoods historical preservationists, Chit and Minnie Minnich, and their special house guest. Click here to watch the new trailer. September 2, 2003 - Thumbs Up Revealed! A rare live recording of the "patriotic" theme song from THE WAR EFFORT is now available to download as a high quality MP3. The song was written by Tim Panella with lead vocals by Mark Slaughter (lead singer of Slaughter). Go to the music page to download. Be sure to share it with your friends, and remind them to order the DVD. August 26, 2003 - HUGE NEWS, evil-doers! THE WAR EFFORT is now available on DVD exclusively from Camp Chaos! Pre-order the DVD now and get a free copy of the award winning poster used to promote the film in Park City, Utah during the Nodance Film Festival. The disc will contain nearly 6 hours of extras including three commentary tracks, deleted scenes, outtakes, and more. Get to the DVD purchase page while supplies last. Click here to pre-order now! Questions? Check the THE WAR EFFORT discussion forum. August 26, 2003 - NEW TRAILERS! As we ramp up towards the official release date of the THE WAR EFFORT DVD, we'll be premiering all new Quicktime trailers, each one featuring specific characters from the movie. Click here to watch the first trailer in the series: Roy Tuttle & Jeff Dabney, Patriotism Enthusiasts. August 13, 2003 - Watch this site, Evil-doer. Big news coming soon! April 21, 2003 - SOLD OUT and SUCCESSFUL PHILLY SCREENING! The War Effort sold out its April 15 screening at the Philadelphia Film Festival, and the 450 attendees were totally enthusiastic. Most of the cast and crew were in attendance, along with Pennsylvania State Senator Michael O'Pake (D-11th District, and polar opposite of the film's Senator Skippy) who enthusiastically endorsed the movie. During the Q&A session, a Vietnam Veteran thanked the crew for making the movie and praised its boldness at a time when the media is ignoring the truth about "The War on Terrorism". The movie also received nominations for both Best Feature and Technical Achievement. Watch the site for further screenings around the globe. March 18 2003 - The official Philadelphia Film Festival site has been launched. On it, you'll find official screening times for The War Effort, festival event schedules, venue information, ticket prices, even buy your tickets online! The War Effort will be showing at The Prince Music Theater on Tuesday, April 15 at 7:15 p.m. Check out the The War Effort section of the Philadelphia Film Festival site for showing information, or even buy your ticket online. Be sure to find out about all of the excitement surrounding the Philadelphia Film Festival at the official Philadelphia Film Festival web site. March 5 2003 - The War Effort has been selected by the Philadelphia Film Festival! For more information about Philadelphia Film Festival, or dates that you could catch a screening, visit the festival section of the site. January 23 2003 - The sixth annual Nodance Film Festival, the world's first DVD-projected film festival, announced its winning films January 22nd, 2003 at their packed Main Street headquarters across from the Egyptian Theater. Nodance celebrates the best in alternative digital film. Making a surprise appearance at the awards ceremony, actress Salma Hayek presented the Free Spirit Award to director Mike Figgis (whom she worked with in both "Hotel" and "Time Code.") Both films, and the dance doc "Flamenco Women," were presented at the festival as a part of a retrospective on Figgis' career. Top winners at the festival were: "Outpatient" directed by Alec Carlin won the Grand Jury Award for Best Feature, "Our House" directed by Sevan Matossian won the Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary. Audience award winners were "The War Effort" directed by Bob Cesca for Favorite Feature, and "The 7th Man" directed by Jason Liggett for Favorite Short. Top winners for short films included; "Shadowboxer" directed by Vilka Tzouras and "Evelyn" directed by Brad Peyton. The Golden Orbs Award for Best Marketing went to "Our House" and "The War Effort." Special Recognition went to the surf epic documentary "Step Into Liquid" directed by Dana Brown. Presenting the awards were festival sponsor and actor Forest Whitaker, as well as festival director James Boyd. This marked the sixth year for the successful Park City festival. For more post fest info, visit the Nodance website: http://www.nodance.com January 13, 2003 - An exclusive clip of THE WAR EFFORT will be featured on "Comcast Tonight" (CN8 network, Reading, PA) Monday January 13, 2003 along with an interview with director, Bob Cesca. Check your local listings for time and availability. We'll be posting the interview online hopefully sometime this week. January 6, 2003 - THE
WAR EFFORT will make its world premiere as an official selection of
the NODANCE Film Festival in Park City, Utah. DECEMBER 5, 2002 - Thumbs Up to a metal god! Mark Slaughter, founder and lead singer of SLAUGHTER, has signed to perform the vocals for Tim Panella's tongue-in-cheek patriotic masterpiece "Thumbs Up to the USA": the theme song for the film. Slaughter performed his amazing vocals at his mid-western recording studio and the tracks were mixed with Panella's inspiring music here at the Suites & Casinos. If Lee Greenwood were alive, he'd puke into his cowboy hat. Wait - this just in - Greenwood's still alive. Well then. Betcha he's puking. DECEMBER 4, 2002 - Check out the brand new THE WAR EFFORT teaser one-sheet poster at the official section for the movie at the Internet Movie Database. DECEMBER
3, 2002 - After an entire year of filming, and three months
of editing and mixing, THE WAR EFFORT is finally complete! A huge thanks
to everyone who volunteered their time and boundless energy into making
this, hands down, the most inspiring Camp Chaos project to date. The
final cut of the movie clocks in at 106 minutes and features some of
our most controversial comedy since Napster Bad. The next step will
be threefold: film festivals, possible theatrical distribution, and
a definite DVD release in 2003. DECEMBER 3, 2002 - Calling all evil-doers! THE WAR EFFORT discussion forums are open for business! Discuss rumors and fire off questions to the producers here. FEBRUARY
12, 2002 - Camp Chaos Entertainment announced the launch of the-war-effort.com
website today, revealing what has been up until now, a top-secret movie
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