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WATCH LYNN SHELTON’S COMPLETED “$5 COVER: SEATTLE” AT SIFF CINEMA

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The Seattle Times
Join the $5 Cover: Seattle cast and crew at SIFF Cinema on March 1 for a screening of all episodes of the series, a few B-sides and mini-documentaries. “What local director Lynn Shelton’s done with “$5 Cover,” her upcoming webisodic series about Seattle music made for MTV.com, is elevate barely-known starving artists to hero status, augmenting reality like a telescope to a star,” says Andrew Matson of The Seattle Times. SIFF will be selling a handful of tickets to this cast, crew, guest and press screening. Office of Film + Music director James Keblas will introduce director Lynn Shelton at the screening. The screening will begin at 7:00 pm and will be followed by a special $5 Cover show at the Tractor Tavern at 9:00 pm. Check the above link for more information.

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THE SEATTLE TIMES ON “$5 COVER: SEATTLE”

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The Seattle Times
The Seattle Times spoke with Seattle filmmaker Lynn Shelton and MTV executive David Gale at Sundance about the new web-series featuring 12 local bands, “$5 Cover: Seattle.” They say of the series, “[It] is a sprawling project melding film and music and delivered via the Internet.” The project profiles area bands like The Moondoggies and The Maldives in short scripted vignettes about the local musicians with many of the stories based on real incidents in their lives. Although the films are not documentaries, Shelton “wanted them to have that air of authenticity.” “$5 Cover: Seattle” is the second of this series, the first of which, “$5 Cover: Memphis,” premiered last summer. This season will begin streaming on MTV.com this spring. To read the full article, follow the above link.

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THE SEATTLE TIMES PROFILES LYNN SHELTON

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The Seattle Times
The Seattle Times chronicles local filmmaker, Lynn Shelton’s pas year of great success from the critically acclaimed “Humpday” to her new MTV web-series “$5 cover: Seattle.” In the article Shelton talks about how much this past year has changed her life saying, “… Some moments have been surreal. Getting a standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival. Opening the Sunday New York Times and finding a prominent profile of myself.” Now, she’s working on several projects that are in the early stages, developing scripts. And she is especially happy about the idea that her success means she can give more work to others in the Seattle film community. To read the full article, follow the above link.

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CHECK OUT THIS MTV CLIP WITH LYNN SHELTON

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Lynn Shelton was at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival this weekend, premiering “$5 Cover” and attending the 8th Annual Seattle Party, hosted by The Office of Film + Music with partners MTV, Sub Pop and Washington Filmworks. Watch this clip where she speaks briefly about her perspective on the Seattle scene and her vision for the web series.

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FILMMAKERS LYNN SHELTON AND LINAS PHILLIPS HAVE A CHANCE TO SHINE AT SUNDANCE

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The Seattle Times
The Seattle Times covers the journey of local filmmakers Lynn Shelton and Linas Phillips from Seattle to Sundance Film Festival. Lynn Shelton, who was very successful at last year’s film festival with her feature film, “Humpday”, is back again this year with “$5 Cover: Seattle.” A project with MTV Films, “$5 Cover: Seattle” focuses 13 local bands in the web series. Shelton will show a sample of this series on Saturday at Sundance and the program will air in its entirety on MTV this spring. A Volkswagen van gave Linas Shelton the idea for his project, “Bass Ackwards,” in which he captures his 10-day cross-country move from Seattle to New York. The film will be screening in the festival’s new Next category and Phillips has already set up an on-demand DVD distribution plan to sell his movie to the public immediately after the festival. To read the full article, follow the above link.

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WATCH THE TRAILER FOR $5 COVER: SEATTLE

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Vimeo
Check out the trailer for the upcoming MTV web series $5 Cover: Seattle directed by Seattle’s own Lynn Shelton and featuring thirteen of Seattle’s own bands including Thee Satisfaction, Thee Emergency, Tea Cozies, The Moondoggies and more. Click the above link to see the trailer!

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PRESENTING LYNN SHELTON’S “SEQUEL” TO HUMPDAY

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Indie Wire
Last summer, as Lynn Shelton’s Sundance fave Humpday was about to open in theaters, Dan Savage, the founder of Seattle amateur porn festival “HUMP!” called out Shelton on his blog. “He demanded that I show HUMP! some love because, as he pointed out, without the existence of HUMP!, there would have been no Humpday,” Shelton told indieWIRE today. “I had to agree.” In fulfillment of her promise to Savage, Shelton decided to make a quasi-sequel to Humpday to screen at HUMP! Entitled Beyond Gay, the short film follows a gay man and a lesbian who attempt to get it on one particularly randy morning. Shelton came up with the concept for the short while filming $5 Cover Seattle. IndieWIRE has the short up for viewing at the above link.

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