We are pleased to announce that the recent screenings of How To Be have been a great success! How To Be won the Audience Choice Award for Best Narrative Feature at the New Orleans Film Festival (NOFF). Thank you very much for your support!

Mike Pearce, who plays Nikki, attended NOFF and participated in a Q&A Session with a phone-in from Robert Pattinson. Our friends at Twilight News have a transcript and some pictures.

We are also very excited to announce that How To Be has been selected by The Anchorage International Film Festival and The Lone Star Festival (Fort Worth, Tex.). We will confirm screening dates and locations as soon as possible.

Don’t forget that How To Be will be screening at the Gotham Film Festival in New York tomorrow, 30st October at 6:30pm and again on Saturday, 1st November at 9pm. Oliver Irving (Director) will be attending both screenings. Both screenings are completely sold out, so get there early for a good seat!

If you have any questions or seek information about our current release plans then please take a look at the FAQ.

We are very pleased to confirm that, in addition to the director Oliver Irving, Robert Pattinson will be attending the 7:15pm Saturday 18 October 2008 screening and Q&A of How To Be at the Austin Film Festival!

We hope to see you there!

The Derby City Film Festival in Louisville, Kentucky will be screening How To Be at 7pm on October 11. They have a large theater, but encourage anyone planning to make the trip to read their special How To Be ticket information. In particular, if there is enough interest then they will consider adding a second screening of the film.

We are pleased to announce that Robert Pattinson won the Best Actor Award for his role in How To Be at the Strasbourg
International Film Festival.

We’ve added a Frequently Asked Questions page to the website which has information about our current release plans for the film.

There are several upcoming opportunities to see How To Be:

• The New Orleans Film Festival on Saturday 11 October at 7.15pm (buy tickets). Mike Pearce who plays Nikki in the film will attend. (That’s Nikki at the back in the photo on the right.)
• The Austin Film Festival on Thursday October 16 at 7.30pm and Saturday October 18 at 7.15pm (buy tickets). Writer/Director Oliver Irving will attend both screenings. How To Be is screening in the Marquee category at Austin along with the likes of Synechdoche, New York, Slumdog Millionaire and Happy Go-Lucky.
• The Derby City Film Festival in Louisville, Kentucky on Saturday 11 October at 7pm (info).

Writer/Director Oliver Irving has just got back from the Toronto Film Festival where he participated in the Toronto Talent Lab for up-and-coming film-makers. While there he was interviewed by Front Row Fanz and spoke about How To Be.

We’re looking forward to keeping you up to date with more news in the coming weeks.