Corky Kessler is the attorney who helped the IRS draft the guidelines for Section 181. Before it expired at the end of 2009, this major tax legislation helped secure funding for many indie films. Unfortunately, renewal is now languishing in Congress where final passage isn't guaranteed.

Please get involved. This tax legislation can definitely impact your ability to raise funds for your next film. If you'll help, it is possible to get this bill passed.

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joe McReynolds, writer/director of 'The Vern,' talks about his career and the film that will be playing the upcoming Underground Exposure Film Festival on June 10th at the Lagoon Theater in Minneapolis.

Running from a violent, vengeful New York crime family, minor league baseball star, Vern cons his way to a sleepy Texas town, but soon he finds himself embroiled in a world of sex, drugs, and murder, more sordid than what he left behind. Chased by drug dealers, the law, and his crazed half-brother, the hapless Vern must get to Los Angeles before his young son becomes the next victim.

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Tom Bewilogua, a resident of Hamburg Germany and director of 'SCISSU,' talks about his career and the film that will be playing the upcoming Underground Exposure Film Festival on June 10th at the Lagoon Theater in Minneapolis.

A deconstruction of everyday reality. In a chronologically fragmented way, Scissu tells the story of a lonely policeman and two addicts.

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Jacob Kindber, director of 'Channel News,' talks about his career and the film that will be playing the upcoming Underground Exposure Film Festival on June 10th at the Lagoon Theater in Minneapolis.

Two estranged, 20-something siblings, find themselves living together once again in their parent's Minnesota home, where they discover home movies they used to make together as kids. After watching their old James Bond spoofs, talk shows, and Saturday Night Live sketches, they are inspired to make 'The Sarah and Beau Show', a talk/variety show for the Internet in an attempt to get back some of the fearless drive and creativity they had when they were young. But tensions rise when Sarah starts dating Beau's best-friend Adam and the future of the show is threatened.

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By: Andrew Martin

Coming of age stories are often about a fish-out-of-water. Yusef, a Pakistani college student living in Buffalo, is a good student and a pious Muslim. He has to learn to adapt to his new life when he moves in with Rabeya, a woman unlike one he has ever known, and Umar, a angry and deeply religious man, in his new multi-cultural Islamic home....

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Cinema and Civics wants to show YOUR short film in Stevens Park this summer!

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Ralph Matthews, director of 'Moonlighting,' talks about his career and the film that will be playing the upcoming Underground Exposure Film Festival on June 10th at the Lagoon Theater in Minneapolis.

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