28th July, 2009 Press Releases

Stunning PR launches Stunning Stories

Stunning PR has launched Stunning Stories, a new division aimed at providing good quality real life stories to the national media.

Do you have a real life story you would like to share? Whether a good story or a tragic one, newspapers and magazines are willing to pay for your story. Each week Stunning receive enquiries from the media looking for case studies.

Participants are paid anything from a few hundred to thousands of Pounds for their story. The more outrageous, the better!

Stunning deal with all the major national newspapers, weekly and monthly magazines. We promise to get you the best money for your story.

To get started please email suzanne@stunning pr.com with the following information:

A brief description of your story
Your name & contact details
Your age & nationality
Pictures to accompany your story or let me know if pictures are available
Whether your story has appeared elsewhere

Email us now at suzanne@stunningpr.com and make your life make money for you!

24th June, 2009 Press Releases

LazyTown Live! to U.S. International hit is first-ever live family show to tour U.S. nationally in Spanish

LazyTown, V-me, Tycoon Entertainment to Bring LazyTown Live! to U.S.

International hit is first-ever live family show to tour U.S. nationally in Spanish

NEW YORK, June 22, 2009 - LazyTown Entertainment, the brand that has created a worldwide sensation with its top-rated TV series motivating kids to be healthy and active, has teamed with V-me – America’s 4th-largest Hispanic TV network – along with Tycoon Entertainment Group, and Global Entertainment Group to bring the smash hit live show LazyTown ™ Live! to families across the USA.

LazyTown Live!, the first-ever live family entertainment show to tour the US exclusively in Spanish, is scheduled to launch in the first quarter of 2010 and will visit markets across the country, supported by the V-me national broadcast network and local affiliates.

In its first season in Mexico in 2008, LazyTown Live! set box office records, with 46 sold-out performances at the nation’s 2nd largest theater venue (Teatro Metropolitan, Mexico City).  With similar success in Argentina, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Panama, LazyTown Live! is the most successful family theater production ever in Spanish-speaking Latin America, with over 500 shows seen by more than 600,000 engaged fans, who dance and sing along with the high-energy LazyTown music. The show, based on the hit LazyTown TV series seen in over 120 countries, has also played to sold-out audiences in the UK and Australia.

“LazyTown’s mission is to inspire kids and families to make healthier lifestyle choices. To bring this incredibly successful and important live show to families in the US, LazyTown needed a strong national Hispanic media partner and world-class integrated theatrical tour producers,” said Magnus Scheving, founder LazyTown Entertainment. “That’s what we have with V-me, Tycoon Entertainment and Global Entertainment Group , who all share the mission and values of LazyTown.”

LazyTown Live! captivates audiences with special effects, colorful wardrobe and set changes, music and dance, and opportunities to interact with characters — all designed to motivate healthy, active lifestyle choices for the whole family.  And after each performance, families have a chance to meet Sportacus, Stephanie and the entire LazyTown team.

V-me broadcasts LazyTown M-F at 7:30A and 11:30A, Saturdays at 9:30A and 11:30A, and Sundays at 4P. (All times Eastern.) For local channel information, visit VmeTV.com.

About LazyTown Entertainment
LazyTown is the world’s only global entertainment brand dedicated to children’s health. Created in 1995 by international athlete, entrepreneur, producer and director Magnus Scheving, LazyTown has been nurtured into a household name worldwide, with businesses including publishing, home entertainment, music, live theatrical shows and even a dedicated radio station. LazyTown, the Emmy-nominated and BAFTA-winning TV series, launched in 2004, and is now available in 79 HD episodes and over 120 territories worldwide. The LazyTown Movement appeals to kids and parents alike and encourages healthy lifestyle choices for kids of all ages. The team is dedicated to finding exactly the right partners worldwide to sustain the brand and uphold the credibility and vision of LazyTown and its creator.

About V-me
V-me, one of America’s largest Spanish networks, entertains and informs Latino families in Spanish with primetime drama, music, sports, current affairs and Latin cinema, along with world class kids, food, lifestyle and nature. The 24-hour digital network, partnered with public television stations, is currently available in 70% of all US Hispanic homes – rising  to 80% by year end. V-me is the first venture of the media production and distribution company, V-me Media Inc., which is also developing a soon-to-be-announced 24-hour children’s channel. To find out more visit VmeTV.com.

About Tycoon Entertainment Group and Alejandro Gou Productions
Tycoon Group is a one-of-a-kind consortium of entertainment companies with presence in Mexico and Latin America, that together with Alejandro Gou Productions, have successfully presented musical productions which include Latin America tours of Barney, Bob the Builder, Hi-5, Dora the Explorer, The Backyardigans, and Lazy Town.

About Global Entertainment Group
Based in the “Entertainment Capital of the World” -Las Vegas – Global Entertainment Group provides a wide variety of services for the live entertainment industry, including international and domestic tour bookings and promotion of live events.  Global Entertainment also invests in various touring productions, theatrical shows and touring educational exhibitions.  The company’s core business is in international touring and promotion, having successfully orchestrated record breaking tours in Europe, Australia, South America and Asia including Japan and China.  By masterfully creating a worldwide network of promoting partners, Global Entertainment has taken artists like, Michael Flatley’s Lord of The Dance, Blue Man Group Megastar World Tour, Master Illusionist David Copperfield and Bob the Builder Live! to international destinations in established and emerging markets alike.

CONTACT INFO:
About LazyTown:  Jordan Jedeikin – 602.319.3776 or Jordan@lazytown.com
About V-me – Natalie Judd (for V-me) 203-389-5223 or njudd@dex-p.com

3rd June, 2009 Press Releases

GI Jane Bootcamp – Get Fit for Summer

GI Jane Bootcamp is a residential women only week long course of high intensity physically training. You will be asking your body to do things that you’d never thought possible, and you will be pushing yourself to reach personal goals that you thought were impossible to achieve. You will probably find this to be the most challenging thing you have ever done and likely to do again!

Your Physical Training
Not for the faint hearted! During your week at GI Jane Bootcamp you will do things that you never thought you could. There will be some activities that will not only push you physically, but also mentally.

Rest assured though, this is not a prison ladies and no one will force you to do anything that you are truly uncomfortable doing. However, you will be completely amazed at what you actually can personally achieve.

The intensive training schedule has been carefully designed by military physical trainers and along with our healthy balanced diet, this course cannot fail to kick start you into a totally healthy new way of life and give you a solid foundation of changing your life for good!!

Your training schedule will be action packed in hour long blocks to ensure that you never get bored. Activities may include:

• boxing
• running
• power walking
• skipping
• bike riding
• volley ball
• net ball
• obstacle courses
• war games
• core training
• water activities and many many more…!

GI Jane Bootcamp is designed to change you both mentally and physically, but also you will have fun, and you will find along with the other women who are on the course, you will bond and friendships will be formed. So you will return home with less weight and minus more inches than you would have thought possible. Your eating habits will change due to the carefully designed diet we have devised for you and the nutritional advice that you will have received during your week stay.

MEDIA PLACES ARE AVAILABLE. CONTACT SUZANNE FOR DETAILS.

Price & Course Dates

Limited to 12 places a week so you get the most from your trainers.
Book today and change your life for ever!

GI Jane Bootcamp

All courses are held at a secret location please contact us for further details.
The price for the week is £1150
This price includes accommodation with shared occupancy, activities, dietary advice, food and drink.

Sat 13th June to Sat 20th June

Sat 27th June to Sat July 4th

CONTACT: suzanne@stunningpr.com, 07957 371840

3rd June, 2009 Press Releases

Siberia’s Kansk Film Festival visits London

SIBERIAN KANSK FILM FESTIVAL
Siberia’s Kansk Film Festival visits London
In collaboration with
VideoDOM Studio, CINE FANTOM club (Russia),
the FOUNDRY and Genesis Cinema (UK)
Launch (Foundry) – June 11th   Festival (Genesis) – June 12-14th

http://www.foundry.tv/kansk/
http://www.genesiscinema.co.uk <http://www.genesiscinema.co.uk/>
FULL PRESS RELEASE AND PROGRAMME PDF: http://www.foundry.tv/kansk/siberian_kansk_video_festival_program.pdf

From its remote beginnings eight years ago in the Siberian town of Kansk, an alternative Russian film festival is making its inaugural trip to London. The Kansk Film Festival started off as an artistic pun on ‘Cannes’ -  inspired by a troupe of avant-garde Russian film makers who decided to put Eastern Siberia on the map.
‘The town was found on the Internet by chance’, explains organiser Nadya Bakuradze. ‘In Russian, Kansk is pronounced the same as Cannes, so the idea grew as an artistic joke – Siberia having its own Festival de Cannes.’

Each year the festival showcases new independent and uncompromising filmmakers and hosts an international film jury. ‘We promote young authors and encourage experimental productions looking at the crossovers between cinematography and contemporary art,’ says Nadya.

Highlights of this year’s festival include Volga-Volga – the remake of a 1930’s cult Soviet comedy in which the original version is preserved completely, with the exception of the leading actress; Einstein and Margaret charting Albert Einstein’s love affair with a Soviet secret service employee and Blind Spot  this year’s debut.

Now in its eighth year, hundreds of Russians brave the annual trip on the Trans-Siberian Railway; a total of 4,500 km from Moscow and 300 km from Krasnoyarsk into Siberia’s severe sub arctic climate. ‘Most Russian film festivals are either for film stars and take place near the sea side, or in the big cities. Ours is the only event that has actually shaped the culture of a region,’ says Nadya.

Kansk is an unusual town – it produces 90 per cent of the world’s nickel and is almost entirely responsible for Kremlin’s wealth. It is also a mere eight hour drive from Krasnoyarsk – Stalin’s infamous Gulag Administrative Centre, making many of its citizens descendants of Gulag operators or of Communist dissidents expelled there.

But despite its unusual underpinnings, Siberia shouldn’t be alien to the West, says artist Tracey Moberly, who is responsible for bringing the festival to London after an inspirational 2007 visit to Kansk. ‘We still think of Russia in Cold War terms and people talk about being “Sent to Siberia” but hardly anyone ever visits -  it’s an unusual and lovely place with temperatures reaching 40 degrees celcius in the Summer months. The festival offers a chance to experience a new take on Russia, especially Siberia.’

The Siberian Kansk festival launches on June 11 with Russian Spirit Returns – a poster exhibition at The Foundry. Screenings between 12-14 June take place at Bethnal Green’s Genesis Cinema.
For interviews please contact: Tracey Moberly +44 (0)7951 608787  tracey@foundry.tv
or Photini Philippidou photinip@gmail.com +44 (0)7879 466809

Event Information
June 11  The Foundry
RUSSIAN SPIRT RETURNS
The festival launches at the Foundry with a free exhibition of contemporary Russian posters from 7pm.
The Foundry / www.foundry.tv/kansk/ <http://www.foundry.tv/kansk/>
84, Great Eastern Street
London EC2A 3JL
(exit 3 Old Street tube)

June 12-14 Genesis Cinema
SIBERIAN KANSK FILM FESTIVAL
Friday June 12, 09 / Genesis Cinema
Screening 7pm
Shorts and video-art from Kansk Video Festival (Russian program)
evening screening 2 hours total
Saturday June 13, 09 / Genesis Cinema
Screening 3pm
‘Volga-Volga’, directed by Pavel Labazov & Andrey Silvestrov, 70 min, 2006
Screening 5.30pm
‘Einstein and Margaret’, directed by Iraida Yusupova and Alexander Dolgin, 90 min, 2006
day / evening 4 hours total
Sunday June 14, 09 / Genesis Cinema
Screening 3pm
Shorts and video-art from Kansk Video Festival (International program)
Screening 5.30pm
Premiere! ‘Blind Spot’, new film by Oleg Mavromatti, 83 min, 2009
day/evening 4 hours total

Genesis Cinema / www.genesiscinema.co.uk <http://www.genesiscinema.co.uk/>
93-95 Mile End Road
Whitechapel
London
E1 4UJ
(Stepney Green-district line)
turn right, keep walking straight cinema on left.
Bus numbers 25 and 205 stop outside the cinema.
Ticket costs:
£ 7.00
£ 4.50 students/concs
£ 15.00 3 day festival ticket
Booking line: 08700 60 60 61