Delray Beach Film Festival 2009

Winner: Audience Award for Best Feature at the 2009 Atlanta Film Festival In 2004, a recurring leg injury forced former pro-cyclist, personal trainer, and elite triathlete Andrew "Drew" Johnston to withdraw from Ironman Lake Placid with 10 miles left in the race, something he never imagined possible. This injury led to a frightening diagnosis of Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia or CML. One year later, after the oral chemo Gleevac helped put his disease in remission, Drew began competing at an elite level again, and winning. He even qualified for the famous Ford Ironman World Championship in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. But Drew had unfinished business, and his emotional return to Lake Placid in 2007 serves as the backbone of this uplifting feature-length sports doc. Throughout the grueling 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike, and 26.2 mile run, Drew retells his inspirational life story. Surprisingly funny interviews with family and friends provide more than the usual glimpse into the world of an elite athlete. Andrew Johnston overcomes the odds to challenge himself and to inspire others to live life to its fullest. He proves that our only limitations are the ones we set for ourselves, and that Living is Winning. View the extended trailer, learn more, and purchase the DVD at http://www.livingiswinning.com .

At first, SURVEILLANCE comes off a bit like your run-of-the-mill RASHAMON rehash. FBI agents Bill Pullman and Julia Ormond are tracking a serial killer across the nation. After a recent mass murder on an isolated highway, they simultaneously question the three remaining survivors in the three different interrogation rooms, inevitably ending up with three wildly different stories. But while RASHOMON played with the conventions of the different characters giving different untruthful accounts, the flashback scenes in SURVEILLANCE are based on the honest points of view of the characters, so the audience is always seeing what actually happened.