AVAILABLE ON VIDEO-ON-DEMAND OCTOBER 16th
A film by Stephen
Kessler
PAUL WILLIAMS STILL ALIVE, one of the most critically acclaimed documentaries of the year (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/paul_williams_still_alive_2011/), is coming to video-on-demand across the country!
From the company that brought you ANVIL: THE STORY OF ANVIL comes PAUL WILLIAMS STILL ALIVE, a film critics are hailing as a "remarkable achievement in a documentary" (Hollywood Reporter) and a "stirring and sweet story of survival” (Indiewire).
He won Grammys and an Academy Award; wrote many #1 songs from Barbara Streisand's "Evergreen" to the Carpenter's "We've Only Just Begun" as well as Kermit the Frog's biggest hit, "The Rainbow Connection"; starred in a Brian DePalma movie; put out his own hit records and albums; was a guest on The Tonight Show fifty times; and is the president of ASCAP... and you might not have heard of him. In the 1970's, Paul Williams was the singer / actor / songwriter that emotional, alienated teenage boys all over the world wanted to be, a sex symbol before MTV, when sex symbols could be 5"2 and sing songs about loneliness with the Muppets. One of those boys was Steve Kessler, a chubby kid from Queens. Thirty years later, Kessler discovered something amazing: Paul Williams didn't die. And no one had ever tried to make a documentary about him. A wistful musical journey that will re-introduce a new generation to Williams' soulful classics, PAUL WILLIAMS STILL ALIVE is the charmingly self-narrated story of Stephen Kessler's lifelong obsession with the former superstar-and what happens when the nostalgic filmmaker finally catches up with him.
**To listen to the original Paul Williams song “Still Alive” from the film please go to: http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/paul-williams-still-alive **
PAUL WILLIAMS STILL ALIVE
will be availalbe on VOD October 16th via the following
platforms:
On Demand (Comcast, Time Warner, Cox,
Bright House, among other cable providers)
iTunes, VUDU, YouTube, Amazon, Sony
(Playstation), Microsoft (Zune,
Xbox), Blockbuster,
AT&T, Direct TV, DISH
SOURCE Brigade Marketing
