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14 Facts About Brian Flemming

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Brian Flemming is an American film director, playwright and activist.

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Brian Flemming's films include Hang Your Dog in the Wind, Nothing So Strange, and The God Who Wasn't There.

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Brian Flemming's musicals include Bat Boy: The Musical, which won the LA Weekly Theater Award, Lucille Lortel Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award.

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Brian Flemming advocates for the free-culture movement and is an outspoken atheist.

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Partly to promote his film, Brian Flemming co-founded a punk film festival in Park City, Utah, called the Slumdance Film Festival, a pun on the name of the Slamdance Film Festival.

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Brian Flemming co-wrote Bat Boy with Keythe Farley and Laurence O'Keefe.

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Brian Flemming released a faux documentary about the assassination of Bill Gates called Nothing So Strange.

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In 2005, Brian Flemming released his third feature-length film, the documentary The God Who Wasn't There.

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Brian Flemming then discusses the beliefs of conservative Christian fundamentalists, Christian moderates, and returns to confront the principal of the fundamentalist Christian school he attended as a child.

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Brian Flemming launched three media campaigns to support his documentary: War on Christmas, War on Easter, and Blasphemy Challenge.

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Brian Flemming has released Nothing So Strange as an open source project, which means all of the raw footage that makes up the film is released without copyright restrictions for anyone to use.

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Brian Flemming founded the organization Free Cinema, which encourages feature filmmakers to create films under two rules:.

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Brian Flemming claims that filmmaking can now be "as inexpensive as writing novels" and that the copylefting practice is a way for new artists to gain notice and distribution in a marketplace dominated by large corporations.

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Brian Flemming is the owner and operator of Fair Use Press, which distributes e-books critical of public figures such as Bill O'Reilly and Arnold Schwarzenegger for their stance on intellectual property law.