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Alex The Alley Cat - an avant-garde rock fantasy adventure love story of tragedy to triumph!

Bali Lau Entertainment recently completed an imaginative HD original musical production debuting at the Cannes Independent Film Festival May 11th-21st, 2011.

Writer-director Tom Gunn stated, "I consider the movie a rock fantasy/reality adventure as it contains a unique blend of assenting thoughts with a hint of Thai political clarification, a rift of human demeanor, and a candid view of betrayal, lust, and greed weaved through a love story of tragedy to triumph". World rock artist Shadawmon performs a tour-de-force in keeping a dramatic thread throughout the presentation filmed on location in southeast Asia. Cambodian born Yawapah Benchakhum co-stars as the beautiful Ms Right, 'Giup', with Vietnam's Thi Nhu Trang Doan from Hanoi as 'Jin'.

The essence of this story is a fairly common occurrence for some foreigners seeking Asian wives and end up meeting less sincere ladies primarily interested in gleaning their money.

"It's not the norm as such nor was it my intent to produce a film that besmirched Thai ladies, rather to shed light on how some situations play out, blending an entertaining array of fantasy, human emotion, and reality conveyed through songs, narrative, live action, and visual effects". The Alex the Alley Cat story is one of values and the inevitable need for ethics inasmuch as our values lead to our attitudes which directly affect our behavior.

In the story, the main character Jah portrays the straight forward yet vulnerable aging American musician seeking true love, contrasted by his alter ego evil twin, the ALEX The Alley Cat persona who in essence represent hoards of foreigners who come to Thailand intent on meeting young ladies in bars, yet have no clue to the history of this country, the culture, or the rationale behind the girl's plights.

In recent years a multi-billion dollar tourism business has emerged in Thailand and at least part of the explanation the establishment is benefiting so remarkably is because of the vast accessibility to an abundance of poor young Thai women from Isan in effect coerced into prostitution by the political environment and economic circumstances. Young ladies come to the city bringing a wisp of hope to their families for sustenance if she successfully finds a 'good husband'. Generally, this translates to an older foreign man.

"There are hundreds if not thousands of X Vietnam veterans who never went home and married here and are quite happy. In the story, the thread of the Vietnam vet with PTSD was tailored after a gunnery sergeant I met here from Alabama. He has a pretty fair income from his VA disability benefits – enough to support his Thai wife of many years and her entire family very well", said Gunn.

World news wires were buzzing this time last year surrounding the political turmoil on the streets of Bangkok. This is because the northern Isan Thai people (Red shirts) were overtaken by the elite ruling class Chinese-Thai (Yellow shirts) which created relentless social injustice and economic imbalance.

"Nevertheless, I too chose to make Thailand home for numerous reasons as I brought in a complete compliment of state-of-the-art HD film equipment and set up an independent  production company. Most people have no idea how much film production is going on from the international community. The Weinstein Brothers (the King's Speech) opened major studios and sound stages in Bangkok recently, and Technicolor has state of the art post production facilities and film labs that serve much of Asia.

The Alex The Alley Cat movie will initially be released on Amazon ‘downloads' and iTunes store in the US after its debut at the Cannes Independent Film Festival May 11th-21st, 2011, yet I believe there is a substantial global audience for the film as it as has a rather cerebral theme with philosophical overtones appealing to thinkers and art cult aficionados who can grasp to the depth vs. earthiness of the story concept interwoven with musical content and lyrics.

Certainly, themes involving betrayal, lust, greed are not limited to Thailand by any means yet statistically few producers are making musical based avant-garde movie productions wherein the lyrics express the story-line.

Hopefully more independent filmmakers with a variety of compelling stories and fascinating themes will gain heightened exposure through the new digital distribution technology - (VOD) video-on-demand, web, IPTV, HDTV and satellite-cable pay channels now available.

The Alex The Alley Cat HD movie contains a myriad of fascinating scenarios and exotic locations filmed in southeast Asia with state of the art (VFX) special visual effects. The film is partially based on a true story".

A special Limited Collector Edition HD Home Theater DVD pre-release is now available on Paradisemoon.com http://bit.ly/hQYDwj See the photo synopsis at http://bit.ly/aGN3eM

About the Author

HD cinematographer, film producer, and composer,  Tom Gunn has an esteemed record of honors and achievement in film, television, music production, and international communications earning a 1989 Emmy Nomination for Best Editing for a Warner Bros/Hallmark Hall of Fame/Viacom production, and several Top 100 Billboard Picks as a writer-publisher.

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