“THE PARADIGM SHIFT” TO SCREEN AT GEORGE LINDSEY FILM FEST IN ALABAMA

Florence, AL – The Paradigm Shift – the award-winning short film directed by Jon Barr and written/produced by Sam Holdren – has been accepted to screen as part of the upcoming George Lindsey UNA Film Festival on a date to be announced soon between March 5 - 8, 2009.

The 12th snnual festival - which is named for the actor, entertainer, and humanitarian best known to audiences as Goober Pyle on The Andy Griffith Show, and for his many years on the long-running variety show Hee Haw - describes itself as "southern hospitality at its best;" with a list of previous festival guests including Academy Award-winners Ernest Borgnine and Billy Bob Thornton, Sling Blade star Lucas Black, character actor Stephen Root (O Brother, Where Art Thou?), music-video artist Ray Stevens, and several others.

Competing in the Student Golden Lion - College Narrative category, The Paradigm Shift is about an activist history professor (played by H. Michael Walls - 12 Monkeys) who assigns his class to design a plan to assassinate the President.  The repercussions are immediate for everyone involved, particularly upon the professor’s teaching assistant (Nicholas Wilder - Flogging Margaret), a timid young man whose reluctance to choose a side plants the young man right in the middle. 

The Paradigm Shift has previously won the Audience Award at the Main Line Film Festival in Wayne, PA; Best Student Narrative at the Peace On Earth Film Festival in Chicago, IL; Best Student Film (College/University) from the Wild Rose Independent Film Festival in Des Moines, IA for Barr and Holdren, as well as Best Actor from the same festival for the film’s lead actor H. Michael Walls.

More information, along with trailers, is available at the OFFICIAL MOVIE WEBSITE.