Wilmington, NC. – The Paradigm Shift – the award-winning short film directed by Jon Barr and written/produced by West Virginia native Sam Holdren – has been accepted to screen as part of the upcoming Cape Fear Independent Film Festival on May 2, 2009 at 10am in the Brown Coat Theatre at 111 Grace St.

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 haspreviously won theAudience Award at the Main Line Film Festival in Wayne, PA; Best Student Narrative atthe Peace On Earth Film Festival inChicago, IL;Best Student Film (College/University) from the Wild Rose Independent Film Festival in Des Moines,IA forBarr and Holdren, as well as Best Actor from thesame festival for the film’s lead actor H. Michael Walls.

More information, along with trailers, is available at the
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