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26 MAY 09

"Miss Ohio" will be World Premiering at the Dances With Films festival:

Date: Monday, June 8, 2009
Time: 7:15pm - 9:15pm
Location: Leammle's Sunset 5
Street: 8000 Sunset Blvd
City/Town:West Hollywood, CA

For more information, visit the new website.

05 MAY 09

"Eastern College" won two awards at the New Strand Film Festival: Best Screenplay and Breakthrough Performance for Jon Dicks. For more information, visit www.newstrandfilmfestival.org.

26 MARCH 09

"Eastern College" will be screening at the New Strand Film Festival on May 2nd, 2009.

For more information, visit www.newstrandfilmfestival.org.

04 MARCH 09

"Miss Ohio" is done and we're having a preview screening:

Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Leverone Auditorium (in the Kellogg Building / Jacobs Center)
Street: Foster and Sheridan
City: Evanston, IL

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12 FEBRUARY 09

Two profiles from Western:

10 NOVEMBER 08

"Eastern College" won the "Filmmaker on the Rise" award at the 6th annual Queens International Film Festival on November 9th. Check out the "Eastern College" website for more information.

29 OCTOBER 08

Press section for "Eastern College" updated. Go check out what folks are saying about the film!

16 OCTOBER 08

I've been busy writing screenplays since "Miss Ohio" wrapped, but I wanted to take a moment to announce that "Eastern College" is an Official Selection of the 6th Annual Queens International Film Festival in New York!

Eastern College
November 06, 2008
4:00 pm
Crowne Plaza Hotel LaGuardia
104-04 Ditmars Blvd.
Queens, New York 11369

I'll be there doing a Q&A after the film. Check out www.queensfilmfestival.com for tickets and more information!

15 SEPTEMBER 08

Production on "Miss Ohio" is now wrapped! We shot in New York, Ohio and Chicago, and the film is currently in post in Los Angeles with Greg doing the editing.

We're looking to have the film out at festivals in Spring of '09, so stay tuned to this space for updates.

20 AUGUST 08

Production has begun on "Miss Ohio", starring Samantha Simon. We've completed a hectic pre-production schedule and we're excited to get shooting!

11 JULY 08

Eastern College and Fingerman are both in competition at this years Dances With Films film festival!

Eastern College
July 28, 2008
7:15 pm
Laemmle Sunset 5
8000 Sunset Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA

Fingerman: Dr. London and the Triangle Force
July 26, 2008
7:15 pm
Laemmle Sunset 5
8000 Sunset Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA

Tickets are available at Laemmle's website as well as the Dances With Films site. There will be a Q&A following both films.

Please come out and support good independent film!

11 JUNE 08

James Francis Flynn will be producing the independent dramatic feature "Miss Ohio" for writer/director Gregory Fitzsimmons. This is Gregory's first feature; his 2004 short, "White Like Me", starred Johnny Galecki and Martin Donovan and was a hit on the festival circuit.

"Miss Ohio" is slated to shoot in Chicago and New York in August of 2008. Stay tuned for more information!

09 JUNE 08

My Texas connection Austin Kleon was goodly enough to post something nice on his blog about "Eastern College". Austin is a swell fellow and I check his blog out pretty much every day -- if you're at all interested in words or pictures or how we think and interact with those things, you should too.

27 MAY 08

I'll be featured on the new season of Joe Swanberg's hit web series Young American Bodies. Go check it out, but not in your office, because it is very NSFW.

08 MAY 08

Welcome to the newly redesigned candycanesammy.com! This is a re-working of the website from the ground up, with a whole new layout and a bunch of new features:

About the company and the owner. Here you can find out the story behind Candy Cane Sammy, LLC, and its owner and operator, James Francis Flynn.
Films. Film and video projects by and featuring James Francis Flynn, including everything you want to know about the award-winning independent feature film "Eastern College", now playing on the festival circuit.
Short stories and other writings. Visit here to see short stories, both new and old, before they are published.
"Thoughts on Films" blog. A blog dedicated to examining and analyzing all the films on the WGA's "101 Best Screenplays" list.
Photography scrapbook. Check out new photographs!
Internet links. Friends and others with connections to Candy Cane Sammy, LLC.

This redesign is still in progress, and new content is being added continually, so check back often for updates!

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