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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 27, 2005 YOU ARE ALONE official selection of Avignon/New York Film Festival and the Northampton Independent Film Festival NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT: YOU ARE ALONE, Gorman Bechard’s dark feature-length drama is an official selection of both the prestigious Avignon/New York Film Festival and the Northampton Independent Film Fesitval, which run concurrently during the second week of November. The feature from New Haven-based What Were We Thinking Films has already taken home four film festival awards: the Best-of-Fest VISION AWARD at Indiefest Chicago, lead actress Jessica Bohl has been named BEST ACTRESS twice (at IndieFest and at the Brooklyn International Film festival, where the film has its world premiere), and Indiefest also awarded the film BEST SCREENPLAY. And when playing the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival in Birmingham, Alabama, it was the only narrative feature to receive an encore screening. “This is great,” Bechard said. “Four screenings in three days!" The film, a haunting and tragic tale of loss and depression, was filmed largely at the historic Hotel Duncan in downtown New Haven, Connecticut. It screens on Thursday, November 10th and Saturday, November 12th at Avignon/New York, while on Friday, November 11th and Saturday, November 12th in Northampton, Massachusetts. The production company currently has two films in development, both slated to be filmed in and around New Haven. One is based on Bechard’s controversial first novel, the cult-classic THE SECOND GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, which tells the tale of God sending his quirky and rambunctious Daughter to save the planet, and the complications that quickly arise.