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SUMMARY:BULLETPROOF SALESMAN
DESCRIPTION:WORLD THEATRICAL PREMIERE!\n\n19 Feb. - 4 March\nFri 19: 4
 :00, 5:30, 7:00, 8:30, 10:00\nSat 20: 1:00, 2:30, 4:00, 5:30, 7:00, 8:
 30, 10:00\nSun 21: 1:00, 2:30, 4:00, 5:30, 9:15\nMon 22: 5:30\nTue 23:
  5:30, 7:00\nWed 24: 5:30, 7:00\nFri 26: 5:30\nSat 27: 1:00, 4:20\nSun
  28: 1:00, 4:20\nMon 3/1: 4:20\nWed 3: 4:20\nThur 4: 4:20\n\ndir. Petr
 a Epperlein & Michael Tucker\n2008, digital, 70 min\n\n“Bulletproof 
 Salesman is a great example of how a well-crafted film can sneakily co
 nvey information and wisdom in a such a way that it will appeal to 19-
 year-olds as well as 90 year-olds.” - Marc Mauceri, First Run Featur
 es Vice President\n\n\n\"Cloer’s Euro cool and sly charisma make it 
 easy to forget that he’s the epitome of a war profiteer\" - Karina L
 ongworth, LA Weekly\n\nA self-confessed war profiteer, Fidelis Cloer a
 lways had an on eye on growth opportunities and found the perfect war 
 when the US invaded Iraq. But as the war evolved, Fidelis quickly foun
 d himself engaged in a pathological arms race.\n\nAlways with an on ey
 e on growth opportunities, Fidelis found The Perfect War when the US i
 nvaded Iraq: it wasn’t about selling a dozen cars, or even a hundred
 , it was a thousand car war where security would become the ultimate p
 roduct. Driving into Baghdad after it fell to American troops, he rema
 rked, \"This is the end of the beginning of the war,\" and so began hi
 s darkly comedic drive down the road to opportunity.\n\nBefore the war
 , when clients were concerned with bullets and not bombs, his sales ma
 ntra was \"I sell a good feeling\": a sense of safety, security and co
 nfidence in superior German engineering that came across like a VW com
 mercial gone wrong. But come 2004, and the threat of armor defeating I
 mprovised Explosive Devices (IEDs), survivability became his sales pit
 ch and he quickly found himself engaged in a pathological arms race wi
 th insurgents who upped their explosive ante to defeat his increasingl
 y higher (and more expensive) levels of armor. In war, as in life, the
 re is such a thing as too much of a good thing.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor mor
 e information visit http://www.downtownindependent.com/events/bulletpr
 oof-salesman
DTSTART:20100219T090000Z
DTEND:20100304T085900Z
CATEGORIES:film, documentary, business, cars, guns, war, profiteering
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