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The Politics of Hope
A self-published novel about the political hot button issue of stem cell research has been turned into a self-financed feature film.
Wednesday, November 21, 2007 at 10:45 PM
By FilmStew Staff
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Book Surge Publishing
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Stem cell storytelling
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For those not familiar with the Amazon owned company BookSurge.com, suffice it to say that it has revolutionized the possibilities of self-publishing and author self-promotion. Case in point: Hope In Vitro, the March 2007 novel about a U.S. Senator forced by a family crisis to rethink his views about stem cell research.
Thanks to financial support from fellow doctors in India, book author and screenwriter Shelley Chawla is now helping with post-production on the movie version, titled simply Hope. Filmed in New Delhi and Kansas City, the 2008 feature film was directed by Rich Ambler, who previously made the provocative 2006 drama Raising Jeffrey Dahmer.
By the looks of the online movie trailer, Ambler, Chawla and co. have put together a slick little movie, even though J. Robert Paisley, the actor who plays Senator Mike Miller, and his cast mates are not exactly household names. But here’s a case of an Indian neurologist, Chawla, empowered by the breadth of Internet and new century moviemaking technologies to get his sideline novel and adapted film out there.
"Of course it's been exciting to see my book made into a movie," concurs Chawla, who co-wrote the screenplay with Chris Ryan and co-author Dianne Wilson. "But even more than that has been seeing the way the subject matter has touched people."
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