The first stop was a private screening for 100 invited guests at the Hotel Deluxe in downtown Portland. The next morning Bruce and Rene drove 2 hours up Highway 5 into Washington State, to the small town of Yelm, to meet and greet a crowd of over 700 Bloodline fans who had gathered at the town’s new $6 million cinema complex to watch the film.
The special screening was organized by JZ Knight, the world famous motivational speaker and head of the Ramtha School of Englightenment (RSE). JZ is a huge fan of Bloodline and hired the cinema to show all her students. In fact, there were so many of them, they hired four screens at the cinemas, translating the film in four different languages!
In fact JZ was also instrumental in opening a number of well known documentaries in Yelm, including An Inconvenient Truth and What the Bleep do we Know?
Bruce and Rene spent about an hour meeting and talking to everyone, before heading off to RSE for a tour of the facility with Steve Klein, the school’s head of Special Events. That evening Bruce and Rene were dinner guests of JZ, her partner James, former Vatican theologian Miceal Ledwith, and the actress Salma Hayek. After dinner, Bruce and Rene did a ‘Q&A’ in the school’s great hall with 700 or more of their students.
It was then back down to Portland and a series of radio and TV appearances to promote the opening of the film at the Living Room Theaters on Friday June 27th. These included the hilarious Cort & Fatboy show on KUFO, and interview with Inessa at Kink FM, ABC’s NorthwestAM breakfast TV show on KATU, and a special live radio broadcast with Clyde Lewis on his Ground Zero show.
Bloodline also garnered good reviews from the two main papers in Portland. Matt Davis from the Portland Mercury said: "Bloodline is as hypnotically engaging as a well-executed magic trick", and Stan Hall from The Oregonian said: "Well-made, full of spy-movie intrigue."
Finally, on Friday June 27th the film opened at the Living Room Theaters, and Bruce & René did ‘Q&A’s’ on the first two nights to packed houses, and on Friday night they appeared on the Coast to Coast radio show hosted by George Knapp for two hours discussing the film and their research at length, and taking calls from listeners.
Bloodline was held over in both Yelm and Portland, and will be opening Friday, July 11, in Bellingham, Washington as well as Dallas, Tempe and Sedona. That means more traveling this weekend for Bruce and René, but in order to cover more territory, they are heading off in different directions. Bruce will be appearing at the Dallas Anjelika Theater on Friday and Saturday nights following the 7 pm showings of Bloodline, and René will be in Tempe, Arizona at the Harkins and Friday night and Sedona Saturday night at the Dream Theater immediately following the ‘prime time’ screenings for Q & A.
René will be appearing among a list of distinguished speakers at the Third Annual Magdalene Gathering in New Haven, Connecticut July 18-20. For more information and to register for the event, which includes, among other notables, authors Timothy Wallace-Murphy and William Henry, go to www.gloriaamendola.com. There may be room for a few more registrations.
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