A Lonely Place for Dying is a 2009 American independent drama-thriller film directed by Justin Eugene Evans and produced by James Cromwell

James Cromwell

James Oliver Cromwell is an American film and television actor. Some of his more notable roles are in Babe , for which he earned Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, Star Trek: First Contact , L.A...

. Starring Ross Marquand

Ross Marquand

Ross Marquand is an American actor from Denver, Colorado. He has appeared on film, stage and television.-Early life:Marquand was born in Fort Collins, Colorado. His initial foray into acting began at the age of nine when he played a small part in a church pageant...

, Michael Wincott

Michael Wincott

Michael Anthony Claudio Wincott is a Canadian actor.Wincott was born in Toronto, Ontario and is renown for playing villainous roles-Filmography:*Title Shot - Robber*Wild Horse Hank - Charlie Connors...

, Michael Scovotti and James Cromwell, the film is set in 1972 during the Cold War

Cold War

The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...

. The film's score was composed by Brent Daniels.

Plot

It is 1972. An abandoned Mexican prison sits alone in the dusty Chihuahua desert. KGB mole Nikolai Dzerzhinsky waits for his contact from the Washington Post. Dzerzhinsky holds explosive evidence against the CIA; information he will trade for asylum in the United States. Special Agent Robert Harper must obtain this evidence and kill Dzerzhinsky or risk the end of his CIA career. As the two men hunt each other they discover that the sins from their past destined them for this deadly confrontation.

Production and distribution

The film was directed by Evans on a US$200,000 budget.

It was first released—as Part One of a five-part series—through VODO

VODO

VODO is an online media distributor releasing films under a Creative Commons license using the BitTorrent protocol. Filmmakers can upload films on the site and selected works are also promoted on third-party sites and services such as uTorrent or The Pirate Bay, Mininova and OneDDL.Past releases...

 under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NonDerivative License

Creative Commons licenses

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 in July 2011, and is being distributed through BitTorrent. The director plans to release the film to theaters worldwide in January 2012 after donations from online viewers reach US$40,000. As of October 2011, only Part One has been released online.

Reception

By August 5, 2011, the film was claimed by VODO and TorrentFreak as having reached 1 million downloads, potentially making the film one of the most quickly-disseminated online-only film releases in the history of the BitTorrent

BitTorrent

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 file-sharing protocol.

External links

• Website
• Website on VODO
  VODO
  VODO is an online media distributor releasing films under a Creative Commons license using the BitTorrent protocol. Filmmakers can upload films on the site and selected works are also promoted on third-party sites and services such as uTorrent or The Pirate Bay, Mininova and OneDDL.Past releases...