Bad Day To Go Fishing From Film Movement On DVD 2/8/2010

INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED "BAD DAY TO GO FISHING" AVAILABLE ON DVD ON FEBRUARY 8th, 2011

Los Angeles Latino Film Fest Winner Embodies Rising Voice of Uruguayan Cinema

January 11th, 2011 (New York, NY) - Film Movement (www.filmmovement.com), the distributor of award-winning independent and foreign films, announces today that BAD DAY TO GO FISHING will be released on DVD on February 8th, 2011. This Spanish language debut feature from Uruguayan filmmaker ílvaro Brechner is a dark comedy that depicts a scamming hustler and his wrestler sidekick as they attempt to swindle the inhabitants of a small Uruguayan town circa 1961. All Film Movement DVDs include a short film—this month's DVD features two shorts from BAD DAY TO GO FISHING filmmaker ílvaro Brechner. The short film SOFIA tells the story of a young women who went missing for years and THE NINE MILE WALK features two friends on a surprising voyage.

The DVD will be available at Film Movement (www.filmmovement.com), and also through major retailers such as Blockbuster, Amazon, Netflix and Passion River Films.

Accolades for BAD DAY TO GO FISHING:
"Engagingly quirky!" - John Frosch, The Hollywood Reporter
"ílvaro Brechner's ambitious debut is something like a retro THE WRESTLER by
way of Coen Brothers" - Jordan Mintzer, Variety

Synopsis of BAD DAY TO GO FISHING:
Jacob van Oppen - formerly "the strongest man on earth", now a washed-up alcoholic - and his crafty manager, Orsini, make good money staging bogus wrestling matches in a small South American towns. When this oddball duo arrives in the unassuming village of Santa Maria, business really takes off: the local newspaper sponsors the fight, and the quiet hamlet becomes plastered with posters announcing an open challenge to a worthy adversary. The ever-resourceful Orsini is sure he can find the right opponent to throw the fight, but fishing in Santa Maria yields a bigger catch than he'd hoped for.

- BAD DAY TO GO FISHING (Mal dia para pescar) is 107 minutes in length and in Spanish and English with English subtitles
- Additional information can be found here: http://www.filmmovement.com/filmcatalog/index.asp?MerchandiseID=251

Acclaim for BAD DAY TO GO FISHING:
Winner - Best First Film, Los Angeles Latino Film Festival
Winner - Best Actor, Mar de Plata Int'l Film Festival
Uruguay's official entry for Best Foreign Language Film to the Academy Awards 2009
Official Selection - Critic's Week at the Cannes Film Festival, Montreal Int'l Film Festival, Pusan Int'l Film Festival, Chicago Int'l Film Festival, Haifa Int'l Film Festival, Sao Paulo Int'l Film Festival, Shanghai Int'l Film Festival

About Film Movement:
Launched in 2003, Film Movement is a full-service North American distributor of award-winning independent and foreign films, based in New York City. Film Movement has released more than 200 feature films and shorts from 37 countries on six continents, including top prize winners from Sundance, Cannes, Venice, Toronto, Berlin, Tribeca and other prestigious festivals. Film Movement releases its films through numerous distribution channels, including thousands of art-house cinemas, universities and libraries; home video (Blockbuster, Netflix and Amazon); television outlets (Sundance Channel, HBO, IFC and Showtime); Cable Video on Demand (including its very own branded cable VOD platform—Film Festival on Demand—available in over 30 million US homes); In-flight Entertainment (Continental and Alaska Airlines) and broadband outlets (iTunes, Hulu, YouTube and Babelgum). For more information, please visit www.filmmovement.com.