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Ultimate Prom Dress Design Competition – About.com

Who won the MyPromStyle.com’s Ultimate Prom contest? If you haven’t been following the exclusive web-only reality series, catch up on the episodes where three girls competed for the chance to design Kat DeLuna’s red carpet dress and find out who will win tonight! Check it out at: http://prom.about.com/b/2009/06/05/ultimate-prom-dress-design-competition.htm

Ultimate Prom 2009 -MEFEEDIA

Are you ready for an intense dress design competition that ends with a dream prom concert? There are lots of surprises along the way…and the fun starts now! Meet the contestants and celebrities of the Ultimate Prom on www.mypromstyle.com plus enter to win free dresses, makeup and more! Check it out at: http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/ultimate-prom-2009/17380466

Designs on The Big Dance: Who Will Create The Ultimate Dress For The Ultimate Prom – Fashion News Paper

Three contestants, six dress designs, yards of beautiful fabric, and the ultimate spotlight for one design winner: it’s time for the Hearst Media “The Ultimate Prom 2009″ Contest, sponsored in part by Hancock Fabrics (OTC symbol: HKFI). In “The Ultimate Prom” competition, three students from New York City’s High School of Fashion Industries will compete [...]

Susan’s Note – Cosmogirl

Last month I told you about a new Web show called St. Claire Falls. It’s about two best friends, Jaime and Anna, who live in a Michigan town called—what else?—St. Claire Falls. They want to be on a TV reality show called BFF, but to apply they need an audition tape. So they beg Claire, a Juno-esque girl (who, btw, can’t stand them) to film their day-to-day dramas.The only reason Claire agrees to it isthat she has a crush on Jaime’s boyfriend, Scott—now she’ll have access to him.

New York International Independent Film and Video Festival – LA 2007 Awards

On Friday November 2nd 2007 The New York International Independent Film and Video Festival Awards Celebration took place honoring filmmaker award winners from the past festivals of March 1st-8th 2007 Los Angeles festival, July 19th-26th New York and September 27th- October 4th Los Angeles at China Club in Midtown Manhattan New York. LA 2007 Awards [...]

My Name Is Alan – Slant Review

by Paul Schrodt True to its title, My Name Is Alan and I Paint Picturessees the world through its subject’s childlike eyes. Alan Russell-Cowan (a.k.a. Alan Streets) is a schizophrenic artist whose paintings both distort and insulate him from reality, but instead of understanding this process, writer-director Johnny Boston lets Alan’s corrosive worldview speak for his documentary. [...]

Using Art to Exorcise His Demons – NY Times Review

By MATT ZOLLER SEITZ There is no shortage of documentaries about mentally ill artists, but “My Name Is Alan and I Paint Pictures,” by the director Johnny Boston, finds a fresh way into the subject.   Zev Greenfield/Raw Films The artist Alan Russell Cowan with one of his paintings. At first this feature about the [...]

My Name Is Alan and I Paint Pictures – NY Magazine Review

 Critics’ Pick Johnny Boston’s involving documentary about Alan “Streets,” a paranoid-schizophrenic artist from Britain trying to make it in New York, walks a fine line between easy sentimentality and dry, clinical analysis. But despite the obvious pathos of its subject, the film somehow manages to avoid both pitfalls, thanks mainly to its foregrounding of the [...]

My Name is Alan and I Paint Pictures – Wikipedia

My Name is Alan, and I Paint Pictures is a 2007 documentary directed by Johnny Boston. The film stars and is materially about Alan Russell-Cowan, an artist diagnosed with schizophrenia.

The documentary My Name is Alan, and I Paint Pictures focuses on Alan Russel-Cowan, a street painter diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, as he works to break his way into the professional art world.

My Name is Alan and I Paint Pictures – Online Video Guide

Plot: My Name is Alan and I Paint Pictures (2007)
Producer-director Johnny Boston’s documentary My Name Is Alan and I Paint Pictures etches out a haunting portrait of Alan Streets, a gifted young artist residing and working in New York — who also just happens to be a schizophrenic. The film follows Streets during and after his residence in New York’s Bellevue Hospital; the artist exudes undeniable talent, but as he treks out each morning to paint cityscapes (independently of the weather that unfurls before him), the schizophrenia proves so debilitating that it raises key and pointed questions about his ability to even survive in the world,