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Bigfoot Entertainment to Fund `3 Needles` Film

`3 Needles`, starring such famous names as Lucy Liu, Sandra Oh, Chloe Sevigny, will be presented at the Toronto Film Festival as a special presentation. Bigfoot Entertainment funded the film (directed by independent filmmaker Thom Fitzgerald) , which covers various stories about the ways people deal with the AIDS epidemic, and the sacrifices people are willing to make for each other.

A porn actor Denys (Shawn Ashmore) hides his illness so he will not lose his job while his mother (Stockard Channing) makes her own death pact with the disease in order to care for him. A nun in South Africa (Chloe Sevigny) negotiates a dark deal to save the lives of disease-stricken children in her mission. And in a Chinese village, Jin Ping (Lucy Liu) buys blood from farmers who use the money to improve their lives, unaware that she is spreading death.

According to Fitzgerald, `The film is about transformation. Each character sacrifices one seemingly insignificant belief about themselves, only to feel their entire identity unravel. It also exemplifies the challenges of simple people trying to seek education from an indifferent regime.`

This project is part of Bigfoot Entertainment`s commitment to help fund independent film projects along with their collaboration with Filmmakers Alliance. `Bigfoot is dedicated to the community of filmmakers who possess the vision and passion to create critically acclaimed independent films,` explains CEO Kacy Andrews.