Goyband wins Best Picture and Best Director at the Long Island Film Festival!

Online, November 11, 2009 (Newswire.com) - "Goyband" wins Best Picture & Best Director at the 26th Annual Long Island Film Festival.

Goyband LLC announces an award winning screening of the feature film "Goyband," directed by Christopher Grimm, at the 26th annual Long Island Film Festival.

New York City 11/11/09 - Goyband, "a gefilte fish out of water tale," will have it's award screening at the 26th annual Long Island Film Festival on Friday 11/13 at the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor Long Island. Goyband's Cast includes: Adam Pascal (Roger Davis in Rent), Amy Davidson (Kerry Hennessy in 8 Simple Rules for Dating my Teenage Daughter), Cris Judd (Your Momma Don't Dance), with Natasha Lyonne (American Pie, Blade), and Tovah Feldshuh (Walk on the Moon, Golda's Balcony, Irena's Vow).

Goyband premiered at the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival in Israel to sold out screenings. The festival even added a last minute showing to accommodate the audience overflow.

"It's absolutely thrilling for us to win these awards," says helmer Christopher Grimm. "I've been a part-time Long Islander my whole life, so this place is close to my heart." Director Grimm will be at the screening for a Q&A session after the film.
The award ceremony and screening will start @ 8:10 PM, for more information on the screening please log on to:

http://www.livingonlongisland.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=88&Itemid=68

Goyband's Synopsis: Former boy-band icon Bobby Star is clinging to days gone by. Desperate and unemployed, he begs his agent Murray to land him a decent gig. But beggars can't be choosers, and Murray finds a weeklong job for Bobby at the grand opening of the world's first glatt kosher hotel-casino, the Mazel Hotel. So what does a blond gentile has-been pop sensation have in common with this Jewish orthodox world? The answer becomes clear when we discover the hotel owner's daughter, Rebekka, who has harbored a huge secret crush on Bobby Star ever since childhood though she is about to be married off to the son of a powerful Kabala rabbi, and the janitor Ty, an African-American hip-hop whiz who teaches Bobby a thing or two about Jewish soul. The ultra-orthodox American-Jewish world is alive and kicking. But how does it cope with modern times? This age-old question is dealt with in the entertaining musical comedy before us. Bobby's TV goes dark at sundown on Friday; his beloved cell-phone is confiscated during the Sabbath; his Grey Goose vodka is replaced with Manischewitz; and "kosher enforcers" are on the lookout for "treyf smugglers."

For more information on the film, please log on to www.goyband.com or call Dan Bar Hava at 646-584-0164.