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For Immediate Release
September 3, 2005
LA native makes good with film career
Indie filmmaker got her start at Azusa High
Azusa, Calif.-- Darla Rae's feature film, "The
Goal," will be screened at the International Family Film
Festival (IFFF) in Valencia and the Temecula Valley
International Film and Music Festival (TVIFF). TVIFF runs
September 14 through September 22; IFFF runs September 23
through October 1.
Rae grew up in Azusa, California and graduated from Azusa High
School in 1976.
She was active in sports and was an honor student. Anyone who
knew Rae during high school should have seen this film
achievement coming, as her true passion was drama. Rae was
active in all the theater performances while she attended
Azusa High.
While Rae still loves acting, her newest passion is writing
and directing. Her film, "The Goal," is based on a
true story about two athletes that become quadraplegics
because of tragic accidents. They learn through the sport of
wheelchair rugby that life is not over, it is just different.
"One of the biggest things we wanted to portray in this
movie is that just because you are in a whelchair, you are not
mentally handicapped and certainly not dead," said Rae.
Rae's goals for "The Goal" are to spread awareness
about wheelchairrugby and to sell the movie for enough money
to build a training center in Denver, where she currently
lives, for wheelchair athletes. "We want everyone to know
how amazing these athletes are and how interesting wheelchair
rugby really is," said Rae.
To learn more about the movie or the sport, look online at
www.thegoal-movie.com.
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Team
USA Cleans Up August 21st, 2005
Cast and Crew members wash cars to help 2 Team USA To go to
Worldgames .
Denver Harlequins Jason Regier and Chance Sumner have been
selected to
TEAM USA.
Cast and Crew members earned $570, by washing cars to help the
athletes pay their way to Brazil. Team USA athletes must earn
all of their money in order to compete.
Regier and Sumner both played roles in The Goal. Regier also
served as
Executive Producer with Darla Rae.
For Immediate Release
The Goal has been selected to screen at the 11th annual International
Family Film Festival September 23-29th in Los Angeles
area. It will be screening at the
Regal Entertainment/Edwards Theaters Complex. Regal is the largest theater company in the us.
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Boulder Dirt
By Dave Burdick/July 28th,2005
The sport has gotten national attention with the limited release of the
documentary, "Murderball," which opens today at Denver's Esquire
Theatre. The film follows the story of the 2004 U.S. and Canadian
Paralympic quad-rugby teams, as well as the lives of individual players.
Darla Rae, who is on the Harlequins' board of directors, enjoyed
"Murderball," and has more than a passing interest in its success. She's
currently in talks with distributors about a quad rugby film called "The
Goal," which she wrote, directed and produced.
"I started as an actor," she says, "and have done makeup and all of
those things behind the scenes, (production-assistant) jobs."
In addition to augmenting her movie-related career, Rae would like to
use some of the film's proceeds - if and when it sells - to finance a
dedicated practice facility for the Harlequins.
She also sets up the Harlequins' demonstrations at hospitals and
schools.
"It's really kind of cool because when we first get there, they all have
their idea about a person in a wheelchair," she says.
So the Harlequins go out there and play rugby, passing and hitting and
generally shocking the viewers, some of whom, Regier says, initially
think that if you're in a wheelchair, you're retarded or can't do
anything.
To see full article go to boulder dirt.com.
By Robert Denerstein, Rocky Mountain News
July 30, 2005
Jason Regier plays for the Denver Harlequins Wheel Chair Rugby team,
which is ranked fifth in the nation. Regier, 30, also was just selected for the national wheelchair team and
will travel to Rio de Janeiro in September for the World Wheel Chair
Games. He has seen and approves of Murderball. "The movie really portrays these athletes as they are. Just about
everyone who sees the film - and who plays the sport - feels that they
got it right." (The graduate of George Washington High School ended up in a wheelchair
after an automobile accident on his way back to college at Oregon
State.) Regier has his own film in the works, as executive producer of The Goal,
a locally-produced film that has been submitted to several film
festivals. It chronicles the pre- and post-injury lives of two
wheelchair athletes.
TV Presentation
The Goal will be featured on the first "Production Profiles" segment
of the Emmy nominated show, "Dropframe". It will air on KBDI Channel
12 in the Denver marketplace on Saturday, August 27 at 10:00 PM.
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