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Join The Road Trip At The Riverflick Film Series

By Dan Portnoy • Sep 7th, 2007 • Category: Cool Stuff, Showings, The Film

Join us this Saturday night (tomorrow, 9/8) at The Riverflick Film Series for the first public viewing of the first episode of The Great American Road Trip. The Movie starts at Sundown and is just a precursor to one of the funniest movies ever, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. So grab your [...]



The Heart of Virginia Goes “Road Tripping”

By Dan Portnoy • Sep 7th, 2007 • Category: Articles, Press, The Project

Anchorwoman Noreen Turyn from WSET ABC-13 highlighted The Great American Road Trip in Thursday Heart Of Virginia report.
People go on road trips all the time, but not many document them and make a show out of it. Unless of course you’re part of the new media generation. For our Heart of Virginia report, [...]



Business Opportunities Site Profiles The Road Trip

By Dan Portnoy • Sep 5th, 2007 • Category: Articles, Cool Stuff, Press, The Players

Dane Carlson’s Business Opportunities Weblog is the largest business blog on the web, boasting traffic numbers of over a million visitors a month. As a feature article on the site, Dane catches up with Dan Portnoy on his thoughts on the project and how it all came together.
Dan Portnoy wanted to make a movie. [...]



Blue Ridge Parkway Guide Features Road Trip

By Dan Portnoy • Sep 5th, 2007 • Category: Cool Stuff, Press

The Blue Ridge Parkway Guide, known for it’s exhaustive coverage of the Blue Ridge Parkway, posted some info on The Great American Road Trip. Click the link below to see it and while you’re there take a look at the myriad of things to do on the Parkway as well as the Virtual [...]



200+ And Counting But We Haven’t Heard From You

By Dan Portnoy • Sep 4th, 2007 • Category: Cool Stuff, The Project

In just over 24 hours over 200 people have watched the first installment of The Great American Road Trip. The comments and emails have been so great to hear (HUGE thanks from us) but we still want to hear from you. So, if you’ve seen the film (thank you) give us your review [...]



Charlottesville Podcasting Network Features Road Trip

By Dan Portnoy • Sep 4th, 2007 • Category: Articles, Press

Sean Tubbs and the rest of the collective at the Charlottesville Podcasting Network featured The Great American Road Trip.
Click here to check out Cville Podcasting Network



Episode One - Getting Started

By Dan Portnoy • Sep 3rd, 2007 • Category: Podcast, The Film, Virb

Click here to see the film slightly larger at the VIRB site



Today’s the Day!

By Dan Portnoy • Sep 3rd, 2007 • Category: General

After a lot of hard work, countless meetings and phone calls - release day is finally here. Abandon Films has had the lions’ share of work on this project and they have responded masterfully. There professionalism, attention to quality and detail are that of a company that’s been in the “business” for decades. [...]



Film should be 100% uploaded within an hour

By Dan Portnoy • Sep 3rd, 2007 • Category: The Film, The Project

My apologies for the delay. The podcast feed is updated and Episode 1 is now available or download, just click the links to get the feed through iTunes or your aggregator. If you have any problems please shoot me an email.
If you’re looking to view the film, the episode is uploading right now [...]



Road Trip Virb Profile Gets a Makeover

By Dan Portnoy • Sep 2nd, 2007 • Category: Cool Stuff, Virb

Yesterday, The Great American Road Trip profile at VIRB.com got a face lift, or liposuction. The digital surgery is courtesy of Brandon Adkins at Heliumseven design. He does great work and he’s really easy to work with. Check out our profile and shoot us some feedback and don’t forget to check out [...]