[UUPoly-L] Ethical Slut Goes to Film

[John Ullman <jsu627@earthlink.net>]

From Darklady's list:

"THE ETHICAL SLUT" - BEST SELLING OPEN-RELATIONSHIP BIBLE
TO BECOME A FEATURE FILM

San Francisco, CA - The best selling manual for open relationships, The
Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual
Possibilities, has been licensed to Little Taoist Films, to be made into an
independent feature film, with principal
photography slated to begin in summer 2007.

Authored by Dossie Easton and Catherine A. Liszt, the book is a
groundbreaking explication of the hows and whys
of responsible non-monogamy and open sexuality. Published by Greenery Press
in 1997, the book has become a
blockbuster by small-publishing standards, with more than 75,000 copies in
print. The phrase "ethical slut" was
coined in the book as a term for an individual open to the possibility of
sustainable polyamory. It has become part
of common parlance, with more than 60,000 Google hits, its own Wikipedia
entry, and its own OKCupid "ethical
slut" test.

Moses Ma, writer/director of the forthcoming film, explains, "I've been
excited about the ideas in the book ever
since I first picked it up. The book offers a simple yet truly liberating
lesson, that honesty is the best policy when it
comes to the foibles of sexuality and modern relationships. Little Taoist
Films is dedicated to making the kind of
movies that change people's thinking, and this film is a great place for
such a transformative process to begin."
The film, also titled The Ethical Slut, will be a romantic comedy that
follows the adventures of a conventionally
reared Midwesterner as he moves to San Francisco and encounters
unconventional sexuality. It will be filmed as a
visual homage to the beauty of San Francisco, and will take advantage of new
technologies for digital imaging and
post production. Craig Pruess, the noted film composer for "Bend it Like
Beckham" and "Bride and Prejudice,"
who is attached to participate, adds, "It is through spirited projects like
these that the promise of independent film
can be fulfilled. When movies and music come from the heart, magic can
happen."

For more information about the film or Little Taoist Films, check out
www.littletaoist.com. For background
information on the book, contact Janet Hardy at Greenery Press,
510/530-1281, <mailto:jhardy%40greenerypress.com>jhardy@greenerypress.com.
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Moses Ma

Moses Ma is driven by vision. He started out as a computer games 
designer, and ended up designing two of the world's best selling 
computer games, including Spectre VR, the world's first commercially 
successful Internet game. Later, when he foresaw the enormous 
potential of the Internet, he became a developer of Internet 
standards proposals (Universal Avatars with IBM and Open Community 
VRML with Mitsubishi). Then, as a Fellow at CommerceNet, he predicted 
the B2B explosion, coined the term eMarkets, co-produced the B2B Big 
Bang! conference, and started up Bizbots, an Internet dotcom that 
built next generation electronic marketplaces. After a fun and 
action-packed recession, he is now at Next Generation Ventures, a San 
Francisco-based venture accelerator, where he tells people he is a 
reformed technologist and seeks new opportunities based on venture 
ethnographics, customer-centric thinking and radical simplicity in 
design. Moses got his BS from Caltech, where he studied theoretical physics.