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May 2, 2026

180 days on Dragon Slots after years on Energycasino – full breakdown 2026 Most articles about casino migration get the core question wrong: they compare welcome offers and stop there. The real test is whether a new venue changes day-to-day value, game access, and withdrawal friction. I tracked 180 days on https://dragonslots-ie.com after years on…

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Bitcoin vs AstroPay — care este mai bun pentru depuneri

May 2, 2026

Bitcoin vs AstroPay — care este mai bun pentru depuneri În 2009, Bitcoin a apărut ca un sistem de plată fără bancă, fără program fix și fără intermediar clasic. AstroPay a venit mult mai târziu, ca răspuns practic la aceeași problemă: cum depui bani rapid, cu fricțiune mică și cu mai puține date expuse operatorului.…

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Ho testato 22bet e Betsson Casino per 14 giorni – ecco la verità?

May 2, 2026

Ho testato 22bet e Betsson Casino per 14 giorni – ecco la verità? Errore da 120€: confondere un bonus appariscente con un casinò davvero rapido nei pagamenti Per due settimane ho guardato meno alle promesse e più ai tempi reali. Nel segmento crypto casino, il punto non è solo depositare in fretta: è verificare se…

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Praying the Hours Finds Its Festival Groove

April 4, 2022

This last week was a banner week for Praying the Hours. We signed our formal, global contract with Heritage Films in Australia, and we seem to have finally found our festival groove. As some of you will remember, last year every film festival to which we applied in the US (with one exception, Port Townsend…

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Films Connect Us

March 19, 2022

One of the beautiful things about putting a film out into the world and then giving it whatever reach you can muster is that you widen your circle of friends among some eclectic groups of people around the world. This week we heard that Praying the Hours was accepted into the Iconic Images Film Festival…

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“Praying the Hours” wins its first award!

March 7, 2022

It’s been a minit since we updated, so here are a few pieces of random news: we have applied a different tack with our submissions to film festivals—focusing online rather than in-person, where we have been told that a 3+ hour film is tough to program. That seems to be bearing fruit, at least here…

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Welcome to WONDER

December 23, 2021

It’s been a minute since I last posted a Praying the Hours update. First, big news: we have a distributor! We’ve been working with Heritage Films (aka Movies Change People) over the last couple of months on all the “deliverables”  necessary for them to find our international audience. Helmed by Rod Hopping, Heritage—and Rod—are old…

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zoom Q&A between PTFF Director Janette Force and film Director Lauralee Farrer

Walking the Cinematic Path Together

October 20, 2021

That’s how Janette Force put it, director of the Port Townsend Film Festival, on her last year running one of the most robust, innovative, and gleefully exuberant fests I’ve ever been part of: “So grateful for this walk on the cinematic path together, my dear.” PTFF graciously allowed us to link through to the interview…

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Not that Funny

Stories Need Time to Find Their Audiences

October 6, 2021

We’ve all had the experience of a story heard in childhood coming back to adult memory with a sudden “aha.” Sometimes stories need time to percolate, time to find the listeners who are looking for them, time to ripen. A film made by many in the Burning Heart Productions extended team (though not by this…

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Finding the Audience That’s Looking for “Praying the Hours” (pt. 2)

September 28, 2021

Months ago, just as we finished “final cut” of Praying the Hours, I wrote about anticipating the process of finding its audience. Right now, as this post is being written, Praying the Hours is part of the 2021 Port Townsend Film Festival’s virtual program. “Virtual” is a key word in this case, as Director Janette…

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