* * NEW UPDATE * *

Former lead singer Michael Johns is currently a contestant on American Idol Season 7. Michael Johns is the singer on our CD "rolling" available here!! Vote for Michael Johns. Vote for Michael Johns on American Idol.

History:

Film released their debut CD 'Filmland' in Jan. '99. The CD was immediately featured on Virgin.net as one of the weeks top releases alongside The Barenaked Ladies and Ani DiFranco. The band toured in support of the release and played Atlanta's huge 3 day Music Midtown Festival in May with Hole, Kent, Kid Rock, as well as shows from Florida to New York.

MTV licensed all ten tracks from the disc and used two for it's "Road Rules' show season premier episode last June. The band released two new songs in August '99 one of which 'Be with me now' was MP3.com's featured pop/rock song of the week and was downloaded over 1500 times in four days.

The band went back in to the studio Jan '00 and recorded 'Lead Machine'. The band opened for Fuel, during Atlanta's Super Bowl Festivities. The track 'Be with me now' was included on a compilation CD sent out with the June issue of Spin Magazine. The band played Music Midtown for an unprecedented 2nd year in a row. This year's headliners included Oasis, Travis, Collective Soul and Creed.

The band were involved in two competitions in June 2000 - VH1 chose Film as one of the top ten unsigned bands in the country and Film competed for a slot to play live on VH1. The band finished 5th in garageband.com's $250,000 recording deal giveaway. The band consistently draws 300+ to venues in Atlanta.

Film appeared in their first feature film called 'Losing Grace', released in 2001. Footage of the band performing 'Lead Machine' and the trailer featuring their song 'Be with me now' can be seen at www.losinggrace.com The band contributed 5 songs to the score.

In 2001 Mars Music Records chose Film as one of the top 16 unsigned bands in the US. The band won the Atlanta round of the Lucky Strike Band to Band, winning cash, a regional tour with other winning bands, and placement of their song 'Q' on the Band to Band compilation CD that went out to over 20,000 people.

Film finished their sophomore release, 'Rolling' which was released February 2001. Working with Wiley Music, the band started a 3 month South East US radio campaign with the single 'Coming Down [can you feel it?] a song described by Brian Long of MCA records as a "very impressive song". The band toured the South East in support of the release and played 4 national dates opening for The Commitments.

The brand new single 'Q' produced by Universal recording artist Rick Beato (of Billionaire) is available online now. Leslie Fram, program director of WNNX radio 99x in Atlanta, calls 'Q' Film's "career building song".

* * UPDATE * * August 2003

Film were offered a record deal by Maverick records, the band showcased at the legendary Viper Room in LA, then met with Maverick VP Guy OCeary. He offered the band a deal and they flew back to Atlanta to negotiate. The next day, lead singer Michael Lee quit the band, told Maverick he wrote all the songs on his own and took Film's deal.

He hooked up with former Stroke9 Manager Tim OBrien and spent a couple of years getting a new band together called The Rising. He re-recorded 2 Film songs (from "Rolling") Q and Coming Down. He changed the name of "Q" to So Alive. The Rising have since been dropped by Maverick and broke up.

Thanks for checking us out!!

We posted some more songs for you to download on our myspace.com/film page - you can also buy songs on iTunes.