Houston, TX – February 23, 2009 – Jennifer Grassman Music and Zenfilm are the proud winners of a 2009 American Advertising Federation (AAF) Silver ADDY Award for their new music video Pretty Girls.

“This ADDY means so much to me as an artist,” says Grassman. “It is a true honor for The American Advertising Federation to recognize our work with this distinguished award.” This award is particularly distinguished considering that no video in the Elements of Advertising category won the gold. Thus, it can be accurately stated that Pretty Girls was awarded best prize in its category.

Pretty Girls, Grassman's first music video, unveiled worldwide in December 2008, and is airing on several music channels and garnering significant global and media attention.

The track hails from her debut disc At the Back of the North Wind and is described as a “surreal, dark and beautiful homage to women through the centuries and the joys and dangers that their beauty has drawn into their lives” by Zenfilm director Ross Wells.

Filmed in and around a 150 year old rural farmhouse outside of Richmond, Texas, Pretty Girls captures dramatic and dangerous moments in the lives of pretty girls past and present. The narrative is intercut with dynamic performance footage of Jennifer Grassman filmed in Studio A of 'The Abbey Road of the South', historic SugarHill Studios, in Houston.

Pretty Girls takes the viewer on an interesting trip through time examining the way social morals affect women, and the relationship between men and women of the Victorian age, the 1950's and present-day Western culture.

“Fashions change, technologies change, but emotions, desire, and the baser instincts have been the same for many years,” says Wells. “All the Pretty Girls past and present are cautioned, and at the same time celebrated, in this video.”
The award-winning video is gaining a rampant online viral presence. To view Jennifer Grassman’s Pretty Girls music video, visit www.JenniferGrassman.com.

About Jennifer Grassman
Jennifer Grassman is a vocalist, pianist, composer and recording artist. Grassman’s music effortlessly fuses diverse elements of classical, Celtic, gothic and rock styles into a beautiful, moving genre all her own. She resides in Houston, Texas with her husband and two cats. To learn more, please visit www.JenniferGrassman.com or www.rainnoverhouston.org.

About Zenfilm
Zenfilm is a film production company and postproduction boutique founded by the award winning team of Executive Producer Merideth Melville and Director W. Ross Wells. The company has produced award winning music videos that have received international airplay and festival recognition in recent years. Zenfilm worked together with Dan Workman and Andrew Amelang of TLM Productions to bring this project to the screen. For additional information, visit www.zenfilm.com or http://wrosswells.com.

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Blood bought on the fair ground
What was lost is not found and no one cares
Poison slow and painful
To cause necrosis of the heart and the soul.

Something tells me you are crazy
Your girl's living in a maze,
She sets off flares on her lost island
Wonders when you'll feel the burn.

And that's where all the Pretty Girls have gone
Gone where every girl in every century goes,
Yes that's the high all the Pretty Girls are on
Drinking down corrosives as they wallow in
The lust of men in devil's clothes,
No one claims to know.

The life-lines are all wasted
Upon corpses and killers and no on shows
Panic for the children
Who are lost out in a sea where evil flows,

And Goya's painted faces
Kissing angels that trade Heaven in for Hell,
Peace is bought through bleeding
It's the cheapest and the slowest way to go.

Something tells me you are crazy
Your girl's living in a maze
She sets off flares on her lost island
Wonders when you'll feel the burn.

And that's where all the Pretty Girls have gone
Gone where every girl in every century goes,
Yes that's the high all the Pretty Girls are on
Drinking down corrosives as they wallow in
The lust of men in devil's clothes.
No one claims to notice.


Pretty Girls is Copyrighted 2006 by Jennifer Grassman.  Grassman grants the media and the public non-exclusive rights to reprint or publish these lyrics for the purpose of promoting Jennifer Grassman, www.JenniferGrassman.com, and Jennifer's albums.

PRODUCED BY:
ZenFilm

IN COLLABORATION WITH:
TLM Productions
Jennifer Grassman Music

COSTUME & SET DESIGN:
Kaitlin Grassman

CAST:
Pretty Girls:

• Kaitlin Grassman
• Lindsay Grassman
• Michaella Grassman
• Natalie Grassman
• Paula Theriot
• Tani Runaas
• Cynthia Butler
• Alicia Motter-Vlahakos
• Cheryl Amelang
• Jessica Pierce
• Lisa Roy
• Kate Mann
• Lisa Graham
• Hannah Amelang
• Jordan Newman

Couples:

• Lisa & Patrick Graham
• Kevin & Cynthia Butler

Porch Children: Hannah & Kurt Amelang

Suicide Girl: Jordan Newman

Opium Couple:

• Lindsay Grassman
• Anthony Gonzales

Shadow Men:

• Jason Greenberg
• Allen Greenberg
• Patrick Graham
• Kevin Butler
• Aaron Schwab
• Sean K. Thompson
• Everett Taasevigen
• Anthony Gonzales

Special Thanks (for unprecedented support & donations of props):
ZenFilm, Everett Taasevigen, Andrew Amelang, Dan Workman, Lori Grassman, Sharon Greenberg, Allen Greenberg, Howie Doyle, Sugarhill Recording Studios, The Brisco Family.

Musical Credits:
Lead & Backing Vocals, Piano & Keyboards, and all Music & Lyrics by Jennifer Grassman
Guitars by Jason Greenberg
Drums & Percussion by Tyson Sheth
Bass by MD Thompson
Produced & Mixed by MD Thompson for Ivory Tower Realizations
Mastered at Essential Sound Mastering
Recorded at Ivory Tower Realizations, except for Piano which was recorded at Sugarhill Recording Studios