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Brian Kraft is the chief operating officer as well as a film teacher at The Entertainment Career Connection, Inc. Like most business icons, he had a humble beginning, starting as a driver to underground filmmaker Julian Temple ("Earth Girl's Are Easy" and "The Future is Unwritten") where he met music director D.J. Webster (Amy Grant, The Beach Boys). Webster took Kraft under his tutelage and mentored him in the art of directing and producing. Kraft went on to direct live concerts for Jane's addiction, Cypress Hill and Ozomatli even after Webster passed away. One of Kraft's most notable works are "The Brandon Corey Storeyand The Fall of America and the Western World, the latter being his 3rd documentary film.

Kraft is not a liberal, conservative or moderate but a free man. He is a U.S. citizen, a student of the U.S. Constitution, and an aficionado of the views expressed in the following books: "Revolution" by Ron Paul, "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn, and "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle. Kraft is also a student of US History and a great admirer of founding father Thomas Jefferson. He is a fanatic of baseball, basketball, as well as a good barbecue. Currently, he is working on getting his PHD in Psychology.

Producer James Petulla is also the founding father and CEO of The Entertainment Career Connection, Inc. His feature film "Reversal" garnered the award for best film at Robert DeNiro's IndieVision Tribeca Film Festival as well as "Best Film" at the Malibu Film Festival. It also gained a DOVE Family Award. Set around the sport of high school wrestling, the movie is a family film that emphasized the effectiveness of a father and son or mentor/apprentice relationship when it comes to sports. The film was praised and commended by gold medalists Carl Lewis, Shannon Miller, and Kendall Cross. James Petulla lives in California with his two sons and dogs, Fred and Beatty.

First-hand knowledge about the entertainment business gave Kraft and team the capability to create one hundred percent original content for "The Fall of America and the Western World" with the some of the world's best writers, intellectuals, scholars, economists, professors and journalists representing views from both sides of the political arena.

The programs at The Entertainment Connection are nothing but amazing. Right from day one, you'll be exposed to a real film company, recording studio and radio station wherein a working professional will privately mentor you using a structured curriculum. In the words of DiNozzi, there'll be "no more teachers, oversized classrooms or tuition debt."

The Company Known as Entertainment Career Connection, Inc.

Founded in 1984, the Entertainment Career Connection, Inc., a fully-accredited academic institution certified by the National Private Schools Accreditation Alliance, has provided mentor-apprentice programs for the film, radio, television and the music recording industries all over the country. It's this very organization that provides the entertainment industry with apprentices and entry-level employees - people who are living their dream careers. The Entertainment Career Connection offers a complete financial aid package from Sallie Mae, the leading provider of student loans in the country, and other financial aid arrangements. Over 6,000 students gained their degree from Entertainment Career Connection programs, creating a vast alumni network worldwide.

Entertainment Career Connection's reputation is one of the best - providing the best music production, recording, radio and acting programs in the entertainment media industry. Unlike in simulated classrooms where there are no real deadlines and client interaction pressures, the atmosphere in this academic institution is one that allows the apprentice to learn from successful teachers at real scenarios - active recording studio sessions, real-film sets and actual on-air radio stations.

The company is headquartered at Hollywood and Vine, by the celebrated Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, California. Visit www.film-connection.com, www.radioconnection.com or www.recordingconnection.com.

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-Written, directed and produced by Brian Kraft, this 8-hour, nine disk DVD set documentary and home study programs provides vital facts to get families ready for the turmoil and worst of times to come - the destruction of the middle class and the end of freedom.-

Los Angeles, California, (MarketWire) Sept.

dollar and Euro, the destruction of the middle class and the end of freedom.

"The Fall of America and The Western World" DVD set offers families several actionable courses of action so they can learn how to buy precious metals, diversify their portfolios, protect themselves from martial law, get off the grid, fight the new world order and globalism, and protect the middle class.

"All of the guests featured in the documentary offer candid perspectives on why America and the Western world are headed for collapse and what we can all do now to protect ourselves from the forthcoming devastation. The guests were chosen because they offer the most bi-partisan, no nonsense, non-biased, and intelligent perspectives."

"To me what is most interesting and relevant in today's world is the fact that finally, liberals, moderates and radicals are in agreement. Agreeing on what? Agreeing that America is in serious trouble, headed for national bankruptcy, hyper inflation and an Orwellian nightmare.

All this is going on and it's a revolutionary situation," this is what Mark Crispin Miller, New York University professor on Media Studies, noted.

"You don't know what's ahead," said New York Times best-selling novelist, Naomi Wolf, while Doctor Paul Craig Roberts expressed, "It's more serious in its possible consequences than the Great Depression."

Two years in the making, the movie started principle photography a full 9 months prior to September 2008 -- the month the housing market bubble burst and the U.S. While the recession and depression news was no cause for fireworks, it did verify what the filmmakers, in spite of dibelief from family and friends, had suspected when they began.

The years and the days to come would be bleak - this is what the makers of the documentary believe in. Kraft specifically described what's to be expected: "to be sure, we will see things that we never thought possible: more bank failures, food lines and hyper inflation; job losses, government bankruptcy, rioting and martial law; police state; more wars to grab resources; less middle class; and more, much more, chaos. That said we are only victims if we allow ourselves to become victims. We only live in fear if we let fear live."

The Fall of America's mission, therefore, isn't to stoke fear but to empower, embolden and protect not just Americans and Europeans but We the People -- wherever we may live.