"The Girl From Monday" DVD will be available exclusively to more than three
million Netflix members beginning this week.

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Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX), the world's largest
online movie rental service, and The Possible Films Collection, the
distribution company of filmmakers Hal Hartley and Steve Hamilton, today
announced a promotional agreement through which Netflix will promote and
merchandise the DVD release of their project "The Girl From Monday.

A funny and thought-provoking farce told in the rhythms of a sci-fi
thriller, "The Girl From Monday" invites viewers to consider a world where
citizens are actually proud to be stock options whose market value
fluctuates depending on their sexual activity.

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Our workforce is hardworking and
dedicated to providing excellent service to the University and the company
stands ready to assist the University 's working group with pertinent data
regarding wages, health care benefits, recruitment, and retention .

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Yesterday's call for
a strike authorization was taken on a voice vote in which a very slim minority
of UNICCO workers actually participated.

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BOSTON, The strike vote orchestrated yesterday at
the University of Miami is both an unnecessary and unproductive tactic
employed by the Service Employees International Union that will only serve to
needlessly drive a wedge between workers and their employer.

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UNICCO maintains support for the decision by the University of Miami to
review compensation and benefits of all contract employees on campus,
including contractors such as UNICCO.

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"Hal and I have felt for a long time that, while traditional avenues of
distribution are closing for alternative cinema, the Internet has opened up
a whole new world of possibilities for advertising and publicizing one's
film," explains Steve Hamilton.

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Furthermore, the union continues to wage a disinformation campaign, create
distrust among our employees, and encourage insubordination among workers.

"Even though we felt 'The Girl From Monday' had great commercial appeal,
most mainstream distributors thought it was too much of an art film to
warrant the high cost of theatrical release," continues Hamilton.

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It is clear by
their actions that this union's leadership does not wish to let our employees
really voice their opinion through a secret ballot vote.

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" The
film made its worldwide debut at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005, and
then screened at MoMA in New York as part of the "premieres" series
celebrating the re-opening of the museum.

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"As an
alternative means of promoting our film, we joined forces with Netflix, a
company whose model and philosophy provided a much more direct link between
the filmmaker and the viewer.

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Statement from UNICCO Service Company

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The film had a successful
theatrical release this spring in cities nationwide via The Possible Films
Collection. Netflix will utilize members'
past film rating and rental histories to identify and promote "The Girl
From Monday" to viewers with an interest in similar films.

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"Through projects like 'The Girl From Monday,' we at Netflix aim to give
filmmakers a platform to promote their high-quality projects, while
providing a channel for powerful films to penetrate viewers' homes, lives
and culture in a meaningful and measurable way," said Ted Sarandos, chief
content officer of Netflix.

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"The Girl From Monday" stars
Sabrina Lloyd, Bill Sage, Leo Fitzpatrick and Tatiana Abracos."

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PRESS RELEASE The Possible Films Collection and Netflix Join Forces for the Exclusive DVD Release of Director Hal Hartley's 'The Girl From Monday'

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