In the old days, films would travel the country as “roadshow” releases, going from town to town rather than playing in thousands of theaters all at once, as is usually the case for major movies today. Film fests like the Manhattan Short Film Festival and the Ann Arbor Film Festival today go on tour around the country – or, in the case of the former, around the world – but the idea of the traveling movie show has essentially all but died out. As a result, it’s particularly impressive to witness the exploits of Todd Sklar and his Range Life Entertainment company, who have created a mini film tour playing Sklar’s own current movie, college slacker comedy Box Elder, and three others, instead of seeking a conventional distribution. Sklar has booked university campuses and arthouses around the country this fall as he screens his own film alongside Christopher Jaymes’ Hollywood satire In Memory Of My Father, JJ Lask’s meta headtrip On the Road With Judas and Robert Byington’s dark comedy RSO [Registered Sex Offender], often contacting institutions posing as a fictional rep for his film to get the bookings. In addition to its innovation, Sklar’s Slacker Bliss! events offer value – not only a film but Q&As with actors and directors after every show – and could well become a distribution model that is embraced more broadly in the future.