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Article: Movie made to techno beat captures soul of a generation.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- June 21, 2000
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SAN FRANCISCO _ Some first-time filmmakers participate in medical experiments or max out credit cards to get their movie made. Greg Harrison turned to a largely untapped mother lode: the Bay Area's thriving dot-com industry.
He recognized an affinity between the rebel spirit that fuels the rave scene_the subject of his debut feature, "Groove"_and the young entrepreneurs quietly making millions on the Internet frontier.
"A lot of people who invested were ravers themselves, and I think we tapped a new kind of wealthy person," says 31-year-old Harrison. "Our biggest investor was 25; he skateboarded over to our office and wrote us a personal check."
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