  brian flemming is an american film director, playwright, and activist. his films include hang your dog in the wind, nothing so strange, and the god who wasn't there. his musicals include bat boy: the musical, which won the la weekly theater award, lucille lortel award, and outer critics circle award. he advocates for the free culture movement and is an outspoken atheist. == early career == flemming's first feature film was the low-budget hang your dog in the wind. partly to promote his film, flemming co-founded a punk film festival in park city, utah, called the slumdance film festival, a pun on the name of the slamdance film festival (which in turn referred to the sundance film festival). slumdance brought flemming to the attention of john pierson, who later hired flemming to work as a director and segment producer for pierson's independent film channel magazine-style show called split screen. == bat boy == after slumdance, flemming turned his attention from indie film to theater with bat boy: the musical. the unconventional stage musical is based on a story about a half-bat half-boy from the tabloid weekly world news. flemming co-wrote bat boy with keythe farley and laurence o'keefe. the musical grew from a los angeles theater to winning the la weekly theater award for musical of the year award for 1999,{{cite news|url=http://www.laweekly.com/1998-04-23/stage/monsters-galore/|title=monsters galore|last=morris|first=steven leigh|work=la weekly|date
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