Writer/Director Oliver Irving and Composer Joe Hastings screened How To Be twice Friday at the Las Vegas International Film Festival.  They also talked with fans for several hours about the movie afterwards as well.

Uyen from Pattinson International was there, and she wrote this review of the film.

Last night I went to go see “How To Be” with my friend,Kate, at the Las Vegas Film Festival. I was amazed to see the variety of different people that showed up for the screening. We were fortunate and smart enough to get there early because with every glance backwards the line got increasingly more crowded and lengthy. It was a sold out show after all. Among the group, I saw a multitude of young girls with bright and beautiful colors in their hair (purple anyone?), mothers with their babies strapped in the front, overexcited girlfriends dragging their non-enthusiastic counterparts (many of which were trying to look busy with their phones…Tetris perhaps?), and everyone in between. The screening took place in the Capitol ballroom, which looked more like a lengthy, over sized hallway with comfortable chairs. It was set up to look like an actual movie theater. Did I mention that there was an impromptu concession stand outside? Anyways, after a brief introduction from 2 men with badges around their neck (very official looking I might add), the lights dimmed, and the film began.

The Milpitas Post did a short review of How to Be in their guide to last week's Cinequest Festival.

Art (Robert Pattinson of "Twilight" and the "Harry Potter" films) is a desperately unhappy struggling musician in London. His girlfriend dumps him, his friends don't understand him, and his relationship with his parents is thoroughly dysfunctional. Desperate for a change, he turns to self-help books and finds It's Not Your Fault, a step-by-step guide to fixing your life. When he learns that the book's author is available for in-person, at-length work, he shells out to bring the man to England. The elderly author moves in with Art and his parents, and acts as a catalyst for change but not in the way anyone was expecting.

This is a charming and thoroughly odd comedy about growing up and spreading one's wings. It's thoroughly enjoyable to see Pattinson as a lovable loser after his turn last year as the impossibly perfect vampire hero of "Twilight." This young man has some serious talent, and films like this may help keep him from becoming too typecast to show it.

How To Be played to huge crowds at Cinequest on February 28th and again on Monday, March 2nd.

The Gotham film festival was a happy success for our New York City fans. Not only did How To Be screen twice, but director Oliver Irving was able to attend and participate in a Q&A for both of those screenings.

Our friend Kelly was able to attend one of the screenings. She was kind enough to share with us her thoughts on the film... 

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Albert Camus wrote “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.” In other words, our efforts to find happiness keep it at a distance from us and ironically thwart us in our search. How to Be is Oliver Irving’s film about a depressed man on such a journey to find happiness. Through the film, Art tries everything he can think of to make himself happy. Art believes himself to be unhappy because he compares his situation to others and doesn’t live up their standards. It is only when he figures out his mistake that he takes his first step toward being happy. The film, which center’s around Art’s plight, is funny, heartbreaking, touching, and honest.

In our continuing series of reviews of How To Be, KatieB and LauraLee share their adventures at the Austin Film Festival and their review of the film.

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We originally had planned on meeting an hour or so before the event so we were able to get into the film. That was long before it was announced Rob was coming. Our plans quickly changed to camping out to make sure we got in since we knew it was going to be crazy w/ Rob fans....

The screenings of How To Be at the Austin Film Festival, three of them in total, were a hit! Especially this past Saturday's screening when we all know Robert Pattinson made a guest appearance. Many were dazzled by his presence, and Shandra here was no exception. She has, however, given us a wonderful report from her experience seeing the film and being present for Rob's appearance. Let's see what she has to share with us!

The first of two screenings of How To Be took place last night, Thursday, October 16th, at the Austin Film Festival. They will have another showing Saturday, October 18th, at 7:15pm. This upcoming screening will include special guest and star, Robert Pattinson.

Melissa will also be in attendance on Saturday, but was luckiest enough to get in to see both screenings. Here is her first review of her first time seeing Oliver Irving's, How To Be.

I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and would recommend it to anyone. Rob was amazing in his role as Art; I almost forgot that I was watching someone act and wasn't just watching someone's life unfold.

Busy student Natalie Summerlin, from the How To Be Facebook Group, was kind enough to share her experience at the New Orleans Film Festival and her review of How To Be. Let's delve in, shall we?

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 It was obviously destiny that I see this film since the only showing was on a Saturday night. A friend was recruited, tickets were purchased and a road trip for the day was planned. After a day in New Orleans,my friend and I arrived at Canal Place Cinema to watch How to Be.

Callie, an IMDb member known as calitabonita shared with us her account of seeing How To Be at the New Orleans Film Festival. Callie drove 36 hours to get to see this film, and after making that exhausting drive home, before sleeping, she put pen to paper, (or fingers to keys,) to write down everything about her experience.

[Read more for the whole experience.]

The movie was perfect. There's no other word for it.

I had the highest of expectations and they were all exceeded. I mean, every bit of it is note worthy. It was heart breaking and hilarious and artistic and...well, would you know what I mean if I said it has soul?

I've never seen or heard of its equal......

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The Indie Festival is a traditional festival in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Every year it brings young filmmakers and film lovers to an international exhibition of independent movies, and this year wasn't any different. Being a festival with free admission and lightly promoted, the audience is very select, formed basically by people with a good critical sense of film productions.

When I got to the Usina cinema, where the event took place, there was a big line in front of one of the rooms. I went to the information desk and they told me that that was the line for the room where How To Be would be exhibited. Justin, from How To Films, had kindly sent us some How To Be flyers, so I talked to one of the organization members and he helped me to give out the flyers to the fans.