The 17th annual Slamdance Film Festival is all set to run for eight days and nights Jan. 21-27. The festival is featuring a bold theme this year of “All Is Not Lost” where — due to the current devastating economic climate — Slamdance will donate 10% of ticket proceeds back to the filmmakers.
The fest is screening 14 feature films — 10 of which are in competition — and 8 feature documentaries, all of which are in competition. In addition, there will be 56 short films screening.
Plus, there are a couple of special screenings, including the Straight 8 event where anybody can register to receive a single roll of Super-8 film that they can use to direct their own in-camera edited mini-masterpiece. Also, on the 26th, there will be a special retrospective of the works of renegade ’60s filmmaker J.X. Williams.
The full film lineup is below, but for more information on the site please visit the official Slamdance website.
The fest is screening 14 feature films — 10 of which are in competition — and 8 feature documentaries, all of which are in competition. In addition, there will be 56 short films screening.
Plus, there are a couple of special screenings, including the Straight 8 event where anybody can register to receive a single roll of Super-8 film that they can use to direct their own in-camera edited mini-masterpiece. Also, on the 26th, there will be a special retrospective of the works of renegade ’60s filmmaker J.X. Williams.
The full film lineup is below, but for more information on the site please visit the official Slamdance website.
- 12/23/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
On this week's podcast we celebrate the best of brief-but-beautiful cinema at London's Rushes Soho Shorts film festival.
We talk to the writer/director Deborah Haywood, whose film, Sis, takes a courageously comic look at society's fear of paedophiles through the eyes of two young girls. Deborah talks about making the film in her native Derbyshire and how important the doomed UK Film Council was in the realisation of her project.
Carol Salter's film Unearthing The Pen took the best documentary prize at the festival. Carol talks about traveling to northern Uganda to make her short, a remarkable look at the life of Locheng, a young boy whose dream to learn to read and write is thwarted by a curse his elders put upon the written word 40 years ago.
Remi Weekes is a young London director whose film Exhale has a particularly sparse and distinct cinematic style. Exhale is...
We talk to the writer/director Deborah Haywood, whose film, Sis, takes a courageously comic look at society's fear of paedophiles through the eyes of two young girls. Deborah talks about making the film in her native Derbyshire and how important the doomed UK Film Council was in the realisation of her project.
Carol Salter's film Unearthing The Pen took the best documentary prize at the festival. Carol talks about traveling to northern Uganda to make her short, a remarkable look at the life of Locheng, a young boy whose dream to learn to read and write is thwarted by a curse his elders put upon the written word 40 years ago.
Remi Weekes is a young London director whose film Exhale has a particularly sparse and distinct cinematic style. Exhale is...
- 8/5/2010
- by Henry Barnes, Jason Phipps
- The Guardian - Film News
Luke Goss has scooped the Ultimate Badass gong at a newly-launched sci-fi and horror film festival in Las Vegas.
The former Bros boy band star won Markowitz the Amazing Thug Armadillo's Ultimate Badass Award at the first Polly Staffle Grindhouse Fest, known informally as PollyGrind.
PollyGrind is dedicated to cult, horror, sci-fi, exploitation and arthouse films and took place in the city earlier this month. A rundown of all the winners was released today and is included in full below.
Luke - who's also had roles in Blade 2 and Hellboy II: The Golden Army - was recognised for his role as a vampire commando (see above and below right) in horror flick The Dead Undead.
The movie, released in the USA a year ago, centres on a fanged fighting force trying to stop the evil spread of a plague of vampire zombies. Caught in the middle of the battle is...
The former Bros boy band star won Markowitz the Amazing Thug Armadillo's Ultimate Badass Award at the first Polly Staffle Grindhouse Fest, known informally as PollyGrind.
PollyGrind is dedicated to cult, horror, sci-fi, exploitation and arthouse films and took place in the city earlier this month. A rundown of all the winners was released today and is included in full below.
Luke - who's also had roles in Blade 2 and Hellboy II: The Golden Army - was recognised for his role as a vampire commando (see above and below right) in horror flick The Dead Undead.
The movie, released in the USA a year ago, centres on a fanged fighting force trying to stop the evil spread of a plague of vampire zombies. Caught in the middle of the battle is...
- 5/25/2010
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
In Dread Central's effort to promote independent horror, have we got the goods on a great horror film festival in Las Vegas! From May 12-16th Sci-Fi Center at 2520 State Street, Las Vegas, Nv 89109, will be hosting The Polly Staffle Grindhouse Fest (aka PollyGrind), which includes 30 different films with five world premieres, seven Las Vegas premieres, and one U.S. premiere. There will also be a ton of music videos and trailers and more horror-related goods for you to feast your eyes on.
Read on for the full line-up, and look for more from Dread Central on PollyGrind (click here for the official site) soon!
Wednesday, May 12
Post-apocalyptic Nightmares (Double Feature)
Hosted By Heather Wixson Of Dreadcentral.Com
5:30 p.m.
Vendor tables open
7 p.m.
Trailer - Michael Ramova’s Soldier Killer (30 seconds) (World Premiere)
Trailer - Michael Ramova’s The Texas Chainsaw Champion (1:23 minutes) (World Premiere)
Trailer...
Read on for the full line-up, and look for more from Dread Central on PollyGrind (click here for the official site) soon!
Wednesday, May 12
Post-apocalyptic Nightmares (Double Feature)
Hosted By Heather Wixson Of Dreadcentral.Com
5:30 p.m.
Vendor tables open
7 p.m.
Trailer - Michael Ramova’s Soldier Killer (30 seconds) (World Premiere)
Trailer - Michael Ramova’s The Texas Chainsaw Champion (1:23 minutes) (World Premiere)
Trailer...
- 4/20/2010
- by thehorrorchick
- DreadCentral.com
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