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Wednesday
Aug272008

This Week at Film Festivals: August 28-31, 2008

Here is a list of entertaining films to check out around the U.S. at film festivals. Some of these movie screenings may not be part of a festival, but part of some kind of movie screening series, which is great because you now have even more options to choose from. Some of these screenings are FREE, so there is something to do even if you don't have a lot of money this week:

Los Angeles, California
The short film MADISON CLASS OF '64 will be playing at the Silent Movie Theater on Thursday, August 28th at 10:00AM. Admission is $15.

Richmond, Virginia
The following films will be playing during the Silent Music Revival:
Moonland (1931) and Lullaby (1936) on Thursday, August 28th
at Firehouse Theatre at 9:00pm (sharp). This is a free screening.

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Wednesday
Dec122007

Ready to Meet the Cast of NBC's Heroes TV show?


In the tradition of Film Festival Wednesdays here at the Madlab Post, I will now introduce you to a fun event worth checking out if you live in or near the Los Angeles area. I do not have any films playing at the JULES VERNE ADVENTURE FILM FESTIVAL but I would be in attendance if I had some frequent flyer miles. It already started on the 5th of this month, but will be going on up until December 16, 2007. Screenings will be taking place at the Shrine Auditorium and the Los Angeles Theatre. Thats not all....you can meet the cast of the NBC hit show Heroes at the JULES VERNE ADVENTURE FILM FESTIVAL.

Numerous cast members from Heroes are listed to be in attendance at the closing day event for this film festival. If you like adventurous films or science fiction or even if you are just bored and want to get away from the Holiday rush, this is a fun place to be. I just found out about the JULES VERNE ADVENTURE FILM FESTIVAL so I will be checking it out more to see if I can submit one of my short movies or videos to this event in the upcoming seasons. If you are familiar with this festival or have attended the event in previous years, I am curious to know what your experience was like. Leave your Comments below!

Photo: JULES VERNE ADVENTURE FILM FESTIVAL

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Saturday
Nov242007

A short film that is too short?


Recently, I found out about the Treasure Coast International Film Festival and put it on my watch list since the fees are not expensive to submit films to this festival. However, it seems that some shorts are just too short in the case of Lighten Up.

A notification arrived about one week ago regarding an upcoming deadline for this festival. I checked out the website, went through my inventory of a few Lighten Up DVDs letfover from my initial batch and then proceeded to submit this into the short film category, only to find a warning that Lighten Up is too short based on the film submission requirements of the Treasure Coast International Film Festival. I knew that short films submitted in the shorts category MUST NOT be longer than 45 minutes (or 25 minutes for students, go figure). What I did not know was that shorts could not be shorter than 2 minutes. The comedy, Lighten Up comes in somewhere around one minute and 30 seconds.

So this short, although it falls into the general "short film" classification in the entertainment world is not long enough for all film festivals. Lighten Up falls *short* (how ironic and annoying) of having a chance to screen at a film festival by 30 seconds. It is times like this that I am grateful for all of the online video websites that screen shorts whether they are 2 minutes or 10 seconds. Granted, you have to get through a lot of useless and corny videos to find the good ones but it is still a way to get comedies like Lighten Up out to an audience. By not waiting for film festivals, Lighten Up has been seen on Myspace, YouTube and the IFC medialab.
Thanks to all who have watched it (and extra thanks to those who have left feedback).
Being too short for the Treasure Coast International Film Festival is not a big deal right now. I will just have to make a note that some future short films and videos should at least be 2 minutes in order to take advantage of the opportunities out there on the film festival circuit.

Within the last 2 years, I have learned that short films can actually be too long. Now, I have also learned that they can be too short.

Photo: I know that it is pixelated, so what! That is all that can be posted right now. The Movie is more clear. Watch Lighten Up here.

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