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I
have no winter coat, no snow shoes, no mittens, no sweaters,
no jackets, no thermal sox, no long johns... and I'm going
to Utah!
I'm
fixing to freeze my freaking Texan ass off!
More Slamdance Festival news stuff....
Really, there's like 5 or 6 little festivals
that go on around Slamdance time. And there is a lot going
on! We here at Filethirteen are going to go and:
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Have Fun!
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See cool films.
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Meet cool new people.
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Have fun!
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Take pictures.
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Try and interview filmmakers
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Tell you all about it every little detail -good or bad....
Today is Thursday, 1/20/2000, and I found out via e-mail that
both "Rock Opera" and "Sweet Thing," two Austin based films,
will be at the Slamdunk film festival. This is awesome news!
From
Bob Ray, director of "Rock Opera:"
I’m just writing a quick note to let everyone know that Rock
Opera will be screening in Park City, Utah at the No
Dance Film Festival
on Monday January 24th at 2:00PM at The Gateway Center (136
Heber Ave @ Main Street). I hope you can make it out.
Check
out my review of "Rock
Opera" at Filethirteen.
Soon
after, I got a e-mail from Mark David, director of "Sweet
Thing." His film will be in competition at Slamdunk next week
too. Check out my review of "Sweet
Thing" at Filethirteen.
I
liked both these films so it's cool that they are getting
more exposure. It's going to be cool to go to Utah and see
folks I know from Austin there. Bob Ray and Jerry Don Clark
are two of the biggest party animals I have ever met. I hope
they are both going to be there. Jerry will definately know
where the good times are! Mark David is one little promotion
muscle in hyperdrive. Everyone who is anyone will know that
"Sweet Thing" is at Slamdunk. This is going to be killer!
More Park City news from the Slamdance promoters...
SLAMDANCE
FESTIVAL 2000 EXPANDS WITH 'ANARCHY,¹ A NEW ONLINE PROGRAM
OF SHORT FILMS TO LAUNCH AT SLAMDANCE.COM DURING THE PARK
CITY FESTIVAL January 22 - 29, 2000 Park City, Utah
"Committed to reaching a wider audience, the 2000 Slamdance
Film Festival is expanding to include an additional 21 previously
unannounced short films that will screen exclusively in a
new web-based, streaming video section of the festival called
ŒAnarchy,¹" Slamdance Executive Director Peter Baxter announced
today. Anarchy Online selections will be streamed on the slamdance.com
Web site using a streaming media player, rather than traditional
means of projection beginning on January 22.
"Our mandate has always been to support new filmmakers and
to show as much of their quality work as possible," states
Slamdance Co-Founder Shane Kuhn, director of Slamdance.com.
Not only does Anarchy allow us to increase the number of Slamdance
shorts by more than 50% of what we'd be able to show in our
traditional venues, but it offers these filmmakers - and filmmakers
in the body of the festival -- dramatically increased exposure
to the world."
The
films that will participate in the debut Anarchy side-bar
are:
*69 (8 mins, color) By Erin Cassidy. A New York woman
is obsessed with the telephone function *69.
ABSENCE
(6 mins, color) By David Rosenthal. The moment of one man's
haunting confrontation with his past.
AMERICAN CIV.-1 (4 mins, color) By Devin Uzan. Grandpa
and Billy just don't see eye to eye on American history.
THE
CLOSET (9 mins, color) By Shawn Schepps and Jason Wolk.
Stuck in a cramped closet with a dead guy, two robbers confront
their lifelong friendship.
DESCENT
(4 mins, color) By Kevin Souls. Borrowing text from Thomas
Pynchon's GRAVITY'S RAINBOW, DESCENT is an intense visual
journey across the theater of war.
ENCHANTED (9 mins, b&w) By Christian Ditter. A shy
boy, a secret love, a doll, and a library somehow team up
to tell an "enchanting" love story.
GRAVEYARD
JAMBOREE WITH MYSTERIOUS MOSE (4 mins, color) By Mark
Caballero & Seamus Walsh. A mischievous nymph prepares for
a musical bash in his graveyard home.
KILLER
PINK (13 mins, color) WORLD PREMIERE
By Patrick Cadell. A rabbit and a dog don't get along - just
like their owners.
KITE (6 mins, color) WORLD
PREMIERE By Jay Miracle. A day at the beach, a
boy is tethered to a kite, while Dad drinks beer.
LOST
CAUSE (6 mins, color) By Glenn Gaylord. A man with AIDS
gets bumped and shuffled through the phone system of his local
Health Service Organization.
THE LOTTERY TICKET (5 mins, color) By John Ealer. Based
on a Chekov short story, a couple who think they've hit the
jackpot reveal the depth of their estrangement.
THE
MEETING (8 mins, color) By Jay Bogdanowitsch. A tense
business meeting gets even more wound-up.
THE WARHAUL (7 mins, color) By Tim Vierling. A world-weary
Marilyn Monroe takes on an airbrush wielding photographer.
THE
METAMORPHOSIS (Part 1) (7 mins, color) WORLD
PREMIERE By Charlie Ramos. Gregor Samsa wakes up
to find himself changed into a large digitally rendered insect.
NIGHT
DEPOSIT (8 mins, color) By Monika Mitchell. A new take
on the world's oldest profession.
OIL
& VINEGAR (3 mins, color) By Mike Blum. A bottle of olive
oil and a bottle of vinegar bottle share a brief encounter.
THE REVENGE OF THE RED BALLOON (8 mins, color) By Gregg
Rossen. An homage to the classic French film, the balloon
returns to hunt the little garcons who popped him in the original
film 40 years ago.
RIPPLE (5 mins, color) WORLD PREMIERE By Tim Kerns.
Two fishermen fish Jesus Christ out of a lake.
ROCKY IV, AN ANIMATION (2 mins, color) By Rachel Max.
Ponder the curious undertones of Rocky IV.
SAND TROOPER (7 mins, color) By Salvatore Belleci.
Sent on a mission tantamount to suicide, a rebel warrior heads
into the wastelands.
TSUNAMI
(6 mins, color) By Anna Broinowski. A young Japanese surfer
calls forth BONZILLA when harassed by four Aussie grommets.
Now,
the spirit of Slamdance will really be available globally,"
says Kuhn. "Site visitors can watch these films on the internet
all over the world and then vote for an audience award winner
online during festival week in Park City." In a Web lounge
called (dot).cave, Festival attendees will also get a chance
to view and vote on the films via eight Dell computers set
up at the festival venue at the Treasure Mountain Inn in Park
City. Online winners will be awarded the coveted Sparky statuette
for best online short film on our awards night on January
28th, alongside the award-winners in the traditional body
of the festival. The films selected for Anarchy were chosen
from the 1272 of short film submissions to the festival this
year. Quality and running times under 10 minutes were the
only programming criteria.
After
the festival, Anarchy will segue into a year-round event at
slamdance.com. Beginning March 1, 2000, Slamdance will show
a slate of competition films every month and award prizes
to films that receive the highest user ratings. Eventually,
Anarchy will evolve into a weekly event at slamdance.com with
frequent programming additions and Best of Site compilation
events.
Inside
.cave, Slamdance festival attendees can log onto slamdance.com
and, in addition to seeing the Anarchy films, they can also
see daily festival updates, and other new site features such
as a co-branded section with Slamdance sponsor DVDExpress
that will follow two Australians who won a trip to Slamdance
in a radio contest. "While many sites function as a record
or archive of past events and information, the Slamdance Film
Festival's site has been very active since 1996 and is updated
constantly to make information about the films - including
video clips, the filmmakers and the festival itself available
to journalists, the entertainment industry, the filmmakers
themselves, and anyone else who can benefit from the information,"
says Slamdance Co-founder-at-Large Dan Mirvish.
"One of the goals of slamdance.com for 2000 is for it to become
an information and communications hub for the no-budget filmmaking
community," says Kuhn. Over the past six years, Slamdance
has fostered an extensive international network of supporters.
Slamdance.com will consolidate the global Slamdance family
in one place and work to build a unique community of like-minded
filmmakers, industry professionals, and supporters of independent
film.
While
the Slamdance Film Festival has remained intimate by not heavily
increasing the number of films in the festival or the number
of days, the festival has expanded through its popular On
the Road screenings that started with an invitation from the
Smithsonian to show the award-winners in Washington DC in
1997 and have increased yearly to include more locations.
The festival will debut in London in 2000 and has annually
traveled to Baltimore, Maryland; Cannes, France; Los Angeles;
New York; Park City in the Summer; Santiago, Chile; Stockholm,
Sweden; and Washington DC. Slamdance On the Road 2000 will
start in Washington on March 17th and 18th at the Smithsonian
before coming to Los Angeles on March 23rd and 24th, at the
American Cinematheque. Dates in Cannes and London will follow.
The festival also runs a successful annual screenplay competition.
PROGRAM
SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE. UPDATED INFORMATION ABOUT
THE FESTIVAL CAN BE FOUND ON THE SLAMDANCE WEB SITE AT WWW.SLAMDANCE.COM.
BTW
- Slamdunk is 1/24-1/29 (a Monday - Saturday fest?) I love
all these anti-Sundance, anti-Slamdance anti-film-festival
film festivals. I hope it is as freaky and as cool as I expect
it to be. I want to see and do it all!
Got
this on e-mail too:
GEN ART January 15th NEWSFLASH New York, Los Angeles & San
Francisco The National Non-Profit Showcasing the Best Emerging
Talent Film, Fashion & Visual Arts
- Item
1: GEN ART SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL PARTY (UTAH)
- Item
2: STYLES 2000 - INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION DEADLINES
ITEM
- 3:
JOIN THE GEN ART TEAM
ITEM 1: GEN ART PARTY AT THE SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL GEN ART
& iFUSE invite you to the Essential Sundance Party "TRIPDANCE"
on Friday, January 28, from 9pm - 3am to celebrate their new
collaborative microshorts program. The party will also honor
the film premiere of Dan McCormack's "Other Voices" which
stars Rob Morrow, Peter Gallagher, Stockard Channing and Campbell
Scott.
The party will include a full dj rig and sound by DJ Iain
from Glasgow, with video projections & snowboarding videos
by iFUSE and a Hot Tub for the Adventurous. Beverages will
be provided courtesy of Skyy Vodka, Bass Ale & Evian Natural
Spring Water.
The
party will celebrate indie film and the upcoming Gen Art Film
Festival, which will be taking place from April 26 - May 2,
2000. The microshorts program will be one of the new features
of the 5th Anniversary of the festival. Gen Art will have
a large team at Sundance, including Film Division Director,
Dominick Balletta, Associate Festival Producer, Mindy Bond,
several Film Team members and the Gerard Brothers (Ian & Stefan),
Gen Art's Executive Directors. All will be scouting films
and spreading the Gen Art Gospel.
If
you are interested in attending the party, please RSVP by
January 27th to: (212) 290-0312/(917) 692-1622 or info@genart.org
and you will be given the specifics regarding the party.
GEN
ART FILM FESTIVAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS FEBRUARY 15th DON'T
MISS OUT. EMAIL: INFO@GENART.ORG FOR APPLICATION.
ITEM 2: STYLES 2000 -DESIGN COMPETITION DEADLINES The early
deadline for Gen Art's Styles 2000 international design competition
is February 1st. The late deadline is March 1st. Gen Art and
its corporate partners will be providing $25,000 in award
money to five winning designers. The twenty-five finalists
will have their designs showcased before 1,000 members of
the fashion establishment on April 4th. Corporate Partners
include gloss.com, iFUSE, and shoppingtheworld.com. You can't
win, unless you enter. Applications can be requested by emailing:
info@genart.org, calling (212) 290-0312 or faxing (212) 290-0254.
Good Luck!
ITEM 3: JOIN THE GEN ART TEAM Gen Art is looking for interns,
volunteers and even full-time staffers with experience with
event production and marketing. If you are in school, have
time after work or are qualified and looking for a new exciting
career, please contact us. Also, we are always looking for
independent visual arts curators. If you want to find out
more, please call (212) 290-0312 and ask for Ian and Adam
or email: info@genart.org or fax: (212) 290-0254. Our web
site is located at www.genart.org
I'll be home by the time this even occurs. Bummer
Tim is planning on videotaping a lot of stuff about the site
and what we do at Park City, so we may have video up on the
site, or we may be compiling a documentary or something using
this footage. Of course, it might just be bad home video type
stuff that we only show to our moms. You never know.
Web called me on Thursday night and we discussed more specifics
about our stay. Stubby, Filethirteen's graphic designer and
co-webmaster, may be coming to Park City for a few days too.
5 of us in one condo... That's just scary! We also discussed
how important it is for me to have the bathroom last in the
morning so I can sleep the latest. That was important to me.
I have a lot of rules/hang ups about using the bathroom. It's
too delicate to go into here. Suffice it to say a "poo-poo
radio" was one of the terms that Web inventied tonight during
our discussion. I'm not sure I will handle communal living
to well.
One
weird thing about the week is that the Golden Globes will
be telecast (Sunday 1/23 on NBC primetime) during the festival.
I wonder if there will be some place having a Golden Globes
party in Park City. I want to see them but may have to skip
out because I'll be at a screening. I maight have to check
out the winners on the TV news, on the web, or, God forbid,
find them somewhere in a newspaper...
One
of the few films at Slamdance that I have already seen is
a short called "Peep Show." I hated it. Here's what I wrote
about it after viewing it...
Next
was "Peep Show," a misogynistic "joke" splayed out over 9
minutes. Apparently it also showed at SXSW. The piece, written
by Damon Jones, Bob Kirsh and Patti Frick and directed by
Charlie Call has one of the most derogatory punchlines aimed
at women that you can imagine. Worse yet, it's an old, old,
old, old, old fucking joke. Yawn.
Okay - the next time you read something new I have written,
it will have been scribed in Park City, Utah...
The
adventure begins!
Peace Lodger2000
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