Myrtle Beach Int'l Film Festival

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Published on Friday, 22 April 2011 20:13

Written by Christopher Lai

The 6th Myrtle Beach Int'l Film Festival is being held April 19 - 23, 2011 at the Carmike Cinema in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

The facility is the only all digital major theater chain in the US and all films will be shown in this multi-million dollar theater. The film categories featured this year include shorts, animation, features, documentaries, music videos, and an open category that boasts "Anything Goes."

A few of this year's features include:

Angel Camouflaged
dir. R. Michael Givens
Scottie Ballantyne, a rock and roll singer, inherits a run-down bar in the salt marshes of South Carolina. In order to make Kokonuts a success, she and her brother must battle against raging motorcycle clubs, gun toting gang bangers, a devilish loan shark and a deadly neighbor hell bent on sabotaging their efforts.

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TromaDance Film Festival 2011

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Published on Friday, 22 April 2011 01:02

Written by Lynne Shannon

Troma Entertainment‛s 12th Annual TromaDance Film Festival is being held April 22 - 23, 2011 at the Showroom Theater in Asbury Park, New Jersey.

After 10 years in Park City, Utah, TromaDance moved to Asbury Park last year.

New Jersey??

According to TromaDance founder Lloyd Kaufman, the move to New Jersey made perfect sense for the studio that gave the world The Toxic Avenger, the cult classic film Kaufman co-wrote and co-directed in 1984.

"New Jersey has always figured prominently in the movies I've written and directed,'' Kaufman said. "As you know, Tromaville, New Jersey, is the center of all the scripts that I've written, and The Toxic Avenger is from New Jersey."

This year‛s Feature Films are:

All About Evil
dir. Joshua Grannell
Deborah, a librarian, inherits her father's beloved but failing old movie house, the Victoria. To save the family business, she discovers her inner serial killer-- and starts turning out a series of grisly short films.

The Taint
dir. Drew Bolduc, Dan Nelson
When society is transformed into a land of sadistic violence and horrible brutality, it is up to Phil O'Ginny and his female friend, Misandra, to combat the horrible evil that is The Taint.

Kidnapped
dir. Miguel Angel Vivas
Jaime, Marta and their daughter Isa have just moved into a luxurious new house. Marta begins to prepare the dinner and puts a bottle of champagne on ice to celebrate the move. As night falls, three hooded men violently force their way into the house.

Among the short films is a block of new shorts by Oscar nominated animator Bill Plympton:
Flying House (8 min) - with Winsor McCay
The Cow Who Wanted To Be A Hamburger (5 min, 50 sec)
Guard Dog Global Jam! (5 min, 26 sec)

Other shorts include:

Krawll (2 min, 18 sec)
dir. Matthew Wade
The arrival of a giant wooden tower to the sea sparks to life the continuous events that make humankind's toys function long after humankind is gone.

Toothless (10 min, 52 sec)
dir. Steven Dorrington
A mockumentary following the Tooth Fairy's transformation as she resorts to inventive but unethical methods of tooth collection in her heinous quest for a better life.

Alice Jacobs Is Dead (21 min, 10 sec)
dir. Alex Horwitz
Dr. Ben Jacobs saved the world with a drug he created allowing humankind to fight back against the Z-virus, which nearly destroyed civilization entirely. Now he's trying to cure the last lingering strain of the virus before it turns his wife into something monstrous.

Return of Ghost Tank (2 min, 20 sec)
dir. John E. Goras
Another Ghost Tank adventure -- because you just can't keep a good ghost down, especially when there are so many dumbass soldiers left to kill.

Getting Dicked (14 min)
dir. Rogin Kim
"Something did penetrate you, but it wasn't me. It was a virus from the future."

Get Off My Porch (13 min, 21 sec)
dir. Patrick Rea
A man, home alone, is tormented by persistent Girl Scouts selling cookies.

For the first time, TromaDance is hosting a Panel:

Selling Your Movie in the Age of Digital Revolution
Now that the digital revolution has allowed all of us to make our own damn movies, how do we live off them in a media world controlled by giant conglomerates?

The inaugural panel‛s guests are:

• Bill Plympton, premiere animator
• Michael Gingold, Managing Editor of Fangoria Magazine
• John Goras, cult animator, Chirpy
• Pat Kaufman, New York State Film Commissioner 
• Moderator: Lloyd Kaufman

For more information, visit www.tromadance.com.

The TromaDance Film Festival was conceived by Lloyd Kaufman and inspired by Cannibal the Musical and South Park co-creator Trey Parker. Deciding that the mainstream film festivals had become bloated and corrupt playgrounds for the Hollywood elite, The TromaDance Film Festival began in 2000 in Park City, Utah as "the conscience of the Sundance Film Festival."

TromaDance is the fiercely independent film festival that gives innovative up-and-coming filmmakers a chance for exposure like no other, making movies so unique that no major studio could ever hope to create them.

All panels and screenings are open on a first-come-first-serve basis, no preferential treatment. The Festival has a strict policy of no entry fee for films and Free Admission to all screenings.

Kaufman is president of New York-based production and distribution company Troma Entertainment, which he and partner Michael Herz founded in 1974. Since then, Kaufman and Herz have built Troma up to legendary status as a bastion of true independence and a strong consumer brand through a visionary body of work that has had a huge impact on pop culture and today's mainstream filmmaking.

TromaDance Film Festival
April 22 - 23, 2011

Showroom Theater
708 Cookman Avenue
Asbury Park, NJ
723-502-0472

San Francisco Intl Film Festival 2011

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Published on Thursday, 21 April 2011 04:15

Written by Lynne Shannon

The San Francisco International Film Festival (SFIFF) plays its 54th year April 21 - May 5, 2011 at the Castro Theatre, Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, and other venues around San Francisco, California. The longest-running film festival in the Americas, SFIFF is “an extraordinary showcase of cinematic discovery and innovation in the country's most beautiful city.”

This year, the Opening Night film is Mike Mills's Beginners. A graphic artist learns more about life from his father, who emerges at 75 from a long, passionless marriage and comes out of the closet, refusing to let even a cancer diagnosis stop his late-blooming eagerness to experience love. With Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Mélanie Laurent, Goran Visnjic. Mills and McGregor are expected to attend a post-screening Q&A.

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