If getting sand in your crotch while watching awesome short films sounds like a good time, then you better head on out to the first ever Black Rock City Film Festival, which is taking place right now, Aug. 30 to Sept. 3, at the legendary Burning Man gathering in the Nevada desert. If you’re already at Burning Man, hopefully you get cell reception and can see this lineup so you know where the best place is to be every night.
This event is a joint endeavor for the Boston Underground Film Festival and San Francisco’s IndieFest, who have selected over two dozen short films to screen at their open air theater. There are no start times for when these films will screen, but I would assume it would be sometime after sundown. Plus, there will be cocktail parties before and after the screenings, as well as Opening Night and Closing Night bashes.
This event is a joint endeavor for the Boston Underground Film Festival and San Francisco’s IndieFest, who have selected over two dozen short films to screen at their open air theater. There are no start times for when these films will screen, but I would assume it would be sometime after sundown. Plus, there will be cocktail parties before and after the screenings, as well as Opening Night and Closing Night bashes.
- 8/30/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Embedded above is the vibrant, supercharged comedy Happily Ever After by Jamie Heinrich, which won the Best of Fest Short Film award at the 2010 Boston Underground Film Festival back in March. Its got girls, Glocks, roller skating, trampolining and unicorns and rainbows. What’s not to love?
Actually, the only thing I don’t like about this short film is that I’m pissed it doesn’t come with a soundtrack listing because I love all the music and I don’t know what any of the songs are. Well, except for Maneater.
It’s a real slick looking film filled with slow-motion goodness and a crazy, elliptical “plot” that hints at a larger world beyond its borders. Although it only runs about 9 minutes long, if this were a TV show I’d tune in religiously every week. The costuming, the settings, the soundtrack, the dialogue all fit really tightly together.
Actually, the only thing I don’t like about this short film is that I’m pissed it doesn’t come with a soundtrack listing because I love all the music and I don’t know what any of the songs are. Well, except for Maneater.
It’s a real slick looking film filled with slow-motion goodness and a crazy, elliptical “plot” that hints at a larger world beyond its borders. Although it only runs about 9 minutes long, if this were a TV show I’d tune in religiously every week. The costuming, the settings, the soundtrack, the dialogue all fit really tightly together.
- 5/2/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The 12th annual Boston Underground Film Festival, which began on March 25 and ends on April 1, has released their list of award winners for this year that also includes Buff’s first ever lifetime achievement award.
There are six winners, listed below, in the categories of narrative, documentary, short, director’s choice and the always popular Most Effectively Offensive, which had some real competition this year thanks to the fest’s concentration on exploitation, or “grindhouse,” films for this edition. The winners are:
Best of Fest Narrative
Red White & Blue, dir. Simon Rumley
Best of Fest Documentary
It Came From Kuchar, dir. Jennifer M. Kroot
Best of Fest Short
Happily Ever After, dir. Jamie Heinrich
Director’s Choice
Someone’s Knocking at the Door, dir. Chad Ferrin
Most Effectively Offensive
The Life and Death of a Porno Gang, dir. Mladen Djordjevic
Lifetime Achievement Award
Mink Stole
The Best of Fest winners...
There are six winners, listed below, in the categories of narrative, documentary, short, director’s choice and the always popular Most Effectively Offensive, which had some real competition this year thanks to the fest’s concentration on exploitation, or “grindhouse,” films for this edition. The winners are:
Best of Fest Narrative
Red White & Blue, dir. Simon Rumley
Best of Fest Documentary
It Came From Kuchar, dir. Jennifer M. Kroot
Best of Fest Short
Happily Ever After, dir. Jamie Heinrich
Director’s Choice
Someone’s Knocking at the Door, dir. Chad Ferrin
Most Effectively Offensive
The Life and Death of a Porno Gang, dir. Mladen Djordjevic
Lifetime Achievement Award
Mink Stole
The Best of Fest winners...
- 3/31/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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