Last weekend’s FilmSlam #10 for 2009 drew a healthy 80 or so local indie film supporters as seven new Florida short films made their debuts on the big screen at Enzian. As always, the Audience Award winner of this monthly in-state filmmaking celebration receives an automatic bye into December’s Brouhaha Film & Video Showcase. And once there, if the FilmSlam winner happens to be selected by a local industry jury to be part of the “Best of Brouhaha” program, the film moves on to play in the Florida Sidebar section of April’s 19th annual Florida Film Festival. So potentially there’s a whole lot on the line at FilmSlam every month, and these young filmmakers really step up to the plate.
Congratulations go out to Director Austin Boggs and Writer/Producer Bryan Patrick Moore for taking 1st Place with ONE FOR WORDS, described as a film in which a pair of long-time friends have something to say to each other but just can’t seem to get the words out. Kudos also to the 2nd and 3rd Place winners, Gerald J. Godbout III and Ronny Vega for their films LEGENDS: A FRIDAY THE 13TH TALE and THE AMBER PROJECT.
Be sure to check out the final FilmSlam of 2009 on November 8, and get your entry in by the end of the month if you’d like to have a shot at your film participating. Good luck!
Congratulations to University of Central Florida Film grad and Florida Film Festival alum Danny Daneau for the trio of honors recently bestowed on his feature debut, THE ATTIC DOOR, at the 6th annual Bend Film Festival. Held October 8 - 11 in the gorgeous northwest town of Bend, Oregon (yours truly actually went White Water River Rafting there once!), the festival awarded the film “Best Feature,” “Best Cinematography” (fellow UCF alum Scott Uhlfelder shot it), and “Best Music Score” (by composer Kristin Ohrn Dyrud).
THE ATTIC DOOR, which had its World Premiere at the 2009 Florida Film Festival in April, tells of two abandoned pioneer siblings who must confront their greatest fears when they are left alone in their 19th century American West desert home. As they anxiously await for their parents to return from town with their newborn brother or sister, this Twilight Zone-ish tale becomes a haunting story about growing up.
Major kudos to Danny, producer Erica Harrell, the rest of his Central Florida production team, and the cast and crew for this well-deserved recognition. We’re proud of you!
Now this is going to be fun! Beginning last night with the outdoor Popcorn Flick screening of POLTERGEIST and for the final three weeks of October, Enzian is bringing all kinds of ghoulish goings-on to the Central Florida cultural landscape. You may not recognize us (especially with the Haunted Swamp and Walk of Terror on Halloween weekend), but there will be plenty of laughs, frights, freak-outs, and (in some cases) buckets of gore gracing our screen in the coming days.
The 10th anniversary screening of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, accompanied by Producer Robin Cowie who’ll be in attendance for intro and Q&A, takes place tomorrow (Saturday) night at 12 midnight. This has gotten tons of publicity, so you may want to get there early. Next up on Tuesday, 10/13, at 9:30 as part of our Cult Classics series, is Tim Burton’s Oscar-winning look at one of the worst film directors of all time, the infamous ED WOOD (Plan 9 From Outer Space). An incredible cast, including Johnny Depp, Martin Landau (as Bela Lugosi), Bill Murray, and Sarah Jessica Parker help bring the period to life. This is followed on Saturday, October 17 at 12 midnight, by one of the most notoriously repulsive and controversial films of our generation, Ruggero Deodato’s CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, and the first of our three MovieJoint presentations. To say there’s a cult following for this movie would be an understatement, but you’ve been warned…A week later on October 24 at 12 midnight will be Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s south-of-the-border vampire action-fest, FROM DUSK TILL DAWN. The fun cast includes George Clooney, Harvey Keitel, Salma Hayek, Juliette Lewis, and Cheech Marin. Following that will be another Cult Classic series presentation, THE EXORCIST, on Tuesday, October 27 at 9:30 PM. Still terrifying, this notorious supernatural thriller stars Linda Blair, Ellen Burstyn, Max Von Sydow, and Jason Miller. Your mother does what in hell?!? And closing out the month for a two-night engagement on October 30 & 31 at 12 midnight will be perhaps the greatest zombie movie of them all—George Romero’s original NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD in glorious (or is that gorious?) b&w 16mm.
So there’s truly something in the Halloween spirit for everyone’s tastes and stomachs. Come join us if you dare…
Wow! How awesome was that? Last night’s tiebreaker play-in game between Detroit and Minnesota before the largest baseball crowd in Metrodome history was truly one for the ages and one of the most stressful and amazing contests I’ve ever witnessed. But after nearly 5 hours of back and forth and give and take, my Twins won 6 - 5 in 12 innings and became the first team in history to win a division after being 3 games out with 4 to play, while the Tigers became one of a handful of teams to blow a 7-game lead in the standings in September—ouch!
So it’s on to a best-out-of-five against the Yankees, a team they have beaten a grand total of once in the last two years. I’m certainly proud of what this team has accomplished late in the season given all of the injuries (including 1/2 of their starters and All-Star 1B Justin Morneau), so if this is the end of the ride, so be it. Minnesota may be the biggest underdog ever in a playoff series, but we might as well play the games and see what happens. Go Twins!
Here we go again! After a wonderful stretch of 16 victories in their last 20 games (w/o former MVP Justin Morneau available no less), my Minnesota Twins have battled back from 7 games behind the Detroit Tigers to tie them in the standings and once again force a game # 163 to determine who wins the AL Central and advances to the playoffs. We’ve seen this before—last year the Twins tied with the White Sox but had to go to Chicago for the play-in game and suffered a brutal 1-0 defeat. The outrage over the location of that game actually forced a rule change in Major League Baseball (imagine that), and later this afternoon the Twins have home-field advantage in the tiebreaker game by virtue of winning the season series. A coin flip would have decided the site under the tiebreaker procedures of previous years, but this time it is based simply on which team had the best record in the first 18 meetings (the Twins were 11-7). So at least the head-to-head season series counts for something…
They are the first team in league history to need a 163rd game to finish the year in back-to-back seasons. They were 3 back with 4 to go and won 4 straight to close out the season and got some help from Chicago who won 2 out of 3 from the Tigers in Detroit. It’s the final year for the Metrodome (one of the greatest home field advantages ever), and they’re just not ready to say goodbye yet. The stars are alligned…now let’s go out and play ball like we’re capable of. Go Twins!
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