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Academy Award Nominated Animator BILL PLYMPTON to Host MFF’s Friday Night Shorts Program at Artscape 2009!

Published July 15, 2009 Blog Posts Closed
Tags: "Weird Al" Yankovic, Academy Award, animation, Artscape, Bill Plympton, free, friday, Kanye West, Maryland Film Festival, Oscar, Santa: The Fascist Years, shorts, The Charles Theatre

Bill Plympton, one of the most widely recognized and respected animators in America, will be hosting the Friday night premiere of the Maryland Film Festival Shorts at the Charles at Artscape 2009.

Starting at 7:00pm at the Charles Theatre, 1711 North Charles Street, the “Cartoons from Hell” collection represents a wide array of animated shorts. Plympton will host the evening and will be selling some dvds of his work. All Shorts Programs at Artscape are FREE!! Additionally, everyone who attends the screening will receive a FREE Bill Plympton drawing!

Nominated for an Oscar for his hilarious short, GUARD DOG, which was featured as part of MFF 2004 Opening Night Shorts Program, Plympton has won numerous awards at film festivals around the world, and has collaborated with artists ranging from Kanye West to Weird Al Yankovic.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE FREE MFF SHORTS PROGRAM AT ARTSCAPE, CLICK HERE!

Click here to watch Bill Plympton’s music video of “Weird Al” Yankovic’s “Don’t Download This Song!”

For more info on Bill Plympton: http://www.plymptoons.com/gallery/gallery.html

MFF 2008: Friday

Published April 14, 2009 Blog Posts Closed
Tags: 2008, Baltimore, CAmm, Film, friday, Maryland, Maryland Film Festival, video

New Yorker Highlights Matt Porterfield’s HAMILTON

Published April 8, 2009 Blog Posts 1 Comment
Tags: Hamilton, Matt Porterfield, Metal Gods, New York, New Yorker, Richard Brody, screening

From The New Yorker online:

“On Saturday night at 8, at UnionDocs, in Brooklyn, Matthew Porterfield’s remarkable first feature, “Hamilton,” will have a rare screening, after which I’ll moderate a discussion with the director, who will also present something from his work-in-progress, “Metal Gods.” I saw “Hamilton” when it premiered at Anthology Film Archives, in 2006; I thought then, and think now, that it’s one of the finest American independent films ever made. It’s not available on DVD, and, in any case, its exquisitely thought-out compositions are best savored on the big screen.” — Richard Brody

HAMILTON was selected and screened in the 2006 Maryland Film Festival.

Welcome to the New Maryland Film Festival Blog!

Published March 19, 2009 Blog Posts 4 Comments
Tags: Festival, Film, Maryland, Maryland Film Festival, orange element, poster, welcome

We are always looking for new ways to get our audiences in on the year-round process of putting together a film festival, and that’s why we are pleased to unveil the new Maryland Film Festival Blog.

Here you will find input from every department of MFF, as we invite you to take a peek at what goes into creating a yearly Film Festival.

This is also your chance to give your input, we invite you to use the comment section to join in the conversation.

Want more? There are so many ways to be involved with the Maryland Film Festival! You can…

Volunteer at MFF 2009 (click here to email our Volunteer Coordinator)!

Join our mailing list to be the first to receive our updates!

Join Friends of the Festival to take advantage of our year-round programming!

And of course, we hope to see you at the 2009 Maryland Film Festival, taking place May 7 – 10!