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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

The Superkiiids! (stars of LIGHTNING SALAD MOVING PICTURE) to Perform at the Tent Village during MFF 2009!!!

Published May 5, 2009 1 1 Comment
Tags: 2009, comedy, friday, improv, Kenneth Price, Lightning Salad Moving Picture, Maryland Film Festival, performance, Tent Village, The Superkiiids

FRIDAY, MAY 8, 7:30pm
TENT VILLAGE, MFF 2009

DON’T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SEE THE STARS OF MFF 2009 SELECTION LIGHTNING SALAD MOVING PICTURE PERFORM THEIR UNIQUE COMEDY IMPROV!

From The Superkiiids! Website:

We are the Superkiiids! You are the Superkiiids!

We: Employed by an icky-sticky-jazz (a good thing) based philosophy where no two shows are exactly alike, an endless number of i’s between the k and the d (but at least three!) and the notion that the audience is just as much a Superkiiid! as The Superkiiids! themselves, The Superkiiids! have thus created a two-man-hyper-audience-involved-folk-live-entertainment-hyphen-loving-force-of-nature!

More about LIGHTNING SALAD MOVING PICTURE from the MFF Website:

“We drew a lot of inspiration from the creative party music coming out of Baltimore with the likes of Dan Deacon, Girl Talk and Future Islands (who contributed some music to the film). We wanted the film to first and foremost be fun and entertaining-the same feeling we got listening to that kind of music.”
— director Kenneth Price (The Third Kiiid!)

The Superkiiids! are two young men who live and play together in an attic, and receive daily directive video messages from “Zemeckis”; this morning, they’re charged with making the movie Back to the Future 4 –with the warning that if they fail, “Zemeckis” is going to give the project to “Hanks.” Setting out on their movie-making mission, but constantly getting side-tracked, they encounter time travel, romance, a colorful cast of characters, and one of the longest slip-n-slide story devices ever committed to cinema.

Click here to view the Tent Village Schedule for MFF 2009!

How to Use Your Friends of the Festival membership during MFF

Published May 4, 2009 1 Closed
Tags: benefits, Brown Center, Film, free, friday, Friends of the Festival, join, Maryland, Maryland Film Festival, MICA, Screening Vouchers, will call

Are you a Friend of the Festival? Have you been wondering how to take advantage of your membership benefits? We’ve got all the answers for you right here!

If you have tickets or All-Access passes on Will Call for Opening Night, you will be able to pick them up at the Brown Center (1301 Mount Royal Avenue) on Thursday evening.

Everything else will be available at the Friends of the Festival table (located in the Box Office tent across the street from The Charles Theater) starting Friday, May 8.

HOW TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF FREE MOVIES BEFORE 6PM ON FRIDAY:

When you arrive on Friday, go to the Friends of the Festival table and give your name. You will receive a pass that you can flash at the theater to get into any film that day free before 6pm.

If you are at the Red Carpet level or higher, your pass is also what you use to get into the Filmmakers’ Lounge.

SCREENING VOUCHERS for Red Carpet level members and higher will also be available for pick-up at the Friends of the Festival table starting Friday, May 8.

Want to take advantage of these great benefits too? Join Friends of the Festival before May 7, and we’ll throw in a FREE screening voucher!

Blair Witch’s Ed Sánchez Brings Thrilling SEVENTH MOON to MFF!

Published April 30, 2009 1 Closed
Tags: Baltimore, Berkettsville, China, Eduardo Sanchez, friday, ghost, horror, Maryland, Maryland Film Festival, moon, Scott Braid, Seventh Moon, suspense, The Blair Witch Project, thriller

Friday, May 8, 10:00pm,
Charles Theatre 2

Eduardo Sánchez, co-writer/director of The Blair Witch Project, makes a triumphant, spooky return with the China-set nailbiter Seventh Moon, playing at Maryland Film Festival 2009! Seventh Moon tells the story of a couple of newlyweds, Yul (Tim Chiou) and Melissa (Amy Smart of Crank: High Voltage), who honeymoon in China — but soon encounter mystery and horror lurking behind a “ghost festival” tied to the lunar cycle.

A polished international production that delivers classic thrills in a way few current horror films do, it’s a triumphant thrill-ride from Maryland resident Sánchez, who delivered the worldwide smash Blair Witch Project. As MFF’s Scott Braid writes in the program notes for this film, “With movie theaters and video stores overrun with brainless slice-and-dice gorefests whose every sequel is more repugnant and (if possible) less engaging than the one before, it’s refreshing to see an exquisitely made modern ghost story with genuinely creepy atmospherics.”

Director Eduardo Sánchez will be with us at Maryland Film Festival to host the Baltimore premiere of Seventh Moon. Don’t miss it!

Click here to buy tickets to SEVENTH MOON!