Good news - we've added a second location to B-Fest for the first time since 2002! The five Best Documentary nominees will show at The Redhouse on Sat Oct 27th in addition to our three day event at the Palace Theatre. 12 Features, 20 Shorts, 5 Documentaries, and much more!
Besides opening the festival with "Clay", we'll also be showing Ryan Dacko's documentary "Plan 9 from Syracuse". If you don't remember, Ryan is the filmmaker who ran from Syracuse to Hollywood in hopes of getting a movie development deal. He received a lot of local coverage support throughout the run last year, and now you can see the whole trip, the ups and downs, the good and bad, for the first time at the Palace on Saturday night Oct 26th.
On Saturday, around 9:30pm during the Redhouse's Halloween Ball, there be a silent showing of the excellent, locally produced horror film "Mr Halloween". It'll play in the background during the party for some fun, gruesome visuals. We had hoped to show this movie on the big screen at BFest as well, but just ran out of slots - but watch for a possible screening of it at other BFest events this year. We're also working on a small screening area in the Palace lobby during BFest, and we may be able to show it there along with other features and shorts.
Another addition to the fest is the premiere CNY screening of "Rounding Home". "Rounding Home" was shot here in CNY last year under the title "Northern Lights" and features dozens, if not hundreds, of Syracuse area actors, crew and extras. "Rounding Home" will show on Sunday night.
We'll be repeating the 2006 Best B-Movie winner "Big Fish in Middlesex" on Sunday. Also on Sunday, right after the 5pm awards ceremony, we'll repeat the 2007 Best B-Movie Feature and Short. We end the fest on an appropriate "horror" note with two chilling shorts and, at 11pm, the comedy/scarefest "Lights, Camera, Dead".
See the whole schedule below:
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Here's the schedule for the 2007 B-Movie Festival, set for Fri, Oct 26th, Sat Oct 27th & Sun, Oct 28th at The Palace Theatre; and Sat, Oct 27th at The Redhouse.
Also watch for bonus screenings in the Palace lobby during the festival.
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PALACE MOVIE THEATRE SCHEDULE FRI OCT 26TH THRU
SUN OCT 28TH
Fri PALACE 10/26
7:00 PM "Clay" - (Special Presentation of a CNY movie production written & directed by Festival Promoter Ron Bonk)
9:00 PM "Clay" Q&A, after party & Bfest Opening party
10:00 PM Doors close for the evening
Sat PALACE 10/27
Noon "Thicker Than Water: The Vampire Diaries Part 1" (Feature nominee 1)
1:30 PM "Clicker Clatter" (Short nominee 1)
1:35 PM "Time That Time Forgot, The" (Short nominee 2)
1:42 PM "My Name Is Wallace" (Special showing - Short)
2:00 PM "Little Documentary That Couldn’t, The" (Feature nominee 2)
3:20 PM "Zombie Love" (Short nominee 3)
4:00 PM "Summer School" (Feature nominee 3)
5:30 PM "Golden Age" (Short nominee 4)
6:00 PM "Trail of the Screaming Forehead" (Feature nominee 4)
7:30 PM "Ivory Bastards Against Extinction" (Short nominee 5)
8:00 PM "Plan 9 from Syracuse" (Special Presentation of a CNY produced documentary by Ryan Dacko)
10:00 PM "Werewolf in a Women's Prison" (Feature nominee 5)
11:30 PM "Twitch of the Def Nerve: The Movie" (Special Showing - Short)
Midnight "Zadoc… and the Nightmare Music Video: Bathory's Web" (Special showing, short, produced in CNY, CNY based band, directed by Ron Bonk)
12:05 AM "Clay" bonus showing featuring Alternative Soundtrack from CNY bands
Sun PALACE 10/28
1:00 PM "Super-Anon" (Special showing - Short)
1:10 PM "The Von" (Special showing - Short)
1:17 PM "Tranquil Heights - an existential thriller" (Special showing - Short)
1:23 PM "Blood of the Cross" (Special showing - Short)
1:35 PM "SPEAKEASY" (Special showing - Short)
1:49 PM "Order, The" (Special showing - Short)
1:54 PM "Hard Feelings" (Special showing - Short)
2:04 PM "Night of the Hell-Hamsters" (Special showing - Short)
2:20 PM "Happy Birthday to Me (Y QUE CUMPLAS MUCHOS MAS)" (Special showing - Short)
2:32 PM "Six Bullets" (Special showing - Short)
3:00 PM "Big Fish in Middlesex" (Special Presentation of the 2006 Bfest Best Movie Winner)
5:00 PM Awards Ceremony - we announce the winners for 2007!
7:00 PM 2007 Winner - special bonus presentation of the Best B-Movie Winner of 2007
8:30 PM 2007 Short Winner - special presentation of the Best Short winner of 2007)
9:00 PM "Rounding Home (aka Northern Lights)" (Special Showing - Feature - partial shot in CNY)
10:23 PM "Kegger, The" (Special showing - Short - directed by CNY native Phil Haney)
10:37 PM "Flush" (Special showing - Short)
11:00 PM "Lights, Camera, Dead…" (Special showing - feature)
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THE REDHOUSE SCHEDULE SAT OCT 27TH
Sat REDHOUSE 10/27
11:00 AM "Blood, Boobs & Beast" (Documentary Nominee 1)
12:15 PM "Behind the Mask" (Documentary Nominee 2)
1:45 PM "Really Pissed Off: The Making and Unmaking of a Film" (Documentary Nominee 3)
3:00 PM "Aids, Inc" (Documentary Nominee 4)
5:00 PM "Gulf War Syndrome-Killing Our Own" (Documentary Nominee 5)
8:00 PM "Brain Dead" (Special silent showing during the Redhouse Halloween Party)
9:30 PM "Mr Halloween" (Special silent showing during the Redhouse Halloween Party)
11:30 PM
"Twitch of the Def Nerve: The Movie" (Special silent showing during the
Redhouse Halloween Party)
BFest is sponsored in part by The Syracuse
New Times.
Thanks!
-Ron