Screening the top ten movies for the Shoot Out 24 Hour Film Festival and award ceremony!
Date/Time: October 12, 2008, 1:00 pm Door Time: 12:00 pm Audience: All Ages Seating: All Seated GA Ticket Availability: Yes General Admission: $13.00
Mission Statement:To provide cultural education to the public and to promote, advance and develop the art of filmmaking by organizing and operating nonprofit film festivals that (i) provide opportunities for amateur and professional filmmakers to further their knowledge and experience in the art of filmmaking, and (ii) provide a unique setting for the community to experience the filmmakers’ work and to share in the excitement and artistry of filmmaking.
History:The Shoot Out is a unique, internationally promoted 24 hour filmmaking festival that has captured the imagination of young filmmakers and achieved outstanding results since the initial event was launched in Newcastle, Australia in 1998. Now in our fifth amazing year in the United States, The Shoot Out Boulder, will challenge participants to make a film in 24 hours, using in-camera editing only. In October 2004, 74 teams, made up of students, families and professionals, took up the challenge one Friday night to each create a seven-minute short film in just 24 hours. An incredible 66 teams made it through the grueling 24-hour challenge, and turned in their videotape by the deadline on Saturday night. Saturday night 30 volunteer preliminary judges became teams of two and three and watched those 66 seven-minute films to narrow the field to the top ten by Sunday afternoon. Sunday evening our gala screening exhibited those top ten films (plus the best 17 & under category film) to a packed house at the historic Boulder Theater. At that exciting event twelve entertainment industry professionals from Colorado watched the top ten films with the enthusiastic Boulder audience, and picked the top artists in their categories, including acting, writing, music and direction, and, of course, the best overall film.
"Fast filmmaking is an entirely new category of filmmaking, and is not just limited to professionals, but open to everyone, from families to college students to middle schoolers…This event is the real thing, in your own backyard, you can actually participate yourself, and walk home with the main prize."
Saturday, November 1- with Paper Bird & Dust on the Breakers
doors 8:00pm, show 9:00pm
The times have finally caught up with acclaimed Denver quartet DeVotchKa. Not long ago when the band unloaded their instruments - a violin, a tuba and an accordion, among others - into a rock club, they were told they must be in the wrong place.
They created music that was Grammy nominated (DeVotchKa created the soundtrack for the indie smash Oscar winning film Little Miss Sunshine) without the benefit of a huge promotion team or runaway budget, instead relying only on their own efforts by self-releasing their records. And they crafted gems of songs by mixing a beautiful blend of Eastern European bohemia, American prairie rock and distinctive indie and called it pop, rather than world, music.
Now, the band is au courant, poised to shine on with their Anti- Records debutA Mad and Faithful Telling. From the cinematic richness of "Transliterator" to the modern pop experiment of "The Clockwise Witness," to the soaring and wrenching "Undone," DeVotchKa have produced a career-defining record and the world is listening.
On Sale Friday, September 19
October 31: GA / 21+ / $32.50
November 1: GA / All Ages / $32.50
For more information please contact Sarah Coffield @ (303) 998-9412.
Tickets are on sale now at The Boulder Theater Box Office. Call (303) 786-7030 for tickets by phone.
The times have finally caught up with acclaimed Denver quartet DeVotchKa. Not long ago when the band unloaded their instruments - a violin, a tuba and an accordion, among others - into a rock club, they were told they must be in the wrong place.