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Maryland Film Festival 2009 (Bmore May 7-10)

onetetonetet 1,754 Posts
edited April 2009 in Announcements
Maryland Film Festival 2009 (our 11th annual) will take place May 7-10 in downtown Baltimore. We've begun announcing our line-up here:http://www.md-filmfest.com/films.cfm... with many more announcements coming soon, including our Opening and Closing Night programs. Each festival includes 40+ new feature films -- narrative, documentary, foreign, domestic, experimental/underground -- and 75+ new short films. All North American feature films are hosted by filmmakers, as are several of the foreign films. Filmmakers in attendance will include John Waters, Barry Levinson, Joe and Kris Swanberg, Ed Sanchez (Blair Witch Project), and dozens more. Additionally, each festival includes one favorite film chosen and presented by John Waters, a vintage 3-D film presented in beautiful two-projector 3-D, a silent film with live musical accompaniment, and a favorite film presented by non-filmmaker celebrity guest hosts (past guest-hosts have included Jonathan Richman, Branford Marsalis, and Will Oldham, and this year's host is again a musician, to be announced soon).The variety of films already annpounced is impressive: off the top of my head, we have films shot in Mexico, Rwanda, Australia, Haiti, South Korea, Senegal, Costa Rica, Japan, Egypt, Argentina, Slovakia, Spain, Nigeria, France, China, the UK ??? even the United States! We have documentaries about bug collectors, ???70s exploitation films, African pop stars, urban gardens, strongmen, teenage go-kart champions, visionary artists, imaginary countries, and invisible girlfriends! We have horror, drama, comedy, art cinema, underground film, even a sci-fi/western/musical! Strutters[/b] may be particularly interested in the documentaries Nollywood Babylon (about Lagos' straight-to-disc industry, one of the world's largest film industries), Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love, and Not Quite Hollywood (about 70s and 80s Australian "Ozploitation" films). We also have a new film by Shane Meadows of This Is England fame, and new titles by underground favorites Cory McAbee (American Astronaut) and Craig Baldwin (Sonic Outlaws), as well as a film starring a certain WIRE[/b] castmember.

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  • onetetonetet 1,754 Posts


    Full schedule with venues, dates, and showtimes now listed!

    More titles added, including NINA SIMONE: LA LEGENDE hosted by Ian MacKaye[/b] and LOVE SONGS hosted by John Waters[/b]!

    schedule: http://www.md-filmfest.com/schedule.cfm

    film guide with images, short descriptions for most films:
    http://www.md-filmfest.com/films.cfm
  • onetetonetet 1,754 Posts
    tickets now on sale for most screenings, including John Waters' annual pick (LOVE SONGS) and Opening Night, hosted by Bobcat Goldthwait!







  • onetetonetet 1,754 Posts
    Closing Night film = Hurt Locker w/ director Kathryn Bigelow [/b](Point Break, Strange Days) presenting

    also added for Sunday: Barry Levinson[/b]'s PoliWood, w/ Levinson and Matthew Modine [/b]presenting.

    Opening Night = shorts program w/ Bobcat Goldthwait[/b] hosting.

    Guest Hosts = Ian MacKaye[/b], John Waters[/b] and Laura Lippman[/b]

    Other filmmakers in attendance and presenting new work include Joe Swanberg, Ed Sanchez[/b] (of Blair Witch Project fame), Marshall Curry[/b] (director of previous acclaimed doc Street Fight), Kris Swanberg, Craig Baldwin, Cory McAbee[/b], and Ry Russo-Young[/b].

    International films[/b] screening include Blind Loves (Slovakian doc about blind couples), Munyurangabo (Rwandan film by Korean-American filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung in attendance), Greek Pete (gay-themed UK art film w/ director Andrew Haigh in attendance), Treeless Mountain (highly acclaimed S. Korean film), Daytime Drinking (uproarious S. Korean comedy), and Not Quite Hollywood (Australian doc about '70s "Ozpolitation" cinema).

    Also screening will be a vintage 3-D film[/b] (Inferno) and a silent film w/ live score by Alloy Orchestra[/b] (Man With a Movie Camera).
  • onetetonetet 1,754 Posts
    just added -- Agn??s Varda's Beaches of Agn??s!

    Festival starts one week from this Thursday.
  • onetetonetet 1,754 Posts
    last weekend before the festival.

    Read about all our foreign and foreign-shot films here:
    http://blog.md-filmfest.com/

    If you want tickets to the John Waters and/or Ian MacKaye screenings, act soon -- those are likely to sell out. same story for Opening and Closing Nights and Barry Levinson's PoliWood.
  • onetetonetet 1,754 Posts
    FYI, the French Embassy is hosting a wine tasting after John Waters' Friday night presentation of the French bisexual musical LOVE SONGS open to people who have a ticket to LOVE SONGS or an all-access pass.

    So for $10 ($8 student/senior) you get a movie, yux from John Waters before and after, and free wine.

    http://www.md-filmfest.com/films.cfm?id=214

  • onetetonetet 1,754 Posts
    Opening Night is tonight (Thursday 5/7, 8pm, MICA's Brown Center).

    Full schedule runs Friday through Sunday! Advance online ticket sales end tonight at 11:30 pm, but some tickets for all screenings will be on sale starting Friday morning at the festival box office (in the "tent village" across the street from our main venue, The Charles Theatre, 1711 N. Charles Street).
  • onetetonetet 1,754 Posts
    here's the back of onetet greeting John Waters:





    ...and Ian MacKaye:





    ...and a nice shot of Bobcat Goldthwait and JW:

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