| Friday |
| 1:00 |
Film Festival Kickoff – General Info
and The Top 10 Horror Films |
Hear what to
expect from the Film Festival & Track (events, guests, short
film/feature screenings). This is your starting place for 4 days of
film. Then be part of choosing the Top 10 Horror Films of all time with
the help of The Film Doctors. |
Matthew M. Foster,
Dr. Bob Blackwood, John L. Flynn, Hunter Cressall, Jeff Ello |
| 4:00 |
The CG question - Should You
Do it in Post? |
The benefits and pitfalls
associated with filmmaking and Computer Graphics. Discussion includes
physical vs virtual sets, props, effects, and the associated costs. It
could be the most important decision you make, so make it smart! |
Hunter Cressall, Jeff Ello |
| 7:00 |
Filmmaker Gathering:
Stories of Pain and Humor |
Actors disappearing. No
money. Police wondering what you're doing on the street at 2am. It's not
easy making films and our filmmakers have been through it all. Come hear
their painful and often funny stories and get to know the people who
make movies. |
|
| 8:30 |
Direct Your Own Damn Movie |
The man behind Troma leads
you into guerilla directing. Need to feed a crew on $4? Want to convince
your actress to do that nude scene? Lloyd & the beautiful Tromettes will
demonstrate the right way and the very, very wrong way. |
Lloyd Kaufman |
| 10:00 |
The Wild World of Ted V.
Mikels |
Documentary filmmaker Kevin
Sean Michaels takes us into The Wild World of Ted V. Mikels, the
grindhouse director behind Blood Orgy of the She Devils, The Corpse
Grinders, and The Astro-Zombies, who lived in a castle surrounded by
women. Clips.. |
Kevin Sean Michaels |
| 12:00 |
Cult Cinema: Slashers,
Splatter, and Rednecks, Oh My! |
Some call it grindhouse or
exploitation. We call it fun and we'll be digging in with both bloody
claws. This is a no-holds-barred discussion so state, or yell, your
thoughts. Clips. Starts at Midnight. |
|
|
Saturday |
| 2:30 |
Filming a Feature on a
Micro-Budget |
The filmmakers of the horror
comedy Red Victoria and the apocalyptic 20 Years
After discuss how to get great shots, frightening monsters,
destroyed cites, and quality acting on a tiny budget. |
Susannah Torres, Arianne
Martin, Jim Torres, Edward Landers, Anthony Brownrigg |
| 4:00 |
Spectacular Effects in Film |
Floating in space,
explosions, monsters attacking, replicating people. How do they do that,
and without a Hollywood budget? Our attending filmmakers will show what
they've done, and explain how. Includes a screening of the
effects-filled short, Outsource |
|
| 5:30 |
Basic Cinematography –
Going From YouTube to Cinema. |
An invaluable seminar for
anyone who wants to know the basics. Covers framing for shots, the basic
theory of composition, what "the line" is and what happens when it's
crossed, and how to light a scene. |
Hunter Cressall |
| 8:30 |
Short Film – What, Why, and
How? |
We'll look over this year's
field of short films and hear from the filmmakers on their trials and
tribulations. |
|
| 12:00 |
Cult Cinema: Sin and Skin |
'70s grindhouse films
weren't shy about skin. Was it junk, witty but empty, or sometimes
brilliant. We'll argue over the classics & trash, and examine the
subgenres, including WIP, Cat III, Nunsploitation, and good girl. Clips.
Starts at Midnight. |
|
|
Sunday |
| 11:30 |
Blade Runner Revisited |
Join Edward James Olmos &
James Hong for a look back at one of the genres most iconic films. |
Edward James Olmos, James Hong |
| 11:30 |
Thoughts of a Low Budget
Filmmaker |
Atlanta filmmaker Matt
Green will discuss ways to stretch the filmmaking dollar as he gives you
insight into his 25 years of low budget filmmaking. |
Matt Green |
| 4:00 |
Short Film Horror, Horror,
Suspense, and More Horror |
Psychos with axes,
vampires, zombies, ghosts, devils. Blood, decapitation, death, and fear.
Our filmmakers have seen them all, and presented them all. They'll
discuss the why and how of horror and suspense cinema. |
|
| 12:00 |
Cult Cinema: Cannibals,
Ghouls, & Zombies, Oh My! |
Cannibals, zombies, and
ghouls break the oldest taboo: You don't eat your brother. Horror cinema
has feasted on this for years in the goriest, most shocking ways
imaginable. Is it art? Porn? We'll discuss. Clips. Starts at Midnight. |
|
|
Monday |
| 10:00 |
Short Film Festival:
Filmmaker Discussion |
Everyone is invited to our
group discussion of short filmmaking. We’ll hear funny and painful
production stories, swap info, watch some clips and full shorts, and
generally chat about short film. |
festival
filmmakers |
| 11:30 |
The Top 10 Horror Film of
All Time as Chosen By D*C Attendees |
We've been polling you for
your choices for the Top Horror Films, and now our 3 critics will
announce the results and lead a discussion of these must-see genre
movies. |
Dr. Bob Blackwood, Dr. John
L. Flynn, Matthew M. Foster |
| 1:00 |
Film Festival: 2008
Awards Ceremony |
Come see who are the
winners of the 2008 Dragon*Con Independent Short Film Festival. |
|
| 2:30 |
HD Now! |
Panel discusses the latest
technologies, options, and directions of HD production. Topics include
HD formats, cameras from Red, Canon and others, Blu-Ray, as well as tips
for filmmakers migrating to HD technologies. |
Hunter Cressall, Jeff Ello |
| 4:00 |
Film Festival Closing:
What's next for our filmmakers and wrap-up |
What went right? What went
wrong? What was just weird? Our director will wrap-up another year and
filmmakers will let us know what's next for them, and we'll leave enough
time for the traditional end-of-fest beer. |
Matthew M. Foster and the
festival filmmakers |
The
place to be for filmmakers and film-lovers