Who, What, When, Where
All festival events take place in the Van Duzer Theatre on the HSU campus, and all events are free for students and just $5 for everyone else! Proceeds benefit next year's nonprofit festival.
SUNDAY, April 19: Local Filmmakers Night
5:30 PM: Screenings of locally made short films
With food by Bless My Soul goddess Marie Janisse and Cassaros Catering, plus local brews and wines for sale. Food and libations at 5:30 PM, films at 7:00. Co-sponsored by the Humboldt County Film Commission.
MONDAY, April 20: Dark Side of the Rainbow
8:30 PM: The perfect way to celebrate 4/20!
The Wizard of Oz soundtrack is replaced with Pink Floyd's album Dark Side of the Moon, which syncs up uncannily to Dorothy's adventure in Oz. Whoa, trippy...
WEDNESDAY, April 22: Experimental & Animation Day
12:00 PM: Judges' Workshop with Damon Packard
"The most visionary filmmaker of his generation." -PopMatters
"Hilariously freaked-out and relentlessly confrontational." - FilmComment
Packard will be giving a presentation on "The struggle of the independent filmmaker."
1:00 PM: Screening of Packard's film Space Disco One, followed by some of his shorts, including cult classic Dawn of an Evil Millennium and Apple, a no-budget Elven fantasy.
"[Space Disco One] is a darkly comic vision, a late seventies utopia of rollerblades, spaceships and disco balls that gives way to a wilfully subversive worldview of a bleak Orwellian future where pop culture and dietary habits are in terminal decline." - LondonArt
Competitive festival screenings of the finalists in the Experimental and Animation film categories. There will be a 15 minute intermission before the second half of screenings, with food and beverages for sale.
  
THURSDAY, April 23rd: Documentary Day
12:00 PM: Judge's Workshop with Tom McPhee
Tom McPhee, multiple award-winning filmmaker and creator of the traveling film festival FLIXtour, will be giving a lecture on "How to distribute your movie once it's shot.""
2:00 PM: Screening of An American Opera: The Greatest Pet Rescue Ever
Alternately heart-wrenching and heart-warming, Tom McPhee's documentary An American Opera is the story of the pet owners of New Orleans who were forced to evacuate after Hurricane Katrina without their beloved pets, and the volunteers who came from all over the world to help them. This film has won multiple awards at festivals across the country. We will be screening a 60-minute version.
Competitive festival screenings of the finalists in the Documentary film category. There will be a 15 minute intermission before the second half of screenings, with food and beverages for sale.
  
FRIDAY, April 24th: Narrative Day
12:00 PM: Judge's Workshop with Brian O'Halloran
Best known as "Dante," the goateed protagonist in CLERKS, Brian O'Halloran has uttered some unforgettable lines which many of us have memorized and repeated ad nauseam. O'Halloran has also appeared in Smith's follow-ups Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and Vulgar.
1:00 PM: screening of Brutal Massacre: A Comedy
O'Halloran's latest film, Brutal Massacre: A Comedy is a mockumentary about a washed-up horror filmmaker attempting to redeem himself with one last picture, while a documentary crew follows him around, recording his struggles. Described by Fangoria as "A Spinal Tap for horror." O'Halloran will be present for a Q & A after the feature.
Competitive festival screenings of the finalists in the Narrative (fiction) film category. There will be a 15 minute intermission before the second half of screenings, with food and beverages for sale.
  
SATURDAY, April 25th: Best of the Fest
7:00 PM: BEST OF THE FEST NIGHT
The judges' picks for best film in the Experimental, Animation, Documentary, and Narrative categories will be screened again, as well as the Audience Choice Award winner and the Banana Slug Surrealism Award winner. Guest judges Brian O'Halloran, Tom McPhee, and Damon Packard will be present.
In Douglas Adams' science fiction masterpiece THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, the number 42 turns out to be the answer to "the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything." In celebration of our 42nd anniversary, we particularly sought films this year that ask meaningful questions.
"The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases...For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question How can we eat? the second by the question Why do we eat? and the third by the question Where shall we have lunch?"
-From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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