maconfilmfestival
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
5th Annual Macon Film Festival (MaGa) Feb 18 - 21: A weekend filled with special screenings, celebrity guests and hundreds of indie films! Special Screenings
Thursday, February 18th Cox Capitol Theatre ∑ 2:00pm – 3:45pm: Special Screening “The Candidate” with Illeana Douglas naming the Melvyn Douglas Best in Show Award ∑ 4:00pm – 7:15pm: MaGa Submission Screenings ∑ 7:45pm – 10:00pm: Special Screening “Easy to Assemble” followed by Q&A with actress Illeana Douglas ∑ 10:30pm – TBA: Festival After Party: Dolce Vita Café & Bar
Douglass Theatre ∑ 4:00pm – 7:45pm: MaGa Submission Screenings
Macon Marriott City Center ∑ 9:00am – 10:00pm: MaGa Submission Screenings
Friday, February 19th Cox Capitol Theatre ∑ 11:30am – Noon: Filmmaker Luncheon ∑ Noon – 2:45pm: Special Screening “An American Opera” followed by Q&A with director Tom McPhee ∑ 3:00pm – 8:45pm: MaGa Submission Screenings ∑ 9:00pm – 11:00pm: Special Screening “Stuck!” followed by Q&A with director Steve Balderson ∑ 11:00pm – TBA: Festival After Party: Sochi Gallery
Douglass Theatre ∑ 1:15pm – 9:00pm: MaGa Submission Screenings
Macon Marriott City Center ∑ 9:15am – 10:00pm: MaGa Submission Screenings
Saturday, February 20th Cox Capitol Theatre ∑ 10:00am – 7:45pm: MaGa Submission Screenings ∑ 8:15pm – 11:00pm: Special Screening “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” followed by Q&A with actor Jack McBrayer ∑ 11:00pm – TBA: Festival After Party: Bright Blue Sky Production Offices
Douglass Theatre ∑ 10:00am – 8:00pm: MaGa Submission Screenings
Macon Marriott City Center
∑ 9:30am – 11:15pm: MaGa Submission Screenings
Sunday, February 21st Cox Capitol Theatre
Thursday, Feb 18 7:45p.m. at the Capitol ‘Easy to Assemble’ followed by Q&A with Illeanna Douglas
Friday, Feb 19 9:00p.m. at the Capitol ‘Stuck’ followed by Q&A with director Steve Balderson
Sunday, Feb 21 7:30p.m. at the Capitol ‘That Evening Sun’ a new film by Ray McKinnon
Illeana Douglas, playing herself, announces in an early episode of the show she created and wrote for the emerging Web series market: “I decided to turn down the bad TV movie and live my life as a bad TV movie instead.” So she’s taken a job at the Burbank Ikea. The show, which launched last year, finds comedy in the small and large humiliations of the acting life, especially after 40. Her attempt to leave Hollywood behind is constantly thwarted by show-biz types like her friend Justine Bateman, who shows up at the store and decides to host a talk show there, with Jeff Goldblum as the first guest. The scripted show is branded entertainment — but includes a healthy dose of satire of Ikea’s can-do, relentlessly cheerful aesthetic and its meatball- and lingonberry-saturated Swedishness. What started out as an online entertainment experiment for Douglas turned into an internet sensation overnight, with over 250,000 YouTube views during its first week. The show was then picked up by CBS for its website TV.com and is now in its second season.
Filmmaker Steve Balderson debuts his latest independent film, “Stuck!” which was filmed in Macon in the Spring of 2009 and stars many Macon mainstays on Friday, February 19, at 9 p.m. Balderson will be a special guest of the festival and he will conduct a filmmaking workshop that is free and open to the public. "I'm very thrilled to have the Georgia premiere of 'Stuck!' in Macon,” says Balderson. “There are so many local people involved - from Macon actors to local folks who donated their time and hospitality. I'm excited for them to see it on the big screen.” Balderson brought his crew to town last spring to film “Stuck!” along with a cast that includes Karen Black, Jane Wiedlin (of The GoGo’s), Pleasant Gehman, and John Waters’ staple star, Mink Stole. The bulk of the cast, though, is comprised of dozens of Central Georgia actors familiar to theatre-goers, including actress September Carter as the mother of the main character.
The Macon Film Festival will close the 2010 festival with the Macon premiere of “That Evening Sun,” the award-winning film starring Macon-native Carrie Preston with Hal Holbrook, Dixie Carter, and Ray McKinnon, at 7:30 p.m., following the Festival awards ceremony at 7 p.m. Based on a short story by William Gay, “That Evening Sun” chronicles the late-in-life conflict of Abner Meecham, an elderly farmer who leaves his retirement home to return to his family farm in Tennessee only to realize his city slicker son has rented it to a couple and their daughter. This is southern gothic at its very best. The film has already racked up 10 awards during its circuit including a Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble cast at the SXSW Film Festival; Atlanta Film Festival and Newport International Film Festival and nominations for Best Supporting Actor and Actress for Mia Wasikowska and Ray McKinnon at the Independent Spirit Awards.
Workshop Schedule
Six free workshops for visiting filmmakers, college students, and the general public on Mercer’s Campus
Friday, Feb. 19 - Branded Entertainment & New Media with Producer Dominik Rausch & Actress/Producer Illeana Douglas 10 - 11: 30 a.m. - Rm 201, Art History Lecture Rm, Mercer Friday, Feb. 19 - Documenting Disaster with Tom McPhee 1:30 - 2:45 at the Cox Capitol Theatre, following the screening of his award winning documentary, "An American Opera," about the rescuing of animals after Hurricane Katrina Saturday, Feb. 20 - Screenwriting 101 with Michael Buchanan & Jason Winn. 10 - 11:30 a.m. Choir Rm in Music Bldg, Mercer
∑ 2:00pm – 6:45pm: MaGa Submission Screenings ∑ 7:15pm – 7:30pm: Awards Ceremony ∑ 7:30pm – 9:00pm: Special Screening “That Evening Sun”
Saturday, Feb. 20 - Acting for Stage and Screen with Actress Illeana Douglas. Noon - 1:30 p.m. Choir Rm in Music Bldg, Mercer
Douglass Theatre
Saturday, Feb. 20 - TV Comedy Writing with Rob Fried 2 - 3:30 p.m. & Choir Rm in Music Bldg, Mercer
∑ 9:00am – 7:15pm: MaGa Submission Screenings
Macon Marriott City Center ∑ 9:00am – 7:15pm: MaGa Submission Screenings
20 February 11 - 24, 2010
For more info or to register email: cindy@maconfilmfestival.com or in person at the Capitol Box Office.
Sunday, Feb. 21 - Renegade Filmmaking with Director/Producer Steve Balderson Noon - 1:30 p.m. - Choir Rm in Music Bldg, Mercer