BoomFest 2013 Festival Program Guide

BOOMTOWN Film & Music Festival 2013

Features

The Exquisite Corpse Project

Playing with SoŌballs

(USA, 85 min, 2012) Director: Ben Popik 02/22 9PM – Dishman Art Museum 02/23 11AM – Dishman Art Museum

(USA, 80 min, 2012) Director: Bryan Gay 02/23 10AM – Spindletop Gladys City

A first-of-its-kind comedy about five writers who are challenged to each write fiŌeen minutes of a movie aŌer having read only the previous five pages of the script.

In the tradiƟon of “Spinal Tap” and “Best In Show” Playing With SoŌballs is truly a hilarious representaƟon of the world of modern men playing games on week nights while their wives relax at home. Bryan Gay (director) set out to capture the true spirit of baseball/soŌball and ended up with a truly spontaneous saƟre.

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Features

Hiding in Plain Sight

Texas Filmmakers Showcase

(USA, 89 min, 2012) Director: M. Legend Brown 02/23 4PM – Spindletop Gladys City

02/23 1PM – Dishman Art Museum 02/23 6PM – Spindletop Gladys City

What happens when resources run out, unemployment is denied, and savings accounts are depleted? Darius and Josephine Blackmon find themselves living in their car with two young children. Kevin Allen, a prominent school teacher, feels that he is making a difference by helping parents keep their children in school with government vouchers, filling in were the paychecks stop. Darius and his family try to keep up appearances during the day and stay out of sight at night, all while holding on to one another in a hidden America. What happens when the two mens' lives cross?

The Texas Filmmakers Showcase is an annual event sponsored by the Houston Film Commission to select the best films produced in Texas or by a current Texas resident under 40 minutes.

Cinnamon (Aus n, 15 min) Timothy Edwards Into the South ( Aus n, 25 min) Micah Robert Barber Me roso (San Antonio, 9 min) Will Shipley Once it Started It Could Not End Otherwise (Galveston, 7min) Kelly Sears The Order of Things (Houston, 13 min) Chris Spisak The Whale (Denton, 13 min) - Jaime Chapin Z and Beau (Aus n, 12 min) - Carlyn Hudson

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Film & Music Festival 2013

6:00-7:00 7:00-8:00 8:00-9:00 9:00-10:00 10:00-11:00 11:00-12:00AM 12:00-’Til

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2012 TEQUILA ROK

GLADYS CITY

DISHMAN ART MUSEUM

Opening Ceremony/ Experimental & Music Shorts

Narrative Shorts 48 Hour Video Race Screening / Film Awards Ceremony

Crystal Cloud

The Exquisite Corpse Project

Quasar Native America Driver Friendly Hello Chief

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KAMPUS KORNER

BOOMTOWN Film & Music Festival 2013

Experimental & Music Experimental & Music Shorts 02/22 6PM – Dishman Art Museum 02/23 12PM – Spindletop Gladys City

Aliena on – (Spain, 4 min, animated) The Animated life of characters that fight to demolish their existence´s walls, is a front to a city that contemplates them, but specially those which delimit the interior of their heads, of their illusions.

Aliena on

Meet Me in San Marcos – (USA, 4min) This music video for the Yella Bellies' original song "Meet Me In San Marcos"

their creepy song "Goblin C*ck" as an homage to Danzig. And also for fun.

School Shoo ng: The Musical, (USA, 10 min) Jon is the math teacher and guidance counselor at Gruger high school,. His mo o "every problem has one simple cause and a solu on" is put to Souls – (USA, 4 min) Have you ever heard it? The knocks and the the test when a student named Jason opens fire rustling in the old building. The empty one. The at school. old one. You shook your head, it's nothing. But if ever they could have possibly been souls, beings, Luminaris (Argen na, 6min) living shadows, something more than the wind In a world controlled and med by light, an through the hallway, what more likely place than ordinary man has a plan that could change the the home of art. natural order of things.

Pa' Ilegar a Tu Lado “To Arrive by Your Side” – (Spain, 5 min) Some mes you need to walk away from someone to be closer to them.

Share – 4 min, animated Goblin C*ck – (USA, 2 min) Now defunct local punk group Cussins' made this video for

48 Hour Video Race Screening 02/22 8PM – Dishman Art Museum 02/23 10AM – Dishman Art Museum Here are the entries from our 3rd Annual Video Race. We had eight teams that finished the race this year. They had 48 hours to write, shoot, and edit these films each with different genres and sub genres.

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Barelands

Crystal Cloud

Driver Friendly

Dylan James Meaux

BARELANDS is the sound of heartache, smoothed out through the strings of an old guitar.

Just look towards the clouds and you will find what you seek.

DRIVER FRIENDLY is ready to share their melodic, high energy songs with the world!

DYLAN "Connects with not only your mind but also your heart and soul."

Saturday, February 23 Spindletop Gladys City 3:30-4:15PM

Friday, February 22 Tequila ROk 8:45 - 9:15PM

Friday, February 22 Tequila Rok 11:15PM - 12AM

Saturday, February 23 Spindletop Gladys City 5:50 - 6:35PM

Greg Jr.

Hello Chief

Hitchhikers

Jenny & the Reincarnation

Hitchhikers is a collec ve of friends from different musical backgrounds coming together to create something real and organic for themselves

Yes, Universe, We Exist!

A man of many bands presents his solo perfomance.

Saturday, February 23 2:50PM - 3:20PM

Friday, February 22 Tequila Rok 12:15 - 1:30AM

Saturday, February 23 Kampus Korner (aŌer party) 9:15 - 9:45PM

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Saturday, February 23 Kampus Korner (aŌer party) 12:20 - 1:30AM

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Native America

Octopoodle

A creaƟve outlet made of thriŌ store keyboards, craigslisted tape recorders, and whatever cobbledtogether noisemakers are available.

Octopoodle can make the ground shake and your body move with their frenzied blend of hard-pop-pedal-heavy tunes.

Friday, February 22 Tequila Rok 10:15 - 11PM

Saturday, February 23 Kampus Korner (aŌer party) 10:40 - 11:10PM

Silas Feemster

Sun and Shadow

Such is an old soul as Silas Feemster his music speaks the language of history's past.

Two poets, singers, and musicians have joined forces for the sake of creaƟve musical wonder!!

Saturday, February 23 Spindletop Gladys City 2 - 2:40PM

Saturday, February 23 Spindletop Gladys City 6:45 - 7:30PM

Quasar Quasar is the product of 7 years of musical experimentaƟon and pracƟce. From Animal CollecƟve to James Brown, not a single sound is leŌ out.

Friday, February 22 Tequila Rok 9:30-10PM

Sharks From Space From the ghost of a local venue we resurrect Sharks From Space!

Saturday, February 23 Kampus Korner (aŌer party) 11:25 PM to 12:05 AM

Too Heavy Yellabellies Yella Bellies sounds like Boxes the spirit of a sweet Beaumont hunkster swamp punks Too Heavy Boxes showed their teeth less than a year ago, and they've been giving you what's for ever since.

Saturday, February 23 Kampus Korner (aŌer party) 10 - 10:25PM

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soul trying to reach their mournful sister, and feels like the rebirth of a forgoƩen Ɵme in American Folk Music.

Saturday, February 23 Spindletop Gladys City 7:45 - 8:30PM

BOOMTOWN Film & Music Festival 2013

Film Workshop Saturday, February 23, Spindletop Gladys City 11:00AM – Wri ng 1:00PM – Shoo ng 4:00PM - Edi ng For the first me ever, a endees of the 2013 Boomtown Film and Music Fes val will learn about no budget filmmaking firsthand by par cipa ng in a one day indie crash course.

Vendors

Veteran filmmakers lead the group in wri ng, shoo ng and edi ng a short film on loca on at Gladys City during the fes val itself (Saturday, Around 30 different local vendors set up at the Spindletop Gladys City Boomtown Museum February 23). venue on Saturday, February 23rd. Everything The workshop is split into three parts: Screen- from clothes, t-shirts, jewelry, handmade wares, wri ng at 11 am, Shoo ng Techniques at 1 pm, and artwork. Toyland Combat Vehicles is showand Digital Edi ng at 4 pm. The finished product casing a military Hummer and machine gun is screened that night before 'Pictures of Super- simulators used in a handful of films! heroes' at 8 pm.

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