You are a filmmaker. We are a film festival. Whaddyasay we get together and make this thing work? Please send us your features, comedies, dramas, documentaries, shorts, music videos, cartoons and slide show presentations. (Because, if someone sent us a slide show presentation, we would totally run that in the barn.)
The 9th annual Free Range Film Festival is officially calling for your entries. 2012 Submission Form
Send them to us at:
Free Range Film Festival
P.O. Box 56
Wrenshall, MN 55797.
And if you’ve got 10 bucks to donate to the cause, just slip that into your DVD case.
It’s not a bribe, UNLESS you specifically state in your cover letter that it is a bribe.
1) DRAGONSLAYER
Depressing and awesome.
2) DRIVE
Awesome and depressing.
3) HANNA
Just awesome.
4) THE ARTIST
I should get a dog in case I’m depressed.
5) CEDAR RAPIDS
I’m having John C. Reilly’s baby.
1) DRIVE
I knew walking out of the theater that nothing was going to top this for me. It was my favorite kind of movie: tense, dark, quiet and violent. Oh, and Ryan Gosling was dreamy.
2) X-MEN: FIRST CLASS
This seems a bit crazy to me when I see it in print. But when I think about what I loved most this year in movies, the obvious choice is Magneto hunting Nazis. Obviously.
3) MELANCHOLIA
I loved this movie so much, I continued to watch even though it made me seasick and I felt like I was going to puke for the last hour. You should see it.
4) SENNA
This movie was so good it almost made me want to become a fan of Formula 1 racing. Almost.
5) RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
My love of apes is what secures this in the top 5 for me. After all, you don’t see a movie called Rise of the Planet of the Polar Bears.
1) THE ARTIST
This movie had a dog, tap dancing, period costumes and the second-best mustache of 2011.
2) DRIVE
I finally understand that whole “Ryan Gosling” thing.
3) DRAGONSLAYER
One of the best parts of programming the Free Range Film Festival is finding movies that divide families and friends and plunge them into bitter arguments. This movie fulfilled that role beautifully.
4) TREE OF LIFE
Sometimes I judge movies on the way they would look inside the barn. And the 1950s look amazing inside a 100-year-old wooden structure.
5) HANNA
I put this one in partially because I’m imagining what a great double feature it would make with Drive. Both had great music, inventive chase scenes and amazing wardrobes [See the jacket in DRIVE and the turquoise short shorts in HANNA].
The Free Range Film Festival is featured in the Duluth News Tribune as a must see for July 2012. And we all know that you can believe everything you read in the paper.
A big thank you to Josh Carlon (and ALL our free range film makers!). Josh chose to nominate the Free Range Film Festival as a Minnesota Arts Highlight of 2011:
Minnesota Public Radio “Art Hounds”
Check out this trailer for WILD BILL’S RUN, a documentary we’ll be playing at the next fest.
Wild Bill’s Run – Teaser from Mike Scholtz on Vimeo.
The International Documentary Association (IDA) just announced its nominations for the 2011 IDA Documentary Awards and “Better This World” was named as one of five nominations for the best feature category.
We at the Free Range Film Festival loved this documentary and wish the filmmakers – Katie Galloway, Kelly Duane de la Vega, and the rest of their team – congratulations!
For more go to:
http://www.documentary.org
OR
http://betterthisworld.com
The weather may be less so.
If you’re interested in seeing some fairly fantastic short films, please join us at the barn on Friday, September 30 at 7pm for the Manhattan Short Film Festival. But we’re not going to lie. You might want to bring a jacket. And some mittens. And a hat. We’ll provide the coffee, cocoa and popcorn. And the movies. Mustn’t forget about the movies.
Don’t be fooled by the location-specific name of this event. The Manhattan Short Film Festival will be playing in the barn on Friday, September 30 at 7pm. The MSFF has a pretty good gimmick: They play the same 10 films in theaters (and barns) around the world at the same time (approximately). Then the whole world gets to vote on their favorite. Good films are guaranteed when votes are on the line!
Learn more about the films here: http://www.msfilmfest.com/finalists.html
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