Hookers, Rednecks and Women with Balls at Bare Bones S2S Film Festival

2007 Bare Bones Script 2 Screen Film Festival

HOOKERS Screening Saturday, October 6, 2007 at 9:00pm

Film Festival Wednesdays starts off with the 2007 Bare Bones Script 2 Screen International Film Festival. This event began today and runs through Sunday, October 7, 2007. It is taking place in Tulsa, Oklahoma and features a healthy (and maybe unhealthy, depending on what you go to see with your children) mixture of short movies, conferences and feature films. Events at the McKinley Elementary School and Glenpool High School today will help to start the entertainment off right by including young people in these festivities. This year’s lineup includes PENDULUM, a short film about maternal depression. If you are a mother or know women with children, this would be a good film to see.

2007 Bare Bones Script 2 Screen Film Festival
FORFEIT Screening Friday, October 5, 2007 at 9:30pm

This film has been categorized on the film festival website as a tragedy. Therefore, it would be safe to expect a dramatic story. If you are traveling with teen boys and are looking for something that is less of a chick flick, FORFEIT may be more suitable. Judging by the posters and storylines, PENDULUM and FORFEIT appear to be worth checking out at the 2007 Bare Bones Script 2 Screen International Film Festival. The comedy film HOT FLASH HANNAH seems to be something that will deliver many laughs for both male and female movie fans.

There are over 30 films being screening at this film festival. Therefore, you will surely find something entertaining, if not a dozen films. There is also a music video category, which has always proved to be worth watching. These are entertaining and sometimes very humorous. The lengthy short film HOOKERS will be screening at this film festival as well. It was in production during last year, so it should be exciting to see the end result.

HOOKERS has received lots of buzz among the Oklahoma film community and throughout the country for months. While you may be thinking that this film is a sentimental drama that will last forever until it makes you cry or vomit, think again. HOOKERS is a comedy film. The description states that a young housewife needs some hookers to help her out in a jam. That sounds like something straight off of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, so it should be very entertaining. This is especially since the average citizen wouldn’t seek help from hookers in real life. What situation would cause someone to need hookers for help? You have to go and see the movie to find out!

Many Film Events features more entertainment than movies and the 2007 Bare Bones Script 2 Screen International Film Festival is among them. Several musicians and artists will be performing including Janet Mason, BlackBottom Boyz, and Ronnie Dean. Comedian, Susan Dale will also be sharing some great jokes to add to the laughs from this film festival’s lineup of movies.

Today was just the beginning, as the fun officially kicks off tomorrow. A VIP Reception takes place tomorrow on the 4th, with a special focus on today’s youth. This is one of the many wonderful aspects of the Bare Bones Script 2 Screen International Film Festival. Young filmmakers are everywhere and should be supported, as they also create great films. An episodic TV Series titled “The Russian Redneck” seems like it will be likable. This series will also be screening at the 2007 Bare Bones Script 2 Screen International Film Festival.

The schedule of events ticket information and film screenings can be found at the Bare Bones Script 2 Screen International Film Festival website. Check out some cool movies and support your local independent filmmakers!

2007 Bare Bones Script 2 Screen International Film Festival
October 3-7, 2007
Tulsa, Oklahoma
http://www.script2screenfilmfestival.com/
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10 Facts you need to know about Film Festival Wednesdays

• “Film Festival Wednesdays” is one of the latest installments to an entertaining Madlab Post series.

• It focuses on news, schedules, special events and fun entertainment from the film festival circuit.

• This will allow you to find out about what is happening at film festivals in or near your area.
  

• Film festival news does not only apply to residents of any given state or country.
  

• The previous point means that you can still check out great independent films while on vacation or visiting friends and relatives as long as there is a film festival event nearby.
  

• No man, woman, teenager or child has a valid excuse for missing out on great independent films now that Film Festival Wednesdays is in effect. You can no longer make an excuse that there is nothing going on in your town anymore.
  

• The information provided will add more organization and reliability to the Madlab Post and help to support other filmmakers and their fascinating works.

• This means that all film festival related news will only be posted on Wednesdays, unless otherwise noted. Special news that is worth mentioning any other time will be the only exception.

• Film Festival Wednesdays was created to provide enough information for movie fans interested in supporting and checking out independent films in the midst of their adventures in the land of many major Hollywood box office hits and even more big budget disappointments.
  

• After receiving some questions and notices from online associates, it is refreshing to know that many people are certainly searching for more independent films to check out.

  If you have any questions or want to know about a film festival or screening in your area, leave a comment below. ALSO, if you have been to a single movie screening or film festival, what was your experience? What films did you watch?

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Short Film Credits and HaydenFilms Online Film Festival

Before watching and voting on one of the films in the HaydenFilms Online Film Festival, you will be required to register in order to do either of the two. After that, you can browse through a wide selection of independent film treats that range from the darkest film noir piece to the wildest comedic animation. I have been delighted to see a few very interesting shorts, including a nice claymation (or animation....hey, I'm not familiar with the differences of that genre)entitled, "Plip & Plop". Yes, it may be more suited for children's viewing. However the short's message deals with water preservation which is a valuable lesson for everyone, adults included. Plip & Plop is one of my favorite films in the online festival, among others which include "Take Four", a film that has been screened and won many awards at festivals across the country and "The Meatrix II Revolting", an animated short that deals with dairy factories and the unhealthy conditions that animals suffer. I especially enjoyed the way the soundtrack followed the multiple stories that were combined in Take Four as well as the warm image. The scene with the lady and her boyfriend is great!

I have seen quite a few shorts and while watching the various stories and how they come to pass, I have become somewhat bored with the thing that we like to call "Open Title Sequence". We choose to make short films instead of features for a reason.... they are short. It takes a short period of time to write, a short period of time to shoot and a short period of time to edit. Therefore, isn't it only right that it takes viewers a short time to watch the film and understand the story? I have actually stopped watching some films because I became exhausted within the first 3 minutes of credits rolling over the screen. When deciding to make and exhibit a short film, here is a thought....cut the damn title sequence! It is a short story, no one needs to know the name of every cast and crew member who worked on the movie. Save that for the festival screening or make a special version, where everyone and their imaginary friend is showered with thanks and 15 seconds of "title fame".

This is especially important for filmmakers who exhibit their shorts on the internet. News editors and analysts have made us all aware that internet audiences have short attention spans. The popularity of many online films and videos make it evident. In knowing that, why would one make a short and start it off with titles that keep rolling and rolling before and after the title of the film itself? Doing so only decreases the chances of more people viewing your film in it's entirety. As a filmmaker and a viewer of online videos, I find it very boring and frustrating to sit through a movie and still not know what is going on after 3 minutes.

3 minutes is a very long time when it comes to the internet. Start the story already! Show the title of the film and move on. Now, if you are still taking 1 minute to scroll the film's title across the screen, in slow motion and another minute to fade it, forget the opening title altogether. Everyone already knows the title of it most of the time because it's in the block that you fill in on youtube or myspace or the video site that you have chosen to host your film . It's called "Title of Film" or something in relation to that. If you are showing a short film on your own site, then the name of the film is pretty obvious, since it's probably the same name of the url or the link to the short.

You don't have to skip the title of the film completely. You can show it at the end of the film with a few seconds for other credits, if necessary. The important thing is that you dont cause a viewer to stop watching your film before it even starts, due to boredom from watching titles and meaningless b-roll footage for 3 minutes. Filmmakers do an injustice to a short film by making a lengthy opening title sequence. Start the movie, keep it going and move on to the end.