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Save time in your schedule for workshops presented by professionals who are working in the movie/television business.  We’ll have the following:

Was It Good for You? A candid discussion between an actor and a director – Becky Smith and Nicholas Downs (Sat Aug 28 2010)

Making the Anti-Hollywood Micro Budget Film – John Putch (Sun Aug 29 2010)

The Writer’s Direction, One Scene from Script to Screen – Benjamin Busch (Sat Aug 28 2010)

VFX (visual effects) – Grasshorse Animation (date TBA)

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We have a special treat for kids of all ages on June 26, 2010, at 10:30 a.m. in the Iowa City Public Library.  A TALE OF TWO MOZZIES, an animated film about two mosquitoes who wage a war amongst the ants on the forest floor, is 75 minutes long with brilliant color, gentle humor, and lots of foot-stomping music.  An added treat for the children will be a favorite Danish candy known as Luscious Larvas, provided by the Nordic House of Berkeley, California.

Admission is free and open to all.  In Danish with English subtitles. Suitable for all ages. Presented in collaboration with the Danish Embassy and the Danish Film Institute.

Landlocked’s final deadline is extended to May 31, 2010.  All filmmakers and scriptwriters who enter or have already entered the competition will still know by July 1, 2010, of acceptance status.

Remember: we’re looking for the best indie films/videos in documentary, narrative, animation, and music video, as well as feature-length, unproduced scripts.

A new event this year for all attendees will be a Saturday morning networking breakfast.  We provide the breakfast and the space, and you get to meet and network with your fellow film artists and writers.  More details will be on the way soon.

Our VIP party will be in the same incredible space as the first three years of the festival – this time with live music.  It’s going to be another awesome party.

Thank you to all who have submitted already – the screening committee has been hard at work watching and reading entries.  There’s a lot of great movies and scripts out there!

We had a great time at the Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival a couple of weekends back. There were some SRO showings and big crowds there to celebrate movies with an Iowa connection.  Congratulations to CRIFF on its tenth annual festival!

Landlocked’s wonderful screening committee – about two dozen dedicated movie lovers – is in the midst of reviewing Landlocked’s 2010 competitive entries.  There is still time to submit.

We have some exciting indie movies to show you in August.  We can’t tell you all the details yet, but keep watching this space for more in the near future.

It’s great to see “The Crazies” doing so well at the box office and also in critical opinions. This is the biggest movie to come from Iowa since “The Bridges of Madison County” and “Field of Dreams.”  With excellent actors and a professional, though not especially high budget, team of filmmakers, they made a great movie with a true feel for a rural Iowa setting.

Landlocked’s creative director was there on set and cannot wait to get to the theater and see the footage that was being shot that day. Funny thing is, she’s busy with screening the newest entries into the 2010 film competition.

An important aspect of a film fest is the ability to show films and videos that the audience would otherwise never see.  Would never, in fact, even know of their existence.  Two recent examples of change and motivation brought about by films that were entered into Landlocked’s competition in its first three years:

Garbage Dreams, which motivated University of Iowa students to work harder at recycling. “Our group was motivated by a film called ‘Garbage Dreams,’ which the College of Public Health helped put on during the Landlocked Film Festival. It really increased awareness for the problems with excessive waste,” said Christensen, ECO Hawk vice president. “Afterwards, we felt empowered to do something.”

Pipeline, which became a learning tool for Iowa City educators whose classrooms include children originally from Chicago.  Interrupt the Pipeline, also by Flavian Prince, can be seen this Thursday at 1:00 pm in the Iowa City Public Library.  This is a collaboration with the Iowa City Human Rights Commission and is followed by a solution-oriented discussion.

The Danish Film Program at Landlocked 2009 has been nominated for an ICKY award.  The ICKYs are given by the Iowa Cultural Corridor Alliance for excellence and innovation in cultural programming.

It promises to be an evening of fun and entertainment.  Click for details.