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As far as we can tell, at least 70 film artists, scriptwriters, actors, etc., etc. will be at the fourth annual Landlocked. We’ve set up networking opportunities as well as learning opportunities. Check out the workshops and panels, just for starters. These are open to anyone in the general public who takes an interest in film.

WORKSHOPS

PANELS

Just finished re-watching Play On and it’s even more fun the second time. This is a great little sports story with heart and soul. A selfish Scottish pro rugby player is kicked out, goes to Kansas City, and learns some humility by playing with a ragtag team called the Wanderers. He learns some tough lessons and makes new friends for life. Plus the game scenes are all great.  This is the kind of film that a film fest is fortunate to have.

Play On will screen in the Englert on Saturday, August 28, 2010, at 4:00 pm.  We’re expecting director David Story to be there.  Don’t miss it!

We’re getting to do lots of radio shows, we’re preparing our commercial for television (it’ll be a real eye-popper), we’re putting the printed program together… Meanwhile you can enjoy a radio interview for Talk of Iowa where Will Valet of Hardacre and Amy Elliott, director of World’s Largest, as well as Mary Blackwood of Landlocked, discuss the milieu of film festivals.

Talk of Iowa

Wow, that was tough. It’s amazing how much effort, thought and time go into creating a feasible schedule for a film festival. The trick is to juggle up to six venues for events and screenings, to balance narratives against documentaries, to accommodate the travel itineraries of visiting filmmakers, and to (try to) make sure that a person can see every single movie if they so choose.  To make that final point work, we show the short film programs twice so that, if Program #1 is screening against a narrative feature that is played only one time, there will be another time that Program #1 will play.

The schedule is subject to change, if it becomes necessary for us to do so.  We will avoid that if at all possible.  Most likely there might be a small tweak here and there, moving a movie or program up a half hour, that sort of thing.

Detailed film descriptions are next on the list to finalize. Look for that in 24 hours or so.

See you at Landlocked!!

Schedule

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!