End of the road?

I stopped submitting Nerdcore For Life to film festivals a good while back and now that I think about it, I don’t think the doc has had a festival screening since October!  Oh my God, that feels like it was last month.  No wait!  We screened in the Lake County Film Fest a few months back.  Well anyway, I thought we’d go for one more and as it turns out, we were accepted to what will probably be Nerdcore For Life’s final film festival.  The fest?  The Hardacre Film and Cinema Festival in Tipton, Iowa.  It’s our Iowa premiere!  There are only 5 documentary features selected for this year’s festival so it’s quite an honor to be accepted.  Couple that with the sentimentality that comes with our last fest screening and I’ve got enough motivation to get in my car and drive out there.  The festival runs August 7th and 8th at the very cool looking Hardacre Theater.  Is “Hardacre” the best name for an Iowa film festival or what?  Like I can just imagine that the theater got its name because the farmers would go there at the end of the day to unwind after working their “hard acres” or something.  Or maybe it was just built by a guy named “Arnie Hardacre.”  I don’t know.  I’ll check on that when I get out there.

http://www.tiptoniowa.us/hardacre/

The Closer!

Hot damn.  Not only has the documentary been accepted to the Tucson Film & Music Fest but we’ve been selected as the Festival’s “Closing Night Film!”  (That’s good BTW)  And perhaps even better, the festival is throwing a closing night party right after the screening that will feature performances by some of the starts of Nerdcore For Life.  What stars exactly?  Can’t tell you let.  All I can say is that if it goes off as planned it’ll be a hell of a show.

Here’s a bit of a story about the whole thing from the Arizona Reporter:

“Upstairs Film is excited to announce the centerpiece and closing night films selected to screen at the Tucson Film & Music Festival (TFMF) on Columbus Day Weekend, October 9-12, 2008. TFMF events will take place at various venues throughout charming downtown Tucson, including The Screening Room, The Rialto, The Loft Cinema, and PLUSH.

TFMF closing night events begin at The Loft (3233 E Speedway Blvd) on Sunday, October 12th at 7:30pm, with the Southwest premiere of “Nerdcore For Life.” The documentary profiles Hip Hop’s latest internet-born subgenre, Nerdcore. Spotlighting the “Geek Life’s” biggest boasters, the film features interviews and performances from MC Chris (Aqua Teen Hunger Force), YTCracker, MC Lars, Doc Popular and more. A Q & A with the film’s director Dan Lamoureux and other special guests will follow. The festival concludes with the TFMF closing night party at PLUSH, featuring exclusive live performances by artists featured in Nerdcore For Life.”

http://www.azreporter.com/news/index.php?itemid=485

Because I’m the curious type, I googled “The Loft Cinema” and it’s a frickin’ amazing venue.  It looks bigger than any theater we’ve been in so far and it seems to be well-loved by Tucson locals.  And why wouldn’t it be!?  They hold amazing events there.  Looking over their on-line photo album, these two 2007 events caught my eye…

In the span of just three days last year, The Loft hosted screenings that featured Q&A’s with Documentary filmmaking legend Albert Maysle and non-documentary filmmaking legend, Lloyd Kaufman, the founder of Troma.  Man I’ll lett you, there’s a lot of good stuff to do in Chicago but one thing the city really needs is a venue that will play both Grey Gardens and Poultrygeist in the same week.