Rocket City Short Film Festival is Friday, Oct. 20 @ 7 PM

 
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Friday, Oct. 20 @ 7 PM -- The Film Co-op presents the Rocket City Short Film Festival.

Flying Monkey Arts Center, 2211 Seminole Dr. in Huntsville. Admission $5 / $3 Film Co-op members.

From Don's e-mail:

"Hello all,

As you are probably aware, the film festival is next Friday, Oct 20th.
Believe it or not, we got over 30 entries this year. So many that we'll have to
exclude a few just due to time constraints.

But we have many excellent entries - a few are spectacular. I've watched them
all and except for a few that were too slow paced (typically poor editing
rather than story), I've really enjoyed them. With changing DVDs between shows,
and showing as many as possible, looks like we have 3.5 hours (or more) for
the program. This is exciting news - maybe next year we can show on 2 screens
or over 2 night.

We expect a big crowd for this event and need a few extra hands getting set
up Friday night. Also, I need to show someone else how to set up and use the
new audio/video cart. If you can help out - setting up chairs before the
festival, running concession, helping with equipment, or clean up afterwars,
please let me know. We'll need help setting up starting around 6pm on Friday,
show time is at 7pm. One benefit of working the event is free admission.

Please note, for families or kids: the first half of the festival will
consist of the Youth category films - 5 great entries plus our filmmaking workshop
for kids movie - followed by selections from the adult submissions that are PG
or G equivalent rating. We'll have a break before going to the PG-13 or R
equivalent rated films (we have 3 films that, IMHO, are R-rated and those will
be shown last).

Our audience awards will be done by ballot - one award for youth and one for
adult. We'll need help passing out, collecting and then counting ballots.

Whether you can work the event or not, please come support the festival.
You'll get a great overview of the broad and dynamic local film making scene.
And a chance to meet fellow filmmakers.

Let me know if you can help,
Thanks,
Don"