Going into its 8th year, The San Francisco Independent Film Festival is looking for entries. Send in “your most delicous, twisted, unique, historical, fictional, subtitled, stop-motion, curious, cadaverous, outsider, outstanding and otherwise brilliantly-executed indie-films and videos.” Deadline is October 15; the festival runs February 2-16, 2006. Download an application here.
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Following up my “spectacular” post on film blurbs, Carrie McLaren at StayFree! magazine offers an update on the blurb racket:
The Girl in the Café (HBO film)
Blurb from Oregonian: “An endearing romantic comedy.”
Actual line: “This new offering from HBO Films is at its heart a bit of political propaganda wrapped into an endearing romantic comedy that starts losing its laughs when it gets to Reykjavik and decides its teachable moment has arrived.”Hustle & Flow (MTV/Paramount)
Blurb from Los Angeles Times: “Place Terrence Howard front and center!”
Actual line: “Above all, ‘Hustle & Flow’ places Howard front and center as a man with little education but much street wisdom.”Fantastic Four (Twentieth Century Fox)
Blurb from Charlotte Weekly: “Fun!”
Actual line: “Fantastic? Not exactly, but Tim Story’s take on Marvel Comic’s first family of superheroes can be fun if your expectations are low enough.”
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