Lab technician Virgil Gurdies embarks on an epic quest to create the greatest goat cheese the world has ever known, and reclaim the heart of his beloved Angie. A felonious German baker, a grave-digging hermit, and a tiny white goat color this journey of love, destiny and dairy products. Cast: Mark Scheibmeir, Sydney Andrews, Stephen Taylor Fry. Hollywood Premiere.
FirstGlance Film Fest 10 Hollywood Announces its Lineup Features 18 Premieres out of 30 Projects
Hollywood, CA, March 12, 2010 – The 10th annual FirstGlance Film Fest Hollywood opens on Friday,April 9th and runs though Sunday, April 11th, 2010 at Raleigh Studios Chaplin Theater, 5300 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, CA. This independent, bi-coastal festival showcases award winning features, short narratives, documentaries and mini-docs, animation, music videos and student shorts from all genres.
With an online shorts contest, FirstGlance also brings indie shorts to audiences at home. Register for the contest in late March and vote online for 6 weeks at www.firstglancefilms.com. The winning short screens at FirstGlance Philadelphia and James Caan will view and review it.
The festival kicks off Friday, April 9th when doors open at 7:30 p.m. for the 8:00 p.m. screening of:
LIZARD – World Premiere
SMALL COLLECTION
THE LIFTER UPPER – World Premiere
2095
ONCE FALLEN – World Premiere starring Taraji P Henson, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan, and Peter Weller
The Saturday, April 10th Matinee Screening at 3:30 p.m. features:
THE EXTRAORDINARY MONDAY OF HERMAN BRUMBY – World Premiere PEACEFUL MEASURES – Hollywood Premiere
SHOOTING BEAUTY
The Saturday, April 10th Twilight Screening at 5:30 p.m. features:
LIGHTHEADED
ARTOIS THE GOAT – Hollywood Premiere
The Saturday, April 10th Prime Time Screening at 8:00 p.m. features:
THINK TANK “ARCADIA” – World Premiere
CROSSING THE LINE – Hollywood Premiere starring Anne Ramsay and James Eckhouse
LEFT UNSPOKEN
HECTOR CORP – Hollywood Premiere
METH – World Premiere
IN MY POCKET – World Premiere starring Gregory Smith, Brendan Sexton III, Shantel VanSanten, Kaylee DeFer, and Zack Ward
The Sunday, April 11th Matinee Screening at 3:30 p.m. features:
UNDER GOD – World Premiere
HEAD IN THE SAND – World Premiere
AS EVER, STAN
HALF KENNETH
BRUSHES WITH LIFE – World Premiere
The Sunday, April 11th Twilight Screening at 5:30 features:
SKYLIGHT
RUN! – World Premiere
FLAT LOVE – Hollywood Premiere starring Isabella Rossellini
ABUELO – FirstGlance Philadelphia’s Best of the Fest Winner
DREAMS – World Premiere
The Sunday, April 11th Closing Night Screening at 8:00 p.m. features:
THE GOD MOTHER
ALIENATED – World Premiere starring Vincent Pastore
CHARLIE VALENTINE starring Raymond J Berry, Michael Weatherly, James Russo,and Tom Berenger
“Filmmakers and audiences enjoy our festival because FirstGlance brings a number of indie premieres to the screen, audiences vote for the “Best of the Fest” creating a fun, competitive environment at each screening plus instant audience feedback for the filmmakers, and there are after parties ideal for Q & As and networking,” said Bill Ostroff, Festival Director.
Tickets on sale NOW at http://www.firstglancefilms.com/hollywood/schedule.
Matinee Screenings $8.00
First Night and Closing Night Screening $12.00
All Other Screenings $10.00
All Access Pass $50.00
Complete screening schedule available at http://firstglancefilms.com/hollywood/schedule.
Watch trailers for FirstGlance Hollywood 10 films at http://firstglancefilms.com/hollywood/trailers.
FirstGlance Films’ year round activities include: FirstGlance Film Fest Philadelphia and Hollywood, Feature & Short Screenplay Competitions, On-line Film Competition, Show Us Your Shorts Screenings, OctoberfestPhilly, and Short Film Productions. In 2007, MOVIEMAKER Magazine named FirstGlance as “One of 40 Most Indie Friendly Businesses” and “One of 20 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee,” and in 2006, TIME Magazine named FirstGlance “One of the Top 10 Festivals for the Rest of Us.”
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In cooperation with The Franklin Institute, FirstGlance Film Fests, will be launching a “truly indie” film series in Philadelphia. Beginning April 17th with the assistance of the Franklin Theater, a beautiful 260 seat state of the art screening facility in The Franklin Institute, will be offering filmmakers the opportunity to be a part of a visionary new screening program. FirstGlance will be curating a series of “truly indie” films with filmmakers looking for an alternate screening venue in Philadelphia.
What makes this series different from other screening series:
We will book a limited number of films in 2010, as a pilot program.
We are looking for feature films with a large social networking fan base and those that have a Philadelphia following that can help promote the film and boost ticket sales.
The filmmaker will profit from the ticket sales dependent on amount of tickets sold and the revenue share percentage which will be determined by the agreement.
We think this is a great opportunity to be seen in a large venue in the heart of Center City Philadelphia, without having to pay exorbitant fees to rent a theater space.
We look forward to offering features, documentaries and short programs throughout the year.
If you have a film that you would like to screen, please get in touch and we will get back to you with further details.
We are launching the series on April 17-18th with a Pennsylvania area feature documentary, Takedowns and Falls, about the high school wrestling phenomenon in Eastern Pennsylvania. We look forward to a great weekend for the filmmaker, and hope his success will enable us to present more “truly indie” feature films to the community! Support Indie filmmaking and we’ll be able to support you!
After a successful inaugural weekend, we are currently searching for more indie films with strong social network followings and fan base!
We are looking for documentarys and narrative features to program in
June, Sept, October, November, December 2010.
Get your film see at a state of the art 250 seat theater and make money!
Thank you
FirstGlance Film Fests
Our 13th annual FirstGlance Film Fest Philly is open to professional, first time, graduate and undergraduate filmmakers from down the street and across the globe. FirstGlance showcases the best indie filmmaking from around the world and celebrates Philadelphia filmmakers with a festival described as, “one of the most entertaining festivals out there” and “Philadelphia’s answer to Sundance”
In our continuing effort to bring additional opportunities and audiences to filmmakers we have partnered with The Franklin Institute to launch the first ever KidFest Philly to our October event. KidFest is open to child and family friendly shorts, animation and feature length narrative and documentaries. The chosen films will be offered special screenings at the museum.
Selected FirstGlance Official Selections will be invited to premiere at the Bram Stoker Film Festival in the UK in 2011. Bram Stoker is one of Europe’s premiere horror, sci-fi, thriller festivals.
All Official Selections are eligible for our revenue share, no-cost, non-exclusive online distribution with iPod compatible and streaming rental downloads. (link to download page).
Named, “one of the best film festival investments” and “One of the top 40 indie film friendly businesses in the world”. FirstGlance continues to champion indie filmmakers from around the world, making FirstGlance Film Fest, the longest running and most notable independent film fest in Philadelphia!!
All GENRES ACCEPTED
Feature Length (over 60 min.)
Feature Documentary (over 60 min.)
Short Narrative (under 30 min.)
Shorts Too (under 10 min)
Mini-Docs (under 30 min.)
Student Shorts (under 20min.)
Graduate Student Shorts (under 20min)
Music Videos (under 5 min)
Animation (under 30 min)
International Shorts (under 30 min)
International Shorts Too (under 10min)
Webisode Pilots (under 10 min)
*NEW Categories*
KidFest Shorts (under 30 min)
KidFest Animation (under 30 min)
KidFest Features (over 60 min)
SHOT IN PHILLY celebrates the best in filmmaking by Philadelphia filmmakers.
FirstGlance awards over 50,000 in cash, prizes and giveaways yearly
In 2010, we continue our sliding scale cash prizes, for every 1000 entries we receive, $5000.00 in USD CASH will be awarded to the Grand Prize BEST OF THE FEST winner and for every category that receives 200 entries or more, $1,000 in Cash will be awarded to the highest rated film in that category!
FirstGlance Sponsors and Prizes
Entry Fee:
Starting at $25.00 for early submissions. Entries must be submitted on NTSC Region 0 or 1 DVD.
KidFest will be the first of its kind in Philadelphia this year!
Kid Fest will run throughout October and in conjunction with FirstGlance Film Fest Philly TwentyTen on October 14-17 2010.
Our new relationship with The Franklin Institute and the newly remodeled Franklin Theater, which we had the pleasure of screening in last year, has graciously agreed to a proposed idea to the marketing dept to assist them in getting new audiences into the theater during museum hours.
Since the venue is considered a family museum and people travel from across the US and world to come to The Franklin Institute, our normal festival fare is not always fitting, as those of you that have taken part, either as audience or filmmakers are aware. So we decided to open new categories for kid and family friendly films and animation for the first time in our 13 year history.
The venue has agreed to show the films we choose from the entries during museum hours throughout the month of October and market to there many hundred thousands of members.
We believe this is an amazing opportunity to give filmmakers who create family friendly films, both short and features the visibility from audiences you wouldn’t normally find at FirstGlance Film Fest Philly or at most film festivals around the country!
We are excited about the possibility of becoming a potential curator of truly indie films and locally produced films. With the ability to schedule special screenings and offer opportunities for truly indie filmmakers to screen in a beautiful theater in the heart of Center City Philly. We look forward to creating a go to venue for indies in Philadelphia, without having to fourwall a major theater chain!
FirstGlance Film Fest Philly TwentyTen
We look forward to an amazing year in Philly.
Thank you for your continuing support of truly indie films and FirstGlance Philadelphia’s Independent Film Festival since 1996