Contact Steve Fesenmaier
mystery12@suddenlink.net or fesenms@wvlc.lib.wv.us
(304) 558-3978 ext. 2015 (work) or (304) 345-5850 (home)
or
Kevin Carpenter, Director
WV Filmmakers Film Festival
kevincarpenter@hotmail.com
(304) 545-3043
92 South Stonewall St
Sutton WV 26601
(Charleston, October 5, 2007) The Eighth Annual West Virginia Filmmakers Film Festival will open on Friday, October 12th and continue until Sunday evening on October 14th.
This year’Äôs event is dedicated to the memory of WV filmmaker Judy Lee Schmitt who passed away unexpectedly on Sunday, September 30th after a short illness. She attended almost every WVFFF event since its inception in 2000 with her husband and co-filmmaker Ray. She will be deeply missed.
Steve Gilliland, assistant professor of film at West Virginia State University Communications Dept., West Virginia’Äôs only film school, was chosen to be the 2007 West Virginia Filmmaker of the Year, sponsored by the WV Film Office. Mr. Gilliland received his MA in film from the University of Arkansas and has been teaching at WVSU for more than a decade. In cooperation with Daniel Boyd he has guided hundreds of film students in his classes on film appreciation, film production, and animation. He has been one of the leaders of the Paradise Film Institute and has worked on a dozen films with Mr. Boyd and other WV filmmakers. Boyd wrote me, ’ÄúHe was the first filmmaker I met there (U. of Arkansas) and I wanted to be like him. He shot my first documentary,’Äù Homeless Brother" and we've been together since. We worked together in Russia and Tanzania. He was production designer on all 3 of my features. I owe much of the 'look' of those films to him. He has been my closest collaborator, cellmate (our offices side by side), even best man at my wedding (as I was at his). We should also note that he put other's careers ahead of his own by working for/with so many others, leaving little time for himself. I owe much of mine to him.’Äù
He has also been an active member of the WV Filmmakers Guild and the WV Filmmakers Film Festival. He will receive a unique sculpture created by Sutton artist Bill Hopen, funded by the West Virginia Film Office. The previous winners were’Äì 2003 ’Äì Daniel Boyd. 2004 ’Äì Ray Schmitt 2005- B.J. Gudmundsson. 2006 ’Äì Gerald Milnes.
There are two separate film competitions this year ’Äì as last year. First, there is the traditional film competition for short and long, documentaries and non-documentary works. Entries will be screened October 12, 13, and 14, 2007 at the festival. The official form and more info are posted at http://www.landmarkstudio.org/wvfff/index.html. Contact festival president Kevin Carpenter at kevincarpenter@hotmail.com. The second competition is the Two-Minute Horror Film Competition. The winner will receive $100. Full info is posted at the website.
The Schedule
At 5:45 PM on Friday Schedule Film (Length) Filmmaker 5:45 Maneater (100) David Smith 7:25 Audition (20) Sam Holdren 8:00 16 to Life (90) Mandy Sherwood Schedule for Saturday 8:30 Vimkenala "Veido Huts" (28) Abdula Hamza 9:00 John Browns Body (50) Robert Wilkenson 10:00-------WV Filmmakers Guild Meeting---------------- 12:00 The Courier (90) Mark Burson 1:45 Remains of Actions (28:30) Reidun Ovrebo -----DX Theme Song (4) Adam Tanner -----Mountain Metal (10:44) Holly Siders -----Small Town Beats (6:48) Michael T. Miller & Anna Sale -----Se7en (5:04) Holly Siders 3:00 Six Months (54) Ray Schmitt 4:05 Method In The Mountains (50) Lauren Celinski and Chad Meador 5:00 Battle of Local 5668 (54) Shawn Bennett 6:00----------Dinner YTP Fundraiser------------------------- 7:30 Monsters in Autumn (27) Charlie Cline 8:00--------- Filmmaker of the Year Presentation------------- 8:15 One Earth: Makutano on Kilimanjaro (21:30) Kevin Carpenter 8:45 The Suit Case (10:54) Thad Reid 9:00 Solstice (20) Brandon Johnson 9:20 Three-Fifty (8:50) Maurice Chauvet 9:30---------Freaky Film Two Minuter Horror Fest----------- -----Basic Hatred (2) Holly Siders -----Case #241A (2) Kevin Scarbrough -----The Circus (1:44) Jacob Fertig -----U Lose (1:58) Brian Adam Kline & Garitt Knotts ---A Bad Case of Lycanthropy (2) Max Nolte, Michael Valentine, Ian Nolte -----Close Mountain (2) Garritt Knotts -----HER (1:58) Michael Fitzgerald -----Mean Mr. Mustard (2) Mall Kyle/Mike Turner -----SCREED (2) K.C. Bragg -----Primal Instinct (1:56) Skip Sharron -----The Closet (1:38) Coleman Hall Richardson Schedule for Sunday 12:00 US: The Theater Project (15) Paula Sanders ------YTP Film School (5) Adam Tanner, K Westley Carpenter, Camma Duchaine, Dalton Miller ------Call Me Home (42:29) Ashley Spring Gateless ------Red House Church (1) Jamie Cope ------This Date ˆ‚s a Bust (6) Rachel Hanna 1:15 In Memory of the Land and the People (50) Bob Gates 2:15 A Flaming Rock! (61) La Roy E. Cadiz 3:30 Trailer Trash: A Film Journal (53) Don Diego Ramirez 4:30 Are We Auteurs (20) KC Brag 5:00 Field of Flowers (50) Jude Binder 6:00 METH MAN (82) Michael Fitzgerald
Awards for different categories will be announced by October 15th. Last year’Äôs winners are posted at - http://www.landmarkstudio.org/wvfff/index.html
Admission to each program is $5 or $15 for a festival pass.
For more information on the festival - http://www.landmarkstudio.org/wvfff/index.html
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