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» Tuesday June 08, 2010 - 09:17 am
Vampire Con 2nd Annual Vampire Film Festival
Following last year's highly successful film festival, Vampire-Con begins Thursday, June 24th with the SUMMER OF VAMPIRE LOVE, a celebration of Swinging 60's Bloodsuckers: Roman Polanski's "The Fearless Vampire Killers" at 7:30pm, and from Hammer Studios, "Dracula Has Risen From The Grave" starring Christopher Lee at 9:45pm. THERE WILL BE SANGRE on Friday, June 25th as V-Con rips open a Spanish flavored vein with co-presenter LatinHorror.com: "Dracula" (the 1931 Spanish version) at 7:30pm and "The Blood-Spattered Bride" (aka "La Novia Ensangrentada") at 9:35pm. There's also a special MIDNIGHT MADNESS showing on Friday of 2009 cult classic "Trasharella," with director/star Rena Riffel and co-star Count Smokula in attendance! Saturday, June 26th closes the film festival with SATURDAY NIGHT VAMPIRE FEVER featuring a collection of grooving films all from 1979: "Nosferatu" (Werner Herzog's version starring Klaus Kinski) at 5:15pm, "Dracula" (starring Frank Langella) at 7:30pm, and the classic vampire comedy "Love At First Bite" (starring George Hamilton) at 9:40pm. More info can be found at www.vampire-con.com.
The Vampire-Con Film Festival is accepting submissions for the next two weeks only, to find three fangtastic short vampire films to show during the film festival (one each night, June 24-25-26, at the New Beverly Cinema)!
Please submit films no longer than 20 minutes in length either via website link to
producer@weirdsmobile.net
Or on DVD via U.S. mail to:
Vampire-Con c/o Weirdsmobile Productions
6311 Van Nuys Blvd. #477
Van Nuys, CA 91401-2611
Vampire-Con Begins Feeding Thursday, June 24th With A Three Night Film Festival of Vampire Cinema Classics.
Submissions MUST be received by June 15! No entry fee. Films can be submitted from anywhere in the world, as long as they are in English or have English subtitles, and filmmaker need not be present at the festival for the film to be shown (though if they are able to attend, they will receive a pair of comps to all films that evening).
Selected filmmakers will be notified by June 20. Films will be screened in DVD format, and DVD's must be received by Vampire-Con by June 23.
More info on Vampire-Con and the 2nd Annual Film Festival at: www.vampire-con.com.
                    
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