deadCENTER Descends on Downtown Next Week
The 2009 deadCENTER Film Festival is revving its engine this week in preparation for the 5-day celebration of all things film that has quickly grown in size and popularity to become one of the top festivals of its kind in the region.
More than 100 independent film makers and thousands of film fanatics from Oklahoma and around the globe are expected to visit downtown Oklahoma City for the festival’s ninth year.
The festival officially begins with a Kick-Off Party on Wednesday, June 10th at 7:30 p.m. at the Film Exchange Building, 700 W. Sheridan (Sheridan & Lee) and wraps on Sunday, June 14th at 2 p.m. with the screening of the “Best of Fest” shorts at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Dr.
The program has grown with the crowds. This year’s agenda includes more than a hundred films showing at seven different downtown locations, 11 festival-sponsored parties, a handful of educational meet-the-filmmaker panels and “Peace Love and Wavy Gravy” a free, outdoor hippie fest complete with community activists, local artists, munchies (a.k.a. concessions) and free sunset yoga class.
Important deadCenter Tip: Some of the screenings and parties overlap. Use this schedule to customize your DCFF experience. There is plenty of parking downtown, and free, environment-friendly shuttles will be available (thanks to Chesapeake) to cart your party from venue to venue.
My plan for the evening of Friday, June 12, forces me to choose between the Friday Night Frolic party and the screening of The Familiar. Both are at 9 p.m. at different locations.
The Familiar Trailer url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNJjeJUU9_c
The Familiar Trailer embed:
For more info, call (405) 246-9233 or email info@deadcenterfilm.org.
I chose The Familiar (showing at the Kerr Auditorium, 123 Robert S. Kerr Ave.) for two reasons: A) I love horror movies, and this one is about a possessed girl who tries to seduce a minister, so that’s good, and B) so I can have a good seat for Lloyd Kaufman’s Poultrygeist – Night of the Chicken Dead – which shows at the same location at 11 p.m.
Note: To properly prepare for the screening of The Familiar, one must first attend the Oklahoma Film and Music Office reception at the XO Lounge in the Colcord at 5 p.m. before posting-up at the Kerr Auditorium at 7 p.m. for the Okie Shorts.
Will I see you at the Kerr on Friday night?
BOTTOM LINE INFO:
Individual tickets are $10. You can buy an All-Access Pass that gets you into all the screenings, panels and parties for $100. If you’re not interested in the parties, you can buy a Screening Pass that gets you into all the shows and panels for $50.
For more info, call (405) 246-9233 or email info@deadcenterfilm.org.
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Comments
Holy BLOOD N GUTS! I just watched the Poultrygeist trailer.
I’ll be joining you at the Kerr, for sure!
Oh how your sick and twisted word have persuaded me to partake in the deadCenter experience. You are a crafty lass and YES, I will be seated next to you….
OK… this is getting creepy. Rob, you’re going to have to pay me a lot more next time to be a guest blogger. 
I love deadCenter! Thanks for the great story, Rob.