“Tex: Vampire Hunter” has been accepted to two overseas film festivals: Chungmuro International Film Festival in Seoul, South Korea and CineFantasy Film Fest in São Paolo, Brazil.

I’m supremely pleased to let you all know that Tex: Vampire Hunter will play at the Bumbershoot. There aren’t a lot of venues to see short films in the US. It’s just not a popular format here. One of my first real experiences with short films was at 1 Reel years ago, back when I used to go to Bumbershoot in the ‘90s. Now I am incredibly honored to be among their number.

Tex will play Sunday, September 6 at 5:30 leading off the Made in Seattle program. Your Bumbershoot ticket gets you in.

See you there!

If you want to get into SIFF, include in your movie a scene with people in bed, and make it your signature screenshot.

That’s all, really. Need proof? Ok! Here we go.

Skateland

The Big Dream

Come Undone

Music on Hold

Upperdog

For extra points throw in a little gay.

Leo’s Room

From Beginning to End

Room in Rome

For extra, extra points, show three people in bed.

A Rational Solution

Run If You Can

It even works with lonely men and their blow-up dolls

Southern District

Air Doll

So there you have it. Over a dozen movies with people in bed in the SIFF 2010 program. As you can see this is an absolutely foolproof way to get your film in. If only I had known, I would have included one in my movie. Oh, wait a minute…

Oh, come on!

Coming in at just under thirteen minutes, this film is packed full of dark imagery and full on action. There’s a whole lot of awesomeness packed into just thirteen minutes.

and,

One of the most striking things about the film are the visuals and the use of lighting. The lighting was expertly done and created a dark, shadowy look without obscuring the rest of the visuals. The camera shots were set up with an equal deftness. The angles used and the expertly filmed action sequences were taken to even greater heights by the quality of the editing. All in all, this was a highly polished, extremely well made film.

Yeah!

Read the full review.

Tickets are now available for the screenings of Tex: Vampire Hunter at Seattle’s True Independent Film Festival.

• Sunday, June 6 – 7:20PM at Northwest Film Forum
• Thursday, June 10 – 9:30PM at Central Cinema

Since it’s a short, each of this showings is together with a feature-length film. I’ll be at both screenings doing the Q&A thing. Central Cinema serves booze, a substance of which I am an enthusiastic consumer. Buy me a drink after the show.

Tex: Vampire Hunter page on STIFF’s website – Buy tickets, watch the trailer, click the little Facebook “like” button.

Northwest Vampire Western fans rejoice, for Tex: Vampire Hunter is getting some major love from its hometown and its director’s hometown.

There are three upcoming opportunities to see your favorite undead-hunting cowboy on the big screen in Seattle and environs.

• April 18: Celluloid Bainbridge Film Festival. See Tex as a part of the line-up of many local films (and see the island where your humble author grew up, mostly). The whole fest runs from 10am to 10pm. Tex will be playing at 8pm, but come early as seating is limited. Admission is free!
• April 28: 7pm-10pm @ Northwest Film Forum. Tex will be showing along with another short film starring the dashing Rodrigo DeMedeiros and written by him as well. The Sheets Must Be Silk is based on Marilyn Monroe’s last photo shoot. I’ve personally been looking forward to this ever since we had to coordinate Rodrigo’s facial hair around the two movie shoots that were happening concurrently.UPDATE: FREE ADMISSION
• and finally… the Seattle True Independent Film Festival sometime in June. I’ll keep you posted as to the showtime, don’t worry. This is kind of a big deal. STIFF is Seattle’s Slamdance, the uppity indie film answer to that other major festival in town.

I will be in attendance at all of the above events doing the requisite Q&A, and I’d be surprised if we didn’t have several cast and crew at each of these screenings too. So if you’ve taken a fancy to a particular vampire, you can buy her a drink. Be sure to tip your bartender well.

“Tex: Vampire Hunter” has been accepted to the 12th Annual Celluloid Bainbridge Film Festival. It will play on April 18th at the historic Lynwood Theatre on Bainbridge Island.

Also playing this year are the sociopolitical satire Zombies of Mass Destruction and cross-cultural rom-com Outsourced.

Admission is free.

SOME SOUTHERN DAME: “You’re changing that boy’s life.”
SANDRA BULLOCK: “No. He’s changing mine”

This is terrible, terrible writing. This cheap inversion-retort is overused in an attempt to sound deep and dramatic. See X-Men 3 for many examples of this hack technique:

Logan: [to Rogue] I’m not your father. I’m your friend.

Bobby Drake: This isn’t what I wanted.
Marie: I know. It’s what I want.

Dr. Jean Grey: You would die for them?
Logan: No. Not for them. For you. For you.

Warren Worthington, Sr.: Warren, it’s a better life. It’s what we all want.
Warren Worthington III: No. It’s what you want.

This is just what I found on IMDB but the whole movie is full of this shit.

The Blind Side: as bad as X-Men 3

“Tex: Vampire Hunter” will lead off the Mature Audiences short film program at BIFF. This is presumably due to the explicit violence and strongly implied vampire lesbianism in the movie, or the scene where Tex does like eight lines of cocaine.

The showtimes are as follows:

• Friday, February 19th – Wilson Theatre (tickets)
• Saturday, February 20th – Bushel & Pecks (tickets)

I’ll be in attendance at both screenings to answer audience questions about what the metaphor of bloodsucking whores could possibly mean.

This is the official World Premiere of our film.  Be there and be awesome.