“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.

Slamdance will notify within the week.

Coming soon: A snazzy official website with a film festival scorecard so you can keep track at home.

Dear Lautaro, Congratulations, your film was accepted into competition for the 2010 Beloit International Film Festival. More info to follow! Rod Beaudoin Executive Director

A little research shows that BIFF, which takes place in February, has already earned a place as an important film festival. It’s compared to the early days of Sundance, and attracts lots of producers and agents and film royalty like John Voight.

On the other hand I have a somewhat unpleasant personal history with the town of Beloit, and Wisconsin in winter is ungodly cold.

But then again,

Last Saturday Tex played at the end of a film and animation showcase. It was intended mainly for cast and crew to see the final product, but so many people showed up that some had to be turned away. Fortunately we were able to do a second showing immediately afterward, and everyone got to see it that wanted to.

The date of the “official” premiere will depend on which film festival snatches it up first. Go go Sundance!

Herr Direktor and arm candy do shots of vampire blood

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1510867