FEAR in New Orleans Brought on by the Effects of LSD
2007 Schedule
FRIDAY
ASHÉ CULTURAL ARTS CENTER 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd
6 PM ~ Meet and Greet opening Gala - Come and Intro yourself and Learn what FEAR has to offer! Meet with the crew from LSD and CFN while being dazzled by the personalities of Jennifer Delora and our Hostesses the Lilith-bots and Suicide Girls.
8 PM ~ The Consortium of Genius Here one of Louisiana's most innovative rock bands take over the world! The COG's impressive stage show and sound will set the pace for FEAR to spread throughout New Orleans.
Following COG ~ Wrap up Gala and a Toast to the beginning of FEAR!
SATURDAY
ASHÉ CULTURAL ARTS CENTER 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd
12 PM ~ The Changing Times Band - Swamp Rock and Swamp Pop music from the Heart of Louisiana covering tunes to bring you closer to the bayou. This eclectic band of good time jammers are sure to get your feet tapping and bring on the festivities of the day.
While the band plays, there will be celebrity walk arounds, booths, photo ops, Character walk arounds and just plain fun.
2 PM ~ VSFX Artists Andrew Schneider and Shawn Palmer from Blue Sky demonstrate CG images.
3 PM ~ Panel Discussion on working in Independent and Low Budget Film - Ron Jeremy, Jennifer Delora to be main speakers.
5 PM ~ Prosthetics Demonstration by Danny Jouet from LSD - Danny will do a face cast of a lucky individual that will later be given to the individual.
6 PM ~ Festival Exclusive Showing - "New Liberty" - A short film by VSFX artist and Director Sean Palmer. This independent film is a masterpiece of visual effects using imagery to draw you into the world of a man trying to find who he is. Obsessively tormented with dreams, he finds his solace in literature, which becomes the story of his life.
7 PM ~ Web 2.0 - Web 2.0 Explained in Video by Michael Wesch, to this end, Wesch is launching the Digital Ethnography Working Group, a team of undergraduates exploring human uses of digital technology. Coinciding with the launch of this group, Wesch created a short video, "Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us." Released on YouTube on January 31st 2007, it quickly became the most popular video in the blogosphere and has now been viewed over 3 million times. Wesch has won several awards for his work with video, including a Wired Magazine Rave Award and the John Culkin Award for Outstanding Media Praxis from the Media Ecology Association. Along with other explorations of mediated culture, the Digital Ethnography working group is now studying video-blogging on YouTube, a project which was featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
7:30 PM ~ "Blood Brothers" - A short fan film by VSFX artist and Director Brandon Dunaway based in the world of "Star Wars" concerning two brothers, bound by blood, yet torn by their beliefs.
7:45 PM ~ "Tortured Visions" - A dark short by VSFX artist and Director Joseph Vance exploring the visions and imaginations of a tormented artist.
8 PM ~ "The Hunter's Apprentice (Bootlegged Version)" - A well executed short by Director Mike Ryan about a vampire hunter in training. Extremely wonderful use of sound and camera angle used to develop the tone and action in this movie.
8:30 PM ~ "The Proposal" - The question of time is demonstrated in this short by Mike Ryan. Soundscapes and camera angles give the audience ideas of time relationships leading to the proposed query.
9 PM - Until ~ The Sounds of FEAR ( Location is Secret until Day of show! )
Emilia Sosa ~ Emilia Sosa is a first generation American, born and raised in the swampland that is New Orleans, recently finding refuge in the beautiful city of Seattle. With her, Emilia brings the need to sweat in a packed club moving to groovy bass lines and deep rhythms till the sun comes up.
KJ Sawka ~ Seeing Kevin Sawka on the drums is the only way to believe the hype, the assumed exaggerations of his abilities: that he can play the most complex of jungle, drum'n'bass and breakbeats utilizing no loops and no extended samples -only his two hands and two feet. Whereas some artists claim to be performing live drum'n'bass, live electronica, etc., it's more often than not a drummer playing alongside pre-programmed beats if there's a drummer at all; Sawka, however, can perform each and every 808 bass kick, snare slap, and compressed highhat tick himself, in real-time.
DJ Monk and VJ Berkeley ~ The Ultimate Sights & Sounds of FEAR!
Monk - From small dark clubs to massive outdoor festivals, always turning it out - it is here where you, the subterranean public may encounter The Monk...... the Mack-Of-All-Trades, dj/producer/artist and overall hustler of culture. Banging out a soundtrack of underground party music that jumps from hard house and breaks to slamming disco-tech, and twisted techno, to drum and bass rinse-outs, the dreadlocked Monk punishes the crossfader as he works one record against another in a style that owes more to hip hop than to conventional club DJ'ing.
Berkley - This no-bs video jockey knows how to turn it out! The Fluidity that Berkeley cuts and layers live video compositions staging in the heat of the moment with his partner Monk is unreal. It will be a hard show deciding which is more impressive the work being done or the show being presented!
Zeitgeist Multi-disciplinary Arts Center @ Tulane University Tulane University – School of Architecture – Richardson Memorial Building – Rooms 201
– Next to Loyola University, second building off of St. Charles
1pm ~ Side Effects Software - Houdini Demonstrations Houdini Master is the most complete visual effects and animation solution available. This award-winning and production-proven product handles the most challenging shots. Film production facilities can rely on Houdini Master to help them create stunning feature film effects and character animation.
Following presentation - Shorts & Demos played on big screen
3 PM ~ Digital Workshop by LSD ( 2 hour workshop )
3D Workshop - Presented by VSFX Artist Brandon Dunaway - A digital 3D project built and textured in Houdini with use of HDR lighting model.
6 PM ~ Side Effects Software - Houdini Demonstrations Houdini Master is the most complete visual effects and animation solution available. This award-winning and production-proven product handles the most challenging shots. Film production facilities can rely on Houdini Master to help them create stunning feature film effects and character animation.
7 PM ~ "Nosferatu" - Directed by F.W. Murnau, this was an unauthorized production of Bram Stoker's work (The legal heirs didn't give their permission), so the names had to be changed. But this wasn't enough: The widow of Bram Stoker won two lawsuits (1924 and 1929) in which she demanded the destruction of all copies of the movie, however happily copies of it were already too widespread to destroy them all. Later, the Universal studios could break her resistance against this movie. Count Orlok's move to Wisburg (Obviously the real "Wismar") brings the plague traceable to his dealings with the Realtor Thomas Hutter, and the Count's obsession with Hutter's wife, Ellen the only one with the power to end the evil.
Zeitgeist Multi-disciplinary Arts Center @ Tulane University Tulane University – School of Architecture – Richardson Memorial Building – Rooms 204
– Next to Loyola University, second building off of St. Charles
12 PM ~ "Terror Toons Series 1, 1.5, & 2" Introduced by The Awesome Joe Castro!!! - The ultimate in Cartoon turned to life comedy horror! This is a must see for people with a great sense of humor and adventure! Hilarious!
Following Terror Toons Joe Castro will be available for discussions and questions.
4 PM ~ Festival Exclusive World Premiere ~ "W.O.R.M. - World Wide Organic Replicating Module" from TinyCore Pictures An awesome movie following the desire of a lowly computer geek just wanting to fit in, while he is just a small cog in the wheel of the machine that is N.I.M.R.O.D.
5 PM ~ "The Grey" - A short film by Brandon Savoie from LaPlace Louisiana. A nice study into the reaction of an alien invading an unsuspecting man's home.
5:30 PM ~ "The Blood Shed" - South Paw Pictures - Director Allen Rowe Kelly invites you to meet the bullions-your average, inbread, cannibal family leaving in the deep woods. This film tells the tale of how the bullion clan deal with the day-to-day annoyances of incroaching suburbia.
6:30 PM ~ "Come Get Some" - Fatal Sushi Productions -Director Steven A. Grainger wants to introduce the members of a secretive government agency - Human Undead Defence Service. H.U.D.S. stage an "accident" to get their budget increased.
8 PM ~ "Panthy Kill" - Eek Entertainment - Director Armando D. Munoz exploits the idea of a serial killer bent on reading the world of panthies that are not crotchless.
8:30 PM ~ " The Misled Romance of Cannibal Boy and Incest Boy" - A Wonderful romp featuring a cameo of Loyd Kauffman in homage to Troma Pictures.
9:00 PM ~ "Mime After Midnight" - Eek Entertainment- Fearless Tales Genre Fest, 2004 Juri Price Winner - Director Armando D. Munoz highlights the silent but deadly type in this slasher film.
9:30 PM ~ "Slave of the Cannibal God" - Director Sergio Martino presents Susan Stevenson (Ursula Andress) and her brother Arthur (Antonio Marsina) get off a plane somewhere in South America, allegedly in search of her husband. They team up with, Dr. Edward Foster (Stacy Keach). The three head into the jungle, get in more than a few fights amongst themselves, and view lots of gratuitous animal cruelty, notable an iguana getting eviscerated.
SUNDAY
ASHÉ CULTURAL ARTS CENTER 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd
12 PM ~ Ashe Good Morning
1 PM ~ VSFX Artists Andrew Schneider and Shawn Palmer from Blue Sky demonstrate CG images.
2 PM ~ " Metropolis" - In this visionary masterpiece, what director Fritz Lang depicts is the future, and humans are divided into two groups: the thinkers, who make plans (but don't know how anything works), and the workers, who achieve goals (but don't have the vision). Completely separate, neither group is complete, but together they make a whole. One man from the "thinkers" dares visit the underground where the workers toil, and is astonished by what he sees...
4:30 PM ~ Festival Exclusive Showing - "New Liberty" - A short film by VSFX artist and Director Sean Palmer. This independent film is a masterpiece of visual effects using imagery to draw you into the world of a man trying to find who he is. Obsessively tormented with dreams, he finds his solace in literature, which becomes the story of his life.
5:30 PM ~ Digital Workshop by LSD ( 2 hour workshop )
Basic Digital Matte Painting Skills - Presented by VSFX Artist Rob Poulsen - Developing background inserts for film.
Digital Compositing and Lighting - Presented by VSFX Artist Brandon Dunaway - Compositing image sequences together with seamless fluidity.
This is a combo workshop showing a basic pipeline on how to develop a scene in digital space.
7: 30 PM ~ Web 2.0 - Web 2.0 Explained in Video by Michael Wesch, to this end, Wesch is launching the Digital Ethnography Working Group, a team of undergraduates exploring human uses of digital technology. Coinciding with the launch of this group, Wesch created a short video, "Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us." Released on YouTube on January 31st 2007, it quickly became the most popular video in the blogosphere and has now been viewed over 3 million times. Wesch has won several awards for his work with video, including a Wired Magazine Rave Award and the John Culkin Award for Outstanding Media Praxis from the Media Ecology Association. Along with other explorations of mediated culture, the Digital Ethnography working group is now studying video-blogging on YouTube, a project which was featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
8 PM ~ FEAR Wrap-up - Preparations for the awards night.
Zeitgeist Multi-disciplinary Arts Center @ Tulane University Tulane University – School of Architecture – Richardson Memorial Building – Rooms 201
– Next to Loyola University, second building off of St. Charles
1 PM ~ Side Effects Software - Houdini Demonstrations Houdini Master is the most complete visual effects and animation solution available. This award-winning and production-proven product handles the most challenging shots. Film production facilities can rely on Houdini Master to help them create stunning feature film effects and character animation.
2 PM ~ Digital Workshop by LSD ( 2 hour workshop )
Video Transitions in Theory and Practice - Presented by VSFX Artist Joseph R Vance - Breaking down the ideas of VSFX movements from scene to scene using VSFX and sound.
4 PM ~ Digital Sound Design Workshop ~ Presented by Digital Sound Artist Mark Wick - How to develop sound for actions in feature film.
5 PM ~ Panel Discussions ~ Film in NOLA & NOLA in Film - Local independent film makers will discuss the local film industry in New Orleans as well as how New Orleans is depicted in films.
6 PM ~ Side Effects Software - Houdini Demonstrations Houdini Master is the most complete visual effects and animation solution available. This award-winning and production-proven product handles the most challenging shots. Film production facilities can rely on Houdini Master to help them create stunning feature film effects and character animation.
7 PM ~ "The Little Shop of Horrors" - Director Roger Corman's classic where Seymour is a young man who works in a flower store. He manages to create a carnivorous plant that feeds on human flesh. Nobody knows about it; however, Seymour and the plant become good "friends". Since the plant needs food to grow up it convinces Seymour to start killing people.
8:30 PM ~ "Night of the Living Dead" - Director George A. Romero's classic cult movie in all of its splendor.
Zeitgeist Multi-disciplinary Arts Center @ Tulane University Tulane University – School of Architecture – Richardson Memorial Building – Rooms 204
– Next to Loyola University, second building off of St. Charles
12 PM ~ Festival Exclusive Showing - "New Liberty" - A short film by VSFX artist and Director Sean Palmer. This independent film is a masterpiece of visual effects using imagery to draw you into the world of a man trying to find who he is. Obsessively tormented with dreams, he finds his solace in literature, which becomes the story of his life.
1 PM ~ "The Hunter's Apprentice (Bootlegged Version)" - A well executed short by Director Mike Ryan about a vampire hunter in training. Extremely wonderful use of sound and camera angle used to develop the tone and action in this movie.
1:30 PM ~ "The Proposal" - The question of time is demonstrated in this short by Mike Ryan. Soundscapes and camera angles give the audience ideas of time relationships leading to the proposed query.
2 PM ~ "Blood Brothers" - A short fan film by VSFX artist and Director Brandon Dunaway based in the world of "Star Wars" concerning two brothers, bound by blood, yet torn by their beliefs.
2:15 PM ~ "Tortured Visions" - A dark short by VSFX artist and Director Joseph Vance exploring the visions and imaginations of a tormented artist.
2:30 PM ~ Festival Exclusive World Premiere ~ "Straw Dog's End" - A vision by Brian Hawk. Two very different bounty hunters are assigned to track down and terminate an unarmed old man with a computer which is suspected of doing something the organization feels is dangerous. So, they want him terminated, and his machine destroyed.
4 PM ~ "Goregasm" - New Orleans Underground Film Group TerrorOptics - a trailer too scary for words.
6 PM ~ "Frankenhooker" Introduced by Jennifer Delora - Director Frank Henenlotter's vision of a medical school dropout losing his fiancée in a tragic lawnmower incident, and deciding to bring her back. Unfortunately, he was only able to save her head, so he goes to the red light district in the city and lures prostitutes into a hotel room so he can get parts for his girlfriend.
8 PM ~ "White Zombie" - Victor Halperin's cult movie depicting a young man who turns to a voodoo price ( Bela Lugosi ) to lure the woman he loves away from her fiance, but instead turns her into a zombie slave.
MONDAY
Canal Place Cinema 333 Canal Street in the Canal Place Center
6 PM - Until ~ FEAR Festival Awards Night
Wear your best and come out to see the winners of FEAR!
Special talk from Lucid SFX Development Co-Founder and VSFX Supervisor Joseph Vance.
FEAR winning movies will be announced and select films will be viewed. Awards presented and Special Thanks Announced.
