Backseat Film Festival 2009 - Awards! Best of Fest on April 4th!

We're proud to announce all our 2009 award winners as follows;
Best Feature Film - Run! Bitch Run! - Dir. Joseph Guzman
Best Short Film – Nomansland – Dir. Scott Belyea
Best Documentary - Vampiro: Angel, Devil, Hero - Dir. Lee Demarbre
Best Music Video - Turbotronics "Corporate Lady" – Dir. Jessica Burstein & Robbie Norris
Best Animation - God of Tears – Dir. Max Margulies & Naoko Masuda
Best Local Filmmaker - Going Public – Dir. Douglas Poland
Best Soundtrack - Blood on the Highway – Dir. Barak Epstein & Blair Rowan
Best Movie Title - (tie) Run! Bitch Run! / You All Fucking Deserve It – Dirs. Joseph Guzman / Justin Powers
Best Trailer - Run! Bitch Run! – Dir. Joseph Guzman
Best SPFX - Eel Girl – Dir. Paul Campion
Best Drinking Movie - Sex Galaxy – Dir. Mike Davis
Best Breasts - National Lampoon’s The Stoned Age – Dir. Adam Rifkin
Best Cars - Revenge of the Hellcat – Dir. Natalee Dacquisto
Best Zombies - I Love Sarah Jane – Dir. Spencer Stussy
Best Robots - Attackazoids! – Dir. Brian Lonano
Most Disgusting - Attack of the Staph Spider – Dir. Aramis Sartorio
Weirdest - Dec. 2666 – Dir. James Hollenbaugh & Derek Roden
Funniest - Jones Big Ass Truck Rental and Storage – Dir. Pedro Castro
Staff Favorites - Altamont Now / Puppet Rodeo – Dirs. Joshua von Brown / Kevin Maher
Filmmaker Appreciation - Adam Rifkin / Bam Margera / Bill Plympton

You can get info on all the movies on our official website!

The Philadelphia Film Festival/Cinefest is showcasing the Best of the Backseat Film Festival as a special 2 hour screening block and we're screening some 2009 Award winning shorts as well! It all goes down on Sat April 4th at 9:30pm at the International House - 3701 Chestnut St in Philly! We're honored to be a part of it and we'll be screenings our favorite shorts from the last 7 years! You can see the full schedule and get tix here!!

We're working on the wrap up with over 14 hours of video and countless pictures, you can see some of it on www.backseatfilmfestival.com and on Myspace as well as the event page on Facebook. Feel free to add your own pictures and comments into the mix, or email to us and we will post them!

Check out the first videos here:
Adam Rifkin's Limo Ride
Ron Jeremy's Limo Ride

Over the 21 screening blocks in 9 days, we screened over 75 movies, drank well over 2100 Pabst Blue Ribbons and 2 cases of vodka! And that does not even include what was drunk at the Trocadero or N. 3rd Bar!

The 2009 Backseat Film Festival is made possible by our generous sponsors, including Pabst Blue Ribbon, Bside.com, PSAV, Philadelphia Weekly, Gray Kangaroo Personal Liquor Filters, M3 Printing, the Greater Philadelphia
Film Office, Hotmovies.com and BurningAngel.com.

The 941 Theater and the Philadelphia Friends of the Projected Arts also thanks the following for donations; Heckmann Painting, The Trocadero, Sulimay’s Barber Shop, Allstate Insurance, Hyperion Bank, Liberties Bar, Surreal Studios, Philadelphia Eddies Tattoo, Higher Grounds Coffee, Rustica Pizza and Paolo’s Pizza.

Stay tuned to www.backseatfilmfestival.com for updates and the next screening date!!


Doug Sakmann moderates Adam Rifkin and Ron Jeremy...more photos soon!!

Check out the official Backseat Film Fest 09 Trailer here!!

Lamb of God “Set to Fail” Music Video Complete!

The official video for the first single from Lamb of God's latest album Wrath, out NOW!

Directed by Doug Spangenberg – Space Monkey Studios
Produced by Nick Esposito
Assistant Directed by Evan Meszaros, 2nd AD Doug Sakmann
Gaffer – Sal Interlandi
Key Grip- Tim Cronin
Best Boy Electric - Kyle Simmons
Director of Photography - Brett Albright

Click here to check out "Set to Fail" now!

Get more info on Space Monkey Studios here

Fri, March 27th - Philly Ska Presents: Hub City Stompers and King Django

Hub City Stompers (CD Release!), King Django, Wareika Hill, and the Forthrights
$12 - All Ages

Sat, March 28th - Found Footage Festival with Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher

The Found Footage Festival is a one-of-a-kind event that showcases footage from videos that were found at garage sales and thrift stores and in warehouses and dumpsters throughout the country. Curators Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher host each screening in-person and provide their unique observations and commentary on these found video obscurities. From the curiously-produced industrial training video to the forsaken home movie donated to Goodwill, the Found Footage Festival resurrects these forgotten treasures and serves them up in a lively celebration of all things found.

"Skull Crushingly Funny" - The Onion

8pm - $10 - Free beer!
BUY ADVANCE TIX NOW!

Check out the offical trailer for the festival here!

www.foundfootagefestival.com
www.myspace.com/foundfootagefestival

Wednesday, April 1st - COMMUNITY COLLEGE at the Trocadero
Doors at 7pm, show at 8pm - $5
Trocadero – 1003 Arch St, Phila PA

Hosted by the Reverend Bob Levy (Howard Stern Show)

The movie is a love story of sorts, about four dudes and their ability to get free drinks!

Featuring Michael Ray Bower (Donkey Lips from Salute Your Shorts), Scotty Schwartz (A Christmas Story), Radio personalities Blue Meanie, Rev. Bob Levy, MC Lars and Rich Cronin

Written, directed and edited by Tommy Avallone

Buy tix at the Troc Box office or on the official website:
www.communitycollegesucks.com

Check out the official trailer here!

Friday, April 3rd - SUBDIVISION : Special One-off Warehouse Party
DJ's and Dub-step all nite long!

RUSKO Live Performance w/Ron Azlan - In from LONDON!

FLUFFTRONIX

RX and CHAE HAWK Live Performance

Presented by Rad Summer, Subdivision, Mishka NY and Palms Out Sounds

10pm - 21+ - BYOB - $10 adv - $13 DOS
Buy Tickets at Radsummer.com

Saturday April 4th - The 3rd Annual Zombie Butt Touch

Featuring Professional zombie makeup artists by the resident ZBT face destroyers
- 2 rooms of mind-bending electronic dance music
-An immersing black-light reactive environment
-Intense visual projections
-FREE BEER!!!!!!

Dancefloor Navigators:
Super Galactic Expansive (Supersensible Science)
Kilowatts (Native State Rec, Gaian Mind)
Unwashed Tomato (Unwashed Rec)
Thomas Schreiber (Rizumu)
Blame the Kid (Cold Hands Collective)
Eg~bot & Lauryn (Gaian Mind, Peak Rec)
Karmakanik & Orbicles (Gaian Mind, PSI)
Hypnotoad (Light-o-Matic/PSI)
JP & Esther (Soma Collective)
Blacklight Art by Daya Cayung
Visual Projections by Peter Parker

9pm - $10 admission includes beer and zombification 21+ w/ ID
Official Afterparty for Best of Backseat Film Festival at International House!

Saturday, April 11th - Flauf Productions Presents:
Consider the Source, Electric Avant Garde West Philly Orchestra, Igor’s Nest

Consider the Source - Jam Band / Progressive / Psychedelic Three musicians converging on an epic plateau of sound and reflex. Three conscious minds communicating on subconscious levels. Consider the Source is one voice born of three distinct personalities. Their music is aggressive and yet serene, powerful, and honest. They play what they feel and demand your full attention. Love 'em or hate 'em, the one thing they won't let you do is ignore them.

The West Philadelphia Orchestra (WPO) is up to 15 of Philadelphia's best and most daring musicians, from all different backgrounds (jazz, classical, experimental, indie), playing music, much of it Romani, from Romania, Hungary, Serbia, and Macedonia. The Electric Avant Garde version will be performing at the 941 Theater, a scaled down Electronic version of the full WPO experience.
www.westphiladelphiaorchestra.blogspot.com

Also playing: Igor's Nest

Doors 8pm - Show 9pm - $10
All Ages

Join the FLAUF ON MYSPACE!

Thursday, April 16th – Leslie and the Lys Return! - Village Green Presents

"I get offers for sex when I'm onstage, sweating, but it's hard because 99 percent of the people screaming are gay men," says Leslie Hall of Leslie and the Ly's. Ferocious rapper, fashion icon, gem-sweater rescuer and passionate performer Hall first captured the hearts of Internet users everywhere with her bizarre homemade videos and debut album, Gold Pants. The record -- chock-full of catchy jams and horrifying piano ballads -- which she distributed from her bedroom, has taken on a life of its own. Fans flock in cultish bedazzled droves to witness Hall and her backup girls (Dr. Laura and Classy K) tear into their staples "Danga Stranga" and "Zombie Killer." The self-proclaimed "founding father" of gem-sweater history and knowledge also spends time onstage with fans who bring sweaters to her shows. Hall blesses the clothes. "I take a minute for each one and put my hand on it," she explains. "It's a chance for me to tell them what they have, because they don't know." Hall has also been featured on the hit kids' show "Yo Gabba Gabba" several times!

9pm - $12 – All Ages
BUY ADVANCE TIX NOW!

www.myspace.com/lesliehall
www.leslieandthelys.com

villagegreenproductions.net
myspace.com/villagegreenshows

Friday, April 24th – Eye of the Tiger, Thrill of the Fight - Screening Party

It's a movie about love, a desire to see people suffer, 18 inches of man meat, an asian named Frogger, a lesbian named Fishtown, a white boy named Boom, a church brawl that ends in the death of Miss Iris, a crackhead-junky-stalking-sister to a 12 step homogay named Tiki..... and that's not the half of it.

$15 at the Door, $10 online: http://eyeofthetigerthemovie.com/
Live Bands to be announced!!

Sunday April 25th - Jersey Shows Presents Battle of the Bands: ROUND 2

Jersey Shows is presenting a series of Battle of the Bands over the next few months;
The grand prize is $20,000 CASH!!!

Sunday, April 25th - doors @ 3pm ~ ALL AGES
2nd ROUND - Bands to be determined!

More on the way!

www.jerseyshows.com
www.myspace.com/jerseyshows
www.danimalrecords.com
www.myspace.com/danimalrecords

Sat, May 2nd- Black Landlord w/ Captain Smokes and The Shotguns - Village Green Presents

Black Landlord
"This is a project started by Maxx (formerly of the Goats and Incognegro). It is a TRUE collective. The idea began 4yrs ago with friends and super-electro producers Leonard de Leonard and Olaf Hund. They worked together in Paris and Berlin, writing songs and daydreaming about how to bring talented people together. So, after learning German, some ghetto French and drinking great beer, Maxx returned home to Philly and put a live band together and the end result was a diverse mix of Philly All-Stars."

with
Captain Smokes and The Shotguns
"Captain Smokes is back. Its been a long and strange trip but he got the original Shotguns lineup back together and clam baked the studio to create some new tune-age. (Bud Hempfield--Guitar, Herb Roller--Keyboard, Omar Hashish--Bass, Screenz--Drums) Captain Smokes & The Shotguns is simply pleasure in your ears after you pleasured your lungs. The Captain pleasures himself everytime he hears himself. He's travelled the world, studied with Zanga and puffed great plants in many foreign countries. The Captain still doesn't have any tattoos and plans on keeping it that way. Nothing more to prove. Nothing more to say. Just peace and all good things. Come groove to the best live show on planet Earth."

9pm - $10 /All Ages
Purchase Advance Tickets!

villagegreenproductions.net
myspace.com/villagegreenshows