Sundance Film Festival has its offshoots Slamdance and TromaDance. Lone Star International Film Festival also has a derivative — “Disney Land.”
Playing to a packed room, a series of short format pieces tagged “Webisodes” invited viewers into the curious mind of Fort Worth’s Andrew Disney, a video director whose “daytime job” entails more corporate messaging at Kinetiq.
Parker
Disney
Disney and cohort Bo Parker showcased a sampling of their “Good Ideas” — a series of jaded humor skits tailor-made for the YouTube generation — detective spoofs, partay-ing, “downstairs mixups” and more … Actually, “Good Ideas” have accumulated a bit of a cult following on another video sharing site, Vimeo.com. The piece “Make A Wish” scored 200,000 hits almost “overnight” on Vimeo.
Check out these homegrown zanies at: http://www.vimeo.com/753571
Disney and company throw a nice party as well, showcasing emerging Fort Worth talent. The aftershow crowd included a varied group of friends, family, Lone Star International Film Festival luminaries and a few Sundance Square urban dwellers — even an opera diva. Fort Worth’s rock ‘n’ roll heritage was also representin’ with
Jamey Ice, Josh Jenkins, Josh Wilkerson of GRO
two generations, as several members of The Penguins of the past and the new blood, Green River Ordinance (Capitol Records) showed up.
http://www.greenriverordinance.com/
Friday’s schedule also included a red-carpet premier of “12”, “Vexville,” “Let The Right One In” and more. The evening
Johnny Langdon, Susan O'Connell, Chris Quinn
began with a good party at Bent, hosted by Fort Worth Convention and Visitor’s Bureau.
Saturday’s fare (today) includes: “My Marlon & Brando,” “Trinidad,” “Prodigal,” “Karma
Langdon, Maggie Truitt
Police,” a red-carpet premier of “Last Chance Harvey” and more.
John Wildman of LSIFF
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