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“Who Doesn’t Love a Warm Cookie?”

[ohc-and-the-music-tapes-archive]

Documentary "Firewall of Sound" by Devin DiMattia featuring i.a. Julian Koster and Merge Records. Premiered in Autumn 2010

(link if video isn't working; it’s Vimeo so you might need to be logged in to see it)

It's great but if you want to watch only the parts with Julian, it starts around 0:20:00, also 0:37:00 (0:35:27 for context) and 0:57:49.

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Cucalorus Internship 6/8/23

Rae Goergen

This week at Cucalorus we went to the Lumbee Festival in Pembroke NC! The other interns and I got to walk around and help our with marketing by passing our flyers for the screenings and trying to get people to come. We also got to help set up a merch bar and help set up for the actual screenings.

We also got a chance to look at old Cucalorus-related art! The picture above is from an event that Cucalorus had a few years ago where they got poets to write poems for people on a type writer, and sold them for a dollar each. I thought it was pretty cool.

[dustingrella]

The Animation Bus will be at the Cucalorus Film Festival in Wilmington, NC on November 20-24. Let me know if you are in the area.

[tartsky]

11.23 // Sad Boys @ Cucalorus (NC)

[aristocratslog]

Murder Camp from Clara Aranovich on Vimeo.

"Two slasher killers make the fateful mistake of showing up to the same summer camp on the same night..."

Starring and Written by Will Lagos & Jeremy Radin Directed and Edited by Clara Aranovich

Adapted from the one-act play "Kevin & Greg" by the same people. Developed in partnership with Public Assembly.

CAST: BECKY - Olivia Holguín JOHNNY - Ian Peterson KEVIN - Will Lagos GREG - Jeremy Radin CREW: Written by Will Lagos & Jeremy Radin Directed by Clara Aranovich Produced by Clara Aranovich & Lillian Campbell Associate Producer - Alana Dietze, Ahmed Darwish Lead Set PA - Dylan Arnow Runner - Izze Gunn Runner - Nic Murphy PA - Nic Bratcher Director of Photography - Samudranil Chatterjee 1st AC - Brielle Steele Prepping 1st AC - Minami Moriyama 2nd AC / Loader - Alfredo Garcia Steadicam Operator - Brian Freesh Gaffer - Collin Gibson Key Grip - Michael Madden Best Boy Electric - Dane Bruhahn Sound Mixer/Boom-Op - Anthony Gonzalez Production Designer - Kiki Harris Hair & Makeup - Kiki Harris Special Effects Consultant - Simon White Costume Designer - Nicole Lippman Park Ranger - Anthony Miller Set Medic - Eric Gladstone Editor - Clara Aranovich Visual Effects - Anderson Mills Supervising Sound Editor - Noah Hunt Sound Supervisor - Sebastian Visconti Sound Effects Editor. -W Blake Cook Additional Dialogue Replacement - Voiceworks Audio Re-Recording Mixer - Noah Hunt Assistant Re-Recording Mixer - Grant Cornish Composer - Josh Grondin Colorist - Jack Tashdjian

FESTIVALS/AWARDS: Fantasia Film Festival Beyond Fest Brooklyn Film Festival Cucalorus Nashville Film Festival | Best Graveyard Shift Short Catalina Film Festival | Best Director & Best Ensemble FilmQuest | Best Comedy Short SLASH Film Festival Uppsala Short Film Festival

Hollyshorts Brooklyn Horror Film Festival | Best Ensemble FemaleEye Film Fest Soho Horror Film Festival Not Your Daddy's Films Paris International Fantastic Film Festival | Oeil D'or Mutoscope Film Festival Saskatoon Film Festival | Silver Audience Award Lake County Film Festival

[andynortonuk]

We Are Here from 271 Films on Vimeo.

25+ festivals, 2 awards and counting. Doménica and Constanza Castro are the first Mexican Sisters to be in the run for an Oscar® in the Academy's history.

Four young immigrants reveal their hopes and dreams as they navigate a perilous system that defines their fate and freedom.

Awards and Nominations 2023 NAACP Image Awards - Best Animated Short - Nominee 2022 Animated Shorts Jury Award - New Hampshire Film Festival *Oscar Qualifying 2022 Grand Jury Prize for International Fragments - DocsMX

Official Selection: Sundance Film Festival, 2022 LACMA Shorts "I Am Series", 2022 Cleveland International Film Festival, 2022 The Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival, 2022 Festival Internacional de Cine de Guadalajara, 2022 Barnes Film Festival, 2022 Palm Springs International ShortFest, 2022 Pyeongchang International Peace Film Festival, 2022 Nantucket Film Festival, 2022 Guanajuato International Film Festival, 2022 Doqumenta Festival de Cine, 2022 Rhode Island International Film Festival, 2022 Hollyshorts, 2022 Salute Your Shorts Festival, 2022 Tallgrass Film Festival, 2022 Indie Street Film Festival, 2022 Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, 2022 New Hampshire Film Festival, 2022 DocsMX, 2022 SCAD Savannah Film Festival, 2022 DOC NYC, 2022 Still Voices Film Festival, 2022 Cucalorus Film Festival, 2022 Pittsburgh Shorts, 2022 Festival Internacional de Cine de Almería, 2022 3ra Edición Semana de Cine Migrante, Cineteca Nacional, 2022 Official Latino Film and Arts Festival, 2022 Miami Film Festival, 2023 Chicago Latino Film Festival, 2023

Miami Film Festival, 2023

CREDITS: Cast: Dulce Valencia Deron Ingraham Anonymous Valeria Marchesi

Crew: Directed and Produced by: Doménica Castro, Constanza Castro Executive Produced by: 271 Films , Antigravity Academy, Eloy Méndez, Scott Minerd, Carlos López Estrada, Kelly Marie Tran Written by: Doménica Castro, Constanza Castro, Salvador Pérez García Visual Art & Animation by : Cecilia Reeve Edited by: Salvador Pérez García Music by: Jesi Nelson Digital Intermediate : Company 3 Senior Colorist : Jill Bogdanowicz Company 3 Senior Producer: Matt Moran Company 3 Executive Producer: Ashley McKim Audio Post Production: One Thousand Birds Sound Design & Mix by: KT Pipal Recording Engineer: Jackie! Zhou OTB Executive Producer: Guin Frehling

[emzeciorrr]

349 from Kristen Lauth Shaeffer on Vimeo.

349 (short dance animation, 3:05)

Created with hundreds of pencils and hundreds of hands, "349" is a collaborative animated dance film that explores the idea that we're all imperceptibly connected.

To create "349," a dance performance was videotaped and converted into a series of still frames. Over the span of two years, 349 different people each redrew one of these frames after being asked to "draw yourself and someone with whom you have a significant connection." The resulting drawings were scanned, sequenced, and synced to music to create the short animated dance film.

2016 New Orleans Film Festival, New Orleans, LA; 2017 Film Society at Lincoln Center + Dance Films Association's Dance on Camera Film Festival, New York, NY, and National Tour; 2016 Cucalorus Film Festival, Wilmington, NC; 2016 Paris International Festival of Animated Film, Paris, France; 2016 Tallgrass International Film Festival, Wichita, KS; 2017 Dance Camera West, Los Angeles, CA; 2017 Topanga Film Festival, Topanga, CA; 2016 DCTV + Dance Films Association's Long Legs Short Films, New York, NY; 2016 Dallas VideoFest (Jury Prize for Experimental Short), Dallas, TX; 2016 San Francisco International Festival of Short Films, San Francisco, CA; 2016 Video Art And Experimental Film Festival, New York, NY; 2016 Salamanca Moves MOVE-ies (Audience Vote Winner), Hobart, Tasmania; 2017 Third Coast Dance Film Festival, Houston, TX, and National Tour; 2016 American Dance Festival's Movies by Movers, Durham, NC; 2017 Denver Film Society Women + Film Festival, Denver, CO; 2017 Cascadia Dance & Cinema Festival, Vancouver, British Columbia; 2017 Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, NM; 2017 Cine Corps Paris, Paris, France; 2017 Capitol Dance & Cinema Festival, Silver Spring, MD; 2017 C.A.R. Contemporary Art Ruhr, Essen, Germany 2017 Mana Contemporary Chicago’s Body + Camera Festival, Chicago, IL; 2016 Flipbook Animated Film Festival, Little Rock, AR; 2016 University Film and Video Association (Honorable Mention for Animation Filmmaking), Las Vegas, NV; 2016 Film Kitchen, Pittsburgh, PA; 2017 DeSales University Screendance Festival, Center Valley, PA; 2016 Blue Plum Animation Festival, Johnson City, TN; 2017 Black Maria Film Festival Finalist

Soundtrack "Rescue," by Sessa can be found: iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/album/rescue-music-from-349-single/1333864204 Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/2lWHoCgVGGraNVOm74NytU YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=NuDLFgp4NJU

349 on Facebook: facebook.com/698dancepartners/

kristenlauthshaeffer.com

[philipperivrain]

We Are Here from 271 Films on Vimeo.

25+ festivals, 2 awards and counting. Doménica and Constanza Castro are the first Mexican Sisters to be in the run for an Oscar® in the Academy's history.

Four young immigrants reveal their hopes and dreams as they navigate a perilous system that defines their fate and freedom.

Awards: 2022 Animated Shorts Jury Award - New Hampshire Film Festival *Oscar Qualifying 2022 Grand Jury Prize for International Fragments - DocsMX

Official Selection: Sundance Film Festival, 2022 LACMA Shorts "I Am Series", 2022 Cleveland International Film Festival, 2022 The Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival, 2022 Festival Internacional de Cine de Guadalajara, 2022 Barnes Film Festival, 2022 Palm Springs International ShortFest, 2022 Pyeongchang International Peace Film Festival, 2022 Nantucket Film Festival, 2022 Guanajuato International Film Festival, 2022 Doqumenta Festival de Cine, 2022 Rhode Island International Film Festival, 2022 Hollyshorts, 2022 Salute Your Shorts Festival, 2022 Tallgrass Film Festival, 2022 Indie Street Film Festival, 2022 Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, 2022 New Hampshire Film Festival, 2022 DocsMX, 2022 SCAD Savannah Film Festival, 2022 DOC NYC, 2022 Still Voices Film Festival, 2022 Cucalorus Film Festival, 2022 Pittsburgh Shorts, 2022 Festival Internacional de Cine de Almería, 2022 3ra Edición Semana de Cine Migrante, Cineteca Nacional, 2022 Official Latino Film and Arts Festival, 2022 Oaxaca FilmFest, 2022

CREDITS: Cast: Dulce Valencia Deron Ingraham Anonymous Valeria Marchesi

Crew: Directed and Produced by: Doménica Castro, Constanza Castro Executive Produced by: 271 Films , Antigravity Academy, Eloy Méndez, Scott Minerd, Carlos López Estrada, Kelly Marie Tran Written by: Doménica Castro, Constanza Castro, Salvador Pérez García Visual Art & Animation by : Cecilia Reeve Edited by: Salvador Pérez García Music by: Jesi Nelson Digital Intermediate : Company 3 Senior Colorist : Jill Bogdanowicz Company 3 Senior Producer: Matt Moran Company 3 Executive Producer: Ashley McKim Audio Post Production: One Thousand Birds Sound Design & Mix by: KT Pipal Recording Engineer: Jackie! Zhou OTB Executive Producer: Guin Frehling

[growsinspirals]

proud to announce that i will be showing my first VR 360 film “Record Warped in.tha Daily (Short)” at the Cucalorus Film Festival this Saturday in Wilmington North Carolina! soo much gratitude to @theschoolofmakingthinking for creating and inviting me to participate in the IMMERSION 4.0 VR summer residency program; this is the space where i gained knowledge on how to create using 360 cameras as a medium. many thanks to @cucalorus for providing space and being intentional in us learning about the space and place we were creating in. and the surf lessons juss took me! omg 👌🏾🥹🤯✨ also too, big thank you to UNCW’s Film Studies Department for providing access to their VR headsets and for overall being open with their tools, knowledge, facilities as well as for being super supportive! but yeah, if you catch yourself in Wilmington NC this Saturday, definitely try to make time and peep.. the IMMERSION 4.0 VR Salon will be from 2pm to 6pm at the Thalian Ballroom (@thalianhall) i’ll be there with family and will be able to share my intentions, answer questions and just connect. for those who aren’t able to make it, if you’d like to see what i made, reach out to me, i’ll share the unlisted link excited to be in this stage of development and in the company of a really talented and supportive community 🙏🏾🖤✨ more details about saturday are in my bio soo much love and gratitude to all involved! 📸 1. salon info 💅🏾✨ 📸 2. sugarloaf 🪞🤙🏾 📸 3. new slaves ⛓🤍** 📸 4. alexander manly 🖤💯** // note: slides with ** are archival references for the film from New Hanover County Library // (at Wilmington, North Carolina) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClEtULFOVLc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[leahshore]

HANDS Wins Honorable Mention at Indie Memphis 2018!

HANDS Wins Honorable Mention at Indie Memphis 2018!

HAAAAAAAANDS!!! That’s right, she is still hands-ing to play at film festivals…my signal film I made for the amazing film festival CUCALORUS just won a damn Honorable Mention award at Indie Memphis!! I am so sad to have missed this one. NOT to mention my new film, Funeral was also playing there. Wow. Just wow. Thank you Jury members, thank you staff, programmers, volunteers, filmmakers,…

[shirleygnome]

Goodnight @cucalorus and thanks for the hangover. Next stop Victoria Nov 25 and Duncan Nov 26. Should be recovered by then... maybe... ❤️🤢❤️🤢❤️🤢 photo by @wallychung at @cinekink • • • #cucalorus #filmfestival #stage #citystage #northfronttheatre #artsfestival #wilmingtonnc #northcarolina #filmington #northcameralina #shirleygnome #takingitupthenotch #cabaret #musicalcomedy #jengos

[dr-archeville]

“I’m a former businessperson realizing that I’m an artist,” says Durham-based filmmaker Stephanie Diane Ford, whose career trajectory has been an example of following your passion.

After earning a business degree and working in IT and software development, Ford moved to Paris to pursue fashion management.  Motivated by the desire to escape the 9-to-5 and immerse herself in a visually creative environment, she discovered her love for filmmaking while creating a short promo trailer for her fashion blog.  It didn’t feel like work.

“Once I discovered my interest in film, I knew I could hit the ground running as a producer because management just came naturally,” she says.  “That whole process was fun from start to finish.  I decided in that moment, this is how I want to spend most of my day.”

Eight years later, she’s a “Filmed in NC” grant recipient from the Cucalorus Film Foundation.  Her first short, The Black Baptism, premiered at the Hayti Film Festival in February, and then screened at the Hip-Hop Film Festival and the Revolution Me Film Festival, where it won in the “Best Horror/Thriller/Sci-fi” category.

Next, at 8:00 p.m. Thursday, August 27, The Black Baptism appears in a block called “Tough and Transforming” in the Tarheel Shorties Film Festival.   A program of Wilmington’s Cucalorus Film Festival, Tar Heel Shorties showcases indie films from North Carolina.  It usually takes place in Wilson but is online-only this year.

A genre-blurring ode to Black women in search of their higher selves, the Afrofuturist film takes viewers deep into the main character’s psychological state, skillfully incorporating African and European mythology and religion in nuanced ways.

“The first character, the Goddess, she is inspired by the Egyptian Pantheon, and the overall story comes from the Yoruba Oya story mythos,” Ford says.  “Those stories correlated with the themes I wanted to tell, and they create the space to put it in a fantasy environment.”

Ford says the plot was inspired by a combination of her personal life experiences and the collective experience of Black women: “The feeling like there’s no protection, on a collective level.  The feeling that we’ve got to figure it out all alone.  Everything’s a struggle.  You know we’re overworked, having to build things from scratch, not having something established to walk into — but then, look at what can come.”

The protagonist, played by Amethyst Davis, begins as a prisoner.

“She just has herself,” Ford says.  “She starts off naked, imprisoned, barely getting any supplies.”

But as the 20-minute film progresses through short vignettes, we realize a murder has occurred, which results in the prisoner being forced to navigate a series of life-or-death challenges that are meant to connect her to her divine purpose.  

The Black Baptism is also a metaphor for the dynamics of dysfunctional relationships and break-ups.  Ford considers what internal healing looks like in order for an individual to take responsibility for their own actions.

“Most people don’t,” she says.  “We really do have the power to create our own reality.  As hard as it is, when you really take full ownership of that, you move away from being a victim in a lot of ways.”

Rather than a specific romantic relationship, the film reveals the emotional turmoil and pain women experience as a result of relationship lows or breakups.

“For some people, certain relationships stick with them forever,” Ford says.  “So it really is, for women, a process to work through that type of hurt sometimes.  That is what shaped the foundation of why [the protagonist] needed to connect to her spiritual side instead of being stuck.”

There are a number of important messages embedded in the plot, communicated through the Goddess that directly assists the protagonist and the viewers.  For Ford, the most important takeaway from the film is the tagline — “fear is a lack of imagination” — which reminds us that, through collective self-belief, Black women can overcome almost anything.

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Tarheel Shorties Film Festival Tuesday, Aug. 25–Thursday, Aug. 27, 8 p.m. free–$25 suggested donation

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Leah Bivens - CUCALORUS #3

The most recent task I’ve been assigned is arranging a “shorts block” for a mock film festival. I have to arrange a couple of short films to screen together that have a common theme. For my shorts block, I chose “Dance Films.” Films are at their most powerful when they make you feel something. Sometimes, film makes you feel emotions, and sometimes, film makes you feel the urge to dance! The dance films I’ve sifted through on film freeway are all so unique since they technically fall under the experimental category rather than narrative or documentary. My favorite dance films so far is a low-poly 3D animated film about two star people dancing in space and another film of two dancers smearing paint over each other.

As the festival approaches, I’ve been helping label boxes of merchandise or arranging swag bags filled with tshirts, key chains, and stickers. I’ve also helped empty Jengo’s playhouse recycling bins.

During the festival, I will act as a concessions worker, line manager, or door manager. Other volunteers will be joining us, so it is relieving that we aren’t the only ones making this event possible. I plan to work 3 out of the 5 days of the festival.

[schlock-luster-video]

Today in sci-fi horror / monster movie history: on November 15, 2014 King Kong (1976) was screened at the Cucalorus Film Festival.

Here's some art to mark the occasion!

[georges-left-ear]

I just submitted my first film to a festival and I feel so proud of myself. It’s my senior student thesis film and I produced it from the ground up. I had a FANTASTIC crew and it could not have been done without them. (I would also just like to point out that all 4 of the above the line crew positions - Director, Producer, screenwriter, and lead acting role - were women). Who knows if we will actually get accepted but I am just proud of myself for making a film and even submitting it seriously to a festival. Even if it is a silly comedy with really just potty humor. <3