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Winter & Spring Festivals: (Update #2) San Francisco International Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival, Santa Cruz Film Festival, da Vinci (Oregon), Faux Film Festival (Portland), Best of CouchFest (Seattle)
On Sunday, February 7, Sparks in the Night will screen at Best Of Couch Fest. The free screening will be at 3pm at the Northwest Film Forum at 1515, 12th Ave, Seattle. The da Vinci film festival in Corvallis, Oregon, will screen Murder at the Pharaoh's Grave in their festival three times, on March 12, 13, & 14th. Sparks in the Night will screen at the Faux Film Festival in Portland. The festival runs from April 2 to April 4th. The festival celebrates mocumentaries, parodies, and satire. Out of more than 2200 entries, Sparks in the Night was among the films selected for screening at the Nashville Film Festival. The festival is April 15-22. Sparks in the Night will screen at the Santa Cruz Film Festival in May. The festival seeks "independent-minded filmmakers and artists who produce culturally relevant and ideologically challenging work." The 53rd Annual San Francisco International Film Festival will be April 22–May 6, 2010 and will include Sparks in the Night. The festival is the longest-running film festival in the Americas. |
Winter Festivals: India, Cucalorus, Couch Fest, and Santa Fe In its first international screening, Murder at the Pharaoh's Grave will screen in Delhi, India in early December at the WorldKids International Film Festival. KIDS FIRST! arranged this screening. Sparks in the Night will screen at the Cucalorus Film Festival on November 14. In a great interview about the youth program, Meg Lansaw of the Festival seems to know Ben. Last year, A Friendly Game appeared at the festival. Couch Fest says "watching short films in strangers' houses = awkwardly awesome." Sparks in the Night will screen at the November 7th festival, here in Seattle. Finally, as mentioned in another news item, Murder at the Pharaoh's Grave might screen at the Santa Fe Film Festival as part of the KIDS FIRST! ceremony on December 5. |
Chicago International REEL Shorts Festival!
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in the Night September 13: "Sparks in the Night" was given the "Best Youth Entry" award at REEL Shorts. Of 900+ submissions, 75+ films were screened and 13 won "Best" awards. |
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-About Slugco-
Ben Kadie and Noah Hirsch started making movies together while third graders at Seattle Country Day School. “Perilous Skies” (2007), their WWI comedy, won the Seattle Times’ Three-Minute Masterpiece Contest. Their spy comedy “009” (2008) earned an “Thomson Innovator of the Year” nomination from the National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY). “A Friendly Game” (2008), a film directed by Ben and starring friend Dylan Forbes, was awarded a National Gold Medal from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards (Of the 140,000 pieces of art and writing submitted, 300 earned gold medals). In 2009, Ben directed “Murder at Pharaoh’s Grave”, a mystery set in the Egypt of 1997. The Louisiana Film Festival named it best middle school film and it won the NFFTY LA Trip Award for filmmaker potential. “Sparks in the Night” (2009), a 1940’s detective spoof directed by Ben, was named the Seattle Times Three-Minute Masterpiece Grand Prize Winner.
Slugco films have been screened at the Newport Beach Film Festival, the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival, the Cucalorus Film Festival (North Carolina), the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival (Alabama), the Young People’s Film & Video Festival (Oregon), the Chicago International REEL Shorts Fest, Westport (Connecticut) Youth Film Festival, and the Seattle International Film Festival.
More information about Slugco can be found in this May 25, 2009 Seattle Times article, in an article from the June 6, 2006 Bellevue Reporter and in the press mentions of "009". Also in 2008, Sony Creative Software, the makers of Vegas editing software, profiled Ben on their web site.
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