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Playlist for Dollar Baby Fest
You’re Invited!!!
To the 1st Annual Dollar Baby Film Festival (2hrs of rarely-seen short films based on stories by Stephen King).
Beginning with Frank Darabont’s “The Woman in the Room” in 1983, Stephen King has supported aspiring filmmakers by granting them the rights to his short fiction for the low low price of $1. Until now, it’s been almost impossible to view these passion projects.
The screening will be held at the University of Maine in Orono (just outside of Bangor) on September 25, 2004 at 7PM. Tickets are $5 at the door, and the proceeds will be going to the Wavedancer Foundation, a charity that supports artists injured in accidents.
The play list for the evening is as follows:
The Woman in the Room
The Lawnmower Man (nothing like the tech-heavy feature movie)
Strawberry Spring
The Road Virus Heads North
Paranoid
Last Rung on the Ladder
Lucky Quarter
All That You Love Will Be Carried Away
Q&A with directors.
(There will also be some surprise additions to this list for those souls brave enough to make the trip!)
Hope to see you there!
We’ll be staying at the University Inn in Orono (207-866-4921). Tell them to give you “Renner’s” rate. The After Party will be held just down the road at the Bear Brew Pub following the event. Congrats to all the directors who made it in the fest! Thanks for all your help!
James Renner leafeater1998@hotmail.com
To the 1st Annual Dollar Baby Film Festival (2hrs of rarely-seen short films based on stories by Stephen King).
Beginning with Frank Darabont’s “The Woman in the Room” in 1983, Stephen King has supported aspiring filmmakers by granting them the rights to his short fiction for the low low price of $1. Until now, it’s been almost impossible to view these passion projects.
The screening will be held at the University of Maine in Orono (just outside of Bangor) on September 25, 2004 at 7PM. Tickets are $5 at the door, and the proceeds will be going to the Wavedancer Foundation, a charity that supports artists injured in accidents.
The play list for the evening is as follows:
The Woman in the Room
The Lawnmower Man (nothing like the tech-heavy feature movie)
Strawberry Spring
The Road Virus Heads North
Paranoid
Last Rung on the Ladder
Lucky Quarter
All That You Love Will Be Carried Away
Q&A with directors.
(There will also be some surprise additions to this list for those souls brave enough to make the trip!)
Hope to see you there!
We’ll be staying at the University Inn in Orono (207-866-4921). Tell them to give you “Renner’s” rate. The After Party will be held just down the road at the Bear Brew Pub following the event. Congrats to all the directors who made it in the fest! Thanks for all your help!
James Renner leafeater1998@hotmail.com
Comments
you , I and everyone else would like that
I look forward to a great and enthusiastic crowd!
Robert Cochrane
Trailer and details can be seen at:
http://www.bronstineproductions.com
For those of you who don't know, Robert was also the winner of the Dark Tower video contest sponsored by Penguin and Scribner.
I will definitely be at the festival with my lovely partner, Annamaria. I don't know much about the actual screening room beyond what James told me -- he said it seats about 250. I love the pleasant problem of having long lines or selling out. Pleasant, from my perspective of course.
I look forward to seeing you all there.
Robert
Orono, Maine (September 11, 2004) - Jay Holben's Paranoid, an eight-minute psychological adaptation of the poem "Paranoid: A Chant" by Stephen King will play at the inaugural film festival of "Dollar Babies" on September 25th in Orono, Maine.
This will be the first public performance of Paranoid since the Los Angeles Film School's Halloween shorts screening in October 2003.
"Dollar Baby" is a term coined by the best selling author, Stephen King, for a select group of short stories that the writer has allowed student and aspiring filmmakers to adapt for the sole consideration of a single dollar.
As King explains in his introduction to the published screenplay for The Shawshank Redemption (Newmarket Press © 1996) "Around 1977 or so, when I started having some popular success, I saw a way to give back a little of the joy movies had given me . . . Over the objections of my accountant, who saw all sorts of possible legal problems, I established a policy which still holds today. I will grant any student filmmaker the right to make a movie out of any short story I have written (not the novels, that would be ridiculous), so long as the film rights are still mine to assign. I ask them to sign a paper promising that no resulting film will be exhibited commercially without my approval, and that they send me a videotape of the finished work. For this one-time right I ask a dollar. I have made this dollar-deal, as I call it [more than 20] times. [and] then put them up on a shelf I had marked Dollar Babies."
Dollar Baby James Renner, who made an adaptation of King's All That You Love Will Be Carried Away, has put-together the first ever public festival of these Dollar Baby adaptations to screen at King's Alma Matter, the University of Maine at Orono, where the author received an undergraduate degree in literature and his high school teaching certificate.
The film festival will take place September 25th at 7:00pm at the University of Maine at Orono in the Corbett Business Building. A Q&A with the directors will follow the two-hour event including Paranoid's Director Jay Holben.
For more information on Paranoid visit the official website at www.paranoidthemovie.com.
-James