As usual we are running a little behind. But have no fear. Tickets should be going up today for sale through boxofficetickets.com (or this weekend). Notifications for final selections for films will be done today! Director Stuart Gordon is attending and also very likely to be seeing the Darkest of the HIllside Thickets. We also are planing to screen The Whole Wide World at least once during the festival. Stay tuned for more news.
The judges have narrowed the field of 30 screenplays to the final six for judging in the 2010 screenwriter competition.
- HPL10-0180 Carnacki: The Ghost Finder by Kurt Lustgarten
- HPL10-0175 Immaculate Deception by Bryan Holm
- HPL10-0166 I Am the Doorway by Robin Kasparík
- HPL10-0157 The Whisperer in Darkness by Nicholas Kubik
- HPL10-0134 Kingdom Street by Matt Morgan
- HPL10-0101 Cult Flick by Brian Hauser
The first H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival® in Los Angeles was a success! Thank to everyone who came out for it, supported us, and especially, allowed Andrew to sit back, relax, and not have to deal with anything.
Yes the rumors are true... I will be retiring (or going on sabbatical for awhile), this October festival will be my last as a director. I have been running this festival for 15 years and am out of sanity points. So what does this mean? Well Aaron Vanek has started a satellite festival in LA which will become an annual event. The Portland event is in limbo until I can find someone to replace me.
Thanks to Lee Moyer and Brian Callahan and an idea from your's truly, we have our 2010 T-Shirt. What does it all mean Elwood?
Ticket Sales for 2010 Portland, Oregon (Oct 1-2-3)
TICKETS via BoxOfficeTickets.com
You can also purchase the tickets at the door the day of the show.
We apologize to all those of you have been trying to email us here at the festival. We've had D.O.S. attacks on several of our email boxes thanks to all those spammers out there. Still getting 1000's of emails. We are blocking IPs and it should settle down. So again sorry if you sent anything in the last couple of weeks and if we haven't responded. cheers
Thank you. FireQuake!
Thanks to all the filmmakers and screenwriters and authors for another great year.
You can see the 2010 Portland Awards by clicking on the link. We will also be putting up the Special Jury Award to the Vancouver Film School for the Best Spirit of the Festival Award.
"Picture in the House", "Silas and the Tomb" were also both nominated for Best Adaptation.
"40 years" has won the Festival Director Award for best Cinema-photography and Sound Design.
"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Michael Swertfager has won the Festival Director Edgar Award for Outstanding Effort.
Congrats to all and our deepest thanks!
The festival will be held Friday Sept. 16 (7-midnight), and Saturday Sept. 17 (4pm-midnight). There will be 13 hours of programming, vendors, guests and more.
Easy parking, pay for two hours on Saturday, then it's free.
The festival hotel will be the Crowne Plaza.
Look for more info from festival director Aaron Vanek next year!
Happy Holidays