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PROJECT TWENTY1 2010 MEMBERSHIPS

You attend our events, you’re already Facebook friends with us, you receive our newsletter. NOW, join Philadelphia’s hottest film community and become an official Member of Project Twenty1!

What does that mean?

Members receive:

-Discounted or free admission to most Project Twenty1 events through December 2010
-Discounted admission to many partner events throughout Philadelphia and New York.
-Discounts on film industry products and services like equipment, rentals, software and more!
-Secret Member-only coupon codes for use on our website
-Member-only raffles & giveways at live events
-Member-only newsletters & advanced ticket sales/event notices
-Priority Seating during P21Fest
-1 free blast per membership on our Twitter & Susie Filmmaker Facebook account about your upcoming projects, cast and crew needs, or screening

As with any volunteer-run organization, members are the backbone of Project Twenty1. Thanks to our members, we can continue to provide inspiration, connections, exhibitions, and promotion that helps “starving artists” within the P21 community evolve their hobbies into successful film, animation, and arts careers.

If anybody you know attends Project Twenty1 events, this gift will save them time and money in 2010! Or become a member yourself! Get your Membership on our Store by Dec. 15th, and it will be mailed out to you by Holiday time.

LIMITED-EDITION DVDs:

FREE SHIPPING ON ALL DVDS UNTIL DECEMBER 15!!!

PROJECT TWENTY1 Presents: “LIGHT” (Vol. 2)

After much anticipation, it’s finally here! In the summer of 2008, 30 Teams of filmmakers had 21 days to make films up to ten minutes long based on the Element “Light.” The films that came in blew us away! Since screening at our festival, these films have screened in over a dozen other festivals, TV networks, and screening series nationwide, including The Temecula Valley Film & Music Festival, The Bare Bones Script-2-Screen Film Festival, Collingswood TV, and The Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival.

Now, you can own “LIGHT” on a dual-layer DVD featuring over 4 hours of content! This disc includes all 30 original short films, plus director’s cuts and trailers! See what independent filmmakers can do with 3 weeks time and a spark of inspiration. Buy “Light” here!

This is a LIMITED-EDITION RELEASE of less than 100 copies! So those of you who keep asking about this, get your disc now or forever hold your peace. This DVD is only $20.00.

Support our humble film organization, and our filmmakers, and get yourself a copy! And then get 5 more for all your friends!

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PROJECT TWENTY1 Presents: “21″ (Vol. 1)

We also have NEW versions of our Volume 1 DVD: “21″. “21″ is NOT the casino film of the same name (ours was first!), but rather a DVD featuring all 17 short films created for Project Twenty1 based on our first year’s Element “21.” From shopping carts to lottery tickets to… well, fine, there is a blackjack game or two in there, see what 17 Teams of filmmakers from around the world did with three weeks and the number “21″! In addition to the films, this disc also contains director’s cuts, behind-the-scenes, trailers and documentaries about the making of one of the films, as well as Project Twenty1 itself.

For the completionist, VOLUME 1 and VOLUME 2 look great next to each other on the shelf. (Just saying.) And Volume 1 is yours for just $15. Buy it HERE!

BONUS!

Get VOLUME 2: “LIGHT” together with VOLUME 1: “21″ for just $30.

Order now to ensure delivery (and free shipping!) by the holidays.

Happy Holidays to everyone, and hope to see you all in 2010!

Your friends, as always,

Stephanie Yuhas, Executive Producer
Matt Conant, Artistic Director
Project Twenty1
Not Just A Film Festival
www.ProjectTwenty1.com

Project Twenty1’s very talented friend KEA  is producing a show called  ‘The Wild Life’ at Flickerlab. It is an animated cartoon about farm animals who are working together to help take care of the planet and has been featured on TV2.

The show is doing a news segment featuring young people doing their own projects to help clean up the environment and reduce their carbon footprint. This can be as small as riding your bike or walking instead of driving, planting your own or a community garden, making some changes around the house like switching to ‘environmentally healthy cleaners’ or as big as planning a “Green Theme” for your next party, homecoming or social event!

If you or someone you know would like to be featured on TV let us know – and they will be considered for an on-site interview by Flickerlab Studios and have opportunity to tell the world about their project!

For more information, or if you have any questions – contact KEA Kelly Alcock at: (kea@flickerlab.com)or call the studio (212-560-9228). Feel free to pass this along to your friends. Good luck!

Project Twenty1 has been involved in the building of an arts district in Norristown throughout 2009. Last week was our first official community meeting, covered here by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. Great things are happening!

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Original source: Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance

(November 10, 2009) NORRISTOWN – The time is right! Over the past few years artists, residents and community leaders in Norristown have talked, on and off, about creating an arts district in their town. Six months ago a group began working to turn that talk into reality.

Since May, an ad hoc group, they named themselves the Norristown Arts Task Force (NATF), has been meeting regularly to plan for the creation, launch and sustainability of a cultural district anchored on DeKalb Street.

On November 10th, NATF held its first public meeting; inviting a targeted group of stakeholders to learn about the district project over breakfast at the Montgomery County Cultural Center.

Here’s what the more than 50 people in attendance learned at the breakfast.

•    Norristown already has an established arts community; including the Montgomery County Cultural Center, Theatre Horizon, Elmwood Park Zoo, Norristown Arts Building and film arts group, Project Twenty1. These organizations provide great base for launching a cultural district.

•    The cultural district will be a tool for neighborhood and economic revitalization in the downtown.  The group plans to recruit nonprofit arts groups, creative businesses, individual artists, as well a complementary businesses (restaurants, book stores, coffee shops, etc.) to the district.

•    The borders of the cultural district will be fuzzy, intentionally so, to allow the district to grow organically. DeKalb Street will be the heart of the district and NAFT has inventoried buildings, empty parcels and parking lots along DeKalb as well as several blocks of Main Street, They’ve created a database that will be regularly updated to allow potential businesses and tenants to easily see what’s available in the district.

•    And the district’s name? The task force decided to enlist the public’s help to name the district. Flyers were distributed throughout town, the Times Herald ran an article about the naming contest and creative juices began to flow. Names submitted by the public were reviewed and the field was narrowed to five. The public will be invited to vote for their favorite among the finalists. Sorry, we can’t reveal any of the contenders until they are officially released for voting.

•    NAFT will hold a launch event” in April, 2009; the official kick-off for the new cultural district.

•    The NATF has teamed up with Norristown Municipality to apply for $125,000 in county funding to promote Norristown, the downtown and the arts district.  Marketing initiatives will include an interactive website highlighting downtown businesses, restaurants and arts venues and a promotional campaign through SEPTA to highlight the town’s and cultural district’s proximity to the Norristown Transportation Center; billboards.

At the end of the presentation, participants were asked to join the Norristown Arts Council, a permanent organization that is forming to take over from NAFT to support the cultural district. More than a dozen attendees volunteered to join the new group whose first meeting will be held December 11, 2009
For more information about Norristown’s nascent cultural district contact:

Gabriela Ibarra Prete
Business Development Coordinator
Norristown Municipality
GIbarra@norristown.org
Phone: 484-614-0393

Project Twenty1 is helping found a new arts and culture area in Norristown, and here is some news coverage to prove it!

(original source)

‘The game of the name’
Thursday, October 15, 2009

By CARL ROTENBERG
Times Herald Staff

NORRISTOWN — The arts community is seeking an “ear-catching” name for the municipality’s arts and culture area.

The “Name the Arts” contest sponsored by the Norristown Arts Task Force is running until Oct. 25. Residents and non-residents, artists and business persons are invited to send their suggestions to Fran Doyle, Montgomery County Cultural Center, 208 DeKalb St., Norristown, PA 19401 or by e-mail to NametheArts@gmail.com.

The arts district is located on DeKalb Street, from Lafayette Street to Marshall Street.

“Norristown can’t use ‘Avenue of the Arts’ because it’s a trademarked name in Philadelphia,” said Matt Conant, the chairman of the naming committee for the Norristown Arts Task Force. “It is a branding issue as much as anything. San Diego has the Gaslight District and New Orleans has the French Quarter. Having a name for a district helps people immediately identify it and it helps artists become affiliated with it.”

Task force members plan to publicize the top five name suggestions and put the matter to a vote.

“By the end of October we want to have all the suggestions in,” Conant said. “The community will vote on their favorites.”

An outdoor festival to celebrate the name and the district will be held in April 2010.

Entries should include name, age, phone number and e-mail address. A photo of the entrant should be included if available.

The winner of the contest will receive a $100 cash prize.

“There will be fuzzy borders, so if there is a business that is outside of DeKalb Street, it will still be included,” Conant stated.

(Photo by Montgomery County Cultural Center Centre Theater. www.artscc.org)

P21Fest has wrapped, and it was another awesome year! Thanks so much to all who were in attendance! So many of our friends, members, in-kind sponsors, and supporters came out in droves from all over the world! We were, as always, humbled and thrilled by the crowds. For those who weren’t, we’ll fill you in on all the awesome stuff you missed so you know what to expect next year! (You can also download the program HERE by right-clicking and selecting “Save As”.)

2009 AWARD WINNERS

2009 P21FEST WRAPUP

This year was our largest Festival to date. Project Twenty1 screened over 50 films this year, held 10 workshops, and 4 parties, in a 4-day run from October 1st-4th, based in the International House Philadelphia, and this including party venues all around University City: Marbar, Distrito, 12 Lounge, and The Ellen Powell Tiberino Museum. We could not have done it without the help and support of all of these venues, especially International House, who has been a proud supporter and fiscal sponsor of P21 since 2008, which makes donations to Project Twenty1 tax-deductible under their 501(c)3 umbrella.

Our winner of Best Marketing, Team Justice Productions, did an awesome series of podcasts documenting their 21-Day Filmmaking process, as well as the Festival itself. So if you missed any of it, be sure to check them out right here! Or, at youtube.com/jprodlcc

UPCOMING SCREENINGS & PROMOS

Although P21Fest is wrapped, our work is just beginning. We’ll be supporting our community of filmmakers, both from the Philadelphia Filmathon and the 21-Day Filmmaking Competition, by submitting the films in our library, on your behalf, to our partner festivals around the country, in an attempt to earn our artists as much exposure as possible.

For starters, just this past weekend, our 2008 winner Leon & The Wolf, screened to a packed theater as a part of the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival, October 11th as a part of their shorts showcase “Dark”. PAAFF put on a great festival this year, and we look forward to working with them more closely in years to come.

Also, Project Twenty1 is co-sponsoring two screenings this year at FirstGlance Film Festivals in Philadelphia, PA, on Friday, October 23.  First up at 7:45 pm, we are hosting the Filmathon film, “Chasing the White Dragon”, directed by Kathilynn Phillips, which is surrounded by some amazing shorts (tickets). And if you missed the winner of our 21-Day Filmmaking Competition, be sure to stay to check out the 10:45 screening of “Ghost Light,” by Team Emerald Productions, to be followed by the feature “Ice Grill USA” (tickets).

Our Award-winning films (and select other festival favorites) will be sent to dozens of other festivals in the coming months, so stay tuned for more information!

2010 and BEYOND

As you may or may not realize, 100% of Project Twenty1’s staff and executives are volunteers. As we move into 2010, we hope to be able to add to our community and support more artists through our network and festival, but we are at maximum capacity right now with the artists we do have, and our organization is growing too quickly for us to be able to run it on a purely volunteer basis. In 2009 alone, in addition to our existing programming, we have added 2 new screening series, networking events, educational workshops, artistic parties, and an internship program. The bottom line: WE NEED SUPPORT to keep providing the same level of quality programming and artist support that we’ve been offering to date.

The good news is: every single one of you can help!! How, you ask?

HELP US FIND A TITLE SPONSOR: We have the mission, we have the programming, and we have an amazing network of artists and loads of community support in a city ripe with film, animation, arts, and business opportunities. We also have the ability to get a sponsor’s name, logo, and branding in front of a large audience. We simply haven’t had time to search for sponsors on the level necessary to support our burgeoning organization. Finding a corporate sponsor who loves what we do and wants to affiliate themselves with us would help alleviate the financial strain on us and our artists, and allow us to continue in 2010 and beyond.

So we’re asking you, our community: do you know anybody who works at a medium-sized to large company, looking to attract consumers, or looking to market their brand to trendy, artistic, technologically-savvy individuals? We have the audience, and we’d love to talk with them about how they can get involved. Please, put them in touch with us. Simply email us, and help make the introduction. Note that we are not begging for free “handouts”. We will work for our sponsors, and we will provide to them the audience they need. We just need help getting our foot in the door. Anything you, our community, can do to help, would be immensely appreciated. Again, we may not be able to hold this kind of festival again without you!

CONTRIBUTE OR BECOME A MEMBER: Project Twenty1 runs year-round events, and partners with countless organizations, in and around the Greater Philadelphia region. BECOME A MEMBER on our website, and receive discounts and coupons off many Project Twenty1 events, and partner events throughout the region. As a Member, you will also receive first knowledge of upcoming events, and coupon codes for use on our website. We also highly value our members’ input, so by joining us, you will be able to help us drive the decisions and future of our organization.

Not able to attend our events but want to contribute anyway? MAKE A DONATION! All donations over $25 result in a membership for yourself or an individual of your choosing as well.

You can also follow us on the following sites:

SUSIE FILMMAKER on FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/projecttwenty1

TWITTER: www.twitter.com/projecttwenty1

MYSPACE: www.myspace.com/projecttwenty1

WORDPRESS: www.projecttwenty1.wordpress.com

Thanks so much everybody for making 2009 such a tremendous success. We look forward to working with you to continue our programming in the future, and see you again at our next events!

Stephanie Yuhas, Executive Producer
Matt Conant, Artistic Director
Project Twenty1
Not Just A Film Festival
www.ProjectTwenty1.com

More on our awesome P21Fest events soon, we swear! In the meantime, we wanted to get you this breaking Festival Partner News:

Last year’s 21-Day Filmmaking Competition winner, Leon & The Wolf, is screening again in Philadelphia this weekend!

Just one week after being included in P21Fest 2009’s Philadelphia Filmathon, Leon will receive an encore screening at the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival, taking place Friday, Oct. 8th – Sunday, Oct. 11th. The film was directed by the super-talented young director Andrew Kerekes, who is of Korean descent and hails from Aiea, Hawaii. Kerekes has participated in the 21-Day Competition every year since the competition’s inception in 2006.

Leon will be part of a shorts screening in PAAFF taking place Sunday, Oct. 11th at 1:00pm at (where else?) the International House Philadelphia’s Ibrahim Theater. Yep, the same venue as P21Fest, so you should already know how to get there! Other films in the screening include Blood Colony by Jason Holcomb, The Letter by Kris Mendoza, and Imprint by Van Blumreich. The screening is collectively titled “Dark”, ironic considering Leon and the Wolf was created with the 2008 secret Element (“Light”) in mind.

Project Twenty1 is proud to be co-sponsoring the “Dark” screening at PAAFF. Go check it out and support our partners at PAAFF. Tickets now available.

Opening Night at Project Twenty1 launched the festival with a bang last night!

The Opening Night screening, You Might As Well Live, a hilarious indie film directed by Simon Ennis, about a loser named Robert Mutt, trying to prove he can be a ‘real somebody,’ was extremely well-received by the audience. “I was laughing so hard, I peed a little,” said one attendee who will remain anonymous for obvious reasons. “That’s embarrassing. But no really, I’m pretty sure I peed a little.”

The screening was followed by an awesome party at Distrito down the street, where the filmgoers were able to hang out and enjoy $5 margaritas and good company as they prepared for the rest of the weekend’s events. One lucky raffle winner, Penny DeeNey, walked away with a Glidecam HD-2000 at the end of the night! Photos from Opening Night will be available soon, but we’re busy coordinating all the events for the coming days!

The festival continues through the weekend, starting with workshops Friday afternoon at International House (37th & Chestnut), covering everything from shooting with the Canon 5D Mark ii to Marketing through Social Media to Grant-writing to Pitch workshop where you can present your idea for peer feedback.

The events continue at 4:30 with Speed Networking at the Sheraton where aspiring artists in the film and animation world can get together and help each other turn their projects into careers.

And of course, tonight Project Twenty1 will be screening the top Shorts submitted to this year’s Philadelphia Filmathon, followed by a Friday Night FX Party at the Tiberino Museum.

So before you miss any more fun, come down to the International House at 3701 Chestnut Street RIGHT NOW, grab yourselves a program, and get involved!

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – September 28, 2009 – The film THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE APPLE AND THE TREE will receive its Philadelphia Premiere this weekend as an Official Selection and the Closing Night Screening of the 4^th annual P21Fest, a celebration of independent film and animation.

The Distance Between the Apple and the Tree was directed by Philly-area native Bajir Cannon. Trying to escape his family and his American upbringing, the film’s young protagonist Will Jr. looks for a new life in Cambodia. Through a spiritual community, he seeks explanation of the world around him. Finding instead only fractional and conflicting solutions, he questions the purpose of his time abroad and the meaning of newly formed relationships.

Meanwhile, back in New Jersey, Will Sr. and Linda are struggling with their son’s departure. Will Sr. cannot grasp his son’s rejection and ingratitude as his health condition worsens. Linda, while trying to understand her son’s choice and comfort her husband, is forced into mediating the conflict between the two men.

“The film is amazingly unbiased in its portrayal of two generations of a typical American family. You feel for all three characters to some degree as they each try to cope with the changes in their lives and their family,” says Project Twenty1 Artistic Director Matt Conant. “As a film festival, we get a number of submissions each year that are essentially very one-sided ‘parents don’t understand me’ films, and that made Distance really stand out for us as a such a refreshing change of pace.”

The film was shot in Cambodia and suburban New Jersey. The shoot in Cambodia consisted of just four crew members and two actors, living together in a rented house with a dirt floor kitchen. Cannon described the search for the actor who would play the young boy, saying, “I literally drove around on a moto looking for young kids in different small villages.  We found Meng down by the banks of a river, digging in the mud looking for iron nuggets left over from the Khmer Rouge.”

There was also the challenge of shooting the large group scenes with dozens of Cambodian extras. Cannon says, “We had offered to pay and feed everyone who came, so we imagined that would attract a pretty big crowd.  Sure enough, hundreds of folks showed up.  But so did the village elders who threatened to shut down the shoot until we realized they were essentially asking to be bribed.  We gave them a couple bottles of whiskey and $100 bucks, and the men went up the road and we were able to get our scene.”

DISTANCE will screen on October 4^th 2009 at 5:30 pm at the International House Philadelphia’s Ibrahim Theater. Both the film’s Producer Jacob Robinson and actor Michael H. Johnson (Will Sr.) will be in attendance, and there will be a Q&A following the film.

Attendance is limited to the first 350 people, so advance tickets are suggested by visiting www.ProjectTwenty1.com.

Check out the trailer below for a preview! Individual tickets are available  here, and VIP all-Access passes, which allow you into every P21Fest event October 1st-4th, are on sale here.

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Following the screening of Distance, there will be an hour dinner break, followed by the Project Twenty1 2009 Awards Ceremony at the Ibrahim Theater at 8:30pm, and concluding with the Closing Night Party at 12 Lounge a few blocks away.

Check out this week’s print issue of Philadelphia Weekly, featuring Project Twenty1 (and a lot of other awesome news, as usual!) OR check out our blurb online:

Project Twenty1

Philly’s constantly expanding and contracting film fest market has had some growing pains. But the folks at Project Twenty1 have managed to pull off a constantly expanding repertoire for the fourth year running. Thursday kicks off four days of film screenings, workshops, events and parties with the Philadelphia premiere of the comedy You Might as Well Live, followed by a party at nearby Distrito. Visit the website for the full schedule, but be sure to check out the weekend slate of films made this past summer in the fest’s three-week (or, ahem, 21-day) window—in all, more than 50 flicks, including 30 world premieres. With a schedule this big, perhaps some of the city’s bigger film fests could learn a little something. Jeffrey Barg 7pm. $8. International House, 3701 Chestnut St. 215.253.7640. www.projecttwenty1.com (original souce)

Debating skipping our Friday night and waiting until the weekend to join us at P21Fest? If so, you might regret missing this…

The night begins with an awesome screening of the top Short Live-action Films submitted to our 2009 Philadelphia Filmathon, starting at 8:00pm at International House.

After the screening, join us for the best kick-off to October you’ve ever seen! Project Twenty1 and American Dream Machine present an unbelievable party celebrating the art of horror, the horror of art, and the beauty inherent in both, with our Friday Night FX party @ the Tiberino Museum starting at 9:30. Come in costume, or come as you are… just be there!

Friday, October 2, 2009
8:00 pm - FILMATHON SHORTS SHOWCASE (individual ticket) (discount passes) Ibrahim Theater International House 3701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA (map) The 2009 Philadelphia Filmathon Shorts Showcase contains the touching, the revolting, the hysterical, and the terrifying! Character-driven dramas and outlandish comedies mingle with ghosts, vampires and hit men in this screening, which is sure to have something to please everyone. It’s the best of the best Philadelphia Filmathon short film submissions from 2009! With a special bonus from the P21 producers themselves…
Leon & The Wolf	Dir. Andrew Kerekes 2008’s 21-Day Competition Winner, this film has been screened in nearly a dozen other festivals and venues across the country since its creation last year, so we thought it deserved one more with us. Leon wants out of the mafia. But freedom comes at a price.
Refuge	Dir. Wade Ballance To survive a sudden climate change, the poor are forced into underground refuges for survival. But their only true chance of survival is getting back out.
Boner Buddies	Dir. Sam Sero Two hipsters become best friends when they get boners over the same things.
Musically Inclined	PHILADELPHIA PREMIERE! Dir. Storenzo Domenech A man falls asleep on a NYC subway, listening to music and observing those around him. As he drifts off to sleep, each passenger sparks a different dream.
Young Love	Dir. Emily Carmichael A simple offer — Tell me one of yours and I’ll tell you one of mine — leads to a devastating disclosure.
Dan, In The Corner	U.S. PREMIERE! Dir. Matt Mahoney One day in a coffee house, a beautiful girl’s forgotten phone leads Dan on a path of self-discovery.
Cute Couple	PHILADELPHIA PREMIERE! Dir. Courtney Moorehead Balaker When Zach and Kendra realize they have been dethroned from the coveted position of “Cutest Couple”, they have to create a new identity in order to stand out from the pack.
Bleeder	WORLD PREMIERE! Dir. Wade Ballance A chance encounter will change Alex’s future and may give him a second chance to live the life he once knew.
Leon & The Wolf: The Parody	WORLD PREMIERE! Dir. Andrew Kerekes The Director of Leon & The Wolf returns with… a parody of his own film! This hilarious animation proves out 21-Day Winner has a sense of humor about himself.
The Ghost And Us	EAST COAST PREMIERE! Dir. Emily Carmichael Laura’s thrilled with her new boyfriend, not so thrilled that his house is haunted by the ghost of his dead wife.

Thursday, October 2, 2009

9:30 pm – 2:00am – FRIDAY NIGHT FX The Ellen Powell Tiberino Museum 3819 Hamilton St., Philadelphia, PA 19104 (map) $5 CASH at the door/FREE with V IP All-Access Pass An amazing theme party to promote and exhibit Makeup FX artists (and get some people made up!) Following the awesome Filmathon Shorts Showcase at International House, retreat with us at 9:30 to Friday Night FX, hosted at one of the coolest, funkiest venues in the area, The Ellen Powell Tiberino Museum! About a 10 minute walk from the I-House, The Tiberino Museum is truly one of the hidden jewels of a city that proves Philadelphia celebrates the arts in all their forms. And yes, there is even a bar, serving a selection of delicious beverages.You’ll want to bring your camera, not only for the amazing artwork but the… FX MAKEUP CONTEST! Come decked out in your most hideous wounds, burns, scars, scabs, humps, lumps, and general pustulous beauty and compete for the title Project Twenty1’s Best FX Artist of 2009…and some stuff in a giftbag. If you are a Special FX makeup artist, bring out some of your gear and GO NUTS – use us as your canvases! And take pictures for your portfolio! Note: Wearing FX makeup/costumes is optional. But don’t be offended when someone compliments you on your awesome monster makeup job and they’re talking about your natural face. OH, NO! Presented by American Dream Machine Graphic Design by Jim Cairns “Clawed” makeup by Chris Bowen Note: Party admission is free with your stylish VIP lanyard! All others, it’s only $5 CASH at the door! This is super-exclusive, so tickets cannot be sold individually in advance.

And the FX/makeup fun has only just begun! Saturday afternoon we offer TWO more workshops on film makeup and special effects. One for actors on the basics of looking good (especially in this world of HD closeups) hosted by skincare professional Nicole Hollenbeck, and one on special effects makeup, hosted by forensics expert C. L. Zastrow, and makeup artist Chris Bowen.