Open Screen Night
- WHEN:
- Wed. 02/21 | 9:45PM
- WHERE:
- Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, at the Ritz on 6th Street map
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Theater: Alamo Downtown
Rating: Unknown
Age Policy: 18 and up; Children 6 and up will be allowed only with a parent or guardian. No children under the age of 6 will be allowed.
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OPEN SCREEN NIGHT - WITH FREE BEER!
Seriously. If you bring a movie to Open Screen Night this month, I will buy you a beer. That's if you bring ANY movie, anything at all. Don't make movies yourself? Bring in a tape you made with your favorite commercials from the 80s. Don't tape commercials? Pull a DVD off the shelf and share your favorite special feature. I wanted to increase the percentage of people in the crowd who show up with a movie, and I figured beer would do that. Plus if we all loosen we can both be a bit rowdier and also be cool with it when the movie we brought in for free beer but thought was brilliant anyway gets totally gonged off the screen. So bring your movies, bring someone else's movies, bring ANYTHING you want to share with the crowd, and your first beer is on me.
ABOUT OSN:
Open Screen Night started out with a simple idea: take the same type of open mike night venue that coffeeshops have been providing for crappy poets and whiny singer-songwriters for years except update it to give crappy filmmakers a venue for exposure, too. In the beginning we imagined it would be a pretty painful night of video, with people bringing in old video projects they'd made for their high school English classes or boring old family home videos.
We were wrong.
We still get a few bad movies at every month's show, but over the years we've also had the privilege of seeing the world theatrical premieres of several really talented and amazing filmmakers. Videos that started at Open Screen Night have gone on to Sundance or Atomfilms, and filmmakers that honed their craft and learned about audience reactions to their work at OSN have been hired at MTV or been invited to produce and direct music videos for real bands (not just crappy ones their friends are in), others have had their work featured in Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation, and the list goes on and on and so completely by accident we created the most freeform and truly independent film festival there ever was.
HOW IT WORKS:
To get your film screened at Open Screen Night, all you have to do is bring a copy of it with you to the theater anytime from 45 minutes before the showtime to the time of the show itself. We can show DVD, miniDV, VHS and even Beta if you really want us to. If you've got some other specialty format check with the theater before coming down and we'll see if we can accomodate you.
When you get to the theater, check in with Henri in the lobby and he'll grab your film and get you all set up to see it debut in front of a room full of strangers.
If your movie is good and the audience likes it more than any of the other movies, we'll give you a $100 cash prize.
If your movie isn't so good and the audience doesn't like it, we'll let them gong it off the screen after 2 or 3 minutes have passed. So please, for your sake as well as ours, bring something good.
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Wednesday, February 21
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