March 27-28 - Philly Ska and Found Footage Festival

Fri, March 27th - Philly Ska Presents: Hub City Stompers and King Django

Hub City Stompers (CD Release!), King Django, Wareika Hill, and the Forthrights
$12 - All Ages - 7:30pm

www.phillyska.com for more info and tix

Sat, March 28th - Found Footage Festival with Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher

The Found Footage Festival is a one-of-a-kind event compiles more than an hours worth of footage from videos that were found at garage sales and thrift stores and in warehouses and dumpsters throughout the country. Curators Pickett and Prueher host each screening in-person and provide their unique observations and commentary on these found video obscurities. From the curiously-produced industrial training video to the forsaken home movie donated to Goodwill, the Found Footage Festival resurrects these forgotten treasures and serves them up in a lively celebration of all things found.

Among the new clips to be featured in the show:

; 17 workplace sexual harassment videos, edited down to three minutes of just the best reenactments
; A brand-new collection of exercise videos featuring Playgirls 1985 Man of the Year, a scantily-clad Angela Lansbury, and a guru who calls himself The Laughing Yogi.
; Video contributions by Chris Elliott and David Cross
; An instructional video on how to toilet train cats

The Found Footage Festival was founded in New York in 2004 and has gone on to sell out hundreds of shows across the U.S. and Canada, including the HBO Comedy Festival at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal. The festival has been featured on National Public Radio, ABC World News, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and G4 TVs Attack of the Show, and has been named a Critics Pick in dozens of publications, including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle and The Chicago Tribune.
"Skull Crushingly Funny" - The Onion

8pm - $10 - Free beer!
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Check out the offical trailer for the festival here!

www.foundfootagefestival.com
www.myspace.com/foundfootagefestival

Also, we're proud to announce all our Backseat Film Festival 2009 award winners as follows;

Best Feature Film - Run! Bitch Run! - Dir. Joseph Guzman
Best Short Film – Nomansland – Dir. Scott Belyea
Best Documentary - Vampiro: Angel, Devil, Hero - Dir. Lee Demarbre
Best Music Video - Turbotronics "Corporate Lady" – Dir. Jessica Burstein & Robbie Norris
Best Animation - God of Tears – Dir. Max Margulies & Naoko Masuda
Best Local Filmmaker - Going Public – Dir. Douglas Poland
Best Soundtrack - Blood on the Highway – Dir. Barak Epstein & Blair Rowan
Best Movie Title - (tie) Run! Bitch Run! / You All Fucking Deserve It – Dirs. Joseph Guzman / Justin Powers
Best Trailer - Run! Bitch Run! – Dir. Joseph Guzman
Best SPFX - Eel Girl – Dir. Paul Campion
Best Drinking Movie - Sex Galaxy – Dir. Mike Davis
Best Breasts - National Lampoon’s The Stoned Age – Dir. Adam Rifkin
Best Cars - Revenge of the Hellcat – Dir. Natalee Dacquisto
Best Zombies - I Love Sarah Jane – Dir. Spencer Stussy
Best Robots - Attackazoids! – Dir. Brian Lonano
Most Disgusting - Attack of the Staph Spider – Dir. Aramis Sartorio
Weirdest - Dec. 2666 – Dir. James Hollenbaugh & Derek Roden
Funniest - Jones Big Ass Truck Rental and Storage – Dir. Pedro Castro
Staff Favorites - Altamont Now / Puppet Rodeo – Dirs. Joshua von Brown / Kevin Maher
Filmmaker Appreciation - Adam Rifkin / Bam Margera / Bill Plympton

You can get info on all the movies on our official website!

And dont forget, the Philadelphia Film Festival/Cinefest is showcasing the Best of the Backseat Film Festival as a special 2 hour screening block and we're screening some
2009 Award winning shorts as well! It all goes down on Sat April 4th at 9:30pm
at the International House - 3701 Chestnut St in Philly! We're honored
to be a part of it and we'll be screenings our favorite shorts from the
last 7 years! You can see the full schedule and get tix here!!

And finally, check out the Backseat Conceptions/941 Theater mailing list to see what is coming up at 941 in the next few months, this is only a fraction of what we have in store!