Matildakay Redux: Volume 1, Issue 4 – Noveltown and Cinema of the Lords at BIFF 2.0
Have you been to the movies lately? Have you gotten your animation, chick flick, comedy, thriller and horror movie fix? Well Noveltown, Spotlight Theatre and Seat of Your Pants Productions has just what you’re looking for! The Bakersfield Independent Film Festival - BIFF 2.0 is back!

Yesterday I sat in a theatre full of children with ‘happy feet’. “Shhh… sit down!” Parents whispered trying to control their children, all sugared up on soda pop and candy, who wanted to get up and tap dance with the penguins on screen. Even I was tapping my feet. The music in Happy Feet is great! Penguins danced and sang while teaching that it’s ok to be different. It’s ok to be yourself!

I wonder if there will be any animation films at BIFF 2.0 on November 24th and 25th? I loved the stop motion film Fresh Fish they showed at BIFF last year.

Buried within all the dancing and singing and great animation was a message to take care of our environment. I wonder if the children watching understood that message or if it was meant for the adults?

Would there be films or documentaries with socially conscious messages at BIFF 2.0? I wondered.

A couple weeks ago I hid my eyes behind a coat while watching Saw III in a packed theatre. The torture, the gore, the horror! I couldn’t handle it. I ran away to the bathroom twice.

I bet Hectic Films will have some of their brand of horror and gore at BIFF 2.0. I thought.

I may have to hide out in the lobby of the Spotlight Theatre and have a latte if I get too scared. Their serial killer thriller Skip was quite disturbing.

I wonder if Hectic Films will be showing Skip or their Fly on the Wall series at BIFF 2.0?

Have you seen Coca Cola’s short film contest winner that shows right before the previews in the movie theatre? It shows a documentary filmmaker trying to film monkeys in the wild but the monkeys just sit there and don’t do anything until they see his bottle of coke. They go crazy for the coca cola! It’s funny!

If short film contests are good for Coca Cola they’re good for Noveltown and Bakersfield too!

Noveltown’s short film contest Cinema of the Lords entries will all be featured at this year’s BIFF 2.0! There will be some creepy Lords of Bakersfield scenes depicted. Various versions of Joey Minstrel will grace the screen. I hear even Simon Sundale will make an appearance. All entries are based on the novel Lords: Part One by local author and blogger N.L. Belardes. (Buy your copy here!)

I can’t wait to see the Cinema of the Lords entries and find out who the winner of the Noveltown’s short film contest is!

BIFF 2.0 details…



Roger Mathey of Seat of Your Pants Productions has put together the Bakersfield Independent Film Festival BIFF 2.0 celebrating Southern Central Valley films showing at the Spotlight Theatre on November 24-25, 2006.

BIFF 2.0 showcases films by local Bakersfield filmmakers or films with local Bakersfield actors or films with some kind of Bakersfield connection and brings together the community of Bakersfield and future filmmakers of tomorrow. Noveltown’s Cinema of the Lords short film contest fits right in at BIFF 2.0 promoting local filmmakers and authors and literary arts.

A world of laughter, drama, suspense, animation, features and shorts that can’t be seen anywhere else but at BIFF 2.0 are just waiting for your viewing entertainment for only $5 per 3 hour block or just $15 bucks for all the films. November 24th and 25th 2006 showing at the Spotlight Theatre, 1622 19th Street. Call to make your reservation. 661.634.0692.

Thanks to the Gernert Company out of New York, Spotlight Theatre, Russo's Books, Hectic Films and Noveltown: Noveltown is having a raffle and giving away prizes at BIFF 2.0!

Here’s what you can win:

-24 x 36 BIFF Movie Poster ($25 value)
-Hard cover of John Grisham's new book, The Innocent Man ($30 value)
-Audio book copies of John Grisham's new book, The Innocent Man ($35 value)
-Soft Cover copy of N.L. Belardes novel Lords: Part One ($15 value)
-Tickets to Spotlight Theatre performances ($15 value)
-3 Russo's books gift certificates ($15 value each)
-Hectic Films T-Shirt ($10 value)

BIFF 2.0 and Noveltown go hand in hand in helping fuse California’s Southern Central Valley arts into one community.

See you all there!

Watch a commercial for BIFF 2.0 by Hectic Films…






  posted by Matildakay at 7:41 PM