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May 4, 2010
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The Birth of Big Air is coming to deadCENTER!

Legendary BMX pioneer and favorite native son Mat Hoffman will help kick off the 10th annual deadCENTER Film Festival on Wednesday, June 9 with a special free, open-to-the-public outdoor screening of “The Birth of Big Air,” the highly acclaimed documentary about his life and career.

Academy Award nominee Spike Jonze and extreme sport fanatic Johnny Knoxville, along with director Jeff Tremaine, showcase the inner workings and exploits of the man who gave birth to “Big Air.” Partially shot in Oklahoma, the film was created for ESPN’s 30 for 30 series.

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March 28, 2010
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X Games deadline is April 5th!

It’s the final round of the deadCENTER X Games, and your last chance to win two free all-access passes to the 10th annual deadCENTER Film Festival!

Here are the ground rules:

  • Films can be no longer than 1 minute.
  • Film must illustrate the theme of “April Showers” however you choose to interpret that.
  • Film must also incorporate an “X” in some way.  (cause it’s the 10th deadCENTER…get it?) Again, however you choose to interpret that.
  • Films must be delivered on DVD on April 5th, no later than 5:00pm at Coffee Slingers, 1015 N. Broadway Ave in OKC.  We’ll have a dropbox set out for you.
  • Please include contact information directly on the disk.
  • Select entries will be featured on the deadCENTERfilm.org website; if you have a YouTube or Vimeo account, send us a link so we can show you the love.
  • The winner of the passes will be announced on April 9th.

Some of you slackers blew off last month’s contest in favor of sitting on the couch watching basketball… this month there are no excuses! Make a movie! Win passes! Live life and be happy!

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March 26, 2010
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Coffee. Mexican Food. Lots of Films. Arguments. Programming Day is Tomorrow.

Tomorrow is my favorite deadCENTER-related day outside of the festival itself: programming day. Yup, tomorrow is the day we program the entire festival, setting the schedule and venue selections for features and panels. The really fun part, though, is putting together the shorts programs. We get so many quality shorts of all different kinds and lengths that it becomes a struggle to slot them all into related sections. And it’s not just that putting this stuff together is logistically difficult – we all have our personal favorites, and since we’re all passionate about film, things can get heated. It’s like Christmas morning for people who like to argue a lot.

Personally, I’ve got a few films I’m ready to defend to the death tomorrow. One of them, a feature, I know I’m going to have a hard time convincing the others to program. But that’s the fun/point of programming day. It’s your chance to make deadCENTER your own. Winning an argument over whether or not a short makes it in to the festival means you’ve just put your own personal stamp on the festival. Cooler than that, it means that an independent film you saw at random during bag swap will now be up on a screen and thousands of people will now have the opportunity to see it. Very cool.

This will be my fourth programming day, and like the first three times, I’m going to lose some battles (ask me sometime about the fight I lost last year. I loved the film so much I stole the only screener copy we had after it was decided it wouldn’t make it), but hopefully I’ll win one or two as well. Whatever happens, though, we’ll all go get lunch at La Luna, enjoy the films we watch, and, at the end of the day, feel really excited about the great films we get to show to all you lovely people.

And that’s programming day.

-Ian

P.S. – We’ll be tweeting about all of this tomorrow. Follow us @deadcenter

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March 9, 2010
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This Is An Announcement: Screening of The Great Contemporary Art Bubble at City Arts Center this Wednesday

Be sure to make your way down to City Arts Center on Wednesday, March 31 for a screening of The Great Contemporary Art Bubble. A reception will begin at 5:30, with the movie following at 6:00 and a panel discussion beginning at 7:40. Tickets to the event are $10 – student price is $7.00. Tickets include wine, popcorn, the film and the panel discussion after the movie.

For more information, visit www.cityartscenter.org or call (405) 951-0000.

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March 8, 2010
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This Is An Announcement: Screenwriting Class Offered by OKCMoA

The Oklahoma Museum of Art will be offering a series of classes on screenwriting. The classes are only have space for 12 students, so hurry up and secure your spot!

WRITING THE FESTIVAL SHORT

Sundays, March 28-April 25, 1-4 pm (5 classes)
Ability level: Novice/Beginner
$70 members/ $90 nonmembers (materials provided)
Maximum enrollment is 12 students.
Instructor: Kevin A. Mahoney

This class will focus on the completion of a short, twelve-page screenplay for festival consideration. Emphasis will be placed on character development, effective use of conflict, adherence to dramatic action, and revision. Students will watch film clips, read scripts, and participate in roundtable discussions.

For more information or to enroll, call (405) 236-3100, ext. 213, or register online at http://www.tickets.okcmoa.com.

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February 24, 2010
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You there – the procrastinating filmmaker! Deadline for submissions is NEXT WEEK.

Oh wow. I know it’s not just us – March has officially snuck-up on everyone and is about to catch us with our time-wasting pants down. But here’s the deal. The deadline for submitting your film for this year’s deadCENTER film festival is March 3rd. Yeah, as in, NEXT WEEK, WEDNESDAY MARCH 3rd is our submission deadline.

So bust out the stiff envelopes, packing tape, or carrier pigeons and get your movie into our hot little hands. We want to see them. All of them.

Details for submitting are at the very top of our home page, and you’re already on our website. So you have no excuses. Get on it, people.

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February 21, 2010
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This Is An Announcement: Song of Sparrows Showing Today, 2pm at Kerr McGee Auditorium

“This is an announcement” is our new category when we have non-deadCENTER events in Oklahoma we want you to know about. So, yeah, pay attention when you see it. Follow the jump to get the details.

OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY FILM INSTITUTE
Presents eight international films in the theme of “This I Believe.”
Sundays, 2 PM, Kerr McGee Auditorium in the Meinders School of Business at NW 27th Street and McKinley – Free Admission

This Sunday February 21st:

Majid Majidi’s Song of Sparrows (2008), Iran, 96 min.
From Iran, the country once again most requested on evaluation forms last year, comes another film by Majidi. In fact, people wrote, “Anything by Majidi.” Working at an ostrich farm outside of Tehran, Karim leads a simple and contented life with his family in their small house until one day when one of the ostriches runs away. Thus begins another one of Majidi’s unforgettable parables. When Karim travels to the city to help his elder daughter’s hearing, he finds himself mistaken for a motorcycle taxi driver. He then begins his new profession: ferrying people and goods through heavy traffic. How will this change impact his life?

-“At times funny, sad, poignant and suspenseful, Sparrows is a showcase for Majidi’s masterful storytelling.” SF Chronicle
-“The images in The Song of Sparrows have a poetic grace that’s to be desired in storytelling.” Boston Globe
-“A fable of a righteous man’s relationship to his family, his community and most of all his faith..” NY Times


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February 17, 2010
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X Games, Round Two

Round two of the deadCENTER X Games are underway!  Make a One Minute Movie and your film could win two free all-access passes to the 10th annual deadCENTER Film Festival.

Here are the ground rules:

  • Films can be no longer than 1 minute.
  • Film must illustrate the theme of “March Madness” however you choose to interpret that.
  • Film must also incorporate an “X” in some way.  (cause it’s the 10th deadCENTER…get it?) Again, however you choose to interpret that.
  • Films must be delivered on DVD on March 8th, no later than 5:00pm at Coffee Slingers, 1015 N. Broadway Ave in OKC.  We’ll have a dropbox set out for you.
  • Please include contact information directly on the disk.
  • Select entries will be featured on the deadCENTERfilm.org website; if you have a YouTube or Vimeo account, send us a link so we can show you the love.
  • The winner of the passes will be announced on March 12th.

Now get shooting!

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February 7, 2010
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deadCENTER X Games: Round One Deadline is Monday!

Grab a camera, call some friends, and make a one-minute movie this weekend to win two free all-access passes to the 10th annual deadCENTER Film Festival!

deadCENTER is holding three monthly competitions leading into this year’s fest, challenging filmmakers everywhere to create a short film one minute long, based on a theme. In defiance of the shameless commercialism Valentine’s Day has become, this month’s theme is “No Love.”

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February 4, 2010
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This is it, people!

Hello and welcome to the new and improved deadCENTER website! As you can see, this isn’t just a fresh coat of paint, it’s a complete rebuild. We’ve tried to make it easier to navigate, better for mobile devices, and hopefully pretty as well. The front page is similar to what you’ve grown to know and love from our old site – the latest news and announcements about the festival. This page, however, is what we’re really excited about. We’ve named it “filmCENTRAL” because that’s precisely what we are aiming for. We want this to be the central location for discussion about independent film and culture in Oklahoma.

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