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Blogging Dallas Video Festival: Night Two
A report from opening night and a preview of what's to come.
November 8th, 2008 | Derek Leverette
Derek Leverette blogs from the Dallas Video Festival with a report from the opening night films and a preview of the second-night lineup including feature A President to Remember: In the Company of John F. Kennedy, and The Wrecking Crew (see trailer, a documentary about backup musicians of the 60s, and festival-favorite The Pleasure of Being Robbed (see trailer).
The first night of the 21st Annual Dallas Video Festival was a great success! We're so excited to be in our third decade of programming innovative, though-provoking video art in north Texas.
Blogging Dallas Video Festival: Opening Night
The 21st Annual Dallas Video Festival opens with a screening of a painstakingly and unauthorized remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation.
November 7th, 2008 | Derek Leverette
The 21st Annual Dallas Video Festival opens with a screening of a painstakingly and unauthorized remake Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation (see trailer) at the Angelika Film Center Dallas at 7 PM. The festival runs from Thursday, November 6 through Sunday, November 9.
Have you ever loved a movie so much that you wanted to live it? This is just what Chris Strompolos, Eric Zala, and Jayson Lamb did when they were only 12 years old. Over the next seven summers, they painstakingly remade Raiders of the Lost Ark, shot for shot. The film opens this year's 21st Annual Dallas Video Festival .
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