You will not want to miss the Saturday Night After Party with Bo Weevil! Click here for details.

 

The Frederick Film Festival Special FREE
Pre-Festival Event:

F3 Eve!

A Screening of the cult film:
Heavy Metal Parking Lot
and
a Concert by Maryland's own
The Unfortunate Sons

with SPECIAL GUESTS: Filmmakers Jeff Krulik and John Heyn. Don't miss it, this is a FREE event!

7:00PM, Thursday, March 24!

The Frederick Film Festival, which runs from March 26-27, 2011, has, from their very first year, offered pre-festival events to build interest and excitement for the upcoming festival. This year’s Kickoff Event was March 4 with an evening of short films and amazing music by national recording act Emily Wells. The pre-event events continue with F3 Eve on Thursday, March 24 with a screening of the famous (infamous?) cult film Heavy Metal Parking Lot – a short documentary filmed in the parking lot of the Capital Centre in Largo before a Judas Priest concert in 1986. The directors of the films, Jeff Krulik and John Heyn will be on hand to introduce the films and answer questions.

The film is a humorous time capsule in the very best sense of the word with interviews with concert goers waiting for the show to begin. If you lived in the area in 1986, you just may see folks you know…or yourself. If you were simply a teen during the 80s, you may find the people in the film quite familiar…perhaps TOO familiar! The film’s growing cult status has gained it such fans as Nirvana, Lady Gaga, Cameron Crowe, and Spin magazine which rates it #6 in its list of the 20 Best Music Movies.

The film was initially “distributed” via videotape underground since the fledgling filmmakers didn’t secure the rights to the music in the film. In the last few years the music rights issues have been rectified in time for the film to celebrate its 25th anniversary! The Frederick Film Festival is proud to be a part of that celebration

The film will be shown with its “sequel”, Heavy Metal Picnic, which focuses on the 1985 Full Moon Jamboree, a weekend field party amongst the less than pleased neighbors in Potomac, Maryland. The film revisits the scene and talks to the people and the musicians who made the event memorable.

The film is followed by a concert from one of the film’s highlighted bands, Maryland’s own The Unfortunate Sons, performing their signature brand of psychedelic jamrock. The band’s long history insures an evening of great music. A great way to prepare for the upcoming festival!

F3 Eve at the Weinberg Center for the Arts starts at 7pm with a refreshment Happy Hour and cash bar. Mingle with the filmmakers and film fans alike while enjoying the bar. Then enjoy a screening of the two films introduced by the directors with some Q&A following the screening. THEN enjoy the raucous concert by The Unfortunate Sons. Click here for information about them!

A great free community event to celebrate F3 Eve! NO TICKETS REQUIRED! More information available at:
FrederickFilmFest.com

Or by calling the Weinberg at 301.600.2828

 

Previous 2011 F3 Pre-Events:

Emily Wells

The F3 is kicking off the events leading up to the 2011 festival with an evening of short films and live music at Brewer’s Alley starting at 8:30pm on March 4. The evening’s event is part fund-raiser, part awareness-raiser designed to preview the type of great film that will be screened at the festival later in the month. As it did last year, the F3 Kickoff blends interesting short films with live music for a full evening’s entertainment.

This year, the music is provided by acclaimed, genre breaking national recording act Emily Wells and the short films will be previews of the high quality national and international short films that will be screened at the F3 the following weekend. In addition to the music and the films, the ticket price includes great food as well as Brewer’s Alley’s number one product.

Emily Wells’ unique fusion of classical, traditional, and even toy instruments with hip hop rhythms and haunting vocal loops is the current stop on a long musical journey that began at age 4 when she took up the first of her many instruments, the violin, after seeing a girl named Midori on Johnny Carson playing a Vivaldi Concerto.  “From that moment on I had it in my head that I was going to be a violinist,” she asserts.  “I don’t know if it was the sound of the instrument, the poised young woman, or the affections of Johnny Carson and the crowd that night that allured me, but since that day my desire to make noise and be heard has not ceased.”

She “accumulated” instruments and talents in the years following that and began releasing albums on her own, literally. She would record, duplicate and distribute her works locally and, eventually, to a broader audience.  In 1998 she recorded Midori Sour which brought her to the attention of Epic Records. In her words, she “took up” with Epic in 2000 and was courted by the company, however 2 years into development and a publishing deal with Warner Chappell later, with no hope of complete creative control over her work, she opted instead to continue releasing her own records.

She has since released a number of albums and toured nationally with dates ranging from gypsy style street performance, to venues such as Sine and Joe's Pub in New York City, and Hotel Café and the Fold in Los Angeles. She has recorded with artists and producers, including Brian Lapin of Los Angeles (Black Eyed Peas), Dan Wise of New York City (Run DMC, Love and Rockets), and Jill Cunniff of Luscious Jackson. She has also scored the Hilary Goldberg short film, “in the Spotlight” which will also be screened during the evening.

The F3 Premiere Event takes place upstairs at Brewer’s Alley starting at 8:30pm. Tickets are $35 and include not only the music and the movies, but also appetizers and Brewer’s Alley’s most famous product…fresh from the tap.

 

THE McTell Brothers

On First Saturday

The F3 is proud to sponsor the Downtown Frederick First Saturday appearance of The McTell Brothers! Drop by and hear some great music and get all the latest info about the Frederick Film Festival happening on March 26-27

These guys are simply two of the best young blues guitarists around - better than most adults two and three times their age!

It all started at the tender age of 7, when Jeff and Brian got their first guitars and started lessons. And by the ripe old age of 9 the fraternal twins were already playing open mics in their home state of Virginia.

They bought electric guitars and started mastering the blues - despite not even being double digits in age, and years away from being able to hang out in bars.

The McTell Brothers have gone on to play with some of the country's top songwriters and guitarists from Nashville, Austin, New York and beyond. And they've played some of the top venues and festivals in the mid-Atlantic

The twins play and sing acoustic and electric blues, rock, folk rock as well as their own compositions. Formerly touring as the J & B Blues Project, their new name is an homage to legendary bluesman Blind Willie McTell.

WEBSITE
www.Facebook.com/McTellBrothers