deadCenter Film Festival

Published: June 12, 2008

deadCenter Film Festival is non-stop movie action with films being screened almost non-stop at five locations in downtown Oklahoma City for 5 days.

The festival also serves as a major networking event for promising and hopeful filmmakers with seminars, panel discussions, a two-day film school, and evening social events.

The staff at deadCenter select the best films to screen at the festival and award prizes to the best narrative feature, documentary feature, documentary short, narrative short, Oklahoma film, animation, student film, a grand jury award and a founders award.

Some of the more than 90 films that will be screened at this year’s festival include:

“American Teen”
“American Teen,” takes the stereotypes from the cast of the “Breakfast Club,” and explores their real-life counter parts in a small town in Indiana. The Sundance hit follows a jock, a popular girl, a heartthrob, an artsy girl and a geek through the pressures of growing up.
Showing:
• 8 p.m., Thursday, June 12
Oklahoma City Museum of Art
• 9:30 p.m., Saturday, June 14
Harkins Bricktown Cinema 16

“The Stanton Family Grave Robbery”
We all mourn differently. The Stanton brothers dig up their recently deceased father, kidnap their youngest brother and then try to figure out how to return their father’s remains in this Oklahoma-made dark comedy.
Showing:
9 p.m., Thursday, June 12
Kerr Auditorium

“Nerdcore Rising”
Apparently smart people dig hip-hop. And in true smart people fashion, they’ve created their own brand. “Nerdcore Rising” chronicles this newest wave of hip-hop as it follows its godfather, MC Frontalot, on his first national tour.
Showing:
Free outdoor screening
9 p.m., Saturday, June 14
Corner lawn of NE 23 and EK Gaylord

“Okie Noodling II”
Your favorite hand fishing characters are back in Brad Beasley’s follow-up to the acclaimed hit “Okie Noodling.” The second adventure introduces new characters, checks in with the old ones, chronicles the advancements and issues in noodling and showcases the largest noodling tournament in the nation.
Showing:
7 p.m., Saturday, June 14
Kerr Auditorium

“Rainbow Around the Sun”
A made in Oklahoma film by Kevin Ely and Beau Leland based on the album of the same name by Matthew Alvin Brown’s band Fellowship Student. Zachary Blasto is a songwriter and performer who escapes the difficult situation of the impeding death of a loved one by creating a vivid musical fantasy. It is the musical odyssey of a man finding himself by losing his mind, the tagline goes.
Showing:
• Free outdoor screening
9 p.m., Wednesday, June 11,
Historic Film Row, 700 W Sheridan
• 5:30 p.m., Friday, June 13
Oklahoma City Museum of Art

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