Dragon Con Independent Film Festival

2009 was another year filled with excellent films and engaging panels, including:

• The Short Film festival included 84 of the best films of the fantastic. For 2009 there were ghosts in need of marriage counseling, kung-fu babies, a winged man, red-neck zombie hunters, a sociopathic dentist, an angst-ridden superhero, an action hero that just keeps getting it wrong. Death took on babysitting duties, the undead joined a Canadian curling league, and a pair of nude strangers traveled in an enchanted bathtub. There were performances by Patrick Warburton, Tim Curry, Mark Hamill, Lance Henriksen, Jim Belushi, Joey Fatone, Doug Bradley, and Ted Raimi.
• 4 feature screenings: the quirky vampire story The Death of Alice Blue, the animated post-apocalyptic Hellscape From Inside, the zombie comedy George’s Intervention, and the partly animated documentary Mythic Journeys.
• 19 panels, including a complete seminar on the fundamentals of digital filmmaking.

Selected Short Films for 2009

The Action Hero’s Guide to Saving Lives Altar Animated American The Assassin Project The Baby Shredder Song Back to Life Bathtub to Happiness Be Good Bohemibot Bridge Brother’s Keeper Burden Cataclysmo Cell Cheap Date A Christmas Tale Chroma Chameleon Clowns Vs. Ninjas A Conscience Will Kill You Dead EXIT Deadspiel Death In Charge Death in the Garden Dish Communication Elder Sign Elephants Enigma Enter The Sandbox Excision First Kill Frantic Undead A Giant Mistake Hector Corp. Hirsute The Hunt For Gollum I Spit On Eli Roth The Icebox In The Rope (Dans La Corde) Interpretation Jabbawaki Living With Cartoons Loser pays, Winner stays Lucy Wants To Kill Herself

Magritte Moment Makazie One Mrs. Brumett’s Garden Mythic Journeys: The Bone Orchard Night and Day On Edge Parking Garage The Peasant and the Root The Price to Pay “Le Prix à Payer“ Quiet realTIME – it’s just a game… Red Lines Rekindled Revenge Academy Rosfeld Scrimshander SHADOW.NET Shoot! Sirens Snapshots Snowyville Snuggle Time Soulmates Springbringer: Songs from the World of New Nature Striking Metal (Tira Bakal) Survivors That’s Magic! Theosaurology Throwaway Tiny Legs of Fire Trafficking Tree of Knowledge Unawakening Until the End of Everything Urban Wolf The Water Who’s Your Daddy? Wilted The Winged Man A Woman in the West X-Mess Detritus Zombeer Zombie Hunters

 

Feature Films for 2009

• The Death of Alice Blue
• From Inside
• George’s Intervention
• Mythic Journeys

The Dragon*Con Independent Short Film Festival awards ceremony took place on Monday, September 7st. Clips were shown from each of three finalists in 14 categories (Animated Comedy, Animated Fantasy, Animated Science Fiction, Animated Short-Short, Action, Comedy, Dark Comedy, Documentary, Fantasy, Horror, Horror Comedy, Magic Realism, Science Fiction, Thrillers.

Best Animated Short was chosen from the 1st place winners in the four animated categories. Best Short Film was chosen from the 1st place winners in the ten live-action categories. An Honorable Mention was given to films that, due to particularly intense competition, did not place first in their category. This was a juried competition.

• 2009 Film Festival Awards