The Vampire Film Festival

The Vampire Film Festival (Vampire Fest) announces selections for 2010.  Vampire Fest Takes Over New Orleans October 27 - October 31 at the Shadowbox Theatre at 2400 St. Claude Avenue in New Orleans' historic Marigny district.  
 
This year's Vampire Fest's selections are our most eclectic mix of films to date. This is our most far-reaching festival yet, pushing the envelope in scope and genre.  The festival will screen long and short form, traditional and contemporary vampire film, gothic-horror and voodoo.  2010 entries include films that dramatize mythological tales including a reanimated mummified cat haunted by its former meals, and new-wave South Korean Zombies who battle with humanity against the insidious Rat People.  This year's selections include films from across the United States and entries from eleven countries, including Lebanon, the Russian Federation, Brazil, and France.  
 
Among this year's entries include iconic genre actor, Tom Savini starring in the film that Fangoria Magazine called a 19th Century "psychedelic fairytale".   Academy Award winning film composer Danny Efman narrates the Gothic Short, DemiUrge Emesis which features the work of MTV and SyFy channel veteran Aurelio Voltaire.  Vampire Fest is also presenting a host of films that range from the ethereal to the comic to the downright gory.  
  

The festival is pleased to offer ecession sensitive ticket-pricing. Advance tickets purchased on-line for all screenings are only $6.00, with special packages available that are an even better value. 
 
The film festival will kick-off with a free screening on 10/27 at 5 p.m. of Bram Stoker's Dracula and close the festival with Bram Stoker's blood relative, his great grand nephew, Dacre Stoker with a special Halloween presentation.
 
In addition to screening over 40 films the festival will feature literary panel discussions, filmmaker mixers, and a Jazz Funeral procession for a dearly departed vampire, a live vampire sketch show and much more.
 
The Vampire Film Festival is proud to present the 2010 line up:
 
Please visit www.vampirefest.com for complete film descriptions, trailers from accepted films and to purchase tickets in advance.  Advance screeners and select filmmakers are available for all media outlets.  Please contact the festival for more information or press credentials.
 
 
Opening Night, October 27, 2010 @ The Shadowbox Theatre
 
5 p.m. Free Screening of the 2006 BBC production of Dracula
 
7 p.m. Opening Night Film: Kiss the Abyss (USA) - Vampire Feature
When a young woman (Nicole Moore) is brutally killed by an intruder, her husband (Scott Wilson) and estranged father conspire to bring her back from the dead with the help of a mysterious desert dweller (Douglas Bennett). Soon after she awakens, she begins to realize that something is horribly wrong. 
 
9 pm Vampire Fantasies - A Collection of Vampire Shorts that explore the desires of vampirism
 
11 p.m. The Sanguiarian (USA) - Vampire Feature
"The Sanguinarian" is a drama/thriller centered on the solitary journey of Christoph, a suicidal vampire, as he walks through a post-industrial, sensual, and surreal world. As Christoph stays one step ahead of his own damnation, the pseudo-Shakespearean language of the vampires plays out the unfolding tragedy. It is the heart-stopping and violent diplomacy of the damned, an unconventional tale of the seductions of evil.
 
October 28, 2010 @ The Shadowbox Theatre
 
3 p.m. The Thirst for Blood - A Collection of Vampire Shorts that explores the constant need for blood.
 
5 p.m. Wanderlost (USA) - Vampire Feature
Jacob is a train-hopping drifter, alone in the world, isolated by years of ritual abuse and life on the fringe. He returns to his father's grave to break the family curse that haunts him. Here he sees salvation in a beautiful young artist who could be his key to freedom. But curses don't die so easily.
 
7 p.m. Filmmaker Mixer at the Boutique du Vampyre, 633 Toulouse in the beautiful French Quarter, (504) 561-8267
 
9:30 p.m. Sunlight's for Suckers Vampire Sketch Show  produced by Stupid Time Machine
 
11 p.m. Nightlife (USA) - Vampire Feature
"Being a vampire kinda sucks" at least that's the premise of this mockumentary comedy in which a small film crew follows six of the undead in their night-to-night lives.
 
October 29, 2010 @ The Shadowbox Theatre
 
3 p.m. Sea of Dust (USA) - Gothic Feature
The multi-award winning SEA OF DUST has the look of a Hammer film on acid. The story of a nineteenth century medical student battling other-worldly forces jumps backwards and forwards in time and through multiple levels of reality, creating a film that is "at once a black slapstick comedy, a twisted horror tale, a stylish period piece and a biting religious satire" (Fangoria).
 
5 p.m., Discussion - Living Vampirism with Father Sebastiaan
 
7 p.m. Encore Presentation - The Thirst for Blood - A Collection of Vampire Shorts that explores the constant need for blood.
 
9 p.m.  Daylight Fades (USA) - Vampire Feature
Seth abandons his pregnant girlfriend for Raven, a seductive woman who reveals herself to be a vampire. Twenty-five years later, a now immortal Seth tries to make amends by turning his daughter's dying boyfriend.
 
11 p.m. Sunlight's for Suckers Vampire Sketch Show, produced by Stupid Time Machine
 
12 a.m. Midnight Party @ Vampire Fest A Collection of Mythic Horror & Voodoo Shorts with Live Show
 
 
October 30, 2010 @ The Shadowbox Theatre & French Market
 
11am Funeral Procession for a Vampire.  Starts in Dutch Alley, 912 N. Peters Street, in the French Market, led by the Tornado Brass Band
 
12 p.m. French Quarter Scavenger Hunt.  Meet in Dutch Alley
 
3 p.m. Literature Panel - Why Do Women Write Bloody-Good Vampire Fiction @ The Shadowbox Theatre
 
5:30 p.m. - Gothic Short Films
 
7:30 p.m. Sunlight's for Suckers Vampire Sketch Show, produced by Stupid Time Machine
 
9 p.m. Marke Sjeler (Dark Souls) (Norway/France) - Mythic Horror Feature
A revengeful father embarks on a dark thrill ride of lost memories, conspiracy and zombie-like symptoms. Finding the mysterious darkness within is the source of the bizarre world he has uncovered.
 
October 31, 2010 @ The Shadowbox Theatre
 
1pm Encore Presentation - Vampire Fantasies - A Collection of Vampire Shorts which explore the desires of vampirism.
 
3 p.m.  Halloween with Dacre Stoker - Retrace the Steps to Create the Legend - Dracula. Hosted by LSU Professor John Edgar Browning
 
5 p.m. Vampire Film Festival Winning Films - TBA