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March 23, 2008
Further information call Michael Hurley 207-338-1975 or mikeh@midcoast.com or Click Here for the full shedule. Pictures are available at all performers web sites at end of this listing.
Comic Arts Laugh Festival is getting its giggle on.
Belfast, Maine’s first Comic Arts Laugh Festival now has a fully packed schedule on tap to run from April 9 to 13th. Politics, elections, Iraq, the economy, fuel bills, global warming, Governors gone wild, deficits, and bad roads got you down? It could be worse. Think killer asteroid. The doctor’s order? Lighten up and come have a laugh.
The five day event with all things of humor and comedy at it’s heart will feature a night with Maine humorist Tim Sample, a trio of comedians from Boston, a famed pair of filmmakers from Los Angeles, a Mystery Theatre 3000 voice over skewering of Belfast films including Peyton Place and Thinner, a full slate of classic and independent films, a wild Rocky Horror Picture Show, readings, poets, storytellers, musicians, and much more. A kids cartoon extravaganza, brunch, “after party”, and much, much more makes it a week worth being a part of. It will be hard to choose but easy to enjoy.
Everything all gets underway when one of the top 100 American Film Institute films “Doctor Strangelove” is introduced by film historian Baird Whitlock on Wednesday evening. A full schedule, fast paced and varied, will fill days and nights that will not end until late Sunday night.
From a call for films that went out nationwide a 4 hour screening of independent films submitted from all over North America will unreel Thursday in a premier introduced by film studies Prof. Gordon MacLachlan.
Friday night will make for some hard choices as Tim Sample holds down one stage as just across town Probot Productions founders: filmmakers and Belfast native Carla Norton and Damon Wellner introduce a 10 year retrospective of their Los Angeles based animation films. It just keeps getting busier and busier from there.
Saturday features a non stop day of workshops on Youtube and film making, the famous comic entertainer and musician Jackson Gillman, cartoons, a full schedule of independent films, The Night of the Living Comedians, a rollicking Rocky Horror Picture Show, classic films introduced by Ken Eisen of Railroad Square, and more.
Organizers and performers, filmmakers, and participants are getting ready to laugh their way through mud season. This year, the first year, of a crazed and energetic comedy festival is getting itself underway. A great and fun show is promised to all. And next year will be better and bigger. Did you hear the one about a comedian walks into a small town? It was never the same.
Links and web site info:
Here are web sites with photo links.
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- 1. Colonial Theatre www.colonialtheatre.com
- 2. Comic Arts Fest www.comicartsfest.com
- 3. http://timsample.com/ Tim Sample
- 4. http://www.geocities.com/northshorecomedy/rentacomic.html comedians: Tom Hayes/ Tom Clark/ Rob Steen are currently scheduled
- 5. http://jacksongillman.com/ Jackson Gillman
- 6. Mystery Theatre 3000 http://mst3k.com/
- 7. Maine Organization of Storytelling Enthusiasts MOOSE http://eventinfo4moose.bravehost.com/calf.html
- 8. Damon Wellner & Carla Norton www.probotproductions.com
- 9. Rocky Horror Picture Show http://www.rockyhorror.com/
- 10. Railroad Square Cinema http://railroadsquarecinema.com/
- 11. Belfast Maskers http://www.belfastmaskerstheater.com/
- 12. Shadow Distribution http://www.shadowdistribution.com/
- 13. Ned Lightner Insight Production BCTV 2 www.belfastcommunitytv.blogspot.com/
- 14. American Film Institute http://www.afi.com/
- 15. Youtube www.youtube.com