Backseat Film Festival

Backseat Film Festival

The "Backseat Film Festival" is an independent film festival organized by Doug Sakmann, Nick Esposito, and Zafer Ulkucu. [cite web |title=A home at last for local directors and their films |publisher=Philadelphia Inquirer |date=2008-07-15 |work=Daily Magazine |url=http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20080715_A_home_at_last_for_local_directors_and_their_films.html | accessdate=2008-07-18 ]

Beginning in Park City, UT during the winter of 2003 as one of many alternatives to the Sundance Film Festival it quickly transformed into a touring festival that continues to the present day. [cite web |title=The Backseat Gets Messy Every Month in New York |publisher=Film Threat |date=2003-06-11 |work=Headlines |url=http://www.filmthreat.com/index.php?section=headlines&Id=1497 | accessdate=2008-07-18 ]

During the summer of 2003 the festival joined forces with the Vans Warped Tour and its screening bus, the Dirty Erin, traveled through 44 cities across North America playing films for tens of thousands of young people. Doug Sakmann, former Festival Director for the Troma Films' Tromadance Film Festival, filmed a slasher film series Punk Rock Holocaust during this tour which garnered international press attention for the festival. [Citation | writer=Martens, Todd | title=Warped Tour Bands Team For Film | magazine=Billboard | date=14 July, 2003 | page=page 27] [Citation | writer=Staff Writer | title=Murder Most Horrid | magazine=Kerrang UK | date=27 September, 2003 | page=page 6]

Backseat is currently based in Philadelphia, PA. The touring festival travels across the U.S. each year screening films for those interested in edgy, alternative indy films. It has also showcased it's film lineup at the Cannes Film Festival.

Featured films

*Punk Rock Holocaust
*Plaster Caster
*Automatons
*Fudge 44
*Prison-A-Go-Go!
*God Squad!
*Stupid Teenagers Must Die
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*Gimme Skelter
*Films by Rusty Nails

References

External links

* [http://www.backseatfilmfestival.com/ Backseat Film Festival Official Website]


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