Darkon (film)

Darkon
Promotional poster for Darkon
Directed by	Luke Meyer, Andrew Neel
Produced by	Tom Davis, Ethan Palmer, Christopher Kikis, Thoma Kikis, Nicholas Levis, Domenic Romano (associate producer), Cherise Wolas, Alan Zelenetz
Starring	Skip Lipman, Daniel McCarthur, Rebecca Thurmond, Kenyon Wells, Andrew Mattingly
Music by	Jonah Rapino
Cinematography	Karl F. Schroder, Hillary Spera
Editing by	Brad Turner
Distributed by	Independent Film Channel (TV)
Release date(s)	2006
Running time	89 Minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Darkon is an award-winning feature-length documentary film that follows the real-life adventures of the Darkon Wargaming Club in Baltimore, Maryland, a group of fantasy live-action role-playing (LARP) gamers. The film was directed by Andrew Neel and Luke Meyer.

Darkon premiered and won the Best Documentary Audience Award at the 2006 South By Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival in Austin, Texas. Darkon is an official selection playing at Hot Docs, Maryland Film Festival, Silverdocs, LA Film Festival, Britdoc and Melbourne International Film Festival.

The film was produced by Ovie Entertainment and SeeThink Productions.

Reception

Darkon was received extremely well by critics. The film has an 89% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on the reviews of 18 critics.^[1]

References

1. ^ "Darkon - Rotten Tomatoes". http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/darkon/. Retrieved 2009-06-02. 

External links

• Darkon
• Darkon at AllRovi
• Darkon at the Internet Movie Database
• The Darkon Wargaming Club - official site of the role-playing club on which the film is based