Have you ever felt like there aren’t enough pinups, hotrods, zombies and beer at film festivals? Then maybe you should check out the Hot Rod and Monster Film Festival this weekend, July 18th and 19th at the 911 Media Arts Center in downtown Seattle.
The event is sponsored by Go-Kustom Rekords, Ol Skool Rodz, Car Kulture Deluxe, The Pin-Up Angels and The Rat Bastards Car Club. It’s their first film festival and is described as “a working class film celebration of grease, ink and iron.”
The beautiful Pin-Up Angels will be hosting the event and acting as official usherettes, selling beer and concessions during the festival. The Pin-Up Angels are a non-profit group that sends care packages to US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. All donations will go to their cause.
Event Registrar D.A. Sebasstian says the festival will have “car-show feel” and hopes to bring people together who love iconic kustom kulture – for the non-greaser that means anything ‘50s. For a bit of spice, zombies were thrown in the mix. And who doesn’t love zombies?
“During the selection process local films went to the top of the list, I was surprised at the high number of submissions we had – considering it’s our first festival,” Sebasstian. “We also tried to make an interesting mixture of films. One block might be zombie shorts with a hot rod documentary; another might be a chopper film with Rockabilly music videos. The last block on Sunday night is all zombies!”
Among the 8 features screening at the festival are the Seattle premieres of “Hot Rod Girls Save The World,” “Choppertown: The Sinners, Hot Rod Havoc” and “The Road To.” Also playing is the lo-fi zombie extravaganza RetarDEAD, directed by Rick Popko and Dan West, featuring Dead Kennedy’s singer Jello Biafra as the Mayor of San Francisco.
The festival is laid out in six two hour blocks over two days with each block containing a mixture of feature films, shorts and music videos. The cost for a 2 hour block is $10 per person. Local radio station KGRG will be on hand to keep the party going.
The 911 Media Arts Center is located at 402 9th Ave. North, Seattle WA 98109, on the corner of 9th and Republican, in the same building as SIFF headquarters.
To learn more about the festival, please visit the 2009 Hot Rod Monsters Film Festival Official Website at www.hotrodmonstersfilmfest.com. It’s sure to be an absolute blast and we can’t wait to hear how it goes! If you’re out this weekend at the Bite of Seattle or just enjoying the nice weather, please come and support your local filmmakers!
