2010 Audience Choice Award Monday, June 14, 2010 Congratulations to Skyler Buffmyer, who won this year's Audience Choice Award for DEATH THE DIALOGUE! Here's a picture of Sklyer from the wall of the Good Hotel, where she is forever immortalized:

2010 Shorts Winners! Sunday, May 2, 2010 Congratulations to Niles Atallah, Cristobal Leon & Joaquin Cocina who won the 2010 Grand Jury Prize for LUCIA!

They will be receiving the complete Final Cut Studio package!

Cudos also to the 2010 Honorable Mentions:
Andy and Carolyn London, THE LOST TRIBES OF NEW YORK CITY
Cassidy Curtis & Raquel Coelho, HOW TO MAKE A BABY
Magico Nakamura, Masayoshi Nakamura, Masashi Kawamura, SOUR
Skyler Buffmyer, DEATH THE DIALOGUE

Hurray!

Don't forget to vote n the 2010 Audience Choice Award before May 31st. Watch the program here and *heart* your favorite films. The winner will receive a Nexus One phone and one randomly chosen winner will receive a Disposable Film Fest swag bag!

Fun Fun Fun at DFF 2010 opening night! Friday, March 5, 2010 Thanks to everyone for coming out last night and making opening night such a big success! Turnout was fantastic, and audience response was amazing. We couldn't have hoped for a better evening.

We were honored to have so many of the featured filmmakers come out. It was great to catch up with Alex Kalman of Red Bucket Films, whose BUTTONS, Vol 2, will be screening tonight, and Ben Slotover of DFF favorite Jim and Heinz series, which we'll be featuring on Saturday afternoon at ATA.

It was especially a pleasure to meet the filmmakers in the competitive shorts category, whose submissions helped make this year's opening night such a success. Over the rest of the weekend we're looking forward to spending more time with Christopher McManus, Skyler Buffmyer, Cassidy Curtis and Raquel Coelho, Karen Abad, and Jon Shibata.

Documentary filmmaker Franck Tabouring was on hand shooting the event for his upcoming documentary on DFF. Here's a shot of his cameraman with his sweet steadycam rig for his Canon 7D:



More to come!

You'll be hearing from us soon... Sunday, November 8, 2009 Thanks everyone for such great submissions - we've been overwhelmed this year by the quantity and quality of the entries. We'll be in touch about official selections by end of November. Thanks for your patience,

Eric and Carlton

DFF NYC Recap Sunday, September 27, 2009 DFF NYC was a blast!
We were so happy to be back for our second year at Anthology Film Archives, where we got to screen selections from our 2009 program, the films of Fritz Donnelly and Christina Ewald, and the premiere of the Red Bucket Films' Buttons Vol 2.

The crowd was great, and we had a really nice conversation following the screening.

And Disposable Filmmaker Alex Itin shot a few moments from the screening, check it out:

Stairway To The Gallows from Alex Itin on Vimeo.

Bike-In Movie Recap Tuesday, May 19, 2009

DFF Audience Choice Award Winner Announced! Sunday, April 26, 2009 Congratulations to Nuno Filipe for winning the DFF09 Audience Choice Award for MALA SUERTE, a handcrafted take on the classic slasher genre. Nuno will be receiving a Nokia N95 and other DFF treats. Yay!

Thanks to everyone who voted. A winner has also been chosen among the voters who will be receiving an awesome baby dinosaur robot named Pleo. Hurray!

Vote in the DFF09 Audience Choice Awards and win a Pleo! Monday, March 16, 2009
Vote for your favorite DFF09 films! You could win a nifty baby dinosaur robot named Pleo, and the winner of the Audience Choice Award gets a Nokia N95 video phone.

We are super happy to announce that all of the DFF09 competitive shorts are now online! And if you want some more awesome, vote for your favorite one(s) from March 15th-April 15th and you'll be entered into a draw to win a Pleo.

So how does it work? Just sign into Vimeo
(if you're not a member, it takes two seconds to become one)

Watch the 09 program

Click the LIKE button to cast your vote for the films you *heart*

You can vote for as many as you like, and if you want to make the filmmakers feel extra special, leave them a comment.

Winners will be announced on our site on April 24th!

So what are you waiting for? Watch some disposable films!

And if you've been hankering to see DFF09 on the big screen, stay tuned for details on:

DFF London, Paris, LA, New York, and a special DFF SF bike-in/drive in coming this spring.

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hearts,
DFF team

DFF09 Winners! Saturday, February 14, 2009

This year's submissions for the competitive shorts were so great, we have three recipients of the coveted Trashy (as well as some sweet prizes).

Thanks for coming to DFF09 SF Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Wow, what an amazing weekend. After a year of preparations it was amazing to meet so many of the filmmakers, jury members, and supporters in person. A special thank you to all those who made it out. It was especially great to catch up with filmmakers Ben Slotover, Leslie Kennah & Oliver Nickels, Richie Gelles, Adam Pitel, Donna Kuhn, Eric Mika, and Ellen Lake. It was a treat to meet jury member Blake Whitman in person, and to spend some time with Dennis Klein. We were also thrilled to have Fritz Donnelly and Christina Ewald with us. And a big thank you to all who came out for the events, we are humbled by your enthusiasm and support.

OK, here's the rundown of how the events went:

Thursday night: DFF Competitive Shorts at the Roxie.
It was an amazing night of incredible shorts. We sold out the Roxie and added an extra screening, followed by a rockin' afterparty next door at Dalva, thanks to the Guardian. Check out the pictures here.

Friday night: Red Bucket Films' Buttons at ATA.
We had a great turnout for this beautiful film about city life, and the poetry that surrounds you if you know where to look. The crowd loved the film, and the Q&A even more. We managed to jerryrig the projector so that we could do a live virtual talk back with RBF filmmakers Alex Kalman, and Josh & Ben Safdie from their studio in New York's Chinatown. Maybe the coolest part of the evening was that the RBF guys actually watched part of their DFF screening via video webchat as it was happening.

Saturday night: Fritz Donnelly at ATA
A night of shorts by the hilariously talented Fritz Donnelly and his partner in crime, Christina Ewald. We were lucky enough to have both Fritz and Christina with us for the Q&A. All the films were fantastic, though I have to admit that my personal favorite was Make that Sound. Be on the lookout for Fritz's new stuff here.

Sunday afternoon: Disposable Filmmaking Panel at Oddball Films
This was maybe my favorite event of the weekend. We had a great discussion about the past, present, and future of disposable filmmaking that could have gone on all day (though, as promised, we had everyone out in time for kickoff - Go Steelers!). A special thank you to our panelists Nate Weinstein, Blake Whitman, Dennis Klein, Rebecca Bortman, and Fritz Donnelly, and to Oddball Films for hosting the session.

Stay posted for more DFF events coming soon!

DFF/826 Valencia Workshop Screening Monday, November 10, 2008 This Sunday 11.16 (which also happens to be Carlton's b-day) we'll be screening films made during the 826 Workshop we taught this Fall. The kids all made pretty amazing films (especially in the short amount of time they had). And we'll also be showing a few selections from our '08 program.

So if you're around, come on over to:
KQED at 4pm.
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(RSVP is required: eric | at | disposablefilmfest.com)

November 6, 2008 - Screening in New York CIty! Tuesday, November 4, 2008 This Thursday (11.6.08) at 8pm we'll be screening selections from the 2008 DFF program as well as the world premiere of the Disposable Feature Film "Buttons" by NY filmmakers Red Bucket Films at Anthology Film Archives in New York's East Village.

Doors open at 7:30pm and tickets are $10 at the door.
And come celebrate with us afterwards at Bowery Electric (corner of Bowery and 2nd).
Hope to see you there!

DFF to speak at UC Berkeley Thursday, October 30, 2008 For anyone in the Bay Area, we'll be speaking on a panel of filmmakers as part of the Fall Executive series tonight 7-9pm, October 30th, 2008. It's on campus in Rm 100 of Boalt Hall (215 Boalt Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720), so stop on by!

Spike Lee likes DFF! Tuesday, October 14, 2008 An article from Virtualization discusses Spike Lee's new feature film for Nokia Productions, which premieres tonight in L.A. at 8:45pm in Nokia Plaza. And they gave us a shout out-thanks Spike!