Tallahassee Film Festival

It makes us extremely proud to report that the short film Bohemibot by director Brendan Bellomo has won a Student Oscar! Bohemibot wowed us on the Programming Committee when it was entered and won over the audiences that watched it during our festival this year.

The story is an ambitious sci-fi treat for the senses. A great cyborg harpist, forced to serve as a pilot in the last war on his planet, struggles to overcome a debilitating injury and the loss of his family. His encounter with a young enemy captive reveals that even the din of war can never silence the voice of the heart.

From the official website:

The NYU Tisch School of the Arts Advanced Production was directed under the supervision of Executive Director of Writing Studies Professor Ezra Sacks and Animation Department Director, and Academy Award Winner, Professor John Canemaker.

Over 90 students and 80 professionals from around the world have volunteered for the film’s cast, art direction, cinematography, costumes, makeup, stunts, sound design, music, and visual effects. Bohemibot was filmed with a grant from the Panavision New Filmmakers Program, which provided a F900 CineAlta for principle photography on the 25 minute short. Renegade Effects Group generously provided special props and costumes.

Check out the trailer for it here:

Congrats Brendan!!

Congratulations to the folks at FSU’s Student Life Cinema who this Thursday will make any true cineaste proud with a brand spanking new 35mm print of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Kubrick’s cyclical epic literally spans evolution instead of just generations. Could Tarkovsky have made Solaris without it? Could Lucas have made THX 1138 without it? Steven Spielberg believes the film is the “Big Bang” of his generation of filmmakers.

The voyage begins in our prehistoric Primate past, only to jump cut millennia to a space in which humans appear to be colonized. The film then becomes focused on the life of one astronaut (played by Keir Dullea) who ultimately embraces his (im)mortality, (taking cues from The Seventh Seal?) by battling the infamous computer mainframe HAL9000 to a game even deadlier than chess.

American Film Institute’s #1 Science Fiction movie in a pristine new print graces the FSU Askew Student Life Cinema on the evening of Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 7 and 10:15 PM. The address is 942 Learning Way.

The film is from 1968, rated G, in psychedelic Technicolor, and runs 141 minutes.

For an interesting Flash explanation of the film, go HERE!

For more info (including a map) on the FSU Student Life Cinema, go HERE!