Raging Deathers!

We have had word back from the 2 Days Later chaps, they now have our film and have announced the times of all the films. As a bonus they even mentioned the IOM in their e-mail to all entrants:

We received over 800 requests for this year’s 2DL09 competition brief, so word is rapidly spreading about the event. We have received films from Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, & Isle of Man; two films from Switzerland and one in 3D!!!

(yeah, there is apparently one in 3D)

At the moment we don’t quite know how the judging is going to work, if the shortlist of 13 films given an evening viewing are the category winners then there’s a good chance we won’t be winning anything, but since this hasn’t been confirmed we’re staying confindent.

There is some pretty good news though; they had 58 films entered this year (the most ever, apparently) and since there are so many it has been a sqeeze getting them all in. They have a number (three) of monitors in the theatre where the premiere is shown, which are dotted around the complex, as well as the main showings in the cinema screens - we have managed to score a 4pm showing slot as part of the Matinee Screening which is great news!

Unfortunately it’s looking like we’re not going to be able to make it to the showing due to cost and time restrains, but if anyone happens to be in or near Margate (however unlikely) you could do worse than popping into the Theatre Royal on the afternoon of Saturday 31st October to see Get Dead on a proper cinema screen.

We are still working on a local showing of the film, which if all goes to plan will actually be a longer version of the one being shown for the competition (we had to cut it down by several minutes to fit into the entry specifications). Our plan was to try for something over Halloween (well, Hop-tu-naa) but we’re getting close to that date now and people are already making plans for the weekend - a rare sighting of Swound! in particular. Our original screening plan was pretty cool and hopefully we can still pull it off, but if not don’t fear, you will definitely get to see it in some shape or form.

Also try and grab a copy of the October issue of Banter if you can to read an article all about us and our making of this film.

Let’s leave it there for now and hope we hear some good news from the competition and for the local screening soon!