Comic-Con International Announces Film Festival Lineup

SAN DIEGO - The Comic-Con International: Independent Film Festival (CCI-IFF) has announced its lineup for the July 22 --25 event.

SAN DIEGO, CA (PRWEB) June 30, 2004 -- - The Comic-Con International: Independent Film Festival (CCI-IFF) has announced its lineup for the July 22 --25 event.

Highlighting genre related material; animation, super-heroes, science fiction & fantasy, and pop culture-oriented projects, the CCI-IFF is a non-juried festival, which coincides with the largest comic book and pop culture event in the United States;

Comic-Con International.

Comic-Con International has had a long association with film," says David Glanzer, spokesperson for the non-profit event. From Frank Capras visit in the early '70s to the visit by Francis Ford Coppola in 1992, to Angelina Jolie, Ben Affleck and others more recently."

Over 45 features, shorts and documentaries will screen as part of the four-day event, which utilizes the entire convention center in San Diego California. And each film will include a member of the production company on hand to discuss their project and answer questions from the audience.

In addition to the film festival, Comic-Con International will hold a variety of seminars on various aspects of filmmaking, including the first Comic-Con International Film School. This Film School features daily panels and seminars focusing on nuts-and-bolts issues for the novice filmmaker.

The following are the official selections for the 2004 Comic-Con International: Independent Film Festival.

A Can of Paint - Robi Michael

Agent 15 - Augusta

Agua - Knate Gwaltney and Jeff Elphick

All Babes Want to Kill Me - Colin Miller

Avatar - Mike Kane

Award Showdown - Joshua Meeter

Below - Todd Hamilton

Body Electric - Frank H. Woodward

Boys Night Out - Teddy Newton and Bert Klein

Broken Robot's Diary - Rob Shaw

Captain Amazing Lad - Keith Carter

Captain Chuck - Fro Rojas

Chasing Jason - Chopper Denton

Chasing Kevin - Randy Appell & Scott Kramer

City of Flimjees - Mike Fisher

Dandelion - Hal Forsstrom

Dark Agent - Michael Kehoe

Death of Hero Man - Matthew Alson Thornbury

Ends of the Alphabet - Eric Jon Kurland

Fall of A Saga - Earl Newton

Finding the Future - Casey Moore

First Person Shooter --Sean Rourke

Flip - Kirk D.

Grime-Shoed Diaries - Mike Wellins

He's A Good Monkey - Chris Harding

InkSwell - Jeff Cioletti

Just Like You Imagined - Zeyad Alhusaini

Last Full Measure - Cliff Cramp

Leatherwing Bat - E.J. Barnes

Manimal! - Jeremy Wabiszczewicz

Meanwhile... - Colby Bluth

Menace - Matt Bird

Meridiem - Slobodan Gajic

Musica Magica - Christoph Schinko

No Need For Cosplay - Rhianne Paz Bergado

Otaku Unite! - Eric Bresler

Reflection - Patricia Satjawatcharaphong

Rex Steele: Nazi Smasher - Alexander Woo

Roommate from Hell --Allan Piper

Sister Mary Dracula - Gerry Mooney

Sockbaby - Douglas Tennapel and John Soares

The Brick and The Skateboard of Justice - Tyler Buttrill and Christian Hugo Bazan

The Cloth - Rob J. Greenlea

The Lester Show - Allan Steele

There and Back Again - Nina Kempf and Ed Martinez

A complete schedule with times of the films being shown will be posted on the Comic-Con International website, www.comic-con.org closer to the event.

Comic-Con International hosts the largest gathering of professionals from industries as diverse as comic books, literature, film, television, interactive multimedia and fine art. Over 10,000 industry professionals attended the 2003 show.

Comic-Con International is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to creating awareness of, and appreciation for, comics and related popular art forms, primarily through the presentation of conventions and events that celebrate the historic and ongoing contribution of comics to art and culture.

CONTACT: David Glanzer

pr@comic-con.org

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