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An important aspect of a film fest is the ability to show films and videos that the audience would otherwise never see.  Would never, in fact, even know of their existence.  Two recent examples of change and motivation brought about by films that were entered into Landlocked’s competition in its first three years:

Garbage Dreams, which motivated University of Iowa students to work harder at recycling. “Our group was motivated by a film called ‘Garbage Dreams,’ which the College of Public Health helped put on during the Landlocked Film Festival. It … Continue Reading

The Danish Film Program at Landlocked 2009 has been nominated for an ICKY award.  The ICKYs are given by the Iowa Cultural Corridor Alliance for excellence and innovation in cultural programming.

It promises to be an evening of fun and entertainment.  Click for details.

Landlocked Film Festival is a competitive and international festival of independent film. We are open to a wide diversity of styles, topics and categories of film and video. Our sophisticated audiences in Iowa City and the surrounding area enthusiastically support the festival and welcome visiting film artists and scriptwriters to the festival each year.

In its first three years, several dozen filmmakers and scriptwriters have come to the festival to interact with our audiences and to see their work in a theater setting. Every film artist or scriptwriter whose work is submitted … Continue Reading

Jan 25 2010   7:00pm   Iowa City Public Library Meeting Room A

Free admission and light refreshments, followed by panel discussion of experts from the University of Iowa College of Public Health

Katrina’s Children explores the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the lives of 19 children from different neighborhoods of New Orleans

Nov. 4, tonight at 7:00 pm:

Voices from Inside: Israelis Speak; followed by a special guest who will discuss the human rights issues in the film. 

http://www.llff.org/encore-nov09.html

Time for some great docs you may have missed during the festival – Garbage Dreams and Voices from Inside: Israelis Speak. Landlocked is working with the Center for Human Rights at the University of Iowa to bring a series of movies to the downtown campus.  In addition to the Landlocked docs, Milk will head the series, and Pray the Devil Back to Hell – a doc about Liberian women working for peace – will be the last film shown.  This series also kicks off the Center’s tenth anniversary celebration.

All screenings are … Continue Reading

The Crazies remake spent some time in Iowa and in this trailer I even recognize two shots that were done the day I was a PA on the location set in May 09.  It was a highly amusing and educational experience to see a true Hollywood set in action.  It looks like they got a great look for the movie for their $30M budget, not to mention great actors like Tim Olyphant and Radha Mitchell.

Thanks to Ask Hasselbalch for the trailer link!

We’ve seen a lot of news lately about the Iowa film tax credits program.  The tax credit system is Byzantine and lots of people have no idea how it works.  So I will provide a very simplified example below to help people understand. 

Whatever the outcome of this issue, Landlocked Film Festival is not affected.  We remain an international festival.  We also believe in training people here in Iowa to become filmmakers or to improve their skills in filmmaking, and that will continue.

EXAMPLE:

I decide to make a narrative feature, which is expected to cost $1,000,000 ($1M for short) to produce, edit, etc.  … Continue Reading