Past Events
2008
3/12-3/16/08
Philly 2008 Festival no. 6
The Philly dates were our biggest events yet!
Check out the whole story with a full
wrap-up and the award winners here
and
All the great press coverage here
And if you missed it,
The
full schedule here
And if you were there but don't remember,
Load
of pictures on our new Flickr site here!
And from those who helped out,
Festival Staff Reports
2007
11/9/07
Backseat Film Festival returns to Baltimore!
Creative Alliance at the Patterson -
Baltimore Premiere of Punk Rock Holocaust 2 and the Baltimore reurn of Blood Car, plus 2007 award winning shorts and music videos before each film
10/28/07
Backseat Film Festival Showcase in Milwaukee!
Award winners and crowd favorites from the 2007 BFF
hosted by our friends at the awesome It Came From Lake Michigan Film Festival!
10/26/07
Backseat Film Festival Halloween in New York!
Pioneer Theater -
NY Premieres of Punk Rock Holocaust 2 and Stupid Teenagers Must Die! plus 2007 award winning shorts and music videos before each film.
Preceded by the 2nd NYC Zombie
Crawl.
Followed by after-party at
Double Down Saloon
8/15/07
Backseat Film Festival at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!
The BFF hosted screenings all day including "Saving CBGB", "Get Thrashed: The Story of Thrash Metal" and the world premiere of "Punk Rock Holocaust 2"--complete with a live score!
All the info here...
3/29/07-4/1/07
4 days in Philly at the Backseat Theater!
The Backseat Film Festival No. 5 kicks off the 2007 season 4 days in Philly at the beautiful Backseat Theater.
2007 Philly Wrap-up and Awards
Full 2007 Schedule of Films and Events
2006
2/28/06-3/5/06
6 drunken days in Philly!
Our nearly week-long event in Philly this year was a huge success!
Check out the links below to see all the action you missed or
don't remember.
2006
Backseat Film Festival Wrap-up and Award Winners
Full 2006 Schedule
1/25/2006
Fun-raiser at the Tritone Bar in Philadelphia!
Thanks
to everyone who helped put together and worked at the event.
Thanks to the Tritone for not throwing us out this time. And
thanks especially to all the booze-drinking film-loving folks
that came out and made the night a success in the name of rock
‘n roll movies!
Full story here
2005
9/9/05-10/1/05
All new shorts program screening before each performance of
"Jody" rock opera!
Jody is a rock opera in the tradition of films like Tommy, Hedwig
and the Angry Inch, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The story
follows Jody, who is born a hermaphrodite. Unwanted and unloved
by it's parents and younger brother and sister, Jody sets off
for the big city on it's 18th birthday, only to discover that
there are many others hermaphrodites happily co-existing with
those with normal genitalia. Jody joins a band called the Shims,
and together they fight for hermaphrodite's rights.
More
information on Jody
More
on Dingleberry Dynasty
6/24/05
Baltimore local film premieres at the Creative
Alliance at the Patterson!
All new shorts from Baltimores underground subversive filmmakers,
plus a Backseat
Feature Premiere . . .
Pleasures
of the Damned (1979, Giallo) When a group of Satan
worshiping bikers seeks out a book with the secrets of eternal
life, they accidentally resurrect an ancient evil. Shot in Baltimore
and Westminster over the summer of 2004, Pleasures mocks the
campiness of 70s Italian horror films! See a grip holding a
light! See actors replaced halfway through the film! See intestines
removed from a bikers o-ring!
Trailer and more info
at www.direwitfilms.com
And extra thanks for the . . . FREE BEER FROM PABST BLUE RIBBON!
Full film lineup
6/23/05
Sleazy Video Projections at Scooterweek Philadelphia!
The Backseat Film Festival provided some visual stimulation
at the Inaugural Scooterweek Event. Other highlights of the
night included Professional Wrestlers, Roller Derby Chicks and
Rock 'n Roll Bands.
2004
6/6/04 - 11/04
Whistle Stop - Sundays in Baltimore
The Backseat Screening Series has been entertaining
Baltimore for over a year now, with a weekly screening series
held in a local bar. Here, we show everything from the Japanese
hit, “Battle Royale” to Patrick Swayze’s masterpiece,
“Roadhouse”. It also highlights classic shorts and
features from the Backseat Film Festival. There is even a monthly
segment devoted to local filmmakers.
Fliers
5/14/04 - 5/16/04
Lost Weekend in Las Vegas
In conjunction with Modern
Drunkard Magazine, the Backseat Film Festival hosted screenings
at the First Annual Modern Drunkard Convention in beautiful
Las Vegas, NV on May 14 through May 16 2004. For this "Lost
Weekend in Las Vegas", we screened the best short films
about drinking, bars, hangovers, getting drunk, smashed or plastered
at work, your alcoholic uncle, booze, hooch, juice and anything
else related to our good friend, alcohol.
4/17/04
Rock 'n Rods Hot Rod Show
Though the Backseat Film Festival did not screen any
movies here, we were the presenters of the "Best Backseat
Award", one of the many cool awards at this great car show
and rock 'n roll extravaganza.
www.hotrodhoedown.com
More in Baltimore
7/1/04 -
The Sidebar
5/1/04 - The Penthouse (1st Anniversary Party)
4/28/04 - The Sidebar
3/1804 - The Sidebar
2/26/04 - The Sidebar
1/22/04 - 1/25/04
3 Days in Philly!
Three-day
festival showcasing featured premieres and the best of the official
Backseat Film Festival short selections. Filmmaker awards were
given out, loots of booze was drank and someone was definitely
fucking in the bathroom.
Check out the full story here
Monthly
Screening Series
Pioneer
Theater
- NYC!
New York
City’s most courageous independent film theater, the Pioneer,
has invited the Backseat Film Festival to host a monthly screening.
This will be a showcase for the latest Backseat Film Festival
premieres and newest finds. The NY film scene will never be
the same. Especially after the official Backseat Barber goes
to work on those annoying, NY hipster haircuts.
Check out the lineup for one of the screenings
here
2003
6/13/03 - 12/16/03
Turner’s – Baltimore, MD
Weekly screening series highlighting shorts and features
form the Backseat Film Festival, plus a segment devoted to local
filmmakers.
6/20/03-8/19/03
Vans Warped
Tour 2003
The Backseat Film Festival and its screening bus, the
Dirty Erin, traveled through 44 cities across North America
with the biggest music and entertainment tour in America. Playing
to over 500,000 young people this summer, the Festival not only
screened
official selections, but also took new submissions along the
way.
Winter/Spring 2003 Tour
4/12/03 - Sidebar – Baltimore, MD
4/5/03 - B.A.D.C. - Jacksonville, FL
3/21/03 - Red Blood Club – Dallas, TX
3/17/03 - Alamo Drafthouse – Austin, TX
2/23/03 - The Brick – Kansas City, MO
2/14/03 - CIA – Los Angeles, CA
1/20/03-1/24/03
FIRST BACKSEAT FILM FESTIVAL EVER!!!
Phat Tire Saloon – Park City, UT
We showed a bunch of great movies. A lot of liquor was consumed. If you get us drunk enough, we just might even tell you all about getting run out of Park City at gunpoint.