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Dead Channels - the San Francisco Festival of Fantastic Film
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DEAD CHANNELS 2008 STARTS THURSDAY!
The Evening Class —
... San Francisco's award-winning Dead Channels Film Festival is Northern California's premier celebration of independent and international fantastic filmmaking. The Festival brings entertaining and intelligent science-fiction, fantasy, horror, action, exploitation and a few weird unclassifiable cinematic gems to audiences in the Bay Area. ...
Dead Channels 08.
GreenCine Daily —
"San Francisco's award-winning Dead Channels Film Festival is Northern California's premier celebration of independent and international fantastic filmmaking," writes ...
I Only Have Two Eyes: Jason Wiener
Hell On Frisco Bay —
... but this one is specifically my sense of humor. 5. Colma: The Musical as a sing-along. Also at the Sundance Kabuki Cinema, also part of SFIAAFF. Fun, although I couldn't tell if I was the only one singing along. Stupid acoustics... 4. Docfest's Melody Gilbert retrospective, at the Roxie. Particularly, her medical oddity pair, Whole and A Life Without Pain. 3. Dead Channels always has a good eye for retro strangeness. This year, I can't choose between ...
Adam Hartzell: Mill Valley Film Festival
Hell On Frisco Bay —
... the proliferation of film festivals descending on town, there are more than a dozen Frisco Bay festivals currently running or set to begin in the next month or so. And that's with the disappearance of two significant horror festivals that have bowed out of the pre-Halloween frenzy this year, Dead Channels and ...
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