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Entries from March 2009

Staff Favorite!

March 30th, 2009 · No Comments

Hey the Backseat Film Festival released their festival awards and we were named “Staff Favorite.” Nice!
Read the full list of awards here!

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Tags: The Cult of the Kids is busting out all over

Interview with me in the Austin Decider

March 13th, 2009 · No Comments

Check it out! We got some great press for tonight’s ALTAMONT NOW Austin premiere screening, with The Crack Pipes performing LIVE.
Read the full interview in the Austin Decider here.
If you are in Austin, please come on down tonight! And here’s a bonus: first 20 people at the screening will get a free and super-cool ALTAMONT […]

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Tags: The Uplink is Online

Bad Lit plugs our Austin premiere this Friday!

March 12th, 2009 · No Comments

Thanks to Bad Lit again! Plugging our screening. For all in Austin this weekend for SXSW Film/Interactive, head on down to Beerland at 711 Red River this Friday at 9 PM. You don’t need a badge, or a pass, or any of those fancy South By thangs. Drink cheap beer while you watch a cheap […]

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Tags: The Cult of the Kids is busting out all over

Austin Decider Listing

March 8th, 2009 · No Comments

“Emblematic of an age when the revolution has not only been televised, but blogged, Twittered, and printed on Urban Outfitters T-shirts, Joshua Brown’s explosive festival hit Altamont Now perfectly captures modern “youth in revolt”—a revolution driven not by ideology but borrowed ideas, plus a dollop of pure self-absorption.”
From the listing in the Austin Decider of […]

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Tags: Peoples. What up?

Philadelphia Weekly Shout Out

March 7th, 2009 · No Comments

“Imagine the Revolution as led by indie-rock douchebags rather than hippies and mix in nuclear proliferation… yeah, it doesn’t end well.”
ALTAMONT NOW shout out in the Philadelphia Weekly for last night’s Backseat Film Festival screening. They even posted the trailer online as an example of faux-Godard subversion, sweet. Read the full article here.

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Tags: The Uplink is Online

Your choice of Frankie Shaws tonight!

March 6th, 2009 · No Comments

Hey this is cool… tonight! Friday March 6! You can see Frankie Shaw, who did such an amazing job as Karen Kennedy in ALTAMONT NOW— in two films premiering in two cities!
In New York City, she will be appearing live with the cast of her new film EXPLICIT ILLS at the Angelika Theater. I haven’t […]

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Tags: The Uplink is Online

Austin premiere announced!

March 5th, 2009 · No Comments

OK, I’m really excited to announce this one.
We have a once-in-a-lifetime ALTAMONT NOW event coming to Austin, TX a week from tomorrow– that’s Friday March 13– beginning at 9 PM.
The Austin Underground Film Society, which brings Austin the excellent Austin Underground Film Festival, is programming a special Austin premiere screening of ALTAMONT NOW… as a […]

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Tags: The Cult of the Kids is busting out all over

Philadelphia premiere announced!

March 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

We’re very excited that ALTAMONT NOW will be opening the Backseat Film Festival in Philadelphia THIS FRIDAY March 6 at 7 PM. This festival looks super rad and we are flattered to be a part of it. Please spread the word to all of your Pennsylvania peoples! And if you are anywhere within driving distance […]

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Tags: The Cult of the Kids is busting out all over