UPDATED: 1:47 PM
Alright Jacksonville, let’s blow the Jacksonville Film Festival out this year. Last year’s festival came and went without me even noticing it. Urban Jacksonville will be having film festival related posts all week. Screw all the other cool stuff going on!
My goal for this year’s Film Festival is to see one more movie than I did last year, which was zero, so I should be able to meet that goal. On Friday Adrienne kicked off the coverage with ARolling Out the Red, The 2008 Jacksonville Film Festival calling it her favorite time of the year.
Today I’m going to let you know all the place, besides Urban Jacksonville, you can get news, showtimes, venue locations and anything else you need to know about the festival. This should be a fun week so let’s get started.
The JaxCal blog will be covering the festival all week. They have an interesting art-oriented point of view so I’m sure they will have some good posts.
EU Jacksonville posted their 2008 Jacksonville Film Festival guide (PDF). Pick up this weeks EU for a printed pull-out guide. Here’s what the guide says:
Our writers have already watched a good deal of the films featured, so we have some reviews from a local perspective. Whether you’re looking for a complete schedule of where, when and what films or just some insight to select the features you are most interested in, there isn’t a better partner you could have at the Film Fest than the EU.
There’s also the official Jacksonville Film Festival website, which is very nice by the way, where you can sign up for email updates and schedule changes. Check out the Jacksonville Film Festival blog where you can find bits of information like this:
The opening night of the Jacksonville Film Festival, May 15, will feature the independent film Crazy…and the appearance of the film’s leading actress, Ali Larter. Larter will be taking a break from her role in Heroes over in L.A. to jet to the River City to be a part of the premier. The film holds a special connection to Jacksonville, as it tells the story of the legendary Nashville guitarist Hank Garland, who in his final years of life called Orange Park his home
The official site has pretty much any information you might need about the festival including:
Don’t even bother going to the Times Union website. Uhhg. You’ll be greeted by something like this, if you find it. You might be safer sticking with the print version.
Which will no doubt be competing with Folio Weekly for print eyeballs. Especially after last weeks Folio cover story which pretty much said the Times Union is a sinking ship.
Updates
The Downtown Jacksonville website lists restaurants, bars and clubs and hotels for the Jacksonville Film Festival.
