FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Subject: MIFFF 2009 Film Schedule
Seattle Genre Film Festival Films Announced
Seattle, September 17th, 2009 - The Maelstrom International Fantastic Film Festival (MIFFF), a three day international showcase of animation, fantasy, horror, and science fiction cinema, is pleased to announce its inaugural launch September 18-20th, 2009 at the SIFF Cinema at McCaw Hall in Seattle, Washington USA.
MIFFF's first year will debut 6 feature films and 33 short films to film lovers in the Pacific Northwest. Descriptions and synopses of all the films can be accessed of the films page on the MIFFF website. MIFFF's big feature films this year include the zombie opus "The Revenant", the animal's gone crazy "Pig Hunt", and the West Coast premier of the Romanian Vampire film "Strigoi". (Films)
Tickets are available in advance online. Tickets will also be available at the theater each day of the festival. The venue is the SIFF Cinema, 321 Mercer St., at McCaw Hall on the campus of Seattle Center in Seattle. Complete box office info at this page: (Tickets)
FRIDAY, 18 SEPTEMBER 200908:30PM Opening Night Films
Death In Charge
The Revenant
SATURDAY, 19 SEPTEMBER 2009
12:00PM Animation / Fantasy Shorts
Egg Robot Momo
Enter the Sandbox
Gul (Flower)
Skylight
The Urge
X-Mess
Detritus
Sunday
Firemount
The Tree Man
Hart
Tropezones
Milbe (Mite)
02:30PM Science Fiction Shorts
The Kirkie
Enigma
Greenspoke
Die Schneider Krankheit (The Schneider Disease)
Mr. Gun
06:00PM Horror Shorts
aQua ad lavandum - in brevi
Cheerbleeders
Dead Bones
Foet (Director's Cut)
Lazarus Taxon
The Auburn Hills Breakdown
The Ugly File
Thirsty
08:30PM Horror Films
The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon
Pig Hunt
SUNDAY, 20 SEPTEMBER 2009
11:30AM Seattle Science Fiction
TimeTravel 0
The Ends Of The Earth
02:30PM Fantasy Shorts
La Glacière Rouge (The Red Icebox)
Der Weltenbauer(The Builder Of Worlds)
Badewanne zum Glück (Bathtub to Happiness)
Fantastic Magnifico
The Delivery
06:00PM Documentary
Until The Light Takes Us
08:30PM Closing Night Films
Virtual Dating
Strigoi
For more information about the MIFFF, including organizers' bios, film profiles, film submissions, and ticketing details, please visit the festival website at: www.mifff.org
MIFFF produces the Maelstrom International Fantastic Film Festival, the premier Pacific Northwest weekend long event devoted towards independent and international genre film making. The event was created to offer exposure to films that traditionally are overlooked by the festival circuit from genres including animation, fantasy, horror, and science fiction. The festival will feature an amazing selection of fantastic cinema from around the globe – with the possibility of artists presenting the works themselves. U.S. and world premieres will play alongside global festival favorites and select retrospective titles.
MIFFF is registered as a Washington State non-profit. MIFFF's mission is to create experiences that bring people together to discover extraordinary genre movies from across the globe.
The statements made in this press release that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements." These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and assumptions that are subject to risks and uncertainties. The Organization cautions readers of this press release that a number of important factors could cause MIFFF’s actual future results to differ materially from those expressed in any such forward-looking statements. Such factors include, without limitation, product delays, industry competition, rapid changes in technology and industry standards, protection of proprietary rights, maintenance of relationships with key personnel, vendors and third-party developers, international economic and political conditions. The Organization may change its intention, belief or expectation, at any time and without notice, based upon any changes in such factors, in the Organization’s assumptions or otherwise. The Organizations undertakes no obligation to release publicly any revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
