FILM SUBMISSIONS: Straight-Jacket Guerrilla Film Festival 2016 is now open for Feature Film submissions and Music Videos. It's FREE to submit till March 1st.
To submit your work for the 2016 Festival's consideration, simply email us a YouTube link to your Feature film (must be over 40min in length) or to your Music Video (must be from a real band).
Please also include your production info, bio, website and film synopsis to:
Down & Dirty Pictures - Peter Biskind Go Ask Alice - Anonymous A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess Childhoods End - Arthur C. Clarke The Wind In The Willows - Kenneth Grahame Beyond Good and Evil - Freidrich Nietzsche Lilith - J. R. Salamanca Helter Skelter - Vincent Bugliosi Easy Riders, Raging Bulls - Peter Biskind The Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley Cries Unheard - Gitta Sereny One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey The Adventures Of Roberto Rossellini - Tag Gallagher The Dead Zone - Stephen King Crowds and Power - Elias Canetti Edie: American Girl - Jean Stein Pimp - Iceberg Slim The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde The Atrocity Exhibition - J. G. Ballard Confessions of an English Opium Eater - Thomas De Quincey Animal Farm - George Orwell Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker - James Gavin Last Exit to Brooklyn - Hubert Selby, Jr. The Doctrine of Fascism - Benito Mussolini On the Road - Jack Kerouac The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho The Cult of Violence - John Pearson The Talented Mr Ripley - Patricia Highsmith Brighton Rock - Graham Greene Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice In Cold Blood - Truman Capote Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh 12 Days on the Road: The Sex Pistols - Noel E. Monk Story of the Eye - Georges Bataille Say You Love Satan - David St. Clair Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger Wiseguy - Nicholas Pileggi
The Godfather of the Exploding Cinema collective, plus in addition to
making films such as Maldoror and curating screenings and events, he wrote the mind-blowing
history of British underground filmmaking called Subversion:
The Definitive History of Underground Cinema that is mandatory reading
for any underground film nut. A true hands on maverick.
Craig Roberts
Compelling
character actor who has now turned his hand at directing and fits the
mold of being the perfect Trojan Horse to enter the
mainstream film industry and shake it up from the inside. His debut
feature
film Just Jim is a darkly funny coming of age story shot on a low budget in Wales.
Roberts is a self taught filmmaker and a strong advocate for supporting Welsh
cinema.
Daniel Fawcett & Clara Pais
Defining the
ideology that two heads are better than one, this power team are the
founders of The London Underground Film Festival and Film Panic
magazine. Experimenters of the independent film vanguard with some of
the trippiest films to come out in recent memory such as their mind
bending feature debut Savage Witches.
Fabrizio Federico
Crashing together
the poetic and the strange; whether its making micro budget features
about alienation, sex and death cult philosophies in debut Black Biscuit or counting down to generational Armageddon in the form of technology and social media addiction with new film Pregnant. He is the founder of the Pink8 Manifesto which encourages new filmmakers to basically "Turn on, tune in, and drop out" . Get in touch with their inner improvised shamanand lose your mind.
Tony Burke
The
filmmaker you love to hate. His thought provoking works have caused
scandal and bewilderment, hence an artist in the truest sense of the
word. Mixing together loneliness, beauty and desire. A body of work that
captures the everyday absurdity of where bizarre circumstances can lead
you. His skillful portrayals on the poignancy of life can be
experienced in his latest films The Fox and Him.
Scotland's
mean streets are kicked in the balls by the presence of Mr Mackenzie's
camera. Hip Hop and Cinema come crashing down the rabbit hole as the
dystopian odyssey of Dimention Zero captures the wilderness of an
hallucination called life. Beautifully shot on anything that he could
get his hands on, depicting the crash city youth of hoodies, police and
music. Its final message sublimely true; We are all art, as soon as we
embrace ourselves.
Ben Charles Edwards
Whether
its Fantasy, B Movies, Avant Garde or Dark Comedy there's no genre that
this filmmaker cant master with Zen like ease. Embracing stylistic
glamour with the unpredictability of Underground Cinema. His debut
feature film Set The Thames on Fire displays an impressive
claustrophobic disjointed atmosphere and at the center of all this a
fearless ring leader weaves his directorial magic.
''If a tree falls in the forest but no one’s there to Instagram it, did it happen at all?'' PREGNANT [official website]: http://pregnantmovie.moonfruit.com/
Semi-staged interviews, improvised dramatic scenes, tormented LSD romance, and insular self-reflectivity, regarding the modern problem of social media and technology addiction.
A riff on myth and identity.
Pregnant is an albatross that will squeeze the effete out of cinema. It transcends mere intellectual art house films and strikes a note very similar to watching an album similar to something by De La Soul, DJ Shadow or The Wu Tang Clan. Federico has called himself a ''DJ film director'', its's vibe is shamanic and surreal. What has emerged is a mixed soup of urban chaos, pop, and disturbing psychedelic visuals mixed with contemplation and silence. A whole new recipe for cinema.
The film showcases the contrast between old and new society. On one hand you have the new demented 24/7 media anarchy that has emerged in the wake of the Youtube & Facebook social media generation, and on the other hand you the lone figure of the desert drifter, who is free from the stress of society and technology, silently roaming the desert and living in the ''now''. Alone from distractions and able to connect with the idea of reaching your personal Zen.
Mixing the rituals and beliefs of Shamanism and Pagan rites to lead you on a surreal journey,
composed of movements depicting a trip through a VHS mix tape.
An enthralling mess, only too happy to make you cuckoo. But its also something more important that demands repeated viewing similar to such films like Easy Rider, Gummo or Memento. It's Federico's 'Pop Symphony for Film’.
