Lost Film Fest

4434 Ludlow Street

Philadelphia, PA 19104 usa

215.888.1756

www.lostfilmfest.org


Greetings,


I am contacting you about the possibility of bringing the Lost Film Fest “Emergency Films“ multimedia performance to your Institution. The Lost Film Fest touring program is comprised of cutting edge independent short films and documentaries, woven together by emcee Scott Beibin. Lost Film Fest also facilitates workshops that give students an insider’s look at the film industry, and open the discussion of ethics in mediamaking. Please find enclosed a kit that explains what Lost Film Fest achieves.


Included are


The main purpose of the film fest is to engage students in the discussion of issues surrounding distribution and exhibition of independently produced media and art, combating media bias and censorship, creative use of new technologies, and artistic control / fair use issues.


The kit explains the format of the screening program. The guarantee for the screening program and speaker cost is $3000.00. However, we are willing to work with you in order to fit your budgetary requirements.


I will be happy to guide you through the process of booking and publicizing the Lost Film Festival. Please contact me for further information on bringing Lost Film Festival to your organization. Graphics templates, sample flyers, press clippings, and other materials will be provided on request. Thank you again for your interest in the Lost Film Fest. I look forward to hearing from you.


Lost Film Fest provides an invaluable opportunity for students to explore different aspects of social justice issues in mediamaking.


Sincerely,

Liz Cole Evil Twin Booking Liz@eviltwinbooking.com 215.888.1756



LOST FILM FEST :: EMERGENCY FILMS

WHO WE ARE + WHAT WE DO


The Lost Film Fest is a unique touring multimedia performance incorporating cutting edge digital filmmaking and humorous social commentary. Each performance is designed to evoke discussion on timely and challenging issues. The set-up for the performance includes a video projector at the center of the room, accompanied by festival director Scott Beibin telling stories and histories between the films. The content of the program provides a breath of fresh air from the mainstream by showcasing often-unheard voices. The screenings include short selections ranging from engaging documentaries to powerful narratives and absurd comedies. Many of the pieces deal with challenging issues such as media ownership, voting reform, globalization, US foreign policy and militarism, censorship, racism, sexism, environmental issues, vegan diet, and homophobia. Lost Film Fest seeks to challenge and empower the mediamaker in everyone.


Festival Director Scott Beibin says, "The program highlights the importance of a rising movement of truly Independent cinema & provides the truth of what filmmaking actually means to an audience looking for a substantial chance to watch something unique.”

Lost Film Festival consists of five main elements.

  1. A touring program of Universities that present selections from the annual events in Philly

  2. Presentations at other established film festivals (Sundance, Cannes, CMJ, SXSW)

  3. An annual weeklong premier event in Philadelphia.

  4. Online presentation of films at www.lostfilmfest.org

  5. Evil Twin Booking, an agency devoted to arranging presentations for cutting edge films and speakers.


Since 1999 the Lost Film Fest has provided international audiences with a feast of current images from the underground. The films fall under the radar of the film industry, and are usually not seen at the mainstream independent film festivals. [The screenings include everything from really intense documentaries to footage from protests around the world, images that have been censored by the mainstream media – Privy Magazine] Famous for its media pranks and general cinematic chaos, LFF has toured the U.S. and Europe, finding its way to larger fests like Sundance, IFP, SXSW and Cannes. The Lost Film Fest fully encourages the dismantling of Hollywood and “indiewood” in favor of a truly independent alternative.


[Nothing symbolises the form of low-budget, guerrilla film-making and distribution better, perhaps, than the Lost film festival – Guardian UK]

The West Philadelphia-based festival, organized as a collective, focuses on screening in theaters and galleries, as well as squats, basements, warehouses, and rooftops. Lost Film Fest promotes the notion that mediamakers using Non-Linear Editing Systems, Digital Cameras, the Internet, and cellular phones can craft great motion pictures on shoestring budgets. Self-distribution, guerilla promotion, and not selling out are the key points the films share under the Lost Film Fest vision.

[Viewers are treated to the visual equivalent of a DJ spinning records - WIRED]


Lost Film Fest’s Scott Beibin and Liz Cole branched out in 2002 to start the Evil Twin Booking Agency. One of the purposes of the organization is to help students and faculty bring films and speakers to their institutions. Additionally Evil Twin Booking functions to encourage a more participatory culture of independent media by breaking out of the limited world of “art house” distribution. Through Evil Twin, films and speakers are presented at alternative venues such as higher learning institutions, high schools, museums, art galleries, community centers, bookstores and churches, synagogues, and mosques. The 2005 roster of Evil Twin Booking includes: Lost Film Fest (hosted by Scott Beibin) | The Corporation | The Take | Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping (LIVE!) | Boots Riley (The Coup) spoken word | Mardi Gras Made in China | Radical Cheerleaders | Bush Family Fortunes | Beehive Collective | The Fourth World War | The Weather Underground (with Dir. Sam Green, Bill Siegel, and Mark Rudd, Bernardine Dohrn, and Bill Ayers) | Veg The System | We Are Everywhere (with Andrew Stern and Jennifer Whitney) | Dispatches from Rebel Mexico (with Greg Berger) | Timothy Speed Levitch | The Yes Men (LIVE) | Guerrilla News Network | Institute for Applied Autonomy, and more


Lost Film Fest has been presented at numerous colleges and universities including Harvard, Oxford, The New School, Carnegie Mellon, Yale, Oberlin, NYU, Brandeis, Bard, Johns Hopkins, Dartmouth, Columbia University, Northeastern, University of Pennsylvania, Sarah Lawrence College& UC Berkeley among many others. (Complete list available upon request.)

The collection of past guest speakers at LFF events include Mark Achbar (The Corporation), Sam Green (The Weather Underground), The Yes Men, Reverend Billy and The Church of Stop Shopping, Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys frontman & former Green Party candidate), Mike Maronna (Adventures of Pete and Pete) Timothy Speed Levitch (Waking Life, The Cruise), Ian MacKaye (Fugazi & Dischord Records), and Jeff Krulik (Heavy Metal Parking Lot), & many more

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LOST FILM FEST SCREENING PROGRAM


LOST FILM FEST at the historic Buskirk-

Chumley theater-Bloomington, IN



Lost Film Fest proactively encourages the integration of new technologies into filmmaking and distribution. Festival director Scott Beibin totes a 2000 ANSI lumen DLP video projector, Apple G4 Powerbook laptop, Bluetooth enabled Treo 650 PDA phone (as a remote control), and multi format DVD/VCD player, enabling the screening program to be “four-walled” in any location. The full program is three hours long, including a 30-minute intermission. DVD and VHS copies of some of the films are available at the screenings as well as for institutional and/or private sale.


The screening program is hosted by festival Director and co-founder Scott Beibin. Beibin is co-founder of Evil Twin Booking and owner of the punk music label Bloodlink Records. Beibin was also a Co-Producer of the film Godass winner of ‘Best Feature’ New York Underground Film Festival 2000 and Chicago Underground Film Festival 2000. [Godass currently airs on the Sundance Channel, BBC4, and Showtime.] He has also been a featured panelist at South By Southwest, Sundance, CMJ, Slamdance, TrueFalse and others. With 15 years in the business of independently produced music and film, Beibin intersperses the touring program of shorts with shared tales and anecdotes about the films and filmmakers, while offering essential and practical information for the festival-bound. He also provides thought-provoking and humorous commentary on social issues.


These are some of the films included in past and current programs: For complete new list go to www.lostfilmfest.org/lineup.html



The Horribly Stupid Stunt Which Has Resulted In His Untimely Death | (The Yes Men) 16 min

An international law conference writes to Gatt.org inviting WTO Director-General Michael Moore to present at their forum in Austria. Big mistake: It turns out the cyber-squatted site is run by the Yes Men, a loose-knit group of anti-capitalist culture jammers who regularly orchestrate pranks against economic and government institutions.


Piefight '69 | (Sam Green/ Christian Bruno) 8 min

From the director of Academy Award Nominated, THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND unearthed footage lost since 1969 of the notorious 'pie-fight' incident at the San Francisco Film Festival. Two dozen costumed radicals descend on the fancy black tie & red carpet festival with one fully laden pie truck and six cameras in order to wreak havoc.


World of Evil | (TV Sheriff) 7 min

An amazing fast moving musical montage of images lampooning both the Bush and Kerry campaigns during the 2004 U.S. Presidential elections. Watch in amazement as Bush attempts to construct a sentence in the English language. ( musical accompaniment by Coldcut.


Mandate? | (Glassbead Collective & DC Indymedia) 20 min

Hot protest footage from the streets of Washington somehow excluded from “liberal media” coverage of the 2005 inauguration of george w. bush. Pepper spray, teargas, and police brutality are interspersed between footage from the systematic destruction and massacre of civilians in Falluja by the U.S. Marines.


Eye of the Storm | (Raphael Lyon) 15 min

A powerful rough cut of the in-progress documentary. The film covers the rise of argentina.indymedia.org as the popular source of news in Argentina.


NAFTA Dance | (Evolution Control Committee) 3 min

Evolution Control Committee created this amazing karaoke re-mix piece for Version Fest in Chicago. Featuring the music of Men Without Hats, the lyrics are hijacked in order to educate folks about the North American Free Trade Agreement. Usually this selection is accompanied by group participation.


Fellowship of the Ring of Free Trade / The Twin Towers| 6 min + 15 min

Now, for the first time ever, the hidden prophecies of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic epic, The Lord of the Rings, are decoded in these accurate re-edits of Peter Jackson's blockbuster motion pictures. Unbeknownst to many readers, The Lord of the Rings - once thought to be merely a story of archetypal struggle between good and evil - has been found to contain astute prophetic messages about the impending crisis of capitalist modernity. Hado i philinn!

"Mordor is in our midst." - J.R.R. Tolkien


Cocktail Specials | (Infernal Noise Brigade) 7 min

A street theatre action across from a coffee shop in Seattle turns hot when the Infernal Noise Brigade set up a special molotov cocktail range.


Don't Call Me Crazy on the Fourth of July | (Rich Pell) 20 min

Activist Robert Lansberry was a man who worked hard to publicize his beliefs that the government was stealing his mail. He also believed that radio signals were being beamed into his head. Through actual documentation of Stanley Milgrams mind control experiments, and CIA testing of LSD on American citizens during the cold war as well as other evidence, Pell manages to put the question out as to whether Lansberry was really crazy, or was something a bit more sinister lurking in the wings.


Lords of the Chain Ring | (Adam Katzman/Zach Lihatch) 7 min

Bikepunk warriors put on their jockstraps, stuff their underwear, and ride their tall bikes to avenge an attack on a fellow biker by a four-wheeled gas guzzling beast. Epic metal makes the soundtrack to this battle between two wheels and four wheels.


State Of The Union | (Bryan Boyce) 2 min

In this clever animation, Brian Boyce combines C-SPAN footage of George W. Bush with clips from The Teletubbies while describing US foreign policy through strong metaphor.


S-11 (Channel) Surfing the Apocalypse | (Guerrilla News Network) 12 min
Culled from over 20 hours of television footage recorded over a one month period and across 13 networks, S-11 Redux is a sound-bite blitzkrieg that challenges the messages we have been fed from our mainstream media and the government it serves. Be warned - this video moves quickly and will require at least two viewings to digest its full impact. You may never be able to look at the coverage of S-11 and its post-impact coverage the same way ever again. www.gnn.tv


Terror, Iraq, Weapons | (Mike Nourse) 3 min

In the most hilarious way, Mike Nourse deconstructs a broadcast speech by George W. Bush illustrating how simple word repetition is used as propaganda. Watch as the American President alerts the world to the threat of Islam’s "Nuclear Holy Warriors" and uses the word "Iraq" as 3 parts of speech in the same sentence. Think Jimmy Stewart meets Josef Goebbels.





Some of the films are available for institutional and/or private sale.

Lost Film Fest vhs/dvd vol 1:

Gigi From 9-5 + Lego Trilogy + Maryland 355 + Anarchy in LA + Crowd Bites Wolf


Lost Film Fest vhs/dvd vol 2:

Piefight 69 + The Manipulators + Sean Connery Golf Project + Anarchy Carpet + The Horribly Stupid Stunt...




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Featured Lectures/Workshops


As well as experiencing the screening program, students are offered the unique opportunity to interact with Festival Director Scott Beibin in hands-on classroom presentations. The lecture and workshop program occurs separately from the screening program. Advanced notice must be given to LFF in order to schedule Scott Beibin as a workshop speaker, whether in addition to the screening program or independent of the screening program. Please see the screening program sheet for Scott Beibins’ Bio. (note: The workshop speaker fee is separate from the screening speaker fee.)


Class Lecture @ Columbia University


LECTURE 1 - Self-Distribution: a reality

In the 1990's the independent music world successfully built a DIY network to circumvent the stranglehold of the majors. With the rise in number of microcinemas, with the combined availability of consumer/pro-sumer grade non-linear editing, Low-Cost Video Projection, DV technology, DVD creation, Independent Press, and the World Wide Web, self distribution has become a viable model. Included is anecdotal and hard evidence on how a select group of independent filmmakers have begun to distribute their movies widely while retaining the rights to their own work. Learn how to find mastering houses, duplicators and replicators for DVD, VHS, and their respective packaging. Explore the Pros and Cons from someone who has done it on both ends of the spectrum.



LECTURE 2 - Getting your film into festivals and finding a distributor

You've finished your movie…now what? Whether your is looking for a distribution deal or submitting to festivals, there are proper methods to packaging and marketing a film according to both overt and unspoken industry standards. Included in the lecture is good advice on which festivals may be right for your film. An important key for aspiring filmmakers is to learn how to gain access to distributors, while creating a professional publicity campaign on a shoestring budget. This workshop also includes information on presskit creation, how to find a publicist — or do your own publicity — and the ins and outs of guerilla and alternative marketing techniques. [Beibin coordinated grassroots publicity for the films THE CORPORATION, THE TAKE, and WEATHER UNDERGROUND]



LECTURE 3 - Touring & Fourwalling

“Fourwalling” is a term filmmakers use for screening in a non-traditional venues (short for four walls, no windows). Explore the realities of running a cost-efficient tour and traveling cheaply using state of the art yet affordable technologies. Included are practical instructions for scheduling screenings in theaters, galleries, universities, and non-traditional venues. Also explored are various options for financing and booking a tour of one's movie. Ethics and aesthetics, as well as responsibilities of touring with other filmmakers and artists are discussed. Beibin is one of the co-founders of Evil Twin Booking, an agency that specializes in arranging tours for speakers and films.



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Screening Program Requirements


The Lost Film Fest requests that the host provides the following items and conditions for the day of the screening.



The following items can be provided by the hosting institution, or LFF can provide them. (Additional fees may apply.)



Scott Beibin presents films to a packed house at Underground Publishing Conference




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Recommendations for Preparation and Publicity


*On www.lostfilmfest.com all the resources needed to publicize a Lost Film Fest event are available including appropriate text and graphics. We can also email you various graphic files to use. Lost Film Festival will alert any and all necessary press from the area if so desired.


Three Weeks in Advance


Once Week in Advance


Day Of Show

request that vegan refreshments be provided, with no commercial soft drinks or dairy products.)

- Show should start roughly 30 minutes after time doors open.


For additional questions about preparation or press concerns, please contact Scott Beibin, Scottb@lostfilmfest.org (267) 258 4195


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BUDGET AND FEE BREAKDOWN




Cost Breakdown:


$2000.00 Speaker Fee at Screening (separate from workshop fee)


$800.00 Screening Program: [$50 per film – 16 films average]


$200.00 Travel and Lodging

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$3000.00 total





Optional:


*$200.00 Equipment Rental Fee: (2000 lumen XGA LCD projector, DVD deck)


*$250.00 Workshop Speaker Fees (separate from speaker fee at screening)




Please contact me with any other questions. Graphics templates, sample flyers, press clippings, and other materials will be provided on request. Thank you again for your interest in Lost Film Festival. I look forward to hearing from you.




Sincerely,

Liz Cole

Evil Twin Booking

Liz@eviltwinbooking.com

215.888.1756






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