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Dallas VideoFest presents:The 2nd Annual CatFest at Texas Theatre on Thursday, Aug. 24

Enjoy this cat video Brand took to the Ellen show a couple of years ago, plus these photos of Morrissey

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Dallas VideoFest will present CatFest at 6-9 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 24, at the famous Texas Theatre. CatFest, now in its second year, will feature a selection of feline videos from some of Dallas-Fort Worth’s biggest cat lovers. The evening’s screening will feature cat videos in the categories of comedy, drama, animated, musical, action, vintage and documentary. There will be plenty of frisky felines, cuddly kittens and terrific tabbies. DVF requests cat owners send in their celebri-cat videos for consideration. There can be other animals in the video; however, each video should be cat-centric. Winners will receive prizes. The deadline for videos is Aug. 1. Submit videos 

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#DallasCatFest - Event - Thurs., Aug 24 @ Texas Theatre

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Dallas VideoFest CatFest August 24th at the Texas Theatre

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Sign up for the Dallas VideoFest Newsletter for a chance to win a Dallas VideoFest CatFest bag

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The time to celebrate is: meow!  #InternationalCatDay buy your ticket for Dallas VideoFest CatFest 

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BART CHAT

Hi all,

Last week I was at The University Film and Video Association Conference for instructors in Los Angeles and had a great time, met some great people and picked up lots of tips on how to be a better film teacher.  I caught up with old friends and made many new ones and now I am pretty fired up for the new semester coming up. If you have been keeping up with Bart Chat or the VideoFest page on Facebook you, know that we have Dallas VideoFest CatFest coming up on Aug 24th.  This event filled the Texas Theater last year and probably will again this year, so get your tickets now. (There are still some sponsorship opportunities, so if you have some ides email Raquel [email protected] ASAP)  Last year’s program was very cool and diverse and this year’s should be even better.  We had some great indie filmmakers make original work just for this screening!!!! We also found some very classic old cat films that I think you will love. We have so many different kinds of feline fun, adventure and cuteness. In the name of diversity, we will also have one short dog film. As you read this, think of someone you know who loves cats, you know that you know someone, and buy them a ticket and bring them to the show.  It is more than just a CatFest, it is a gathering of the cat community---MEOW!!!!   And for something completely different, we (Dallas VideoFest) are now working to co-present Chris Vognar’s Screening Room, which we are very happy about. This fall’s series will be HORROR films. The series begins August 16th, with one of the great American films of all times, Psycho. Fun fact-Psycho was the first film that Andrew Sarris reviewed in the Village Voice.

The rest of the films are true classics and I know you will enjoy them. I look forward to lively discussion of these classics with Chris, see you at the Angelika Film Center Dallas.

This week I was saw two violent films: Dunkirk and Detroit.  They were both relentless in their visceral effect. With digital effects and sound design, war films are now bringing the violence to 11.  As I was watching the sequences with the battle in the sky (these were so critical) and I thought about how as a kid my sense of air wars was Snoopy vs. The Red Barron—what fun that was. It is hard to survive that brutal screening and not think about what we are doing sending troops into battle. Do we really appreciate the sacrifices made so we can have live freely? Somehow, the automatic. "Thank you for your service,” seems inadequate.

  Moving on to the other film, Detroit also was a brutal screening and a great film. As a white male, it is hard for me on a daily basis, to remember how good I have it. This film takes events not too dissimilar to the documented moments we see from cell phones now, and expands this to an emotional, relentless pounding of violent racist behavior by the police.  While some might complain that it was made by a white woman and there were not enough black women represented, I am really glad this was made and that many people will experience the way Kathryn Bigelow brings her war aesthetic to the war on the streets in D town.   So aside from the meow mix of video what else is coming your way?     The Dallas Black Film Festival is this weekend and its theme is Politics in Film. Friday will kick off with discussion on politics in film with excerpts from political films and why they have always mattered.  Saturday, August 12th the festival will kick off with the Children’s Film Festival from 10:00AM-1:30PM with animated film shorts by independent film makers—Brick by Brick by Louie McClain , G's Read by Trestan Howard, The Animator by Quinton Banks, A Day at Children’s House of Baylor by Keidron N. Sims II, and various others. Some of the film's that will be showing Saturday evening and night for the general film festival include the film short Rolling in the Deep by Marcellus Cox, Born with a Silver Spoon by Paul Smith, Return to Sender by Tammy Thomas, Dilemma of a Nigerian Woman in America by BaBa Magna, Pull Your Pants up or Don't Come In (On IMDP its called Pull’em Up), by Tanesa Kassa, and many others.  The festival will run from Friday August 11th to Sunday August 13th. The DBFF was created in 2003 by LaRome Armstrong of P.W.A.M.P.-People With A Message Production Filmworks.   I will be headed out to the El Paso Classic Film Fest, which is always fun.  Coming up very soon is the Women's Texas Film Fest, and the Mckinney Classic Film Fest—more on those next week. At the Texas Theater, you have another chance to see the great Endless Poetry on Thursday and follow that up with A Ghost Story in its hometown theater. On Saturday, they will be showing Ed Wood, which is always worth another look. At the Alamos they have nice cinetreats for us, including a free screening of The Great Dictator—hmm, I wonder if what they might be referencing? They also will be showing Steel Magnolias, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind which is a must see, along with Moonrise Kingdom, Vertigo (see the shot that inspired film students everywhere) and Stand by Me