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24 Hour Video Race August 23 @ Angelica Film Center

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The 24 Hour Video Race in partnership Pegasus Film Festival with is a fun filmmaking competition in which teams of video makers have 24 hours to write, shoot, edit and score an original short film. Big changes in 2019!

The 2019 24-Hour Video Race will begin in Dallas, TX, Friday on August 23rd. The objective is to complete a digital film, within 24 hours by following the rules! The rules are simple and all teams will obtain the final “five” elements during the kick-off meeting. The elements include theme, prop, and line of dialogue

The race concludes 24 hours later with a mad dash to the finish line back at the Angelika Film Center in Dallas. Teams will send their films on google drive or through Dropbox.

All of the films that make it by the 8 PM deadline will be screened at the Angelika and compete for awards and bragging rights. Depending on how many teams survive we will screen the films and announce the winner.

Thank you to our Sponsors

AMS Pictures

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CatFest – August 22nd @Texas Theatre

This year’s Dallas VideoFest’s CatFest (yes, we are back to #DVFCatFest; dogs will make guest appearances though) will be curated by the annual NY Cat Film Festival™, a philanthropic celebration through film of humankind’s relationship with the mysterious felines who share (and some say: “rule”) our world. After a New York City premiere every December with two new programs of short films, the festival travels to dozens of cities nationwide, benefitting a local animal welfare group that works on behalf of kitty cats. Dallas Pets Alive! will be our beneficiary with 10% of box office going to benefit their work on behalf of cats and dogs in need of fostering and adopting in Dallas. 

Watch Save-the-date video….

https://youtu.be/7ZuOrj2tujI

Thank you,  #DVFCatFest Sponsors:

Smart Dog Dallas
Chewy Studios – Dallas
Texas Commission on the Arts
Dallas Film Commission

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Kelly Kitchens

Kelly J Kitchens (Wickersham), film publicist

As an editor and feature writer, Kelly J. Kitchens found herself engrossed in North Texas’ arts, entertainment, leisure/hospitality and fund-raising events scene in the early and mid-'90s where she was a feature writer, critic and editor for a weekly arts and entertainment magazine in Dallas called The Met. Her love of film, music, art, theater and worthy causes drove her to then pursue the publicity side of the media business in 1995. Kelly has been honored by being named a “master publicist” in the Fort Worth Business Press and an “ace media maven” in The Dallas Morning News.

For more than 25 years, Kelly has had her hand in much of the Dallas film world. For instance, she publicized Angelika Film Centers openings in Dallas and Plano and the revitalization of Houston’s Angelika. She is the director of press and publicity for several area film festivals and independent films playing at other film festivals. And in 2022, she plans to return to be the publicist for Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas in DFW.

During the pandemic, Kelly wasn’t sure where her career would take her. Fortunately, she was able to help save Thin Line Film Festival, Dallas VideoFest's DocuFest and AltFiction Fest, Pegasus Film Festival, among other film festivals as they turned to go virtual instead of canceling.

As the world emerges from the pandemic, Kelly is working on publicity for Pegasus Media Project, Who Needs Sleep Telethon, as well as several films making their ways into the festival circuit and an Amazon series nominated for a Daytime Emmy, #WASHED.

One of Kelly’s specialties is her Media Roundtables. RTs are modified press conferences that turn into conversations and virtual film schools with filmmakers, festival directors and anyone else she happens to be working with at the time. Get a feel for these media roundtables at this YouTube playlist: https://tinyurl.com/KJKPRMediaRoundtables

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