Updated: April 3rd, 2008

Sacramento Film and Music Festival Annouces the 2008 Event Dates

The Sacramento Film and Music Festival will take place at the historic Crest Theatre August 8th-17th, 2008. The event is celebrating 9 years of delighting audiences of Sacramento with the engaging film and music art from around the world. In addition, the festival's signature programs the Sac Music Seen and the the 10 X 10 filmmaking challenge are going into their 5th annual editions. Mark the dates down on the calendar and we look forward to seeing you at the event.

Sacramento Film and Music Festival was voted Best Film Festival

The Sacramento Film and Music Festival was recently Voted the "Best Film Festival" of Sacramento. We would like to thank everyone that voted for us and we promise to make the Festival even better next year. Some friends of the festival were also honored and we would like to recognize them also.

Best film festival
#1 Sacramento Film and Music Festival

#2 Sacramento French Festival (great local film event)

Best movie theatre
#1 The Crest

Best local actress
#1 Amber Kloss

Best local actor
#1 Jason Bortz

Best local filmmaker
#1 Erin Kruger
www.hunbunfilms.com

#2 Bob Moricz
http://epiphanysink.com

Best local band
#2 Abandon Theory
www.abandontheory.com

Best random act of artistic audacity
L'ordre de reptillian du jour (The reptilian agenda), a short film by Ashley Fleshman
Ashley Fleshman took up the 2006 Sacramento International Film and Music Festival's 10x10 Filmmaker Challenge--to make a flick of no more than 10 minutes in no more than 10 days--with aplomb. Having bravely led a discussion on the brutal cinematic angst of Gaspar Noé at the French Film Fest a few weeks earlier, Fleshman went on hilariously and ingeniously to send up arty, existential Euro-poseur vanity in his own nimble short film, L'ordre de reptillian du jour (The reptilian agenda). The brief tale of a suicidal mope narrating his despair in pouty pidgin French (with help from subtitles), L'ordre is but one of Fleshman's "Random Acts," an ongoing series of happenings he describes as a "mixture of performance art, independent media street theatre, live music, and poetry." His character in the movie may be "overcome with shame and remorse," but the actor and director should be duly proud. www.randomacting.com/home.html. (Source: Sacramento News and Review - September 28th, 2006)

Sac Music Seen is a Recipient of Grant from the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission

The Sac Music Seen was awarded a grant by the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission. The Festival staff would like to thank SMAC for their interest and funding of our interactive event. This will be the 3rd year for the Sac Music Seen and will be the best yet.