San Fran: For The Win

As the (geeky) kids say, The San Francisco Frozen Film Fest was full of win.

Translation.  It was neato.  I didn't get an exact number of how many people came to the screening but the audience was huge and I heard that at the very least, we had the biggest turnout of the day.  The audience was probably the best, most appreciative one we've had too.  To be blunt, there were a whole lot of nerds in the crowd and they really seemed to love the movie. 

All of the artists that were in attendance; Doctor Popular, Nomad and MC Lars plus GeekentertainmentTV reporter Iriana Slutsky, did an awesome job of getting the word out about the event.  They blogged and e-mailed and twittered and myspace-bulletined their asses off.  Even Monzy, who was out of town that weekend, told a million of his Bay Area friends to attended.  I think he was able to rope in more than a few CS students since every time he was on screen dropping a rhyme about "linear probing" or MC Plus +'s mom using "hoare semantics" the place went apeshit.

So the screening went great.  I was a little worried because I had waited too long to send the Frozen Film Fest people our screening copy of the film and there was a chance they would have to show the copy I submitted.  That copy is ok but we've made a lot of improvements since that cut.  No worries though, the fest went out of their way to make sure our new cut was used.  The had to send the whole night's program back to the editor since they put all the films onto one master tape!  The guys who put on the Frozen Film fest were just fantastic dudes.  The whole fest is a not-for-profit endeavor and all those guys want to do is get art seen by people.  Truly, they are the ones filled of win.

The Q&A was fun but super fast since the next movie had to start soon after us.  In my head, I had envisioned an exodus of nerdcore fans pouring out of the theater and then heading en mass to the after-party that was happeing right down the block.  And for once, something I envisioned actually sort of happened.  The club we were having the party in, The Double Dutch, went from being 100% empty to nearly full in like 15 minutes. 

I was a little freaked when I first entered the club since the bartender who was supposed to help us set up the sound booth was immediately set-upon by scores of people who really needed a drink after having their understanding of the universe shaken by all the deep, mind boggling issues we explore in the movie.   So I was on my own with the set-up.  True, I'm an AV professional by trade but I'm not a very good one.  But eventually I got everything set and Nomad kicked off the show.  I had never seen him perform before and that guy can tear shit up.

Next up was Doc Pop who performed with his new buddy, All About George.  They make an excellent duo.  No show with Doc Pop would be complete without some brain-bending yo-you action so of course, the crowd got to witness a bit of that magic too.

Doc was followed by a really great local rapper named CK and then MC Lars burned the place to the ground with a kick-ass closing set.  The club was so tiny but Lars managed to go all out and put on his whole stage show.  He had live back up musicians plus his trademark video slideshow.  He even tuned a bench into a makeshift stage.  Let me tell you folks something, MC Lars is the man, man. He is the man.

Lots of other great stuff happened but long story short, a good time was had by all.  Oh...plus we won our first festival award!  Nerdcore For Life was named "Best Music Documentary" of the 2008 San Francisco Frozen Film Fest!  How do you like them apples!?  Big thanks to the fest organizers that treated us so well, the artists that did such a great job at the party and everyone else who came out and helped make it such a cool weekend.

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