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Raiders: The Adaptation Fan Film Comes Home Saturday

June 25th, 2009 | Posted in Author, Books, Continuum Books, Fan Film, Filmmaking, George Lucas, Gray Areas, History, Homemade Hollywood, Indiana Jones, Mainstream Media, News, Public Screening, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Steven Spielberg, TV,

A one-night-only public screening of the South Mississippi–shot fan-film phenomenon, Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation, will be held June 27 at the Mary C. O’Keefe Cultural Center of Arts & Education in Ocean Springs. MS.

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Raiders: The Adaptation Fan Film Lands In London

May 12th, 2009 | Posted in Analysis, Author, Books, Contest, Copyright, Education, Eli Roth, Fan Film, Filmmaking, George Lucas, Gray Areas, History, Homemade Hollywood, Indiana Jones, Mainstream Media, News, Public Screening, Publishing, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Steven Spielberg, Uncategorized, Writing

In March, Fan Cinema Today broke the news that the famed fan film, Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation, was going to make its UK premiere in late April as a charity event in London. The gala evening has now come and gone, but fortunately, it was a massive hit. Three 12-year-old Mississippi kids [...]

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FCT Roadtrip Report: Five Towns College

November 14th, 2008 | Posted in Analysis, Author, Batman, Books, Comic Books, Contest, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Hardware Wars, History, Homemade Hollywood, Indiana Jones, Iron Fist, Mainstream Media, Public Screening, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Review, Sandy Collora, Superheroes, Superman

Is a roadtrip a roadtrip if it’s only a 40-minute drive? On Election Day, I spoke about fan films as a guest speaker at Five Towns College in Dix Hills, NY. About a year ago, I sat in on the school’s “Comics To Film” course and interviewed its professor, Dan Galiardi, for Homemade Hollywood, so [...]

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WOO-HOO—IT’S A FAN CINEMA TODAY ROADTRIP! Fan Film Fest In Massachusetts!

October 27th, 2008 | Posted in Amazon, Analysis, Author, Batman, Books, Comic Books, Fan Film, Filmmaking, George Lucas, Harry Potter, History, Homemade Hollywood, Indiana Jones, James Bond, Mainstream Media, News, Public Screening, Publishing, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars, Superheroes, Superman, Writing

So you live in Eastern Massachusetts and you have a boring week ahead. Take this Wednesday, for instance: Nothing to do! The Red Sox didn’t make the World Series, so you won’t be watching the game. TV is dead on Wednesday nights, and you can’t go out drinking (OK, shouldn’t), ’cause you’ve got work the [...]

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Raiders: The Adaptation Fan Film Comes Home Saturday

Raiders: The Adaptation Fan Film Lands In London

FCT Roadtrip Report: Five Towns College

WOO-HOO—IT’S A FAN CINEMA TODAY ROADTRIP! Fan Film Fest In Massachusetts!

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