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Coffee and Kitsch
For all those who failed to crack Sundance this year, take heart. There are other ways to get your film in front of an appreciative film festival audience.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008 at 9:45 PM
By FilmStew Staff
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Behold the Skunk Ape
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Far from the hoopla of the 23rd Annual Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah (January 17th-24th), there is the 5th Annual Psychotronic Film Festival in Savannah, Georgia (January 14th-25th). One event takes over a whole town, the other occupies a single coffee shop known as the Sentient Bean.
For writer-director Jay Edwards, a producer on the Adult Swim TV series, Friday’s screening at the Psychotronic event of his 2005 B movie homage Stomp! Shout! Scream! is but the latest in a very long line of appearances for a film that is three years old and out on DVD since the spring of 2006. Welcome to life on the other side of snowy SWAG and overflow chalet parties.
Stomp! is a loving tribute to 1950’s monster movies wrapped around the legend of the Skunk Ape, basically the Florida Everglades’ equivalent to Bigfoot lore. In the shadow of Cloverfield, a movie inspired by producer J.J. Abrams’ love of monster movies as a boy, this more modest flick is also Edwards tip of the hat to the guy-in-a-costume monster movies of the 1950’s that he grew to know and admire.
The $100,000 production was originally inspired by the Atlanta band Catfight, who went on to provide soundtrack music, and follows the adventures of an all-female garage band whose bus breaks down in the general swamp neighborhood of the Skunk Ape. Edwards will be selling DVDs at the Savannah showing and no doubt hoping once again to prove the mantra of his Director’s Statement: "good storytelling and escapist entertainment need not be mutually exclusive."
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