This post comes courtesy of a CityFest press release.
The City of
Wilmington and Cityfest, Inc., the City’s nonprofit cultural programming
organization, are excited to announce the FilmFringe Wilmington Festival that will take place from Tuesday, February 17 to
Sunday, February 22, 2015 at Theatre N at Nemours, 1007 North Orange Street, in
downtown Wilmington.
The 2015 Film Fringe Wilmington Festival will
include the popular annual Extreme Filmmaking competition and screenings of
independent films by local, regional, and national filmmakers. Fringe Wilmington is Delaware’s only multi-day
celebration of unconventional art. In
previous years, Fringe has been a single festival in the fall, which included
live performances, film and visual offerings.
This year, the Fringe Committee has separated each of the disciplines
into their own five day festival, starting with performing arts last November
in Live Fringe, followed by Film Fringe in February 2015, and Visual Fringe in
May 2015.
Film Fringe
kicks off with a free Preview Party, where trailers will be featured for each
film of the festival. The Preview Party
will also include a screening of the Extreme 5-minute Filmmaking entries,
including an awards ceremony to announce cash prize winners of the contest, as
well as Fringe-inspired cocktails by The Painted Stave Distillery of Smyrna,
Delaware.
In Film Fringe Wilmington’s inaugural year
the committee was excited to receive more quality entries than could be
screened in the initial four days of programming allotted. As a result, the Preview Party has been
scheduled for Tuesday, February 17 to allow for a full five days of films. In
the day’s following the Preview Party, film novices and enthusiasts may sample
a wide variety of film genres, ranging from dramas to documentaries, comedies
to action. A few highlights include an
entire evening dedicated to music documentaries on Friday, February 20 and ‘An
Afternoon With John Evans’, the world-renowned filmmaker on Sunday February 22.
Tickets are available on the Fringe Wilmington website at www.fringede.org and
will be available at the Preview Party, as well as at the Theatre N box office
immediately prior to each showing. Individual
ticket prices are $5. Audience members can
also purchase a 5-film pass for $15 or a 10-film pass for $25. Fringe Wilmington continues its model of providing
100% of ticket sales to participating filmmakers.
To learn more about Film Fringe Wilmington
Festival and see the 2015 Film Fringe Wilmington selections, visit www.fringede.org
or call Jeni Barton at 302.576.2135.
