
The BackLot Film Festival is going on its fifth year and has asked Mr. Midnight Movie to be a part of their program!
What is the Backlot Film Festival? Let us take a look at their philosophy in a nutshell...
MISSION STATEMENT
The Backlot Film Festival was created in 2004 to cultivate an appreciation of the rich heritage of the motion picture industry and to bring greater understanding of the debt that contemporary filmmakers owe to early film pioneers. It is from Kevin Brownlow’s masterpiece on the history of the silent film The Parade’s Gone By that The Backlot Film Festival takes its direction:
Whatever future, cinema may have will be based solidly on its past....