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With 46 days left until the festival, we wanted to give an update to confirmed information for the festival so far. We have received a bunch of film entries by the way, but we are still accepting late entries up until January 15th, so its not too late. Head over to our film submission page…

Calling all Filmmakers! The sixth annual Boomtown Film and Music Festival will be held February 22-23, 2013 in Beaumont, Texas. Films are now being accepted for consideration. We are accepting submissions in the categories of feature length, shorts, documentaries, experimental, music video, or student. We encourage filmmakers to submit their films to us via an…

Where: Beaumont Art League, 2675 Gulf St., Beaumont When: This Friday, January 25th from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. (feel free to show up a little early for mingling & refreshments) Cost: Free! Got what it takes to write, shoot and edit a short film in just two days? Will your team’s movie be better…

Planning for the festival is in full swing and we’re having an All-Volunteer meeting this Monday, November 12th 6:30PM at Kampus Korner Restaurant near Lamar University. So if you live near the Beaumont Texas area, we’d love to have you help out if you can. Please be sure and share this information with your friends…

Non-native Southeast Texans may not relate to the epic history that is Sharks From Space. In fact, I’m still convinced there’s some punctuation in their title that dictates the name be spoken no louder than a whisper; punctuation unable to be seen by those who grew up outside the 409 area code. Those of you…

The Boomtown Film and Music Festival is please to announce ‘Pictures of Superheroes‘ as an official selection in its 2013 movie lineup. This exceptionally quirky comedy was named by Indiewire as one of the top ten films of 2012 without distribution. Film Threat awarded ‘Pictures of Superheroes’ with Four Stars.  It was listed among the…

The Boomtown Film and Music Festival has received permission to screen Tarzan: Lord of the Louisiana Jungle. This documentary traces the history of the Edgar Rice Burroughs’ 100 year old character and focuses on the making of the very first Tarzan movie, 1917’s Tarzan of the Apes, which was filmed on the gulf coast of…

The Boomtown Film and Music Festival has confirmed a screening of The Exquisite Corpse Project. Part documentary, part narrative feature and part experiment film, this self described ‘crossover’ movie is a hilarious adventure in filmmaking undertaken by five comedy writers. Each was challenge to produce fifteen pages of a movie, having read only the previous…

The directors and volunteers of the 6th Annual Boomtown Film and Music Festival are excited about many of the new features of this year’s line-up, especially the announcement that Spindletop-Gladys City Museum will be one of our venues. On Saturday, February 23rd, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., we will host films, music, vendors and…