Takoma Park Film Festival

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On Tuesday, October 21, 2008, Mark's Kitchen will donate a percentage of lunch and dinner receipts to the Takoma Park Film Festival. Mark your calendars!

Look for us at the Takoma Park Folk Festival on Sunday, September 14, 2008.

We are accepting entries for our seventh annual festival through November 1, 2008. Submission to the festival is free. There are no restrictions on genre, running time, content or year of production.

You can support the festival by buying a t-shirt. Shirts are available in black-on-white or blue-on-black. Pick one up at our next public event.

DC-based filmmaker Alex Pacecho will present his award-winning debut feature film Praxis on Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. The event takes place at the Takoma Park Community Center and is free and open to the public. Viewer discretion is advised.

Experimental filmmakers Sabine Gruffat and Mary Billyou will present their traveling program "The Free Translators" on Saturday, May 24, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. This event will take place at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Silver Spring. This event is free and open to the public.

On Wednesday, May 14, 2008 Maryland-based director Joe Cashiola will present a sneak preview screening of his new digital feature A Thing as Big as the Ocean . The film was shot "guerilla style" over the course of five days and follows the meeting and short-lived but impactful relationship of two people traveling west on a Greyhound bus. This event takes place at the Takoma Park Community Center at 7:30 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.

Takoma Park filmmaker Nina Gilden Seavey's latest documentary The Matador is screening at Filmfest DC on April 28th and 30th, 2008.

On Wednesday, February 13, 2008, the film festival will host DC-based film/video directors Eric Cheevers and Scott Mueller. They will present Las Historias Mas Sexy Del Mundo! Nos. 1-2 , their new video for the indie band Georgie James, and discuss their recent trip to Slamdance. The screening starts at 7:30 pm at the Takoma Park Community Center and is free and open to the public.

How to get to the Takoma Park Community Center via public transport:

Metro + walking/cycling
Take the red line metro to Takoma. Exit down the escalators through the main entrance. Walk/cycle straight, up the slight hill, past 7-11 on the left and Torchinsky's funeral home on the right. Turn left at Maple Ave. The community center is on Maple, just past Rte 410 (Philadelphia Ave). The walk will take perhaps 10-12 minutes.

Metro + bus (option 1)
Take the red line metro to Takoma. Ride On bus #25 will take you to the community center which is located at Rte 410 (a.k.a. Philadelphia Ave.) and Maple Ave.

Metro + bus (option 2)
Take the red line metro to Silver Spring. Ride On bus #17 will take you to the community center which is located at Rte 410 (a.k.a. Philadelphia Ave.) and Maple Ave.

For more information:
Ride On bus schedule
WMATA metro and bus information