AFI Dallas Wrap Report & Atlanta Projections

Dear Shareholders,

Second quarter Nerdcore Rising screenings at AFI Dallas brought tremendous good fortune for Nerdcore Rising Industries, both in terms of brand equity and fun equity.

 

Sold out houses at the screenings led to an unprecedented upswing in committed Dallas-based fans, insuring future gains in area screenings.

 

The post-screening MC Frontalot show drew fans into the upper-indices of joy and rapping-alongedness. This is largely due to the total quality management of film sponsor and post-production house REEL FX. Wendy Teague (Supervising Manager of Cool), Kathryn Harper (Managing Director of Awesome Services), Brandon Oldenberg (Vice President of Unbelievably Chill) and Chuck Peil (Executive Vice President of Ridiculously Helpful) provided support services that cannot be quantified at this time because they were: OFF THE CHARTS!

 

Other items of note: Nerdcore Rising Industries would like to thank Moxygecko & company (from Austin) and the Stephenville 5 (from Stephenville). They imported a set of friendly eyes and enthusiastic/well-functioning ears to the screenings. It is our hope to continue outsourcing “love & support” operations to those two companies.

 

Retail consumption of t-shirts enjoyed a 1000% gain in Dallas up from zero (… ah… because we had never sold them before). Our retail efforts were so well-received that the web division of Nerdcore Rising Industries will also make them available for sale in the coming day. Literally, like tomorrow.

 

Future investments include the Atlanta Film Festival where screenings on April 12 & 15 are expected to parallel or even out-perform AFI Dallas. For shareholders interested in going to those screenings, please visit www.atlantafilmfestival.com for ticket information.

 

The Auditor’s Report of Details is below.

 

Sincerely Yours,

 

Negin Farsad
President & CEO of Nerdcore Rising Industries 

 

 

Auditor’s Report
Nerdcore Rising Screenings @ The Atlanta Film Festival
Sat, Apr 12, 10:30PM Landmark Midtown #4
Tue, Apr 15, 2:40 PM Landmark Midtown #1
Landmark located at 931 Monroe Dr, NE
For Tix: http://www.atlantafilmfestival.com

 

If you wanna see uber cool animation and motion effects from our Dallas sponsors, visit:
www.reelfx.com

 

Photos below: 1) a cheering Dallas audience at our second screening, 2) a meticulous 17th century fortress casually erected over one of the animator’s desks at Reel FX, 3) a spectacular collection of comic book/cartoon figurines also casually hovering over a desk at Reel FX, and 4) close-ups of a few of those figurines. … I know, I know, it makes me want to work there too… Sigh…

 

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Do you live in Dallas? Do you heart Nerdcore?

Folks!

If you live in Dallas and have particular proclivities toward a certain subgenre of hip hop populated by a notable subsect of humans, referred to in common parlance as ‘nerds’ –  would you be a dear and join our Dallas street-teaming forces? Street-teaming involves, artful hanging of posters, strategic placement of postcards, and rabid electronic word-spreading. In return, said street-teamer will receive: a t-shirt, entry to the movie, and a kindly/exuberant thanks from one, negin farsad. If you’re interested, hit me up on the emails and make yourself known!

 

In other American-Film-Institute-Dallas Festival news, here are our screening dates and times:
-Thursday, April 3rd 7:15pm, Angelika 6
-Friday, April 4th 10:00pm, Angelika 7

 

“What is this Angelika 6 and 7?” I hear you ask. Well, I have no clue. But you can find lots of information here: http://www.afidallas.com/

 

And now its time for a little braggadocio (AKA more press from SXSW):

  • Cinematical
  • Spout
  • Slash Film                                                                                                          
  • Greencine
  • Quirkee.com

 

Let’s see each other in Dallas – at midnight, in front of the ol’ Ewing ranch. I’ll wear a rose on my lapel. We’ll experience merriment together. What d’ya say?

 

Lurve,
Negin & Team Nerdcore Rising

The Epic Post-SXSW Blog Entry

Folks,

For me, SXSW started with a chest infection, projection-malfunction fears, self-doubt, and snot-riddled lungs. The first couple of days involved postering, postcarding [verb post-card-ing: to hand out postcards], and eating BBQ brisket. Our nerves are on full display in VIDEO BLOG 1 and most of the rest of our experience is chronicled in VIDEO BLOG 2 and 3. Though I have to admitt, in the interest of full disclosure, we made a difficult editorial decision to keep my plentiful lung mucus out of the footage.

But allow me to blog about a couple of things we couldn’t capture on camera: After the first screening there was the after party (spoiler alert: after the party there was no hotel lobby). There was some shittiness with peeps not being able to get in which was an unfortunate combination of fire codes and SXSW badge holder rules – mondo apologies for that. Would that I could rule over film festivals with all-empowering dictatorial force. I would evilly get everyone into all parties like a dutiful, open-party, fascist despot.

Here’s something else that might not be clear from the VIDEO BLOGS: guess who’s the most easy-going hip hop legend ever? Prince Paul. For a guy that shattered booties on the dance floor, he’s literally the most ridiculously cheerful and pleasant dude on hip hop record.

Then of course there was the Morgan Spurlock Slow Dance (MSSD). You may have noticed from VIDEO BLOG 3 that I had a giddy slow dance with Mr. Super Size Me himself which I soon learned is a right of passage for filmmakers. Spurlock had his MSSD with Michael Moore (MMSD) who in turn had his with Barbara Kopple (BKSD) – and so on and so forth.

That is, of course, entirely untrue. The fact of the matter is that our associate editor (Torrey Townsend) was drunk, had a crazy idea to institute a prom king-style slow dance at our otherwise raucous party, and convinced Mr. Spurlock to provide an MSSD. What was he even doing at our party? Beneath that investigative filmmaker exterior, he’s a nerd. Either that or he was posing as a nerd for 30 days for his show… 30 Days.

Finally, I have to share one of the most completely ridiculous/strange/cool events I’ve ever been involved in: Myself and Mr. Frontalot were invited to speak on a panel about documentary filmmakers and their subjects. We shared that panel with Steve James and his documentary subject, the Reverend Carroll Pickett. Our movie was on Nerdcore hip hop, their movie was on… the death penalty. For an hour, we casually went back and forth between the unbelievably gripping and emotionally devastating accounts of the Reverend’s work on death row to unbelievably irreverent and emotionally neutral accounts of filming a band of nerdy boys in a tour van. By the end, both movies were one in the same and of course the Reverend busted out into some jammin’ rhymes.

Team Nerdcore Rising is off to AFI Dallas next, followed by Atlanta, and then Boston. Infos will come on those festivals later. If the mucus subsides by then, we’ll even VIDEO BLOG about it.

Until then, I’m signing off with dorky goodness and massive appreciation for the nerds of Austin,

Negin

A Sampling of Links That Prove This Movie Exists:

SXSW Nerdcore Rising Video Blog 2

Straight from Austin, the capital of Texas.

Our premiere went off better than what we ever imagined. Seriously. For reals. Seriously. BUT this meant that some fine folks weren’t able to get into the screening because there weren’t enough seats. This is still unbelievable to me. I really hope this doesn’t happen again! For anyone who wants to see the film, we are screening again tonight at 10:30pm at Alamo Lamar, as well as Friday at 1pm at the Austin Convention Center. The Convention Center venue is super large so everyone should be able to get in. You will see this film! (if’n you want to) You are all the awesomest.

And for those outside the Austin area, check out the highlights in our VIDEO BLOG!

negin & gang @ Nerdcore Rising 

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