Killing My Lobster, the San Francisco theater and film company, is proud to present a celebration of high concept/low budget films:

What: the 8th hilo film festival

Where: The Red Vic Movie House - 1727 Haight St. San Francisco
Parkway Theater - 1824 Park Blvd. Oakland

When:
Shorts Program 1 - Thursday 7:15pm & Friday 9:15pm- Red Vic
Shorts Program 2 - Thursday 9:15pm & Saturday 9:15 - Red Vic
Shorts Program 3 - Friday 7:15pm - Red Vic; 6pm Sunday - Parkway
Documentary 1 - Skating is not... w/shorts - Saturday 5pm - Red Vic
Feature Documentary Piece by Piece w/shorts Saturday at 7:15pm - Red Vic

Tix: $8 at the door on buy at www.hilofilmfestival.com
Saturday 5pm screening of Skating is not... is a $5 show!

Info & Tix for the public: www.hilofilmfestival.com or 415.558.7721

What is the hilo film festival? Or Why $40 million can kill a good idea.

Originally organized in 1997 by the San Francisco production company and comedy collective Killing My Lobster the hi/lo film festival has evolved into a major West Coast showcase for independent low-budget film makers. The fest runs in the Haight’s historic Red Vic Movie House and Oakland’s pizza & pub Parkway Theater for four nights of shorts, docs, narratives, experimentals and animations.

Now in its eighth year, the hi/lo film festival continues to prove that big imaginations are more important than fat wallets. Films featured range from animations, short narratives and abstract imagistic explorations to micro-features, documentaries, and uncategorizable creations. Though in most cases they are as different and distinct as night and day, the films all belong in the same festival. They are high concept works made on minimal budgets that place ideas and creativity over imitation and slickness and each, in its own way, proves that talented, dedicated people can bring their visions to the big screen.

Hi-lights of the 2005 hilo film festival:

40 films selected from over 500 submissions will be screened at the festival including:

8 Films by San Francisco filmmakers joining films from Florida to Oregon, Belgium to Burbank, London to Texas and a lot of places in between.

Documentaries about: SF's graffiti history, a Berkeley architect who moves his parents into an unlikely creation, an all-girl indie-rock band playing their prom, the windmills at Altamont, and a look at youth culture through the eyes of skateboarders across the country

Music Videos about electric can openers, girls who fly through space and an interpretation of the Nutcracker suite choreographed with lawn mowers and weedwackers.

Reality Video featuring a dramatic show down between a newspaper pilferer and his surveillance camera equipped neighbor.

And lots of beautiful, hilarious, soulful and insane low budget films that prove you don’t need a lot of money to make a great movie!

What the Press Says about hilo:

The Hi/Lo collection of shorts revels in indie film at its silly strangest, but serious works find a place in this festival too. - San Francisco Bay Guardian.

The [hilo] films are charming, quirky, and far better than the major-budget pap that crawls out of Hollywood. - SF Weekly

The Hi/Lo Film Festival has returned to provide San Franciscans with a mix of high-concept and low-budget film genius. A rollicking good time is virtually guaranteed. - SF Flavorpill.com

Screening times for specific films and film descriptions available on this site. Please call for a PREVIEW VIDEO!

Media Contact: Marc Vogl, hilo film festival organizer * 415.558.7721
info@hilofilmfestival.com * www.hilofilmfestival.com