First post - the blog

Well, here goes.

The first annual Glen Rose Neo·Relix Film Festival blog post. I took it entirely upon myself to make this blog and hope that I am able to keep up with it among all the other bazillion (that's a lot) things I'm doing outside of organizing a film festival.

I've had the idea of a film festival in Glen Rose for quite a while. I love the community - a quiet little town (no train) within a reasonable drive of the DFW metroplex. The only problem is that there are no movie theaters in Glen Rose in which to show films.

There is - or once was - a movie theater on the square, The Palace, which is now a store. If it weren't full of women's clothing we might have been able to utilize this for the festival.

Alas, the theme of the film festival comes to our rescue. Neo·Relix. Neo = New. Relix (relics) = Old. So, a festival that is both new and old simultaneously. Just like our logo. The dinosaur and the atom. History and technology. How does this rescue a film festival in a town with no movie theaters?

Come on out in August and find out how we get this to work. The first annual Glen Rose Neo·Relix Film Festival will screen films in environments that otherwise would never host a screening. Where exactly is not entirely sure. But I guarantee you'll see a film at the 2010 GRNRFF in a space you never thought you'd ever see a film in.

We're a couple weeks into getting this project off the ground and we have a lot of ground to cover in a short time. This week the Glen Rose Chamber of Commerce came to the support of the GRNRFF and they have their own events planned surrounding the festival so that there's more to do than just films. I promise you there will be more to do than just films, and panels, and regular film-oriented stuff. Apparently there will be some moonshine involved. But I'm not organizing that and I'll just let that fall together elsewhere.

I hope you'll follow this blog, and that you'll befriend us elsewhere online and plan on coming to the festival in August. I promise it'll be a lot of fun. If there is anything this festival will absolutely be known for it'll be fun.

Hope to see you soon!

~B