Updated: December 9th, 2008

New Year's Eve Sac Music Seen!

The Crest Theatre and the Sacramento Film & Music Festival present an evening of live music and encore screenings of Sac Music Seen music videos as part of Downtown Sacramento's New Year's Eve celebrations. It will also mark the official launch of our 2009 call for music for the Sac Music Seen program, the innovative local arts program for which the Festival matches musicians and filmmakers, with 115 music videos produced in the last five years. Why watch people on the streets of New York when you could enjoy live street entertainment, our own ball drop, and 3 HOURS OF FREE MUSIC right here in Sacramento? More details to follow, but the anticipated times are 8:00pm-11:30pm, ending in time for the outdoor festivities. Dress in layers!!

Sacramento Film and Music Festival Annouces the 2009 Event Dates

The 10th Annual Sacramento Film & Music Festival will be held at the Crest Theatre, July 24th – Aug 2nd, 2009. The call for films is already underway and submissions have begun to arrive. Attend the CFAA Holiday Mixer for the first chance to win a Festival Pass and check out the special news below regarding the music program and an extra chance for some holiday cheer!

Sacramento Film and Music Festival was voted Best Film Festival

The Sacramento Film and Music Festival was recently Voted the "Best Film Festival" of Sacramento. We would like to thank everyone that voted for us and we promise to make the Festival even better next year. Some friends of the festival were also honored and we would like to recognize them also.

Best film festival
#1 Sacramento Film and Music Festival

#2 Sacramento French Festival (great local film event)

Best movie theatre
#1 The Crest

Best local actress
#1 Amber Kloss

Best local actor
#1 Jason Bortz

Best local filmmaker
#1 Erin Kruger
www.hunbunfilms.com

#2 Bob Moricz
http://epiphanysink.com

Best local band
#2 Abandon Theory
www.abandontheory.com

Best random act of artistic audacity
L'ordre de reptillian du jour (The reptilian agenda), a short film by Ashley Fleshman
Ashley Fleshman took up the 2006 Sacramento International Film and Music Festival's 10x10 Filmmaker Challenge--to make a flick of no more than 10 minutes in no more than 10 days--with aplomb. Having bravely led a discussion on the brutal cinematic angst of Gaspar Noé at the French Film Fest a few weeks earlier, Fleshman went on hilariously and ingeniously to send up arty, existential Euro-poseur vanity in his own nimble short film, L'ordre de reptillian du jour (The reptilian agenda). The brief tale of a suicidal mope narrating his despair in pouty pidgin French (with help from subtitles), L'ordre is but one of Fleshman's "Random Acts," an ongoing series of happenings he describes as a "mixture of performance art, independent media street theatre, live music, and poetry." His character in the movie may be "overcome with shame and remorse," but the actor and director should be duly proud. www.randomacting.com/home.html. (Source: Sacramento News and Review - September 28th, 2006)

Sac Music Seen is a Recipient of Grant from the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission

The Sac Music Seen was awarded a grant by the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission. The Festival staff would like to thank SMAC for their interest and funding of our interactive event. This will be the 3rd year for the Sac Music Seen and will be the best yet.