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Charlotte Film Anarchists coming to Queen City on May 31st.

CHARLOTTE, NC — It’s hard to believe that the Charlotte Film Anarchists mastermind group has come together so quickly in the span of one week. The brainchild of Ghost Trek creator Michael Plumides and MVP maestro J.T.McRoberts, the CFA open group on Facebook already boasts over 750 members consisting of actors, directors, musicians, writers, and artists. The swell in support shows that the filmmakers in the area want to get together with others that are being proactive about making movies in the Charlotte area and beyond. This mastermind group will give everyone a chance to not only learn from others who have had success in the industry but to talk to their fellow filmmakers who are currently struggling to see how we can all help each other. The best part is that it won’t cost anyone a dime to attend.

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Charlotte Film Anarchists meetup coming to Cosmos May 31st!

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Charlotte Film Anarchists plan first meeting in May and more on Mutantville Mondays.

Welcome back to another weird and wild Monday on the Mutantville Mothership. It should go without saying by now that it’s been a busy weekend for the Mutantville Players. Post-production has been ongoing for several projects including G.H.O.S.T. and Tales From Mutantville and we are set to shoot the final scene for Muticia’s Movie Morgue tonight! Tonight’s shoot will be interesting as it features a live musical performance from Absolute Zero with band members Brent Bowers, Todd A. Britt and Jeremy Mullis. The biggest event of the weekend was the sudden announcement and subsequent launch of the filmmaking mastermind group the Charlotte Film Anarchists.

The Charlotte Film Anarchists is a group founded by Ghost Trek creator Michael Plumides and MVP co-founder J.T.McRoberts. The goal of the group is to provide Charlotte area filmmakers a chance to come together for a mastermind group once a month and talk to like minded individuals in the NC film industry. The Charlotte Film Anarchists is in no way meant to replace the existing group Charlotte Film Community – but rather to supplement it by giving actors and filmmakers that want to be more proactive a chance to meet and talk with others that have the same goals in mind.

What sets this group apart is the fact that there are no membership dues and no meetup fees. We are all struggling filmmakers that have to put so much of our own individual resources into our productions that at the end of the day it doesn’t always work out where we can scrounge up additional fees so we can simply meet and talk with our fellow filmmakers. Kill The Music author and Ghost Trek creator Michael Plumides started the ball rolling by finding a venue that would allow us to meet once a month to do our best to create positive proactive filmmaking partnerships.

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Mad Monster Party Film Festival Winners Announced on Mutantville Mondays!

Welcome to the first ever Post-Mad Monster Party edition of Mutantville Mondays! The Mutantville Players have just returned from the amazing Mad Monster Party & Film Festival event this past weekend. We had a tremendous turnout of both fans and filmmakers for the festival and the convention itself was packed the entire weekend. You’ll have to forgive us if we take a moment to catch our collective breaths.

In case you missed it – here’s a glimpse of what you really missed out on!

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Mad Monster Party Film Festival Schedule Now Live, TFM Shirts in the mail and More on Fridays with MVP!

CHARLOTTE, NC — The light at the end of the tunnel flared bright today for indie filmmakers across the country as the Mad Monster Party Film Festival schedule went live on their official website.  Filmmakers are coming from all along the East Coast and across North Carolina to show their films to a rabid crowd at the First Annual Mad Monster Party Film Festival on March 23 -25th.

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Mad Monster Party Film Festival Deadline Extended To Midnight Tonight!

Welcome back to another edition of Mutantville Mondays here at Mutantville.com.  We’re lucky to even be here for another Mutantville Monday as the idiots that run our hosting service nuked the website over the weekend losing half of our data and media in the process. I’m sure that was a nice surprise for the the filmmakers coming to the website hoping to find submission information for the Mad Monster Party Film Festival at the last minute.  Fortunately everything is back up and running and we’ve minimized the damage done over the past few days.

Thanks to the miracle of modern social media we were able to keep everyone informed as to the status of Mutantville.com and the Mad Monster Party Film Festival.  As we received many messages from filmmakers that somehow managed to miss the Friday deadline for the festival – we’ve decided to extend the deadline until Monday at midnight.  That means when Tuesday arrives – the deadline has passed!

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Nevermore Film Festival Comes and Goes and MVP Forges Ahead on Mutantville Mondays.

Welcome back to another cold sleet covered edition of Mutantville Mondays.  The Mutantville Players have returned from a long weekend in Durham, NC where we attended the thirteenth annual Nevermore Film Festival over the weekend.  Nevermore always offers us a chance to recharge our creative batteries by taking in new movies as well as the classics in addition to supporting our fellow filmmakers as they share their works with the public. 

MVP would like to send out a big round of congratz to our friends Robert W. Filion, Jeremy Bonham, Christopher G. Moore, Robert Haulbrook, and Lee Miller who all had movies play at the festival.  Congratulations on the fine reception you received and keep up the good work.  The gentlemen hosted their films Dummy, Flush With Fear and Deviling respectively. 

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Indie Filmmaking Q & A with Brinke Stevens, MVP & Friends.

This week on the Indie Filmmaker Spotlight we are featuring a panel from ConCarolinas 2011. The Mutantville Players were honored to be a part of a panel that featured not only legendary scream queen Brinke Stevens, but local filmmakers such as Christine Parker, Michael Ray Williams, Robert W. Filion, and Jaysen Buterin of Mad Ones Films. Topics discussed included everything from filmmaking to networking to how to promote in the digital age. We had some technical difficulties which delayed this video in post but we decided to go ahead and share it with you all anyway.

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Scanners One Sheet on Collector’s Corner with MVP.

David Cronenberg is one of our favorite horror filmmakers of all time.  No other filmmaker’s work quite captured the disturbing visceral quality of his works.  One of the his most memorable one sheets comes from the 1981 films Scanners.  

I remember hanging out at my buddy Kirk’s down the street.  His family had  a room with a pool table and over it hung the classic one sheet for Scanners.  Kirk’s older brother was always watching horror films and had plastered posters in the rec room as well as his own room.  None of them stood out the way the Scanners one sheet did.  It haunted me for years and now you have a chance to bring it home. 

The bargain hunters and mad collectors at MVP have discovered an eBay auction for a nice French Scanners one sheet.  Bid now and hang it over your pool table later.

Christopher G. Moore’s Bursters explode on Trailer Park Tuesday.

We’re all recovering from our holiday festivities here on the Mutantville Mothership so we thought we would keep things in the holiday spirit by featuring the work of one of our fellow North Carolinian filmmakers Christopher G. Moore.  We first met Christopher at ConCarolinas in 2010 where his movie Bursters played alongside Devil Comes Down.  Needless to say we were very impressed with the quality of Christopher’s work as well as the dark humor that was present in his movie.

MVP would encounter Christopher again when Scarecrow At Midnight played alongside Bursters at the Nevermore Film Festival earlier this year.  Since then, Christopher has gone on to make more shorts including the Lovecraftian black comedy Flush With Fear which went on to win “Best Horror Short” at the NYC International Film Festival.  Christopher is currently involved in post-production on his latest work – Foodie. 

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