See www.myspace.com/ruralroutefilmfestival for most up to date
information on upcoming tour dates...
 

****For the 3rd year in a row, Rural Route will donate a portion of all 2007-8 tour proceeds to the Federation of Southern Cooperatives in their long-term recovery efforts to help low-income rural people in the Gulf affected by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. To make your own contribution, check out their website - www.federationsoutherncoop.com.

2007 Program

"2007-8 Tour" Presenters: The Iowa Film Office (Iowa Digital Filmmakers Guild, The Iowa Motion Picture Association, Iowa Scriptwriters Alliance) and
the Montana Film Office

May 30-31, 2008 – Wrenshall, MN w/Free Range Film Festival (in a barn!) (http://www.freerangefilm.com/)
April 25 & 27 - St. Louis, MO – Webster Film Series shows “Tour Program” & “Go Organic!” both days (http://www.webster.edu/filmseries/index.htm)
April 5 & 6 – Lansing, MI – Michigan State University “Tour Program” & “Go Organic!” http://www.msuorganicfarm.com/effs.htm
March 20-23 – Dawson City, Yukon, Canada – Dawson City Film Festival (http://www.dawsonfilmfest.com/)
March 3, 2008 – Abingdon, VA – Virginia Highlands Community College (http://www.vhcc.edu/current/artsarray/default.htm) - “Tour Program”
February 25-28, 2008 – Seattle, WA – “Tour Program” & “Huldufólk 102” at Grand Illusion Cinema (http://www.grandillusioncinema.org/)
February 22-24, 2008 – Seattle, WA – “Go Organic!” & “Ruby’s Town” at Grand Illusion Cinema (http://www.grandillusioncinema.org/)
February 21 & 28, 2008 – Abingdon, VA – Virginia Highlands Community College (http://www.vhcc.edu/current/artsarray/default.htm) “Go Organic!” w/special guest Anthony Flaccavento from Appalachian Sustainable Development
February 5-6, 2008 – San Francisco, CA – Red Vic Movie House (http://www.redvicmoviehouse.com/) - “Go Organic!” + “Tour Program”
January 4, 11, 18, 25, 2008 – Buckhannon, WV @ Lascaux micro-theater
January 25, 2008 – Silver City, NM – “Go Organic!” @ Silco Theater (Silver City Int'l Film Society) http://www.silverfilm.org/
January, 2008 - Memphis, TN – “Go Organic!” @ Indie Memphis Microcinema (http:// www.indiememphis.com)
December 23, 2007 – Chicago, IL – “Go Organic!” @ Gene Siskel Film Center (http://www.artic.edu/webspaces/siskelfilmcenter/) (Alan Webber on-hand for Q&A)
December 22, 2007 – Chicago, IL – Gene Siskel Film Center (http://www.artic.edu/webspaces/siskelfilmcenter/) (Alan Webber & filmmaker Stashu Kybartas to be on-hand for Q&A)
December 12, 2007 – Memphis, TN – Indie Memphis Microcinema (http:// www.indiememphis.com)
November 16-17, 2007 – Alpine, TX – Westfest @ Sul Ross University (http://www.sulross.edu/~arts/westfest.htm)
November 15-17, 2007 – Arica, Chile – “Tour Program” + “Go Organic!” @ Festival de Todometrajes Rurales http://www.aricanativa.cl/
November 9, 2007 – Silver City, NM - Silver City Int'l Film Society
October 12-13, 2007 - Scottsbluff, NE – Spotlight Nebraska Film Fest @ Midwest Theatre (Film Fest director Alan Webber special guest)
October 12, 2007 – New York, NY – “King Corn” http://www.kingcorn.net NY Premiere at Cinema Village
September 22, 2007 – Brooklyn, NY – Rooftop Films – Sneak Peek of “King Corn”
September 22, 2007 – Neersville, VA – “Go Organic!” @ Blue Ridge Center http://www.blueridgecenter.org/about/calendar.ws4d (on the wall of a barn!)
September 16, 2007 - Algona, IA – “Go Organic!” @ Berte's Back Nine (http://www.bertesbacknine.com/) (Film Fest director Alan Webber special guest)
September 15, 2007 - Algona, IA - Berte's Back Nine (http://www.bertesbacknine.com/)
August 23, 2007 – Lawrence, KS – “Go Organic!” screening @ Local Burger http://www.localburger.com as part of Sustainable Table’s Eat Well Guided Tour of America

2006 Program

September 25 – October 7, 2007 – London, England – Raindance Film Festival http://www.raindance.co.uk/site/ - RR shorts “Mimes of the Prairie”, “Farmer Brown”, and “Land of the Pines” before features @ the U.K.’s largest indie film fest!
September 15-19, 2007 – Arena Point, CA – Arena Theater http://www.arenatheater.org
September 15, 2007 – Mesa, AZ – Superstition Farms www.SuperstitionFarm.com (Indie Cinema, Hayrides, Antique Tractor Display and Petting Zoo!)
October 27, 2007 – Portland, OR – 5th Ave. Cinema (www.fifthavenuecinema.groups.pdx.edu)
August 22-25, 2007 – Freistadt, Austria - Heimat (Rural) Film Festival
July 13, 2007 - Brooklyn, NY - Rooftop Films
July 11, 2007 - Ithaca, NY - Cornell Cinema
June 10th, 2007 – Hart, MI – National Asparagus Festival
May 29th-June 3rd, 2007 – Jokkmokk, Lapland, Sweden – International Rural
Film Conference hosted by the Film Festival of the Whole of Sweden
May 25th, 2007 - London, England - The Horse Hospital
May 11-12th, 2007 – Anchorage, AK – Out North
May 4th, 2007 – Buffalo, NY – Squeaky Wheel
April 22, 2007 - Austin, TX - Alamo Drafthouse (w/"Muskrat Lovely"," Women who Hunt", "Up the Ridge", and "Who Killed the Electric Car?" --filmmakers Carol Wagner and Allison Cooke on hand)
April 13, 2007 - Silver City, NM - Silver City Int'l Film Society
April 6-8th, 2007 – Dawson City, Yukon, Canada – Dawson City International Film Festival
March 16-17, 2007 - Chillmark, MA - Martha's Vineyard Independent Film
Festival screening "Mimes of the Prarie" and "I'm Getting Back into Getting Back into You"
March 21st, 2007 – Seattle, WA – 911 Media Arts Center
March 2-8, 2007 - Seattle, WA - Grand Illusion Cinema – ‘mini-fest!’: shorts
w/”Asparagus!”, “Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea”, and “Homemade Hillbilly Jam”
February 27th, 2007 – Winston-Salem, NC – The Garage
February 22, 2007 – Mesa, AZ - Mesa Arts Center presented w/No Festival Required
February 22, 2007 – Brocton, NY – Public Library
February 22, 2007 – Chapel Hill, NC – Screen Arts Film & Media Series at UNC
February 20th, 2007 – Winston-Salem, NC – The Garage
February 15th, 2007 – St. Louis, MO – Webster Film Series
February 14th, 2007 - Memphis, TN – Indie Memphis Microcinema
February 1st, 2007 – New Orleans, LA – Zeigeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center
December 5th, 2006 – Storm Lake, IA – Buena Vista University
November 26th, 2006 - Cedar Rapids, IA – CSPS – special matinee screening of “Villisca: Living with a Mystery”
November 24th & 25th, 2006 – Cedar Rapids, IA – CSPS - Festival Director + local filmmakers present for Q&A
November 24th, 2006 – Elkader, IA – Elkader Cinema - Festival Director + local filmmakers present for Q&A
November 18th, 2006 – Alpine, TX – West Fest at Sul Ross University
November 3rd, 2006 - Lansing, MI - "Asparagus! (A Stalk-umentary)"
September 28-29, 2006- Detroit, MI - Henry Ford Museum Farmer's Market
w/"Asparagus! (A Stalk-umentary)"

....more dates coming soon!


****Rural Route will donate a portion of all 2005-6 tour proceeds to the Federation of Southern Cooperatives in their long-term recovery efforts to help low-income rural people in the Gulf affected by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. To make your own contribution, check out their website - www.federationsoutherncoop.com.

2005 Program

June 11th, 2006 - Hart, MI - Hart Middle School Auditorium as part of the National Asparagus Festival
April 7-9, 2006 -
Elkader, IA - Elkader Cinema
March 3-9, 2006 -
Seattle, WA - Grand Illusion Cinema
February 26, 2006 - Vinton, IA - The Palace Theatre
January 20-26, 2006
- Denver, CO - Denver Film Society
January 10-12, 2006
- Albuquerque, NM - Guild Cinema - "Hybrid"/"Changin' Old Ways" shorts
January 6-9, 2006
- Albuquerque, NM - Guild Cinema - "Spring Night, Summer Night"/"They Walk the Line" shorts

December 16, 2005
- Phoenix, AZ - Modified Arts Space
December 6 & 13, 2005-
St. Louis, MO - Webster Film Series
November 18-19, 2005 - Alpine, TX - WestFest 6
November 11-12, 2005- Cedar Rapids, Iowa - CSPS
November 8-13, 2005
- Storuman, Sweden - Film Festival of the Whole of Sweden
November 5th, 2005 - Brocton, New York - Public Library
September 17th, 2005 - Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Botanic Garden (Director Alan Webber and filmmaker Mary Robertson will be on hand for Q&A)
August 24-28, 2005 - Freistadt, Austria - Heimat (Rural) Film Festival

2004 Program

June 25th, 2005 - Brooklyn, NY - Rooftop Films
May 8th, 2005 - Kansas City, MO - Unreel
April 1st, 2005- Chapel Hill, NC - Screen Arts Film & Media Series at UNC
March 15th, 2005 – Athens, GA at the 40 Watt Club

March 12th & 13th, 2005 - Elkader, IA at Elkader Cinema - Director Alan Webber will be on hand for Q&A.
March 12th & 13th, 2005- Cedar Rapids, IA at CSPS - Director Alan Webber will be on hand for Q&A with filmmakers Aaron Valdez and Elaine Beck
March 3rd, 2005 – Leiden, Holland at Multipleks
March 1st, 2005 – Amsterdam, Holland at The Operating Theatre at Pakhuis Afrika – Director Alan
Webber and filmmaker Erik Nelson will present.

November 26th and 27th, 2004 - Omaha, NE at Westwood Cinema (featuring new videos from Saddle Creek Records + Q&A w/music video director Nik Fakler & Festival Director Alan Webbber)

2003 Program

July 2, 2004 - Selections from our 2003 festival will be screening at Rooftop Films.
April 13, 2004- Phoenix, AZ at
Modified Arts, - 2 shows @ 6 & 8 PM. put on in conjunction with No Festival Required
March 29-30, 2004 - Abingdon, VA at Virginia Highlands Community College (w/guest lecturer Colin Spoelman, writer/producer of "Coming Down the Mountain")
March 15, 2004 - Columbia, MO at RagTag Cinemacafe (Director Mike Schmidt will be present)

Nov. 25, 2003 - Atlanta, GA at MJQ as part of Wellfair's monthly screening
series (Rural Route Volunteer Kevin Goldsmith to present)
Nov. 2, 2003 - New Orleans, LA at Zeigeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center (Alan Webber will be present)


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