Mad City Chickens Upcoming Screening in Jacksonville

Public Screening of MCC, July 25th in Jacksonville, Florida. Starts 7:15 pm at the Sun-Ray Cinema, 1028 Park Street.

MCC wins Cinema Verde’s 'Most Engaging Film' Award for 2012

Earlier this year , our documentary Mad City Chickens screened at the Cinema Verde Environmental Film & Arts Festival in Gainesville, Florida. It took them awhile, but they just recently announced the festival winners. MCC won the "Most Engaging Film" Award for 2012.

Orlando Shoot #2 - continued

Robert's trip to Orlando to shoot more footage for our latest doc was a success. It was a short stay, just until today, but we now have more interviews and B-roll in the can. The project is beginning to take shape.

Orlando International Airport tram (shot with crappy little point-n-shoot)...

Orlando Shoot #2

Robert flew to Florida today to continue the documentary shoot that we began back in March of 2011. It's a whirlwind trip (just until Friday), but in these few days, we hope to accomplish much. We're looking to get more interviews with the family of Ben Miles, an autistic boy who for the past nine years has had a unique passion for Disney's Snow White theme park ride.

So why is it important for us to be in Orlando at this particular time? On this Thursday, May 31st, the nearly 41-year old attraction, Snow White's Scary Adventures, closes it's doors forever. Our camera will be rolling when it does.

Ben's Snow White Adventures

At the end of this month, we'll be heading back down to Florida to continue the documentary shoot we started in February of 2011. At the time, the project had the working title of Dark Ride. It has since been updated to Ben's Snow White Adventures: Autism and the Dark Ride. We'll be sharing more on the progress as well as the subject matter of this film as it develops.

"Chickens" to Screen at Cinema Verde Festival

Mad City Chickens is scheduled to play the Cinema Verde Environmental Film and Arts Festival on Tuesday, February 28th at 4:00 pm. It will be kicking off a day of food themed films at Villa East, 301 N. Main Street in Gainesville, Florida.

Mad City Chickens Returns to Florida!

Making its Pensacola premiere, Mad City Chickens will be screening this Friday, April 1st at 6:30 pm.

Sponsored by the Ever'man Natural Foods Cooperative, the film will be shown at the co-op which is located at 315 West Garden Street in Pensacola.

Orlando Shoot #1

This past week we completed the first shoot of a new documentary project we've been developing which includes the story of Ben, an autistic boy with a rather unique personal obsession. We captured some great footage of the interview with Ron, Ben's father and a bit of b-roll for the project too.

Chicken Surprise at WDW

We were recently in Orlando doing some research for a potential upcoming project when we made this discovery.

Heading over to Tom Sawyer's Island

Blacksmith shop on the island

Peering inside

Surprise!

An audio-animatronic chicken inside the Blacksmith Shop on Tom Sawyer's Island at Walt Disney World

We're in Gainesville for Screening Tonight!

Mad City Chickens screened at 7:00 pm tonight at the Civic Media Center, 433 S. Main Street, Gainesville, Florida.

Around 40 people attended and gave us a warm southern welcome. The current ordinance on poultry-keeping in Gainesville is a little fuzzy with the best guess being a legal limit of 2 chickens. Locals hope to get the law re-written to clearly state the legality of backyard hens and to increase the number of birds allowed.

A lively and lengthy chicken dialogue followed the film with the sharing of lots of chicken advice and stories.

A special thanks to the folks at the Civic Media Center for hosting the film. From left: Jimmy, Robbie and Joe, flanked by the filmmakers Tashai and Robert

Chicks and Gators

Packing the chicken swag bag. Selling merchandise helps fund future Tarazod movie projects.

The final preparations are being made for our upcoming trip to Gainesville where on Saturday November 14th we'll be holding the Florida premiere of Mad City Chickens. The 7:00 pm screening will take place at the Civic Media Center, 433 S. Main Street in Gainesville. Hoping to see some Gators at our screening!

Mad City Chickens: Upcoming Screenings in November

~November 3rd, 2009 St. Louis, Missouri USA - Public Screening presented by Slow Food St. Louis - 6:00pm Schlafly Bottleworks, 7260 Southwest Ave.

~November 7th, 2009 Blanchardville, Wisconsin USA - Public Screening presented by River Valley Trading Company - 7:00pm River Valley Trading Company, 204 S. Main St, Filmmakers scheduled to attend.
 
~November 7th, 2009 Bellingham, Washington USA - Doctober Film Festival (extended) presented by Pickford Film Center - 12:00pm Pickford Cinema, 1416 Cornwall Ave.

~November 10th, 2009 Salmon Arm, British Columbia Canada - Public Screening presented by Committee for a Strong, Sustainable Salmon Arm - 7:00pm CASSSA office, 351 Hudson Ave.

~November 14th, 2009 Gainesville, Florida USA - BIG Chicken Event Screening! - 7:00pm Civic Media Center, 433 S. Main Street, Filmmakers scheduled to attend along with Andy Schneider the Chicken Whisperer and Pat Foreman author of City Chicks and Chicken Tractor. Radio show and chicken class scheduled for earlier in the day.

~November 19th, 2009 Kingston, Ontario Canada - Public Screening presented by Urban Agriculture Kingston - Details TBA.