MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Impact Film
Festival announced today that Twin Cities natives The Alarmists will
do at the Republican National Convention this weekend as part of the
Impact Film Festival/My Space Impact, Rock the Vote, Digg Late Night Party
Saluting the Screen Actors Guild.
"We ar thrilled to have The Alarmists link us at this historic event,"
aforesaid Festival Co-Founder Kimball Stroud. "We felt strongly about finding
local artists to join us for our celebration here in Minneapolis/St. Paul."
"Rock the Vote is lofty to be co-hosting tonight's event in Minneapolis
for the Republican Convention," said Heather Smith, Rock the Vote Executive
Director. "In a year when offspring voters are turning prohibited in record numbers,
Rock the Vote is in ithiel Town this calendar week to take a leak sure political leaders find how
young voters are playing a powerful role in this year's election. Tonight's
event, which brings together politics, euphony, and young people, is what
Rock the Vote is all nigh." Already in 2008, more than 1.2 meg people
have used Rock the Vote's online instrument to register to vote; by November,
Rock the Vote will show more than 2 one thousand thousand 18-29 yr olds, and
mobilize juvenility to the polls in record numbers.
WHAT: Late Night Party Featuring The Alarmists and So It Goes
WHERE: Fine Line Music Cafe - 318 1st Avenue, N
WHEN: Sunday August 31st, 10:00pm - 2:00am
IN ATTENDANCE: Stuart Townsend, Director of the Impact Film Festival's
Opening Film will be on hand to welcome attendees. In addition to The
Alarmists, other local artists are expected to do.
The Alarmists are playacting as parting of the Impact Film Festival at the
Landmark Center. The Festival comes to the Twin Cities after a successful
run at the Democratic National Convention in Denver last week. The Impact
Film Festival is screening topical films followed by discussions with both
filmmakers and policy makers. Discussions testament include the national debt,
fair trade, hurricane Katrina, stem-cell research and ball-shaped water
government. Films screening include ACCIDENTAL ADVOCATE, BATTLE IN SEATTLE,
THE BLACK LIST, BOOGIE MAN: THE LEE ATWATER STORY; FLOW; I.O.U.S.A; TROUBLE
THE WATER and 14 WOMEN.
The Festival was programmed by top festival programmers and industry
visionaries including programmers from Toronto, Sundance, Tribeca, Los
Angeles Film Festival, Full Frame and IFP among others. Key acquisition
executives from POV, Netflix/Red Envelope and HBO also participated on the
programming committee.
The Impact Film Festival is a program of The Impact Film Fund, a 501
(c) 3 not-for-profit organisation founded in 2008 by Jody Arlington, Jamie
Shor and Kimball Stroud, three veterans of the Washington political and
photographic film arena. Our mission is to observe and elevate the diversity and index
of objective and narrative storytelling to engage nuanced conversation
close to the issues of the day and increase cinema's impact. For more
information and Festival updates please visit our website at
http://www.impactfilmfestival.org
Rock the Vote's missionary work is to engage and build the political ability of
pres Young people in order to achieve progressive change in our nation. Rock
the Vote uses music, popular culture and new technologies to engage and
incite young people to register and vote in every election. And we give
cy Young people the tools to identify, teach about, and take action on the
issues that affect their lives, and leverage their power in the political
process. Rock the Vote is creative, effective, and controlled by nobody's
schedule but our own - we tell it like it is and superbia ourselves on being a
trusted germ for information on government. We authorize the 44 million young
people in America wHO want to step up, claim their voice in the political
process, and change the way politics is done. http://www.RockTheVote.com
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