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Traditionally, October is known best as a month of frightening thrills, chills and mayhem 鈥� a witch鈥檚 brew of monsters, ghosts and the macabre tied to the grand finale of Halloween.

In 蜜柚直播, October also offers an opportunity to travel the world, laugh, cry and think about new and different perspectives through the power of film.

Four film festivals are slated to take place in October, including one dealing in the horror genre, all returning to a completely in-person format for the first time since the start of the pandemic.

Here are your options:

蜜柚直播 Film & Music Festival

The 蜜柚直播 Film & Music Festival lives up to its name with this year鈥檚 opening film, 鈥�,鈥� premiering at The Screening Room, 127 E. Congress, Oct. 7.

The documentary follows the iconic Bay Area record shop鈥檚 47-year run, starting in the Castro District of San Francisco in 1970.

Directed by Kenneth Thomas, 鈥淚t Came From鈥� talks to more than 50 Bay Area residents, from local radio DJs to Aquarius super fans (including 鈥淪impsons鈥� creator Matt Groening), to former managers and employees, about the importance of Aquarius Records and its role in bringing hard-to-find music and oft-overlooked genres to the city.

鈥淚t felt like a tourist attraction for weirdos,鈥� one customer says in the doc鈥檚 trailer about the shop, which shut its doors in 2016.

The film will be one of several premieres at the , taking place at Oct. 7-9.

Among some of the other big premieres: The queer identity memoir, 鈥淚n the Middle of Everywhere鈥� by non-binary director Panda Landa on Oct. 8; and a thriller set to close out the fest called 鈥淭he Mistress鈥� by director Greg Pritikin on Oct. 9.

All three filmmakers will be participating in Q&A sessions after the screenings.

The 蜜柚直播 Film & Music Festival was started by Michael Toubassi after the independent release of his 2005 music documentary, 鈥�,鈥� about 蜜柚直播鈥檚 wildly diverse and creative music scene. The festival still strives to serve as an important 蜜柚直播 staple of independent filmmaking and an outlet for local filmmakers and musicians.

鈥淪omething I try to tell people is that we support our festival alumni and we support our University of 蜜柚直播 alumni as much as possible,鈥� Toubassi said during a phone interview. 鈥淭he festival kind of started by being supported by the (UA). I鈥檓 an alumni and the people who worked on it for years are all alumni.鈥�

Two local filmmakers celebrating premieres at the fest are University of 蜜柚直播 graduate Jordan Fuller Vera and faculty member Leslie Ann Epperson. Vera will be showing his film, 鈥淎fterlife of Memory鈥� and Epperson will be screening her documentary, 鈥淧rayer Run for the Santa Ritas.鈥�

The festival will also be showing the music documentary about jazz pianist Omar Sosa called, 鈥淥mar Sosa鈥檚 88 Well-Tuned Drums.鈥�

Tickets for each screening will be $8.

Loft Film Fest

The Loft Film Festival will have you feeling all the feels during its nine-day run, Oct. 12-20.

Its Oct. 15 screening of the New Zealand comedy, 鈥�,鈥� starring Jemaine Clement of 鈥淔light of the Conchords鈥� fame as a sex guru, will have you laughing out loud.

鈥溾�� (Oct. 16), documenting the classic country singer鈥檚 return to the studio at the behest of musician Brandi Carlile, is likely to fill you with joy.

Even 鈥淕ood Night Oppy鈥� (Oct. 16), about the life and times of Opportunity, the Mars rover that was sent to the Red Planet for a 90-day mission that ended up lasting 15 years, has the potential to make you misty, maybe even shed a tear or two.

鈥淚t is a crowd-pleaser, very emotional鈥� said Jeff Yanc, program director for The Loft. 鈥淚t has been compared a lot to 鈥榃all-E.鈥� They anthropomorphize the robot. It becomes a character that you are rooting for and respecting.鈥�

The list goes on as The Loft brings back its festival full-force this year.

More than 50 films and shorts are slated to be screened at the venue, located at 3233 E. Speedway.

The fest is one of the last big events that The Loft has phased back into its regular programming during the year. It held a festival in 2021, but that was scaled back, Yanc said.

鈥淲e really feel the audience is there this year,鈥� Yanc said. 鈥淚t was tentative in 2021. Younger audiences were coming back, but older audiences were still not comfortable.鈥�

The return to normalcy for the fest also means, among other positives, having guest actors and filmmakers attend.

This year鈥檚 lineup includes American Indian actors Gary Farmer and Wes Studi.

Farmer will be on-hand for a screening of his 1988 film, 鈥淧owwow Highway鈥� on Oct. 13. Farmer is also featured at the festival in the off-the-wall, time traveling animated film, 鈥淨uantum Cowboys鈥� (Oct. 12). The film was created in 蜜柚直播 and stars a long-list of musicians and actors, including Neko Case, Howe Gelb, John Doe and David Arquette.

鈥淭he movie is very kind of mind-blowing,鈥� Yanc said. 鈥淎t festivals, that is what you want. You want something that you are not going to see every day.鈥�

Studi will be on-hand for a screening of "The Last of the Mohicans" (Oct. 14), a film that helped bring his acting career to the next level.

Yanc was particularly thrilled to welcome Jacqueline Bisset to the festival, the British actress whose career reaches back more than five decades.

The Loft will be screening two of her films, Francois Truffaut鈥檚 1973 comedy-drama, 鈥淒ay for Night,鈥� and her most recent film about a friendship formed between a young director and veteran actress, called 鈥淟oren & Rose.鈥�

鈥淚 love it when we get Hollywood royalty,鈥� Yanc said, 鈥淪he has so many amazing films that are really iconic.鈥�

A full schedule of Loft Film Festival films can be found on . General admission to most screenings is $12. An all-access badge is $200 through the site.

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Phil Rosenthal, famed television producer and avid foodie, whose Netflix series 鈥溾�� about his culinary travels has a massive following on the streaming service, is a special guest at this year鈥檚 Film Fest 蜜柚直播.

Rosenthal will be screening an episode from Season 6 of the series on Oct. 15. The show debuts on Netflix on Oct. 18. He鈥檒l participate in a conversation after the screening. The festival itself runs from Oct. 13-15.

Herb Stratford, co-director and co-founder of Film Fest 蜜柚直播, said having Rosenthal at this year鈥檚 event is a win for the festival and a win for 蜜柚直播.

鈥淧hil is a high-profile food ambassador,鈥� Stratford said. 鈥淲e think this is a chance for us to show Phil what 蜜柚直播 has to offer. We are a city of gastronomy. He will see that on his visit, then maybe come back and film an episode here.鈥�

Rosenthal aside, the annual fest has a little something for everyone this year, the first year it will be returning to a completely in-person format since the pandemic鈥檚 start in 2020.

Nearly 30 films, full-length features and shorts, will be screened at several venues in and near downtown, including at the 蜜柚直播 Scottish Rite, 160 S. Scott Ave.; AC Hotel by Marriott 蜜柚直播 Downtown, 151 E. Broadway; the north lawn of the Children鈥檚 Museum, 200 S. Sixth Ave.; and an outdoor screening area at Main Gate Square, just north of the Chipotle, 905 E. University Blvd.

The fest鈥檚 lineup includes a showing of the the 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer silent film, 鈥淭he Passion of Joan of Arc鈥� on Oct. 15, with live musical accompaniment from a string quartet and four-person choir.

The Irish comedy, 鈥淩贸ise and Frank,鈥� about a woman who believes her dearly departed husband has been reincarnated as a dog, will be screened in Gaelic with English subtitles the same day.

There will also be a conversation with Academy Award-nominated animator Bill Plympton, who will be attending a series of animated shorts on Oct. 14 and a screening of his latest feature film, 鈥淪lide鈥� on Oct. 15.

鈥淗e is such an amazing artist and great human,鈥� Stratford said. 鈥淲e have been showing his shorts here almost every year.鈥�

One of Stratford鈥檚 hot picks for this year鈥檚 fest is 鈥淕ods of Mexico鈥� (Oct. 14), director Helmut Dosantos鈥� look at the rural, Indigenous people of Mexico who continue to work the land in old fashioned ways amid an increasingly industrialized world.

Dosantos will be participating in a Q&A after the screening.

鈥�(鈥楪ods of Mexico鈥�) is a sonic and visual experience,鈥� Stratford said. 鈥淰ery little spoken word, but there is a lot of sort of atmospheric sonic things happening; hearing the thunder, insects, people in the mines.鈥�

Stratford said part of the fun of bringing back an all in-person film festival is creating experiences that can鈥檛 be had anywhere else.

The free screening of 鈥淭he Pez Outlaw,鈥� being shown at Main Gate Square on Oct. 14, for example, comes with a free Pez dispenser for the first 150 people.

鈥淵ou can watch 鈥楯oan of Arc鈥� at home on your television,鈥� Stratford said. 鈥淏ut you are not going to have a string quartet playing or live voices. If you love 鈥楽omebody Feed Phil,鈥� this is an opportunity to say hello to Phil. That is pretty cool.鈥�

A full schedule for Film Fest 蜜柚直播 can be found on its . Advance tickets can also be purchased through the website for $10 per screening. Festival passes, granting access to all screenings, are $35. VIP passes, giving access to the VIP lounge and opening and closing night parties, is $250.

蜜柚直播 Terrorfest Horror-Con and Film Festival

Just in time for Halloween, 蜜柚直播 Terrorfest returns to The Screening Room, 127 E. Congress, downtown, Oct. 20-23.

The 12th annual Terrorfest Film Festival and Horror Con combines a jump-scare-in-your-seat, horror-themed film festival and full-fledged scream-worthy convention.

The film festival will feature classic horror films shown alongside brand new independent flicks, submitted by local filmmakers, and a variety of scary shorts and frightening featurettes.

Attendees can expect “Q&As with horror filmmakers, actors and special guests” and freaky screenings of “banned and edgy late-night horror films,” according to the film fest’s website, .

The horror convention will offer a two-day, skin-crawling symposium showcasing vendors of the macabre from all over 蜜柚直播. It will take place at 191 E. Toole, October 22-23.

David Pike, who runs The Screening Room and founded the fest, likened the convention experience to any comic convention, including 蜜柚直播 Comic-Con.

鈥淪ame thing, except it is horror,鈥� he said.

Pike said that the film festival and horror con concept has been gaining in popularity since the film festival鈥檚 inception in 2010.

鈥淭he convention got bigger,鈥� Pike said. 鈥淲e were in a smaller space last year and this year, we have more vendors. There are a lot more things going on and it鈥檚 going to be a very, very different fest compared to last year.鈥�

The official schedule for this year鈥檚 film festival has yet to be released, but it will feature more movies than last year, Pike said; more cult classics, and also more independent horror films that have been on 鈥渢he horror film festival circuit.鈥� Some of the pictures were filmed right here in 蜜柚直播.

Among this year鈥檚 options: Sam Raimi鈥檚 cult classic 鈥淎rmy of Darkness鈥� and Herschell Gordon Lewis鈥� 鈥淭he Gore Gore Girls.鈥�

Admission is $8 per screening at Terrorfest. Screening times vary. Admission to the convention is $5. Details for both will soon be available on the website () and at .