Vail Film Festival is almost here!

It’s that time of year again; The Vail Film Festival is almost here!  Below are the latest updates from the great folks at the VFF.  Be sure to click through to the You Tube EpicMix commercial contest.  Please “like” EpicMix Ad #7on You Tube.  Some colleagues of mine created this ad.  They are great photographers and film artists, so help them win!

The Top 10 EpicMix Finalists are now on the Vail Film Festival YouTube Channel. Vote for your favorite ad by visiting the VFF YouTube Channel and "Liking" your favorite ad. The ad with the most "Likes" will win the $10,000 grand prize! Visit the VFF YouTube Channel now to LIKE your favorite.

We are pleased to announce this years tremendous line-up. The Hotel Café will be performing at our Opening Night Party and our Friday Night Concert, both taking place at The Sebastian in Vail Village. If you want to check them out ahead of time and memorize all their songs so you can sing along during the festival, you can check out these links from our website. Without further adieu, this years musicians are: Jim Bianco, Cary Brothers, Buddy, Holly Conlan, Meiko, Jay Nash, Jake Newton, Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan.

You may have noticed above that I mentioned that our Opening Night Party and Friday Night Concert will be at The Sebastian, our host hotel this year. It’s beautiful and we know you’re going to love it. The Sebastian will also be hosting many of our film screenings, as well as our Closing Night Party and Hospitality Lounge. They have put together a couple of fantastic packages for you (including film festival passes, dinner at their delicious restaurant, Block 16, daily breakfast, welcome drinks at the swanky Frost Barand nightly turndown service). Click here to get the details.

Speaking of film screenings, the brand new theater, Cinebistro in Solaris Plaza will play host to many of our film screenings. Not only can you lounge in the most comfortable theater seats ever, you can also order amazing gourmet meals to be served to you whilst watching amazing indie films. How is that for luxury? Only the bestfor VFF attendees! CLICK HEREto visit CineBistro.

One final note on film screenings, our online film programis up and running and it’s freakin’ amazing. You can watch trailers, read the descriptions and even create your own “film festival schedule” by creating a free user account and choosing which films you want to see and how you can go about making sure you get to all of them. Here’s a direct link to our online program, which you can also access by just going to our homepage, www.vailfilmfest.com.