for its annual film screening and festival - more info or follow @sparkconner

(Photo tampering: Jeff Daum)

Via an email from Full Frame: It's All Bull!  Fall Series - MOCKUMENTARIES at the American Tobacco Campus

"Join Full Frame in appreciating a few of fiction's finest tributes to the documentary form. From ruthless rock'n'rollers to a chameleon like psychiatry case to an adept art forger, each film provides its own exaggeration of typical documentary structure and invites us to consider fact, fiction, and documentation. After all, who said the truth had to be real?"

THIS IS SPINAL TAP, Rob Reiner, 1984, 85 min / SEPTEMBER 9
ZELIG, Woody Allen, 1983, 80 min / OCTOBER 14
F FOR FAKE, Orson Welles, 1973, 88 min / NOVEMBER 11

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From gamingSPARK: Local students and video game developers will show off their latest games for the first ever gamingSPARK. These games will take the spotlight September 18 at 5 p.m. in the Urban Design Center located in downtown Raleigh on the corner of Fayetteville and Hargett Street.

The event will also include a short presentation followed with a demonstration by Alex Lian of Duke University. Alex’s team consists of just two; Liu Liu and Alex. They are in the process of introducing a new casual gaming experience to the web and desktop, as well as creating a new path to monetization for web game developers.

More info at SPARKcon and @GamingSPARK

CALL FOR ENTRIES
ChathamArts 100-Mile Sustainable Cinema Series
Scary, Spooky, Suspenseful Shorts Night
Deadline: September 29th

Make us scared, scream, squirm, spooked or laugh! If you’re a central NC filmmaker or have a film with NC connections, submit your short for ChathamArts’ October 27th short film program at the Fearrington Barn in Pittsboro.

ENTRY GUIDELINES
The 100-Mile Sustainable Cinema: Scary, Spooky, Suspenseful Shorts Night accepts works on DVD with running times of 30 minutes or less. The only requirement is that the work be scary, suspenseful or spooky (serious or silly – we like to mix it up!) And they must have a regional connection. A completed entry form and an entry fee of $10.00 must accompany each work submitted. You must send us a clearly labeled NTSC Region 1 or Region 0 DVD of the work.

ENTRY FEE $10.00 per entry, postmarked by September 21st, 2009.
ENTRY FORM available at http://www.chathamarts.org/programs/sustainablecinema09.html

Free, including snacks. Starting with Laserblast. More info >>

It's "hoodoo conjurers, cowboys, steamboat pirates." The Nine Pound Hammer is the first book in The Clockwork Dark series from Random House.

John Claude Bemis's "medicine show-style" book launch party is August 29th at 11 a.m. in Hillsborough. More info is available at http://johnclaudebemis.com and at http://www.ncliteraryfestival.org/page/bemis-john-claude.