Marfa Film Festival
The Marfa Film Fesival is a Film festival held in Marfa, Texas. The festival celebrates movies filmed or associated with the area, as well as giving venues to bands, tours of the area, and various other activities. The first annual was held May 1-5.
History
Marfa has the interesting position of being the location of the filming of There Will Be Blood, No Country for Old Men, 2007's main Oscar magnets, and Giant, the Texas ranch epic. Marfa also has a history of artists and musicians using it for asylum, notably Donald Judd, so the film festival was a natural evolution. 2008's was sponsored by the Texas Association of Film Commissions.
2008
The most notable event of the 2008 festival was the screening of There Will Be Blood on its own set. Other movies included Night of the Hunter, True Stories, The Innocents, The Living Wake, two music videos directed by Heath Ledger, and The Last Movie, which Dennis Hopper screened personally. Many of the movies were screened at the Goode-Crowley Building, some were put on by the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema's Rolling Roadshow. Some of the bands included Victoria, and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes.