The 7th X FEST Film Festival

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The X Fest Film Festival enters its 7th year with a bang, featuring movies, documentaries and short films going beyond the norm, and won't be seen at any other South African cinema.  This edition fuses with two other Flamedrop movie events, the Sound On Screen Music Film Festival and Daring Doccies Documentary Film Festival, and is presented in association with RAM Touring, WildFire Body Piercing, Metal4Africa, Monster Energy and Sailor Jerry Rum.

With a blend of enticing movies, music and documentary subjects, the flagship title of the event is the African premiere of the anticipated and controversial documentary AS THE PALACES BURN (courtesy Specticast), a film that started out looking at popular American Heavy Metal band LAMB OF GOD, their music and fans, but took a serious turn when the vocalist was arrested in connection with the death of an audience member at a Czech Republic show.  (Lamb Of God recently had a resounding tour of South Africa).  This global cinema release of the documentary includes an additional exclusive band Q&A, and there are Lamb Of God CDs up for grabs, as well as autographed movie posters. (This will screen in both Cape Town and Johannesburg)

 

MARCH OF THE GODS: Botswana Metalheads is an intriguing documentary focussing on the very unlikely but burgeoning and passionate Metal / Hard Rock scene in Botswana (focusing on the band Wrust).  This will be the South African premiere and director Raffaele Mosca is flying in from Europe to attend a screening in both Cape Town and Johannesburg. www.marchofthegods.com

BLOOD TOKOLOSHE: Dawn Of The Beast - a locally made B horror movie dealing with the indigenous boogeyman of the title (Cape Town premiere)

The X FLIX short film collection features an exciting array of intense, wild, thought-provoking and unbridled shorts from around the world, including some locally made premieres.

TIGHT is a mockumentary on the trials and tribulations of the world's first all girl rock band consisting of porn stars! Howard Stern XXX Factor approved!  (SA premiere)

ZOMBIE ISLAND adds another new perspective to a genre that doesn't seem to lose its staying-power. (SA premiere)

For a fun, gory trip through Grindhouse horror madness, HOUSE OF FORBIDDEN SECRETS is just the ticket. (SA premiere)

(Full schedule & screening times below the web links)

All these movies will screen at The Labia Theatre in Cape Town (68 Orange Street) across 3 - 6 April, while that Lamb Of God's AS THE PALACES BURN and MARCH OF THE GODS will screen across 4 - 7 & 12 April, and 1 May at The Bioscope in Johannesburg (286 Fox Street).

No under 16s.

Both venues are licensed and your choice of drink can be taken into the cinemas.

Expect Monster Energy and Sailor Jerry specials.

Cape Town tickets: R35 on-line - www.quicket.co.za/xfest / R40 at the box office (book at 021 424 5927)

Johannesburg tickets: R45   Book on-line at www.thebioscope.co.za

Media can contact us for any additional press info, still images or filmmaker interviews.

All info, updates, trailers and ticket links at www.xfest.org

Relevant links:

Official site: www.xfest.org
Cape Town Facebook Event Page: www.facebook.com/events/642361739134419
The Bioscope: www.thebioscope.co.za
RAM Touring: www.ramfest.co.za/ramtouring
Labia Theatre: www.labia.co.za
Sound On Screen: www.flamedrop.com/sos
Daring Doccies: www.flamedrop.com/daringdoccies
WildFire Piercing: www.bodymod.za.net
Monster: www.monsterenergy.com
Sailor Jerry: www.sailorjerry.com
Metal4Africa: www.metal4africa.com
MK Ondergrond: www.facebook.com/MKOndergrond

X FEST SCHEDULE:

LABIA THEATRE, 68 Orange Street, Gardens, Cape Town:

THURSDAY 3 APRIL
8:30pm - X FLIX Short Films

FRIDAY 4 APRIL
6:15pm - ZOMBIE ISLAND
8:30pm - Lamb Of God - AS THE PALACES BURN

SATURDAY 5 APRIL
4:00pm - HOUSE OF FORBIDDEN SECRETS
6:15pm - Lamb Of God - AS THE PALACES BURN
8:30pm - MARCH OF THE GODS: Botswana Metalheads (Director attending)

SUNDAY 6 APRIL
4:00pm - TIGHT
6:15pm - BLOOD TOKOLOSHE
8:30pm - Lamb Of God - AS THE PALACES BURN

THE BIOSCOPE, 286 Fox Street, Johannesburg:

FRIDAY 4 APRIL
7:30pm - Lamb Of God's AS THE PALACES BURN

SATURDAY 5 APRIL
6:00pm - MARCH OF THE GODS - Botswana Metalheads
8:00pm - Lamb Of God's AS THE PALACES BURN

SUNDAY 6 APRIL
5:00pm - MARCH OF THE GODS - Botswana Metalheads
7:00pm - Lamb Of God's AS THE PALACES BURN

MONDAY 7 APRIL
7:30pm - MARCH OF THE GODS - Botswana Metalheads (Director attending)

Extra shows:

SATURDAY 12 APRIL
5:00pm - Lamb Of God - AS THE PALACES BURN

THURSDAY 1 MAY
7:30pm - Lamb Of God - AS THE PALACES BURN

 


 

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