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This Month's Cinema Lounge:
No Cinema Lounge in August!
We're told that due to some post Fringe-Fest theater maintenance, our usual haunt at Bryant-Lake Bowl will be closed on our usual 3rd Wednesday slot.  But dry your eyes, dear CLoungers.  We're not gone for long.  We'll be back come September and ready to do it to it with a brand new line-up of the best short films in the Twin Cities.  In the mean time, there's no scarcity of ways to get your cinematic fix – check out these excellent events going on in August:

Square Lake Film & Music Festival – Saturday, August 16th
Bearded Child Film Festival – August 13th-16th
Minneapolis Underground Film Festival – August 29th-31st

Cinema Lounge Celebrates 20 Years!

On Thursday, October 23rd at the Minnesota History Center, Cinema Lounge is celebrating 20 years of bringing you the Twin Cities' best short films by screening YOUR favorite shorts from Cinema Lounge history.  We need your vote to program this special "Best of" lineup, so send us the name of a filmmaker and their short film that you think represents the spirit and originality that's made Cinema Lounge a filmmaker favorite.  Send all nominations to: word@ifpmn.org.

20th Anniversary Cinema Lounge made possible by support from the St. Paul Cultural STAR Program.

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About IFP Minnesota's Cinema Lounge:
What: The original short film showcase featuring MN work by local, indie filmmakers.
Where: Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater, 810 West Lake St., Minneapolis
When: 3rd Wednesday of each month, at 7:00PM
Admission: FREE!

Are you sitting on an old student film that hasn't seen the light of day? Think it's too hard or expensive to get a decent venue in which to screen your work? Or maybe you're of the movie-going persuasion and think that there's no place to see great independent film? Nothing good happening locally? Hogwash. Cinema Lounge is like the cute, chubby little cupid that brings these two lost souls together. Local filmmakers have a cool, relaxed venue to screen their latest work, and the average Joe has a spot to come and see the best indie shorts coming out of Minnesota today. The best part? It's all FREE.

The Lounge: Short Films. Indie Filmmakers. Hell yes.
Cinema Lounge happens the third Wednesday of each month at the Bryant Lake Bowl theater. IFP staff member Paul Clark programs a lineup of 4-5 locally made shorts (20 minutes or less) to screen each month. We mix it up with anything and everything: narratives, docs, music videos, animation, experimental -- almost anything goes. After each film, you get to meet the mind behind the film, as host Dan Orozco conducts a 5-10 minute Q+A session with the filmmaker and audience.

The Mission: You + Clounge = Sweet, Sweet Cinematic Bliss
Cinema Lounge provides a venue for filmmakers who normally wouldn't have a place to screen their work, whether it's due to a shoe-string budget or edgy, alternative content preventing them from finding a home at the local megaplex. Plus, involving the audience with the Q+A allows the filmmakers to get genuine feedback from discerning viewers. Finally, it's a hangout for filmmakers, producers, screenwriters, - anyone - to network afterwards and meet like-minded folks, possibly forming contacts for future projects. And, hey, for the average Joe, it's free entertainment.

The Films: SUBMIT!!
ANYONE CAN SUBMIT A FILM!! While submission does NOT guarantee that your film will be screened, there is no submission fee. So if you'd like to be the next filmmaker to screen with us, call Paul at (651) 644-1912, or download a submission form here and send it in with your work (20 min. or less) on DVD or VHS to:

IFP MN's Cinema Lounge
Attn: Paul Clark
Suite 100
2446 University Ave. West
St. Paul, MN 55114