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Brian & Benn's Movie Corner MP3 Talk Show To Launch May 2
Brian and Benn's Movie Corner continues to add unique features
to their website on May 2 with the premier of their
MP3 Movie Talk Show.
"We're rehearsing the format through April, looking for changes and ways to improve
the show," says BBMC Director/critic Benn Farrell. "It's already a blast just getting our ducks in the same
line. We've been talking about this show for months. We're so excited to finally get online and get
started."
The upcoming MP3 Movie Talk Show will include movie reviews, trivia contests,
special guests on occasion and on-location remotes. First remote on the show's calendar will be May 23
in line for the highly anticipated "Star Wars - Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith," which is
released May 19.
With the debut of the show, BBMC will be moving to a sub domain of DockRat
Entertainment, allowing the site's design to include the corner's new and exciting features.
"What I like most about our plans for this show is that it's not
internet radio," Farrell explains. "The entire show is recorded as an MP3, so people can download it
to their computers, iPods and the like, or simply listen to the show on our server.
"Visitors can listen at their liesure instead of logging on at a specific time.
It's far more convenient that way." Farrell also says a six month archive of the show will be available
on the BBMC website, in case listeners miss a certain week's show and want to catch up.
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Colorado Springs Video In Talks Over Producing "Fat Farm" With DR
"Fat Farm," a stageplay written by Benn Farrell (right) earlier this year
(2005), is now material for possible DV motion picture production from Colorado Springs Video (CSV)
and DockRat Entertainment respectively.
Recently, film and video maker Mark Tachna (left) of CSV met with
the playwright/producer to discuss changes and additions to the now existent script, preparing the
story for a more visual style.
"Mark (Tachna) has a few great ideas to push the story and message of the
work further than the stage can carry it," says Farrell. "So far, we're on the same page, as far as changes
go. It should be an exciting process, drafting a screenplay for it."
As the two entities explore pre-production on "Fat Farm," Tachna has been named
to produce and direct the project, while Farrell will write and produce. Currently, production options are
being explored to figure financing needs.
For more information on "Fat Farm," visit the stageplay's webpage at
www.bennscripts.dockratent.com/fatfarmpage1.html
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"Mourning News" Gets Halloween
Reading Party in Switz
Halloween 2004, Benn Farrell's latest work for the stage "Mourning News"
was given a proper send off
with a reading party in Le Vaud, Switzerland.
"I was very pleased with what I heard," says Farrell. "I'll be making
a couple edits and correcting typing
mistakes we found to comprise a final draft. I haven't done one of these reading parties for a script
in a long time. It was a blast. Everyone had a lot of fun with it.
"A reading party is good to have for a new work. It kind of gives the piece
a birth into the world. I really have
to thank everyone who participated. It made the new script special."
Farrell states "Mourning News" will be self published and manuscripts
available by request within the next two weeks.
More information on the play is available at Farrell's writing website
www.bennscripts.dockratent.com/mourningnewspage1.html. Currently, he is developing his next stageplay,
tentatively titled "Fat Farm."
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DR's Benn Farrell To Spend
Year In Switzerland
After working as a journalist in southeast Colorado for the past three
and a half years,
DockRat Entertainment artistic director Benn Farrell will be spending a year in the Nyon
area of Switzerland. There he joins familiar DR faces Tony and Viviane Hughes and their
daughter Iris. Farrell plans on using the time to continue his entertainment
writing, including upcoming stageplay "Out in Pittsburgh," screenplay "So Funny People" and
developing episodes of DR's TV sitcom "Mourning News" with Tony Hughes. In addition, Farrell
hopes to return with a manuscript for his non-fiction humorous self help book about dating single
mothers.
"The DR website will function as normal," Farrell states. "All the email
addresses will not change
and the site will remain up and maintained throughout my time in Europe. Movie reviews will still
continue to be added to the site as usual. However, all orders taken on the site will not be filled
until after November 20, 2004, when I make a visit home."
Farrell also notes that he and movie review cohort Brian Felts are planning to publish and
release an anthology of their more humorous write-ups from summer 2003 to summer 2005.
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DockRat and RFFFA Release
"A Week with the Wall" Documentary
After two years in the making, members of the Rocky Ford Firefighters Association (RFFFA)
and DockRat Entertainment has released its documentary titled "A Week with the Wall."
The picture follows the events leading up to and through the visit of the Vietnam
Veterans Memorial "Moving Wall" to Rocky Ford, CO. "A Week with the Wall" is comprised
of video footage and over 200 still photos of the event from set up to tear down, of which
RFFFA board members Elaine Bolling and Gary Ratliff approached DR producer Benn Farrell
to put together. The project was completed and released in May of 2004, with a public premier
screened at the Grand Theater
in Rocky Ford on July 10. Copies of the documentary can be obtained as a gift for a donation
of $15 to the RFFFA. All proceeds raised with the video go towards the "Moving Wall" Foundation.
To make a donation and receive your gift of the 45 minute documentary "A Week with the Wall,"
contact executive producer Gary Ratliff at (719) 254-3140, or by writing Gary's Auto Sales,
4th and Elm Avenue, Rocky Ford, CO, 81067.
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Rocky Ford Fire Fighters Association
Gives DockRat Camera Grant
Rocky Ford Fire Fighters Association (RFFFA) recently provided a camera grant
to DockRat Entertainment. After discussing the camera problems DR had experienced
over the past year, RFFFA decided to front half the funds DR executive director Benn
Farrell, middle, needed to purchase a camera and complete several projects, which were
shelved due to a lack of
equipment. The other half will be repaid by DR at their leisure. One of DR's projects, in turn
for the grant, is a documentary on the
visit of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial "Moving Wall," which the RFFFA hosted in May
of 2002 at the Arkansas Valley Fairgrounds in RF. RFFFA secretary Elaine Bolling, left,
and chairman Gary Ratliff, right, submitted photos and video of the week long "Moving
Wall" visit from set up to tear down. DockRat and Farrell will be providing post-production
and mastering on the project for the RFFFA to sell copies of. "It's been a rough year for
us without a camera, but now we're ready to roll thanks to this extremely kind offer from the
RFFFA," states Farrell. "DockRat fans can look forward to the release of several Internet and
videotape projects once we make good on a handful of local productions."
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Special Commentary Editions To Celebrate 10th Anniversary
DockRat's Benn Farrell, Scott Beckberger and Jason Figueroa have been discussing
the special edition release of The Running, In The Darkness, Na Fen Liom
and Between Friends to include filmmakers' commentary in honor of DockRat
Entertainment's formation in 1993.
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Could There Be Another "Man And His..."
Short On The Way?
DR Producer/Directors
Brian Felts and Benn Farrell are developing a fourth installment
to the DR's infamous "Man and His..." shorts series. Series began with
"Man and His Tape Measure," followed by the extremely popular
"Man and His Movie." The fourth short is titled "Man and His Music,"
in which the main character attempts to play the piano until he is "schooled" by a
small child. The picture is slated to be shot early summer and released to DR's
upcoming "Short Video Cinema."
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