We’re Three Years Old, and it’s all YOUR Fault!
This weekend – Sept 11 and Sept 13 – will mark our 3rd year anniversary here at MOBS! From a quick count, it looks like over the past three years, we’ve shown nearly 150 unique titles!
The very first movie we screened was a documentary on an early 80’s hardcore band (at least they were lumped in with hardcore bands at the time and were definitely part of that scene). While we didn’t plan this, we’ll be moving into our fourth year with a title featuring a different kind of “core” – nerdcore, with the screening of Nerdcore Rising, and it somehow seems extremely appropriate.
Speaking of nerds, I want to give a special mention to SacGeeks
We first met the proudly geeky founder, Steph, when we did the Buffy night a couple of years ago. She did a huge amount of work promoting it, and was instrumental to that evening’s success. Since then, she has tirelessly supported Movies on a Big Screen and independent film in Sacramento in general – in addition to countless other geeky events, many of which she organizes herself. She also runs Fantastic Frontiers, and has even recently started creating content and posting to youtube! So come out and celebrate geekdom this weekend at the Nerdcore Rising screenings, and definitely check out SacGeeks! Without folks like Steph, it’s pretty unlikely we’d have made it through three years. Which leads me to…
Many other organizations, groups, bloggers and individuals in Sacramento have also helped us get to this point in time, as well! An all-encompassing list would be nearly impossible to create, but some of the organizations include (in no particular order): Sacramento News & Review, Capital Public Radio, Sacramento Bee, Midtown Monthly, our first “home – the now-defunct Fools Foundation (and Liz Donner), The Book Collector, Sacramento Magazine, KDVS, Al Williamson and The Guild Theater, The Verge Gallery, LJ Urban, World’s Best Comics, Sacramento Press, Minnick Web Services, Capital Film Arts Alliance, Midtown Grid, Trash Film Orgy, Access Sacramento (and its Executive Director, Ron Cooper), SacTown Magazine, and Submerge. Blogs include SacRag, Living in Urban Sac, Heckasac (who even blogged about our very first night), Dumbworld Order, Secrets of Sacramento, and Central City Guy (aka, Rob McQuade – the first to use the acronym “MOBS” which we promptly appropriated). Wow – but I’m still not done…
Because then there’s the people: Galen Howard, Aaron Hawkins, Bill Robertson, Stew and his wife Marissa, current ex-pat Dave “Smith,” Jason and Jeanine Hale, Korey, Cinema Insomnia’s Mr. Lobo, Bill Burg (of Sacramento Old City Assn and a jillion other things), and everyone who has ever gone to see something we’ve shown and/or plugged us on or off the Internet! Whether you’re a “regular” or not, every single person has helped keep us going! And we also thank every filmmaker who has worked with us to have their films shown at MOBS!
So really – thank you ALL for helping to keep MOBS going – and throughout our fourth year, we pledge to continue to bring the strange, the thought-provoking and the just plain cool titles that we’re known for – which in most cases, wouldn’t otherwise play in Sacramento.
Oh yeah – and there’s now a MOBS Café Press thing set up! You can buy shirts, tote bags, etc – and we don’t get a penny from it (it’s all sold at-cost). But when you wear or use the stuff around town, you’ll be constantly pushing MOBS on the unsuspecting public!!! Given the fact that our advertising budget is 0 dollars, every little bit helps! It’s at http://www.cafepress.com/moviesbigscreen
And don’t forget to catch Nerdcore Rising this weekend!