2nd Annual Derby City Film Festival gets underway February 19th, 2010 at The Louisville Palace
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on November 25, 2009 under Derby City Film Festival | 
While the title of the opening night film cannot be announced until December 2nd, that isn’t stopping Derby City Film Festival (DCFF) organizers from preparing for what is, “sure to be one of the greatest film events the city has ever seen.”
“I know it’s hard to take a statement like, “One of the greatest film events” at face value when we cannot follow it up with the title of the film yet.” says organizer Kris Rommel with a smile “But you’re just going to have to take it at face value.”
50 films were screened during the first DCFF festival held at the Louisville Memorial Auditorium in October 2008, including 19 films from Louisville and 5 world premieres. Films from Louisville filmmakers took home the audience awards for Best Short, Best Feature and Best of Festival. The opening of the festival included a Guinness World Record attempt for “Largest number of people dressed as Abraham Lincoln”.
“With the guidelines that Guinness gave us for setting the record, we knew it was going to be near impossible,” Kris remembers, “but everyone had a great time and that was most important.” 52 Lincoln’s in all participated in the record attempt.
Due to another film festival that was announced to take place in October of 2009, the DCFF decided to move to February 2010. “It was just better move all around. We had more time to plan the festival and instead of closing the year we get to kick it off!” Rommel says.
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