Fanboy Planet started our third year of covering San Jose film festival Cinequest (in its 25th year) with our traditional podcast. It’s still available here for your listening pleasure. Cinequest is a wonderful two weeks of films that you otherwise might not be exposed to, smaller production houses, new ideas that aren’t “saleable in Hollywood.” You know, the stuff we all claim to want to see more of, claim to love, brag about discovering before it made it big.
Last year I went nearly every day, seeing a couple of films each trip downtown, and basically had a blast.
Typically the Fanboy Planet staff coverage of Cinequest is a few articles and recorded interviews with the Cinequest guests and filmmakers. We do a lot of that, and it’s great stuff. I made a lot of friends, got into some really interesting conversations, and we produced a lot of coverage of the festival.
But this year I decided I wanted to do a bit more, to challenge myself to journal every film I see this year.
I want to try to cover films that, if you live in the Bay Area, you’ll have a chance to see as well at the festival.
Fair Warning: Tomorrow, Tuesday February 24th at 7pm, the festival opens with the feel-good documentary of the year: Batkid Begins. We’ve been covering this on Fanboy Planet since early last year, and it gets our highest recommendation.
