The MacGuffin

This Labor Day weekend I spent my time at the three day video game festival PAX, here in downtown Seattle.  Taking up most of the Convention Center, exhibitors lined the floor with massive, eye-popping displays of the latest, the coming soon, and the most cutting edge in video game entertainment.  Most of my time there was spent exploring the connections in the video game industry to the world of cinema, which I found to be quite overwhelming and prevalent everywhere.  In order to better explore this perspective of video games in relation to movies, and vice versa, I directed my attention to the exhibition floor and interviewing representatives of several games that are forthcoming.

Director, and friend of the MacGuffin Film Podcast, Marc Clebanoff (you may remember him from Episode 7 – Breaking Out) wanted to pass along some event an event he is hosting this weekend for filmmakers.  If you are in the Hollywood area this Saturday, it looks like the have an interesting list of speakers and this could be a good opportunity to network.

I’m including his press release below.

As two of the recent episodes of the MacGuffin Podcast show, we had some amazing opportunities for interviews at the Crypticon Horror Convention this month. Due to the woes of a glitch in our recording process, we can’t properly share one of the coolest experiences with you: Spencer and John interviewing writer/producer Thommy Hutson and actress/producer Heather Langenkamp about the documentary Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy, and their thoughts on the history of the Elm Street franchise.

Spencer and John are still at Crypticon, where they conduct interviews with Amanda Wyss and Andras Jones from the Nightmare on Elm Street Series, with Felissa Rose from Sleepaway Camp, and with Ernie Hudson from Ghostbusters, before closing out the show with their DVD picks of the week.

Spencer and John head to Seattle’s horror convention, Crypticon. First up they interview Chris Alexander, the new editor at Fangoria. Next, they interview the actor Doug Jones, best known for his work in Hellboy 1&2 and Pan’s Labyrinth. Finally, they close out the show with their DVD picks of the week.