I am Dan Holmes and I am an Account Executive at Rumblefish.

(HI DAN!)

Last week, Director of A&R and Licensing Richard Jankovich (HI RICHARD!) and I dropped in on sunny Santa Monica, CA for the American Film Market conference. For eight days each year, Santa Monica is overrun with filmmakers from all over the world, hocking their wares to distributors. Last year the market reported $800 million in business done over the course of the week.

It was a jam packed weekend of shaking hands, kissing babies and spreading the good word of Rumblefish. On our journey we were fortunate enough meet and hang with the Toxic Avenger’s own Troma crew. I was thrilled to get a sneak peak at their latest production “Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead”, a musical horror-gore flick about chicken-zombie mutants that besiege a fast food chain. Richard barely stomached his way through ten minutes of the film which means it’s sure to be a genre defining classic!

Along with Troma was the 496 year old, prolific singer song writer Count Smokula who shared with us his accordion fueled sing-a-longs. With an estimated 5,000 songs in his back catalog (“All of them are good!”), words alone cannot define this man’s majesty. You’ll have to explore his website to learn more.

While not all of our new friends were as colorful as Count Smokula, we were lucky to meet a lot of new faces as well as drop in on old friends such as The Vine Entertainment who was hosting a short-film festival along side of the AFM as well as the music supervisors of ABC’s Men In Trees.

All things considered it was a great trip to California. We’ll be back soon!

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