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In between the stellar shorts programs at this year’s Cinevegas Film Festival, we joined the former and new SXSW festival heads, Matt Dentler and Janet Pierson, respectively, at the blackjack table (see photo). Janet bet her husband that she wouldn’t gamble, but like a pro went on to teach us all a lesson, raking in $200 in half an hour.

It must also be mentioned that Cinevegas easily took home this year’s top festival schwag bag award with Nalgenes to keep us hydrated, custom-made band aids and hangover pills to keep us stylishly wide-eyed, and Grey Goose vodka which, unable to carry it on the airplane, we gave away to a nice cab driver on our way out of town.  

Endless thanks to festival programmers, Trevor Groth and Mike Plante who, as always, put on a damn good show.

Wholphin’s Brent Hoff, SXSW’s Janet Pierson and Cinetic’s Matt Dentler at the blackjack table at the Palms.

Miguel Arteta and Miranda July’s short film “Are You the Favorite Person of Anybody?” and J. Lisa Chang and Newton Thomas Sigel’s short adaptation “The Big Empty,” both from Wholphin No. 1, have been selected as two of the first eight films appearing at the launch of YouTube’s premiere Screening Room — the new curated section of high-quality short content on YouTube. Another dozen Wholphin films have been selected to appear in the Screening Room throughout the year. We’ll keep you posted.

Be sure to browse through the new Downloads section on our website where you can now download-to-own high-quality films from all of the past issues of Wholphin DVD. We will be adding more films to our catalogue continuously, so please check back.

Join us as SF360 presents the debut screening of Wholphin No 6 at Mezzanine on Thursday, June 19th. We will be screening a selection of films including a documentary about a class of Chinese third graders who hold a democratic election for classroom monitor and in the process end up hilariously, if unintentionally, mocking 300 years of American politics; a beautifully black, comic exploration of 70s England that isn’t, but could easily be, the prequel to A Clockwork Orange; a surreal dating short starring Michael Cera, with alternate audio versions featuring John Cleese and Daniel Handler; stunning footage of rarely-seen tropical reptiles and insects that are amazingly beautiful to watch, even when they’re eating each other head first; as well as films featuring great white sharks, America’s leading Bigfoot researchers, and a miniature seeing-eye horse.

Thursday, June 19th at 7PM
Mezzanine
444 Jessie St., San Francisco
Tickets are $12 at the door or $8 with an RSVP to sf360@sffs.org (each RSVP is for you +1).

Wholphin’s own Brent Hoff spoke with MarBelle of Directors Notes about Wholphin’s past, present, and future. Listen to the podcast here.