Filmmaking (and the digital revolution of), community development, creativity, aesthetics, storytelling. Bringing diverse groups of people together to share in a common interest.
1. Filmmakers from every aspect of the discipline.2. Cinephiles who love to discover new, indie work.3. People from the Tipton, Iowa community who want to get involved and support this unique, worthwhile initiative.
ENDER, an up-and-coming indie rock band from SW Michigan. They have a myspace at "endermi". They might come play a show at this year's film festival.
Anything that's submitted! Festival Director's personal highlights: Run Lola Run; The Graduate; Suture; 12 Monkeys; Primer; Requiem For A Dream; many more...
Heroes, Lost, Family Guy, CNN Headline News, that's about it.
The entire "Ender's Game" series by Orson Scott Card, "Galapagos" by Kurt Vonnegut, and, I know it's not very cerebral, the "Area 51" series by Robert Doherty.