The Gadabout Traveling Film Festival

About Me

The Gadabout is a freakin cool-ass traveling film festival that puts a program of short films together every year and takes them to over 50 cities coast-to-coast. It's been 6 years now, and still kicking!

FILMMAKERS: Send us your films.
VENUES: our tour dates will be posted soon, but get in touch if you'd like the Gadabout to come to your town.
COOL KIDS: Come on out and support a truly DIY media and arts festival that works hard to keep kicking ass.

Booking/Submission info:

Eric Ayotte
email for mailing address:
eric (at) gadaboutfilmfest . com
Label tapes with your name and email address, film(s) title(s) and running time(s). We accept DVDs, mini-DV, VHS, DVDr with final cut pro movie file, all NTSC please.

DVD OUT NOW!

"5 Years of Driving Around...and Breaking Down" dvd is a best of selection from the Gadabout's first 5 years.
Order here:

VISIT IF YOU MAKE IT

My Interests

Film, filmmaking, movies, filmmakers, etc. DIY culture, Independent film, basement shows.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone here:

September 2007 with Ghost Mice and Ned
1st Brooklyn, NY - the SPACE above goodbye blue monday club
2nd New Paltz, NY - Stay True Paltz!! Hasbrouck Park
3rd Providence, RI - Thunderdome
4th Boston, MA - TBA
5th Pittsburgh, PA - Roboto Project
6th Columbus, OH - Chop Chop
7th Bloomington, IN - Rhinos
8th Louisville, KY - 1000 E. Oak
9th Birmingham, AL - Cave 9
10th New Orleans - TBA
11th Pensecola, FL - Sluggos
12th Gainesville, FL - Waywardward Records
13th Tampa, FL - Transistions Art Space
14th St. Augustine, FL - TBA
15th Athens, GA - TBA
16th Wilmington, NC - TBA
17th Richmond, VA - TBA
18th Washington, DC - TBA
19th Baltimore, MD - Hamilton Arts Center
20th Philedelphia, PA - Lava Space
21st TROY, NY - RPI Campus, Ground Zero
22nd Buffalo, NY - TBA

Music:

Bands that have played with the fest:
Lemuria
Air Raid Barcelona
Kitty Little
Latterman
Michael Truckpile
The Kiss Ups
La Mi Vida Violenta
Ghost Mice
Halo Fauna
L'Hiver
Super Bobby
Black Rice
Hop Along Queen Ansleis
Skeletonbreath
Slingshot Dakota
Paul Baribeau
Tin Armour
Ned
Nana Grizol
Bridge and Tunnel
Eric Ayotte
Matty Pop Chart
The Max Levine Ensemble
The Bold Slug
Love Zombie
Velvetron
Orion Rigel Dommisse

Movies:

This should be a pretty obvious one; Any film shown at the Gadabout Traveling Film Festival. TroyPrideProductions (DVD out now), Funtime Entertainment (DVD coming soon), Sub Media, Freestate Productions.

Television:

Heroes!

Books:

comic books!

Heroes:

Elaine Brown

My Blog

The Gada-Make It! DIY Film Competition 2008

The Gadabout Film Festival and If You Make It (dot) com Present:The Gada-Make It DIY Film Competition 2008This year the Gadabout is trying something different. We are teaming up with our friends at ...
Posted by The Gadabout Traveling Film Festival on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 04:46:00 PST

Call For Film Submissions, 2006-2007

Hello all,The Gadabout is currently in it's 5th year, and that means planning to go on the road again. We have two tours in the works. One that is more of a "best of" tour to promote to soon to be r...
Posted by The Gadabout Traveling Film Festival on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 09:02:00 PST

new pictures, more to come

we never did the whole photo thing, but we had a really fun tour, and have a good amount of photos to share. Most are on our live journal.www.gadaboutfilmfest.com
Posted by The Gadabout Traveling Film Festival on Tue, 09 May 2006 10:45:00 PST

Holy shit, 2006!

blog huh? We never do these, but i guess they can't hurt.We just finished this years ridiculous tour which took us to over 50 cities in over 5 months. It was really nice to come home, but honestly t...
Posted by The Gadabout Traveling Film Festival on Wed, 03 May 2006 07:35:00 PST

The Gadabout gears up for a new year!

Hey everyone, The Gadabout Film Fest is now preparing for the year 2004 with local screenings here in New York, and planning for it's next big national tour in the fall. We will be hitting up the na...
Posted by The Gadabout Traveling Film Festival on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST