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<font color="maroon">by Larry Richman </font>
<font color="gray" size="1">March 18, 2008 7:08 PM</font>

On Sunday, March 9, I attended the World Premiere of <em>Dance of the Dead</em> at the 2008 SXSW Film Festival. It's a groundbreaking combination of high school mayhem and zombies -- think John Hughes meets John Carpenter meets George Romero.

Earlier, I posted <a href="http://www.pronetworks.org/forum/story101869.html" target="_blank">my review</a>. Yesterday I chose <em>Dance of the Dead</em> as one of <a href="http://www.pronetworks.org/forum/story101896.html" target="_blank">my 3 Top Picks</a> of this year's festival.

Director Gregg Bishop led a lively Q&A following the screening along with writer Joe Ballarini and cast members Jared Kusnitz, Greyson Chadwick, Chandler Darby, Randy McDowell, Michael Mammoliti, Mark Lynch, Justin Welborn, Mark Oliver, Blair Redford, Hunter Pierce, Jonathan Spencer (also Casting Director), Stephen Caudill, James Jarrett (also Production Designer), Paul Layton, and Mike Milligan. Also present were Producers Brian Crewe and Chad Eikhoff, Cinematographer George Feucht, Sound Designer/Production Sound Mixer Jamie Hardt, 2nd Assistant Director Dan Caudill, and Stunt Coordinator Nils Onsager & the Black Knight Stunt Team.


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Actors Mark Lynch, Paul Layton, Mike Milligan, & Justin Welborn (L)
Actors Chandler Darby, Stephen Caudill, & Mark Lynch (R)


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Actors Michael Mammoliti, Darby, S. Caudill, & Lynch


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Casting Director/actor Jonathan Spencer, actors Blair Redford, Hunter Pierce, Mammoliti, & Darby (L)
Actor Mark Oliver, co-producer Chad Eikhoff, & Sound Designer/Production Sound Mixer Jamie Hardt (R)


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Oliver, Eikhoff, and Hardt (L)
Writer Joe Ballarini, Production Designer/actor James Jarrett, 2nd Assistant Director Dan Caudill, and actors Jared Kusnitz & Greyson Chadwick (R)


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Actors Jared Kusnitz, Greyson Chadwick, & Randy McDowell


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Kusnitz, Chadwick, & McDowell


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Kusnitz & Chadwick


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Kusnitz & Chadwick


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Kusnitz & Chadwick


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Kusnitz & Chadwick (L)
Spencer, Redford, Director Gregg Bishop, Mammoliti, & Darby (R)


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Ballarini, Kusnitz, Chadwick, McDowell, & Bishop (L)
Stunt Coordinator Nils Onsager (R)


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Ballarini, Kusnitz, Chadwick, McDowell, Oliver, Eickhoff, Hardt, Cinematographer George Feucht, Spencer, Bishop, Pierce, Mammoliti, Darby, Caudill, Lynch, Layton, Milligan, Welborn (L)
Jarrett, Kusnitz, Chadwick, Ballarini, Oliver, Eickhoff, Hardt, Feucht, Bishop, Redford, Pierce, Mammoliti, Darby, & Caudill (R)


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Cast & crew


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Mammoliti, Darby, S. Caudill, Mammoliti, Lynch, Layton, Milligan, & Welborn (L)
McDowell, Lynch, Darby, Pierce, Chadwick, Mammoliti, Kusnitz, & Oliver (R)


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Lynch, Darby, Mammoliti, & Spencer (L)
Kusnitz & Bishop (R)


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Kusnitz, Bishop, & Chadwick


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Ballarini & Bishop


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Director Gregg Bishop