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Festivals/Screenings

Next event:
August 3-4-Otakon 2006, Baltimore, Maryland: Nine Hour Films will be filming once again! For more information, please visit our page about Watashi Wa...(I am...) Version 2.0. The official press release is here

Newest update:
The return of Nine Hour Films to Otakon, and all other information has been updated and corrected.

Conventions/Appearances
Technicon in Blacksburg Virginia allowed Nine Hour Films to appear on their Independant Film panel.
Otakon has featured Watashi Wa... in their fan films lineup twice. One of the primary sources for footage, the convention is one of the largest gathering of anime fans and costumers on the East Coast.
Rising Star in Salem, VA. Rising Star is the first convention to host Mary Ratliff as a guest of the convention, and has screened Watashi Wa... and Waiting for Warcraft.
Radford University's Japanese Culture/Film Festival in 2004 showed portions of Watashi Wa... and featured Ratliff as one of their guests.

Articles/Press
The Hollins Columns ran two articles which included Nine Hour Films in their April 15, 2002 issue.

Student-run Web Sites Popular by Annmarie Curtis discusses the website.

Film Festival Honors Student's Dream by Annmarie Curtis mentions our submission in the Kohn Film Festival.

Pulaski senior film project premieres, the article that appeared in the Southwest Times discussing the Nine Hour Film Festival and Ratliff herself.

Another article was been printed in the Southwest Times regarding the screening of Watashi Wa... at Otakon 2002.

Festivals/Screenings
The Nine Hour Film Festival in 2002 featured Love and Light, Watashi Wa, Waiting for Warcraft, and readings from the script of Luminosity.
Love and Light and the five-minute cut of Watashi Wa were both competing entries in the 2002 Kohn Film Festival.
Watashi Wa... had it's public premeire at Otakon 2002 with two screenings during Friday and Saturday of the convention. It was part of the programming again the following year.
Watashi Wa... and Waiting for Warcraft were screened at the Film Festival of Rising Star.
Portions of Watashi Wa..., Waiting for Warcraft, and Love and Light have been shown as part of the Independant Filmmaking panel at Technicon.
Nekocon has also screened Watashi Wa... as part of it's programing schedule.