If you’re in or around the Sacramento area tomorrow (Saturday) night, you can catch the first festival showing of “Goodnight Harvey.” The movie will be playing with the feature length film Weeding Out at 6pm at the Crest Theater as part of the Sacramento Film & Music Festival.

The Crest Theater is located at 1013 K St. and tickets are $10. Order online before they get sold out!

Hope to see you there.

Pictured here is the best possible outcome of the night

Our short “Goodnight Harvey” has made it into its second film festival. This time we’re a little closer to home at the Brainwash Movie Festival in the notoriously beautiful (sic) city of Oakland, CA.

This is pretty exciting for a couple reasons. One, it’s right across the Bay so we can show up to it completely hammered on time. And two, it’s a drive-in, bike-in, walk-in, movie fest so it’s outdoors. I don’t know what the crowd is going to think of Goodnight Harvey, but I have to admit that I like the idea of a bunch of cars parked out there to watch our short.

The festival runs for three nights on Saturday, August 7th; Friday, August 13th; and Saturday, August 14th. All the nights seem to look like they’ve got some good stuff showing but for those of you with a desire to see puppet mutilation, Saturday, August 14th is when you’ll see Harvey rip out of his skin and into your blah blah blah. They start showing films each night at 9-ish and the cost is $10.

I also have it on good authority that we’ll be closing out the entire festival. The last film of the last night. It’s nice to know that we’ll be the taste that’s left in the audience’s mouth when they go home that night.

The gentlemen of IFYW always have a few projects circulating the various burners of the production line. Front to back and back to front they go. Eventually some go somewhere while others are left to smolder into a charred skeleton of their former selves. Like that potato you didn’t notice jump out of the pan… or children.

Sack and Cack is one of those projects that has been making the burner rounds for quite a while now. Once the proud headlining project of IFYW, it was shoved aside to the very much crowded recesses of IFYW’s back-burner thanks to “Goodnight Harvey.” But now that Harvey is all grown up, touring the world, and facing rejection after soulless countless rejection “Sack and Cack” can carry the torch.

The Sack and Cack Show is based on characters created by, previous collaborator, E. Dubois and Michael C. Freeling. The original show starred, naturally, Sack and Cack as hosts of a variety style show in which they interviewed guests among various other segments. We pick up The Sack and Cack Show shortly after the original Cack has succumbed to the pressures and vices of Hollywood life leaving Sack to host the show alone with disastrous results. In order to reboot the show a new Cack is added which pisses off Sack to no end.

The first episode of The Sack and Cack Show will be a standard 22 minute pilot. From there we’ll be making more episodes following Sack and the new Cack and their struggles to keep the show together. Along the way they hook up with such characters as Wink Tingleman, former television personality. (Seen here in his current residence, a pile of garbage behind the studio.)

Wink is an idol of Sack’s but has been down on his luck ever since he got fired from his show in the 1980’s. He becomes a mentor to Sack down the line, although his motives for doing so are unclear.

Another charming addition is the blonde bombshell, Mackenzie. Seen here face down after falling into a hole on stage. *spoiler* Whether she’ll be seen in future episodes is a tightly kept secret.

Oh yeah, did I mention that this is a sock-puppet show? Well it is. Each and every character and extra will be a costumed sock on custom miniature sets.

And in order to further wet your beaks here is a complete plot summary of the first episode in one drawing. In it you can spot the unruly Sack; the director, Danny; and the much intimidating and always feared, Executives of Television, the main adversaries of the series.

Seeing as this project has a lot of pre-production (puppets, sets, etc.) you can’t expect to see Sack and Cack until early next year. But once all of that is out of the way we should be able to bust out episodes fairly quickly. Keep checking back throughout the year for future updates on the progress of The Sack and Cack Show.

Ripping out of his skin and into the Sacramento Film and Music Festival is none other than Harvey. “Goodnight Harvey” has been selected to play along with the feature-length film, Weeding Out, on Saturday, July 31st at 6pm.

This being the first festival for Harvey I had one thing on my mind: when do we get that olive branch thing that proves this movie got into a festival. Well, it’s been a little while since we got this news and, still, we haven’t received anything. Not even a dead stick. Now if you ask me, these leaf-filled whatevers are a right of passage for any film deemed worth-something by strangers, so naturally I didn’t want to egotistically defecate on this tradition by making my own. 

Nevertheless, I did.

We’re going to be there, so if you can come out and show your support by making us look like we’re popular and/or deserving it’d be great to see you. Plus afterwards we can party Sacramento style. I don’t really know what that means but I imagine it involves a Kings game and a Juice Bar.

Things with IFYW’s latest recruit just aren’t working out. It’s time to up the ante.

Pasha Romanowski, founder of projectpuppet.com, just wrote an update about Goodnight Harvey on Puppet Buzz. Pasha was of great assistance in the early stages of the film, offering his advice and experience when we were designing Harvey and the other 19 puppets featured in the film. Most of the materials used to create them came from projectpuppet.com making this site an invaluable resource for us.

On the first of May Goodnight Harvey premiered to 2 packed houses at The Dark Room in San Francisco. I estimate that we had between 100 and 120 people show up which is absolutely incredible. Thanks again to Aaron and Marc from B-Minus Comiks, E.Dubois, Sam Wohl, and Brain Kennard for helping us put on a show. And a very big thanks to everyone that came out and showed your support.

In case you missed it here are some photos of the evening.

Josh and Orlando introduced the evening as the Muppo Men

Tweaky and Pinky try to get Jerold out of the bear trap he was lured into

Unfortunately for Jerold, the hunter has other plans for him.

Derek and Orlando in between shows.

As if that wasn’t enough, the audience still had to endure the film.

For more photos you can check out our page on Facebook. Now Harvey is off on the festival circuit hopefully to be seen across North America this Summer.

Check out this article that just got posted to the SF Examiner Movie Blog.

That’s right, we’re taking on the big film festival. And yeah, we are doing it with a puppet show.

…well, ya know, until we enter it next year.

It’s less than a week away. On Saturday May 1st the premier of our short film “Goodnight Harvey” at The Dark Room Theater in San Francisco. The all-nighters have continued for us as we’ve been getting the film ready for its debut. Will it all be worth it? You can be the judge of that when you come out for the show. (Come on, even my grandma is going to be there.)

In addition to giving the film its first ever screening we’ll be putting on a live puppet show. Hosted by IFYW and starring some of the wackiest dead Muppos we could conceive; it will be a rare glimpse into the world when a Muppo could roam free in the jungle, except of course until the hunter shows up.

IFYW guarantees lack of disappointment in this grand spectacle of stage and screen.

Here’s a sneak peak of the set for “Muppos Live” with a stunning backdrop painted by then-and-again IFYW cohort E. Dubois.

And it wouldn’t be a teaser without seeing the performers themselves:

Pinky

Tweaker

And, naturally, Jerold

The Dark Room Theater is at:

2263 Mission Street (between 18th and 19th)

in San Francisco California.

The shows are at 7pm and 9pm this Saturday May 1st, hope to see you there.