New York has a film festival dedicated to cat movies

New York has a film festival dedicated to cat movies

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Fat of the Day, Day day day, day, Do do
do do do do doo? Okay, today's fact of the
day has been handed over to us, of course, in
Vaughn's absence and because he's away for three days this week.

(00:23):
He gifted us a theme that he thought that we
could get excited about fletch, which is cat celebrations because
we have cats, we cat people. Man, how good are
our cats smelling? In the.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Next time around at my place, you can smell my cat.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
You can smell my where a sniff? Where was snuff off?
Today I want to talk about the New York Cat
Film Festival. Okay, Now we know there are film festivals
all around the world. New Zealand's got a film festival,
there's the Calm Film Festival, Sun Dance, huge festivals.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
And always have those little olive leaf things the lobby.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Posters out the laurels. So if you when you if
you're part of these festivals, you can you can have
a film about anything, a horror or a drama, a documentary,
a short film, a long film. But in the New
York Cat Festival, as you can imagine, it's all about cats.
So all of the films that you can be like

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that you can submit or that are selected, have to
be at.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
The center of them. About cats? About cats? Are there
many films? There are? They are Garfield, the Garfield Movie.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
So just scrolling down. So this year in twenty twenty four,
in October, will be the seventh annual Cat Film New
York Cat Film Festival. Okay, are containing one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen,
ninety twenty films about cats?

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Oh wow?

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Okay, here's some of the titles. Trace of a Cat,
Cat Kingdom Cats, Eyewitness News, The Battle for Swan Lake,
King of Cats, Mikey Hammer pre private Eye.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
What that's about a cat?

Speaker 1 (02:08):
That's a private Eye Private Eye with a cast of
actual cats from Paradise Ranch Cat Sanctuary who have the
dialogue of the nineteen forties film Noir set in New Orleans. Mikey,
the private investigator is hired to find a stolen million
dollar cat collar.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Okay, none of these sound great?

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Uh. Kitty Crusade, a biographical documentary about a passionate T
and R cat rescuer Danny and the joys and heartbreak
of refforts that'll be a good watch.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Do you have any IMDb ratings for any of these movies? No,
because this is the this is their debut. Okay, right,
so they can't come out um here.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
This is a film called Nine Lives by Jesse Davidson
from California, a heartwarming documentary about a cat who has
an entire neighborhood fooled, with several people believing they are
the only ones who love and look after this cat.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Okay, this is what cat's this is good.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
A new Home for an old Cat is the name
of another film from New Mexico, a chronicle of the
adventure of Gottaland, an older feline who got a second
chance when adopted from a shelter, just.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Like you rescued your cat and I rescued mine.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Not quite yea similar And here's another one called Cat
in the Box, a short animated film by a Lebanese
student filmmaker at NYU. But a cat who hears noises
coming from box and decides to investigate. So there's twenty
films you can go. You can buy tickets in New
York to like one film or a whole Ladies there

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and then if you have a film about a cat,
you can to our filmmaker listeners. If you go on
Catfilmfestival dot com, sport slash submit a film, and you
can submit a film to be part of the New
York City Cat Film Festival. So today's back today is
on cat celebration. Whek that there is a whole film

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festival in New York that is dedicated purely to films
about cats.