7th Python is ba-ack! This just in from producer/director Burt Kearns: The Seventh Python will be screening June 5th as part of the ongoing MOVIES ON A BIG SCREEN festival in Sacramento, CA. This will be just three days before Neil’s live show in San Francisco on June 8. A double dose of Neil for our Northern California brothers and sisters!

Details on the film festival website:

http://www.moviesonabigscreen.com/

Unfortunately it’s still not out on DVD as Burt & Brett continue to try to raise funds to cover the publishing rights. If anybody is interested in helping you can contact Burt Kearns through the 7th Python movie website: theseventhpythonmovie.com

Seventh Python is coming to DVD, but I don’t know when yet.  Keep watching this space for any updates!

The Revelation Perth International Film Festival launches today in Perth, Australia, along with great excitement for the two prime-spot screenings of The Seventh Python.

The 12th annual Revelation Perth Fest is perhaps the most respected film festival in all of Australia. One film reviewer writes: “Under the curatorial leadership of author Jack Sargeant for the second year running, Revelation aims to bring new, weird, interesting and unusual features and documentaries that wouldn’t otherwise get screened in cinemas to Perth audiences.”

There’s particular excitement about The Seventh Python– enough that the musical comedy doco is getting two screenings at prime times. Along with the Saturday, July 4th showing at 7:15 pm, The Seventh Python will also be screened on Friday, July 10th at 7:15 pm.

For tickets & more info visit their site:
http://www.revelationfilmfest.org/go/films/documentaries/the-seventh-python

This is so cool!! Seventh Python played at the Wilmette Theater in Chicago on June 9, followed by a mini concert by Neil. The theater asked me for a nice picture of my CGI quacksie, so I made a nice fresh render for them from my 3D model. Then Burt sends me these pictures, and I find out Neil did his whole concert in front of my Quacksie. I’m all a-tingle!

The Wilmette’s Nili Yelin Wronski introduces MC and comedy legend Tim Kazurinsky

Innes joined producer Brett Hudson, director Burt Kearns, and Monty Python historian Kim Howard Johnson in a lively panel discussion after the movie.

Neil signs autographs

The Seventh Python has been selected to open the Pacific Palisades Film Fest:

Thursday, May 14 - 7pm
Theater Palisades
941 Temescal Canyon Road
Pacific Palisades, CA 90272

http://www.friendsoffilm.com/

Five songs from a camera set up on the side of the stage.  Rather than embed them here and make this page even slower to load, here’s my YouTube channel; you can see the five Fest videos right there at the top.  Click the HQ button to see it nice and crisp.

Seventh Python was shown and Neil performed at the NY 2009 Beatlefest.  Of course I wasn’t there AGAIN (grr) but Burt & Brett were there and they got some great pictures, and Rutling Ken Thornton and Vet Ken Simpson accompanied Neil on his solo show.  But first a link to an article about it by one “Rutlin’ Jenn” :

Neil Innes is the Seventh Python
March 28th was the East Coast Premiere of this documentary on British comic-musician Neil Innes. The film takes a look at the ‘accidental career’ of a man who has crossed paths with Month Python and The Beatles.
http://www.associatedcontent.comarticle/1605929/neil_innes_is_the_seventh_python.html

And now Burt’s pictures!

You ever run into a musical group works out of Kansas City calls themselves Two Kens and a Neil? They’ve been at a Ramada Inn there for about 18 months. If you’re ever in Kansas City and want to hear some good music, you might want to drop by.

Brett & Mark Hudson at the autograph table

I wish I had been there just because Victor Spinetti was.  “I won an award.  It’s on the wall in my office.”

Burt Kearns & Brett Hudson talking about Seventh Python (probably)

Earl Slick, Neil Innes, Brett Hudson, Greg Hawkes, Mark Hudson, Martin Lewis

(clockwise from top: Greg Hawkes, Martin Lewis,
Earl Slick, Brett Hudson, Neil Innes, Mark Hudson)

And he plumped me pillows!

Neil Innes, secret Muslim

The Seventh Python has been chosen as an official selection of The Pacific Palisades Film Festival, which runs May 14-17th in Pacific Palisades, California.

Producers of The Seventh Python have also announced a special event screening of The Seventh Python along with a live concert performance by Neil Innes on June 9th at the Wilmette Theatre in Wilmette Illinois, outside Chicago.

The special event takes place amid Innes’ 2009 US summer concert tour.

The Seventh Python has picked up a major prestigious film festival award as it begins a new round of screenings across the country.

The musical nonfiction film about legendary pop satirist and Monty Python collaborator Neil Innes has been named winner of the 2009 Las Vegas International Film Festival’s Golden Ace Award.

The festival judges announced that the film from Frozen Pictures “demonstrated superior and standout filmmaking and is deserving of special recognition” as one of the best among nearly 2000 films submitted from over 50 countries around the world.

The Las Vegas International Film Festival takes place from April 9th to 12th. The Seventh Python director Burt Kearns and producer Brett Hudson will be featured at the awards ceremony and will soon announce Las Vegas screening dates for the film that weekend.

Fans across the country will also have the chance to see The Seventh Python in coming weeks.

The film, which featured Python alums John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin and Terry Jones, along with Innes fans and friends like Aimee Mann and Simpsons creator Matt Groening, has been chosen as an official selection of the Chicago International Movies & Music Festival, and will be screened in competition on March 8th. Director Burt Kearns and producer Brett Hudson will be on hand to discuss the film after the 8 p.m. screening.

The Seventh Python will also be shown March 28th at the NY Metro Fest for Beatles Fans, the world’s largest Beatles fans convention. The screening in the ballroom of the Meadowlands Crowne Plaza Hotel will take place at 11 a.m.—an “early bird special” for festivalgoers, by popular demand after a similar showing at the Chicago Fest drew more than a thousand people and a standing ovation.

Kearns and Hudson will be there— along with the star, Neil Innes himself, who will be performing and signing autographs throughout the weekend.

The Seventh Python was the opening selection of the American Cinematheque’s 2008 Mods & Rockers Film Festival. Watch this space for announcements of more screenings leading up to the crowd-pleasing movie’s inclusion in the Revelation Perth International Film Festival in July.

The Seventh Python is officially on the film festival trail.

The film has been selected for inclusion in the first annual Chicago International Movies & Music Festival and will be screened March 7th at the Chicago Cultural Center downtown. Director Burt Kearns and producer Brett Hudson will discuss the film after the screening.

Then, on March 28, the film will be a highlight of another Fest for Beatles Fans. The film will be shown as an 11 a.m. Saturday morning “early bird special” in the Grand Ballroom of the Crowne Plaza Hotel in the Meadowlands (a tunnel from Manhattan), where the 35th annual convention– the New York Metro Fest”– is taking place. When the film was shown at the last Beatles fanfest in August, a thousand fans gave it a standing ovation.

Once again, Kearns and Hudson will be at the fest all weekend for fan Q and As. What’s more, Neil Innes himself will be there to perform and join in. (Victor Spinetti will also be at the Beatles fan fest, so expect photos.)

Other Seventh screenings and festivals will be announced soon. We do know the film is headed to the Revelation Perth International Film Festival in Perth, Australia in July.