The #BoomFest16 Planning Team loves a good adult cocktail or two - we even made sure to include a frothy beer on our 2016 poster! Which is why we're pumped to announce that we've teamed up with the popular ride-share app Uber* to give #BoomFest16 patrons a responsible way home. So get to the...
It's a little known fact that our festival screens two types of films during our 3-day event: film contest entries and invited films. While film contest entries are submitted by the filmmakers themselves in a competition to win our coveted Gusher award, invited films are hand selected by our film committee to bring...
Christina Trujillo, who is writing this blog and thus feels a little strange about speaking in third person here, has been volunteering for BoomFest since 2010, although she regrettably found out about BoomFest too late to actually attend 2010's festival. Christina moved here from Austin, and wanted a few friends, so she found...
It's hard to introduce Olivia, as she is the unofficial Queen of Live Music in Southeast Texas, and it's rare to meet anyone who hasn't rocked out at a show she's booked. Olivia has worked tirelessly to bring awesome touring bands to Beaumont; first to her house/art gallery/live music venue/living art installation, as...
Chase Kiker is 2016's Director, taking over the reigns from Bryan Lee, who has been a part of the festival since 2010. But the real story here is Chase: it's quite a meteoric rise from serving as a projectionist at the 2014 festival. Even after being accidentally locked into a film venue during his...
In case you didn't know, BoomFest is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, run by a group of very dedicated film and music lovers. Our goals have primarily been to 1) put on an awesome film & music festival, 2) have fun, and 3) save our panic attacks until after the festival ends. So far, we've...
[caption id="attachment_1888" align="alignleft" width="300"] We'll let this image serve as a hint of what's to come in 2016.[/caption] Planning for the 9th Annual Boomtown Film and Music Festival is well underway, so we wanna make sure your calendars are ready: February 25 - 27, 2016. Plug it in. We'll wait. Ok, got that scheduled? Good....