Cult Film Festival Returns with
swede fest™ palm beach 5 (the swedest)
Palm Beach Film Society seeks hilariously bad remakes of Hollywood hits for October 15 festival at Kelsey Theater
LAKE PARK, Fla. (August 23, 2016) Calling all movie fans! It’s back! The #1 film festival that refuses to take itself seriously returns with swede fest™ palm beach 5, and this year it’s the “swedest”! Celebrating a half-decade of hilariously bad remakes of Hollywood hits, the underground festival takes place at the new arts’ corridor in Lake Park at the Kelsey Theater, with an entertainment-packed after party next door at the Brewhouse Gallery. The wildly popular, sell-out event showcases laughably bad, 3 minute remakes of Hollywood hits made by amateur filmmakers throughout Palm Beach County. This year’s showcase of ‘bad films made by good people’ is presented by the Palm Beach Film Society on October 15 from 7 pm to 9 pm at 700 Park Avenue, Lake Park.
But what is a “swede?” Based on the movie, “Be Kind, Rewind,” a “swede” is a no-budget, hilarious remake of a Hollywood film which spawned an underground sweding craze and resulted in the first swede fest™ in Fresno, Calif. Next came swede fest™ tampa bay, then swede fest™ palm beach in 2012. Picture “Twister” filmed using balled up paper towels; “The Fast and the Furious” reenacted using children’s Big Wheels – these are only a few examples of the hundreds of films submitted the past four years. Perfect “short attention span theater,” each film is maxed out at 3 minutes, meaning that as “so-bad-it’s-good” as the film may be, another one is soon to appear.