Darkon (film)

Darkon
Darkon
	Promotional poster for Darkon
Directed by	Luke Meyer; Andrew Neel
Produced by	Tom Davis; Ethan Palmer; Christopher Kikis; Thoma Kikis; Nicholas Levis; Domenic Romano (associate producer); Cherise Wolas; Alan Zelenetz
Starring	Skip Lipman; Daniel McCarthur; Rebecca Thurmond; Kenyon Wells; Andrew Mattingly
Cinematography	Karl F. Schroder; Hillary Spera
Edited by	Brad Turner
Music by	Jonah Rapino
Production; companies	SeeThink Films; Ovie Entertainment
Distributed by	Independent Film Channel (TV)
Release date	March 2006 (SXSW);
Running time	89 Minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Darkon is a feature-length documentary film that follows the real-life adventures of the Darkon Wargaming Club in Baltimore, Maryland, a group of fantasy live-action role-playing (LARP) gamers. The film was directed by Andrew Neel and Luke Meyer.

Darkon premiered and won the Best Documentary Audience Award at the 2006 South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival in Austin, Texas.[1] Darkon was an official selection playing at Hot Docs, Maryland Film Festival, Silverdocs, LA Film Festival, Britdoc, Melbourne International Film Festival and the Camden International Film Festival.

The film was produced by Ovie Entertainment and SeeThink Films.

John Hodgman was hired to write a scripted film adaptation of the documentary.[2] However plans fell through, but an excerpt of the unproduced screenplay was read on his podcast Judge John Hodgman.[2]

Reception

Darkon was well received by critics. The film has an 89% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on the reviews of 19 critics.[3]

References

Levy, Emanuel (June 26, 2006). "Darkon (2006): Audience Award Winner at SXSW Film Fest". EmanuelLevy.com. Retrieved September 7, 2021.
Julia Smith (14 August 2013). "Judge John Hodgman Episode 122: Reckless Endungeonment". Maximum Fun. Retrieved 2013-08-15.
"Darkon - Rotten Tomatoes". Retrieved September 18, 2018.

External links

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[1] Levy, Emanuel (June 26, 2006). "Darkon (2006): Audience Award Winner at SXSW Film Fest". EmanuelLevy.com. Retrieved September 7, 2021.

[Judge_John_Hodgman_Episode_122:_Reckless_Endungeonment-2] Julia Smith (14 August 2013). "Judge John Hodgman Episode 122: Reckless Endungeonment". Maximum Fun. Retrieved 2013-08-15.

[3] "Darkon - Rotten Tomatoes". Retrieved September 18, 2018.