2024 New York Cat Film Festival

Had the unique experience of attending The 2024 New York Cat Film Festival, at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor, Michigan.

A few images snapped during the movie, which was a selection of short films and cartoons.

Silly, informative, wacky, somber, and delightfully full of cats!

The lineup can be found here.

The New York Cat Film Festival

Am thankful for a chance to engage with other feline enthusiasts, even if I was the only person in the audience wearing cat ears.

A portion of ticket sales is donated to a local animal non-profit, and new dates and locations are added, so keep an eye open to see if The New York Cat Film Festival will be near you.

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CatVideo Fest 2022

Cat Video Fest 2022 is here!

Check out locations near you: http://www.catvideofest.com/

Image taken from CatVideoFest FB page

A few quick pics of the hilariously funny film:

Double kitty

Henri, Artiste

The Eternal Question

Mirror Cat

Selfie

Many gifs and videos, and no doubt a few of these you may have already seen if you hang out on social media.

A few notable funny cats included in this year's fest:

Simon's Cat

Cole & Marmalade

Maru

CatVideo Fest 2022 trailer

A portion of the proceeds from every ticket sold is donated to a local cat shelter, so attend to laugh and help out cats too!

The Shambala Preserve

The Hubby and I rewatched the 1954 Hitchcock film "Rear Window" recently.  It's a classic film!  Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly starred, and were fantastic!

Movie Poster for Rear Window

The next movie playing on TV was "The Birds", made in 1963.  We were reluctant to sit through a few more hours of Hitchcockian 'monster' movie, but it got me thinking about Tippi Hedren, the female lead in "The Birds".

Movie Poster for The Birds

Did you know that she founded The Shambala Preserve, located in Acton, California, that saves wild cats?  From their website:

"The Roar Foundation, which I founded as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in 1983, exists solely to support The Shambala Preserve. Our mission is to educate the public about the dangers of private ownership of exotic animals. Huge numbers of exotic dangerous animals are bred and sold in the United States for illegal purposes. Private ownership presents a grave danger to the public and is cruel and unfair to these animals. More stringent legislation is needed to prohibit breeding and selling. We are actively involved in legislating this on federal and state levels."

Check out The Shambala Preserve at http://www.shambala.org/.  There are lions, tigers, servals, leopards...all kinds of wild cats!  Tippi Hedren, arguably more known for her beauty and Hollywood roles, is playing a far more important part in saving animals from neglect and abuse.

Screen grab from "The Birds"

Beautiful Tippi today!

 Way to go, Tippi!  

Movie Review: Keanu

"Keanu"
Release date: April 29, 2016 (USA)
Rated: R
Director: Peter Atencio
Stars: Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key

My first movie review!  Truly, there are not many cat movies in Hollywood today, but let's hope this begins to change, since cats have already taken over the internet.  "Keanu" is hilarious!  I have not watched Peele and Key's TV program (Key and Peele, on Comedy Central), but I know enough about them to realize that they make fun of everyone and everything.  Here is the blurb about the movie:

"Friends hatch a plot to retrieve a stolen kitten by posing as drug dealers for a street gang."

I was relieved that the kitten, named Keanu, was never mistreated nor suffered at the hands of any character portrayed in the movie.  Even the baddest of bad guys love the kitten!!!

Here is a link about the kitten:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/keanu-kitten-how-a-cat-885258

However, let me make this VERY CLEAR:  this is not a movie for a youngster, nor anyone that is easily offended!  It is rated R for some very good reasons!  The writers take potshots at EVERYBODY, and there is a lot of curse words, nudity, gang-type stuff, and rampant drug paraphernalia usage...even some George Michael music...if you can stomach it!  Hahaha!  If you take the movie as a complete and utter SPOOF of cop movies, shoot-em-up movies, any Patrick Swayze movie (and every other type of movie available!) you will have a good time watching "Keanu".

And the kitten steals the show!  A tabby kitten, with a meow as sweet as honey...what isn't there to love?

Un-Rats!

Yay!  I figured it out, and here are some 'movies' of Patty O'Malley, 

The Clown Cat.