Thanks for all the rocks LA!

We had a great screening this Saturday night in LA and big thank you to all that came out and supported the film. You laughed at all the right places and donated much need cash to the RPS cause. Slowly we will get to the finish line and be able to meet our deliverables to our distributor. Here are some pics from the night photographed by Jill Aske. Congrats to Moira McMahon the undisputed RPS champ of LA. Hopefully we will be back with another LA screening for all those that missed out. See the full flickr feed here.

LA Screening May 30th

ROCK PAPER SCISSORS: A Geek Tragedy comes to LA for its premiere screening. After a successful award-winning festival run, RPS is living large in LA for one night only. Come see why Variety called it "an amusing tale comparable to The King of Kong." Clearly they loved the film!

All proceeds - from ticket to T-Shirt sales - help us pay our bills and fulfill our obligations to our (in negotiations) distributor so the rest of the world get a chance to see the film. In case you're wondering, it's not an open bar but there will be lots of booze available, and our venue sponsor recommends that you keep drinking while you watch.

Location: Busby's East, 5364 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036
Date and Time: Saturday, May 30th: 7pm sharp
Admission (at the door only): $15 CASH PLEASE!
RSVP to ensure guaranteed entry: rsvp@goodnproper.com
Facebook Event: Click here

If you can't make the screening but still want to contribute to the cause visit us at rpsfilm.blogspot.com and donate.

RPS Tip #4: Paper is the new rock.

p.s. the web is doing some weird compression to the flyer and the colours are all off! Can't seem to fix it though...

Whistler here we come

Get your rocks, papers and scissors in order, RPS is coming to town in April. The Telus World Ski & Snowboard Festival is happening mid April and RPS has a prime slot on April 18th for our Whistler premiere. Find out more about the festival and screening here.

Tell your friends, check the facebook event, and come on down. Pick up advance tickets here.

Doors 7pm, projector rolls 7:30pm
Helping us pay our bills: $12

Rainbow Theatre (Located within the Telus Conference Centre)
4010 Whistler Way

Whistler, BC, Canada

Cinequest success!

Thank you everyone that came out to support the film at the San Jose Cinequest Film Festival. Great crowds and some side bar RPS action spotted here and there. Director Mike McKeown enjoyed the two screenings he attended at the beginning of the festival and was joined by Master Roshambolla for the US premiere on Feb 26th.

Thanks to all the folks from Apple for coming out and yes we don't mind saying it but FCP rocks like RPS any day. Take a look at some photos from the festival and look out for our LA screening (likely in the next 2 months) and a screening up in Whistler as well, stay tuned for this one it's going to be a fun venue! Don't forgot to spread the word, T-Shirts are back in stock and ready to fly off the shelves and as always every dollar donated goes towards getting the film to the finish line with all our legal obligations so that we can drop it on a small screen near you!

Cinequest Audience Choice Award...go VOTE!

For all those RPS fans who have made our two screenings so far at Cinequest don't forget to cast your vote for Rock Paper Scissors. We hear that you can still turn ballots in, it doesn't have to be right after the screening. So if you forgot and you still have the ballot in your pocket, wallet, or purse head back to the screening venue and just drop off to one of the ushers or festival staff.

You have one more chance to catch RPS at Cinequest this week on Sunday 8th 5:15pm over at the Camera 12 cinemas. For more info hit cinequest.org

Thanks for all the support and a big shout out to all the Apple FCP folks who came out to support us last week.

Screenings this week

The San Jose Cinequest Film Festival 2009 is upon us and RPS has three screening that you should head to or tell your friends in the bay area about.

Find out more and get tickets here and follow our Facebook Group here.

Thursday 2/26/2009 9:30 PM San Jose Repertory Theatre
Saturday 2/28/2009 12:15 PM Camera 12
Sunday 3/8/2009 5:15 PM Camera 12

Cowtown Classic Champion!

Last Saturday the team behind Rock Paper Scissors: a geek tragedy took over the Plaza Theatre in Calgary for an encore screening of the award winning documentary film and brought the spirit of RPS competition to town with the inaugural Cowtown Classic Pro-Am Championships.

After enjoying the screening the audience got down to business knocking back countless Steamwhistle beers and putting their best fist forward. The final of the fiercely contested event came down to one throw, with a textbook scissors finally launching local player Mike Peters into the annals of RPS history. Peters was crowned Calgary’s first official RPS champion, taking home the coveted trophy and the admiration of everyone in the theatre.

“This is the greatest day of my life,” said Peters, after hoisting the trophy above his head and waving to the crowd who had stayed to watch the action unfold.

On hand to officiate the event was Douglas Walker, Managing Director of the World RPS Society and one of the main subjects of McKeown’s documentary. When asked about the event, Douglas suggested that he had never seen “such natural talent” at an inaugural RPS tournament.

Get ready for 2009!

Calgary Screening THIS SATURDAY!

We know you've been itching for this day to come! Yes RPS is back in cowtown for one night only. Following the screening will be the 1st annual Cowtown Classic RPS tournament.Get yourselves to the Plaza Theatre, 9pm on Saturday 15th. Director Mike McKeown will be in attendance as well as Douglas Walker from the film. Admission is $15 and gets you entered automatically into the Cowtown Classic. Take down your opponents and be crowned the number one RPS player in Calgary!

We are in need of your support and all proceeds from Saturday go towards fundraising efforts to finish the film and there will be opportunities to pick up RPS T-Shirts and donate directly to the cause. Roshambo!

RPS Tip #6: Men open with rock, women go with scissors.

Join our Facebook group and event for more up to date information and connect with your potential opponents!

How it went down in Toronto

Another year flies by and another World Champion is crowned in Toronto. Find out more from the championships here. Friday night before the championship was the Toronto premiere of Rock Paper Scissors: a geek tragedy. Here is a visual confirmation that it did indeed go down!

Producer Pat McKinnon takes on the audience.


Director, Mike McKeown, address the rowdy crowd.


All photos courtesy of Mark Coatsworth.

Toronto Premiere

Please join us for our Toronto Premiere, director Mike McKeown will be in attendance. Check in to our Facebook group for more info.

Yahoo! Micro Site for the World Champs

We recommend you go check out the cool Yahoo! micro site with info on the upcoming world champs in Toronto as well as the Toronto Premiere for the documentary on Oct 24th. You can buy tickets and all that jazz too!

God dag Norway!

Excuse our poor Norwegian as we prep for our first screening outside North America. We are very excited to be invited to screen the film at the forthcoming Norwegian RPS Championships in Skien. The champs are set for September 20th with the screening to come before at the players reception on the 19th. If you have good Norwegian skills you can read all about the champs and the screening here and you can join the facebook event here.

The screening is a free event but in true independent filmmaking traditions we are also using the screening as a fund raising event to help raise money towards completing post production on the film in order to ready the film for distribution.

Be sure to check back soon when we will have more information about the screening. There will also be a screening in Toronto during the World Championships, more info soon.

Next Screening, Nelson B.C.

It's off to the lovely Nelson, B.C. for Rock Paper Scissors next Canadian screening. You can get your next fix of RPS at the FLIKS Canadian Film Festival Saturday February 16th at 1:30pm. For more info head to...

FLIKS

Anyone with photos or comments about last nights screening at the Victoria Film Festival please let us know! We'll put up the shots on the website.

Key Info for next screening:
FLIKS Film Festival, Nelson, B.C.
Feb 16th
1:30pm
Capitol Theatre
421 Victoria Street
Nelson, B.C.

Sold Out!

It's happened to us again! Two festivals, two sell out crowds! And well in advance of the screenings I might add.

The Victoria Film Festival screening is sold out as of Friday. Rush tickets available at the door of course. Those of you with tickets we'll be excited to see you at the screening. Director Mike McKeown and producer Patrick McKinnon will be in attendance as well as lead character from the film, Douglas Walker.

Important links:
http://www.rpsfilm.com
http://victoriafilmfestival.com

Rock Paper Scissors hits Victoria Film Festival

RPS hits Victoria.

The award winning documentary Rock Paper Scissors hits Victoria next week. We're super excited to share the film with the British Colombia audience for our premiere in the area. The film's festival journey began in Calgary last September to a sold out screening, the film was the first film aside from the opening gala to sell out and there was a long line of excited RPS fans lining up before the screening. The film took home the festival's audience choice award for best film, which was a tremendous high for us.

We're hopping to bring that same RPS fever feeling to Victoria. Stay tuned for more info on the film and also after party that we are putting together.

For more info on the film and to see the trailer you can go to http://www.rpsfilm.com