Cancel all your plans for tonight and head down to what is sure to be the most fun time on the Seacoast: NHFF Casino Night! Our 10-day promotion with The Poker Room in Hampton Falls is coming to a close this weekend and we are taking the opportunity to try to pack the house with festival friends and supporters TONIGHT!  The Poker Room has more than just poker, oh yes, they have black jack, roulette, and a fully stocked bar!! We’re planning our extravaganza for 5-7:30 but come early and stay late, we’ll have some food provided by the festival, a tournament starts at 5:30 ($80 buy in, Hold ‘Em) and the poker room doesn’t close til 1 am.  If that’s not enough to get you pumped listen to Lady Gaga’s Poker Face until you are: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY-vXcmpZIw

The New Hampshire Film Festival is proud to announce a very special partnership with The Poker Room in Hampton Falls!  The Poker Room has partnered with over 85 non-profits in New Hampshire to raise over $5 Million Dollars in the last four years, and now we are added to their ranks. Come down to The Poker Room February 9-19 to show your support, catch up with festival friends, and to enjoy some no limit poker fun!

Last year we were lucky enough to get T.J. Miller’s hilarious short I’m Having a Difficult Time Killing My Parents. Just recently he co-starred with the likes of Paul Rudd, Emily Mortimer, and Zooey Deschanel in the heart-waming quirky comedy  Our Idiot Brother (trailer).  A must see!!!

Congratulations to NHFF 2011 Documentary In Danger of Being Discovered for selling out the Music Hall with their extended cut, pre-festival tour, benefit showing! The NHFF premiere of IDOBD was incredible, with so much buzz, a huge crowd, and the most lively audience the fest has ever seen, so much so that we can’t even imagine what tonight is going to be like for the filmmakers, musicians, and enthusiasts.  Best of luck to the doc and all the people surrounding it, tonight, and in all its future ventures! Visit the IDOBD blog. Read an interview with filmmaker, Marc Dole, in The Hippo.

Paul Dano star of NHFF 2010 Feature The Extra Man stars and is an executive producer in Sundance Feature For Ellen. Dano plays a struggling musician father fighting for his last chance at shared custody for his daughter, Ellen.  Paul always gives a great performance, and we’re excited to hear all the buzz sure to surround For Ellen!

Jay Duplass director of NHFF 2011 Short Documentary Kevin steps in as executive producer alongside his brother Mark on Sundance Feature Black Rock. It’s a family affair with this one as Mark Duplass is also the screenwriter, and his wife Katie Aselton directs and stars.  The film also stars Kate Bosworth and Lake Bell about a girl’s reunion trip on an island in Maine that turns dark and sinister.   After it’s Saturday midnight premiere the film was instantly picked up on Sunday morning by new distribution unit LD Entertainment.  Congratulations to the whole Duplass clan on their suspenseful thriller!  Read about this Sundance acquisition and others.