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Political Satire Dirty Politics Shot with JVC Cameras

Filmmakers John McDougall and Steve Esteb partnered to shoot Dirty Politics, a political satire about a flawed Louisiana presidential candidate who is dealing with a scandal as he enters the primaries. Shot predominately handheld with JVC GY-HD250 ProHD cameras, the film premiered on Aug. 16 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Brendan O'Neill: Satire is becoming a lost art in our cynical times

This article was first published on guardian.co.uk on Sunday October 05 2008. It was last updated at 16:00 on October 05 2008.

Azari artists honored

Well-known artists in the fields of comedy and satire from East Azarbaijan were honored in the first special program titled 'ZafaranTea' held by Tabriz Municipality's Cultural-Artistic Organization on Saturday.

Student Bodies (US - DVD R1)

The box art begs us to consider Student Bodies a precursor to Scream, a mostly straight faced satire of slasher films, but its much more a precursor to the Scary Movie series, which are spoofs of the slasher cycle (specifically the post-modern slashers like the Scream and I Know What You Did series). Both Student Bodies and Scream tease the concepts of sex in slashers (and both open with When a Stranger Calls satires), but tone of the films is quite different. The concept of the horror spoof wasn’t invented by writer/director Mickey Rose (even if the box art states that too), it goes back to the days of Abbot and Costello, but his film does predate other slasher spoofs like National Lampoon’s Class Reunion (by one year) and Saturday the 14th (by a matter of months), so we can call him a ‘pioneer’.

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