This weekend brings more film fest madness to our fair city. The East Village hosts the 3rd Annual Evil City Film Festival. With a jam-packed schedule of stellar independent shorts, animation, music videos and features–and, of course, plenty of parties–you can dive in and see what’s been raging on the international festival scene lately. There are lots of premieres here, as well. This year, the Anthology Film Archives is the official venue, located right in the heart of Evil City at 2nd Avenue and 2nd Street.

There are also some great panels with some very cool folks–today at 2:00 p.m., there’s one called “Scoring School: Music in Film” with Craig Wedren, Randy Woolf, Paul Brill and Joe McGinty. Tomorrow at 4:00 p.m., there are panels on film blogging and indie distribution. “Blog Till You Bleed” (love that title!) features Stu Van Airsdale of The Reeler, Mike Tully of Boredom at Its Boredest and indieWIRE, Karina Longworth of Spout and Cinematical and, moi! indieWIRE founder, Mark Rabinowitz (The Rabbi), will moderate.

Following the blogging panel, Ingrid Kopp of Shooting People and Danielle DiGiacomo of Indiepix will host “Lifestyles of the Not So Rich and Almost Famous: Indie Filmmakers Tell All,” a conversation with Susan Buice and Arin Crumley of Four-Eyed Monsters, Jerry Rapp of Mojave Phone Booth and Leah Meyerhoff of Team Queen and Twitch.

Admission for the panels is free, so come out to Fontana’s Bar at 105 Eldridge Street if you can–it should be great fun. (Lots of booze, as well, if that appeals.)

Then, on Monday, October 8, 2007 at The Blender Theater, there’ll be a Rock & Roll Awards show attended by filmmakers, local luminaries (hmm, who could those people be?) and industry professionals for a “debauchery-filled” evening. “Skullie” Awards and prizes will be presented to the winners in the Feature, Short, Animation, Documentary, Experimental, Student, Music Video, and Horror categories.