the movie abides, Dude

20th Century Bowl

Boundary Bay Brewery and the Pickford Film Center (PFC) are teaming up again to bring The Big Lebowski to Bellingham once more!

Join us Friday, June 25th, for an outdoor showing of The Big Lebowski around 9:30pm.  We’re telling everyone to BYOBR (bring your own bathrobe!) because we’ll be having a The Dude Look-a-Like Contest before the movie starts!  After the movie, the crowd is headed over to 20th Century Bowl for 3 games of Midnight Lebowski Shabbos Bowl.  $5 gets you shoes and 3 games!

The Pickford Film Center was founded in 1998 by a small group of local film fans dedicated to making high-quality cinema available in Bellingham and the entire Whatcom County region. The mission of PFC is to provide a forum and resource for independent cinema, strengthening community through education, dialogue and the celebration of film. PFC offers year-round, independent, foreign and documentary film and related special events.

the Boundary Bay Beer Garden

The fun starts around 9:30 pm in the Boundary Bay Brewery Beer Garden.  A donation to the Pickford ($5 suggested) is all you’ll pay to watch the movie…plus you’ll have our kick-a** craft beer and pizza slices for your palette’s pleasure during the movie!  We’re excited about this event because it’s small, local businesses teaming up to bring our community a little Big Lebowski love!  We’re doing it for fun, to help raise money for the Pickford Film Center and to have a night purely for celebrating everything Lebowski! And who doesn’t love The Dude?!?

Boundary Bay Takes on Trailer Wars

Bellingham is a town that houses a LOT of creativity…and a lot of independent thinkers.  What happens when those independent thinkers can’t find just the right forum for expressing their creativity?  Well, they just go ahead and create the forum for themselves.  Which is exactly what a small group of local film makers did when they created a fast growing phenomenon known as Trailer Wars.

the creators of Trailer Wars

Trailer Wars, Bellingham’s Movie Trailer challenge, is a competition in which local creative types complete trailers for non-existent films based on an ever-changing set of criteria. For each installment, a set of guidelines is established and teams/individuals have until the screening date to complete submissions, at which time entries will be shown and a victor chosen by audience vote.  Trailer Wars is completely OPEN competition to anyone wishing to participate (no invitation required). Submissions need only adhere to the month’s posted criteria to enter the fray on Screening Night.

You can check out the next Trailer Wars happening at 9pm THIS THURSDAY – April 15th – at the Pickford Cinema!  Look for Boundary Bay Brewery‘s very first entry to Trailer Wars and then join us in the Boundary Bay Beer Garden next month for a Best of Trailer Wars evening!

Interested in seeing what Trailer Wars is all about?  Well, come join us in the Beer Garden on Thursday, May 27^th for the Best of Trailer Wars!  The creators of this phenomenon will hand pick a selection of the trailers entered this past year into the competition for our viewing pleasure.  Grab a pint and some Boundary Bay Brewery BBQ and settle in to watch great examples of this town’s incredible creativity! This all ages event is free so you have absolutely no excuse to miss it!! Who knows…maybe this Best Of night will inspire you to join in next month’s Trailer Wars!