PORTLAND — No Umbrella Media, organizers of New England’s largest mustache pageant, announce plans to host the first International Moustache Film Festival in 2012.
The festival will be held immediately before the fifth annual Stache Pag on March 30 at Port City Music Hall, 504 Congress St.
The film festival will begin at 7: 30 p. m. The mustache pageant will start at 10 p.m.
The festival is open to all film makers. Films must be eight minutes or less in duration. The winner will be chosen and receive a cash prize. The film selection committee must receive all film submissions by March 24.
Dr. Lou Jacobs, director of The New England Bureau of The American Mustache Institute, will host the film festival.
“ This is an important moment in mustache history,” Jacobs said in a release. “Never has there been a film festival dedicated to the unique art of filming the mustached male (or female). The American Mustache Institute would like to congratulate the IMFF for its efforts to preserve the mustached arts.”
“Silly as this may sound, the festival is quite serious,” the release continues. “The beneficiaries of the festival and fifth annual Stache Pag will be Northeast Historic Film, MENSK and Mystache Fights Cancer.”
Some of the many film categories will be: Best Foreign Mustache Film, Best Growth Story, Best Collection of Mustaches in One Film and Best Fake Mustache Movie.
For more information, visit www.stachefilmfest.com.
The American Mustache Institute has been “protecting the rights of, and fighting discrimination against mustached Americans, by promoting the growth, care, and culture of the mustache,” the release states. Its website is AmericanMustacheInstitute.org.
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