Tune in tonight (or today, depending where you are) at 8:30 PM EST to watch the Q&A with cast and crew from the Miami screening for today’s Bots High worldwide screenings.

Tweet your questions to @botshigh.

And a new DVD page was launched. Check it out here. You can also get the film on Amazon!

What better way to celebrate America’s freedom than by watching robots smash each other up! Bots High will be at the Geek Film Festival this weekend, which is part of Florida Supercon. I’ll be there for Q&As, along with some of My Mechanical Romance and Mechanical Misfits.

Screening Times:

Saturday, July 2 – 2:00 PM

Sunday, July 3 – 2:45 PM

Since the festival is part of Supercon, you just need to get a day pass to Supercon. Once in you can watch as many movies as you want (like Minecraft, Back to Space-con, Connected, or Star Wars Begins) and check out the festival.

Also, if you’re interested in filmmaking stuff I’ll be on some panels. Independent Filmmaker Panel Saturday at noon and Florida Filmmaker Sunday at 1.

DVDs (and now t-shirts and posters!) will be on sale. Hope to see you there!

More Miami fun! Come check out Bots High this Saturday, April 9 at O Cinema, presented by the Borscht Film Festival. Preceding that will be a Robot Death Match.

It’s one of the Miami New Times’ picks for Art Walk!

Borscht Film Festival’s Robot Death Matches

7-9 PM @ 2201 NW Second Ave

We’ll have robots battling electronics, robots battling robots, people battling people (as robots) and robots battling people. JK about the last one. Or am I? Guess you’ll have to come and find out.

Bots High at O Cinema

10 PM @ 90 NW 29th St.

Now is your chance to make up for the other Miami screenings you missed. Check out the film at O Cinema, followed by a Q&A. Plus get your Bots High DVD, as right now they’re only available in person.

Get your tickets here from O Cinema

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Just got back from SXSW in Austin. What an awesome trip – and awesome city! Going there was an experience in itself. I took a ride on the StartupBus – a bus full of entrepreneurs trying to launch a company in 48 hours on the way to SXSW. There was a lot of the same energy you find in robot building, especially the pit area.

As for SXSW adventures, the first day after landing we were at Dorkbot – a “science fair” full of geeky projects. Bots High had a booth there, in the middle of roaming robots, egg drop contests, and electricity orchestras. Met John Funk, who is working on a sci-fi series shot with miniatures and robot toys. He even built a robot out of toy parts.

Over the weekend I found out Google was sponsoring a LEGO sumo robot battle – on a rooftop at midnight! Had to check it out. Talk about madness – a bunch of teams had been building for four hours, programming LEGO MindStorm kits and building autonomous robots to battle it out in table top sumo wrestling.

It was a great event – and afterwards the LEGO’s were donated to local schools.

Then came the big event – the Bots High screening. It was great – lots of laughs, great reaction. And a really great Q&A/discussion afterwards. Best question – why didn’t SXSW play it!

University of Texas looked awesome, I wish I had more time to explore. As I was leaving I got a peak through a window to see The Vislab, a giant wall of 75 connected Dell monitors creating a single 307 megapixel display. Should have played the film there!

All in all a great trip. This will not be the last time the robots invade Texas!

The robots are invading SXSW! Come check out Bots High at the following events in Austin during SXSW.

Ignite / Dorkbot 28 – 3.11 6-10 PM

Bots High will have a booth at the Dorkbot Science Fair. Watch videos, meet the crew, and enjoy the other booths of projects and Ignite talks.

Location: Austin Music Hall, 208 Nueces, Austin, TX

Free for SXSW badge holders, $10 general admission. Tickets here.

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Bots High Screening – 3.15 6 PM

Bots High is teaming up with the Women in Engineering Program at University of Texas to screen the film on campus. This is a totally free screening so come check it out!

Where: Avaya Auditorium in the A.C.E.S. Building. 201 East 24th Street | Austin, Texas 78712

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Last Saturday was the World Premiere of Bots High! It was a great screening at the Paragon Theater in Coconut Grove – lots of laughs, great reaction.

Q&A after the screening with Bob Dubard, Gaby, Camilla, Alex, Will, Editor Andrew Hevia and Director Joey Daoud

Afterwards we had a Q&A (Elizabeth and Danielle were away at school). My favorite question – a little boy asked if it was fake. Nope, no mockumentary here!

The "cast" of Bots High - Win, Gaby, Director Joey Daoud, Camilla, Will, and Alex

Want to watch the film? There’s two screenings coming up in April and I’m trying to put something together in Austin next week. Follow Facebook and Twitter for the latest updates.

Bots High will be having its World Premiere next Saturday, in conjunction with the 2011 BotsIQ National Championship. With the climax of the film taking place at the 2010 competition, I felt it was only fitting to premiere at the event where a lot of the teams in the film will be.

This is a free screening, because I really want to get the word out about the film, so please pass this around to everyone you know.

Following the screening will be a Q&A with the director (me) and some of the cast. Also, this will be the first opportunity to buy a DVD of Bots High (you can only get it in person for now).

Details

Saturday, February 26, 2011
7:30 PM

Paragon Grove 13
3015 Grand Ave
Coconut Grove, FL 33133
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Theater will open at 7 PM. Make sure you get there early to ensure you get a seat, as even with a ticket it’s first come, first served and I anticipate a full house.

Parking

Parking is $2 in the CocoWalk garage, with validation. More on parking here.

Can’t Make the Premiere?

There will be many more screenings in South Florida and throughout the country. Sign up for the newsletter to find out when and where.

First time at Bots High?

Bots High is an exciting documentary following the adventures of three high school robotics teams battling for first place at the national robotics competition in Miami, Florida. It’s a no-holds-barred fight to the death with robot carnage everywhere you look.

Just got done with the Bots High exhibit at Sleepless Night. Tons of fun, thanks to everyone who came out. The video was a pretty stylish video of Fluffy destroying a robot shell. Kind of epic (coming online soon). And as you can see Fluffy was on display.

Awesome news – the gallery is going to be around until Art Basil, so I’ll be working on getting more videos in the space (I’m thinking something interactive, if I can pull it off).

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