Actionfest, the action movie film festival in Asheville, hires festival director

Jason Sandford

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Actionfest was a smash hit here in Asheville. It looks like it will become a permanent fixture on the Asheville entertainmen/filmfestival scene. From screendaily.com:

Colin Geddes, programmer at the Toronto International Film Festival’s Midnight Madness section, will be taking the post of Festival Director at North Carolina based genre event ActionFest.

The position is effective immediately in preparation for next year’s ActionFest, April 7-10, to be held once again in Asheville, NC.

ActionFest founders Bill Banowsky and Aaron Norris said, “Colin Geddes is exactly the kind of passionate and experienced individual we need to take ActionFest to the next level.  Our long term goal is to reinvent the film festival model and to evolve this festival and the ActionFest brand into all facets of action oriented content production and distribution.