The 6th annual deadCENTER Film Festival opens Wednesday, June 7 screening local, national and international films through Sunday, June 11. Once again the festival is in the deadCENTER of downtown Oklahoma City with screenings at the Stage Center, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, the Individual Artists of Oklahoma Gallery, the Untitled ArtSpace, the Ronald J. Norick Downtown Library and the Harkins Bricktown Theater.

The festival kicks-off on Wednesday, June 7 with an Opening Night Party at Untitled [ArtSpace] at 7:30 pm – followed at 9:00 pm by a special outdoor screening at 3rd and E.K. Gaylord of Stomp! Shout! Scream! a “beach party rock-n-roll monster movie” by filmmaker Jay Edwards. Edwards is best known as editor and producer of “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” for Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. His Cartoon Network credits also include “Space Ghost Coast-to-Coast”. Stomp! Shout! Scream! is Edward’s first feature film.

On Thursday, June 8, the festival kicks into full gear with a film at 5:00 p.m. at the Harkins Theater by Enid-born, OU grad film maker Carol Wagner. Wagner’s film “Dressed to Kill, Women Who Hunt” Dressed to Kill chronicles women's experiences, motivations, and complicated emotions on five hunts across Texas in an unsettling and thought-provoking journey about ways we obtain our food and how that impacts who we are.

Later Thursday evening at 8:00 p.m. at that Oklahoma City Museum of Art, filmmaker James Scurlock will screen his film “Maxed Out” an incredibly moving documentary about credit card debt in this country. The film includes interviews with family of two University of Oklahoma students who committed suicide because of massive credit card debt.

Films continue all day Friday, June 9 including a free Kids Film Fest at Ronald J. Norick Downtown Library. Later that day at the Harkins Theater, catch Oklahoma director Fritz Kiersch’s movie “Surveillance”, filmed entirely in the state of Oklahoma, it tells the story of an obsessive department store security guard whose spotless record at crime prevention marks the horrifying reality of blackmail, deception and murder.

On Saturday, June 10 grab a spot on the amphitheatre and enjoy the stars beneath the stars. “Awesome, I F@$!*n’ Shot That!” features a live performance shot by audience members at a 2004 Beastie Boys concert at Madison Square Garden. The awards ceremony and free screening starts at 9:00 p.m. at Kerr Park on the corner of Robert S. Kerr and Broadway.

The festival wraps with a “Best of the Fest” showing of the week’s winning films at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art at 2:00 p.m.

All-access passes are $50 and include entry into all festival screenings, parties, and panels, and a goodie bag. Friday and Saturday day passes are also available for $25. Tickets for most individual screenings are $7 and are available at each venue. For more information, please visit the website at www.deadcenterfilm.org.