Press Room
What is a Cucalorus?
cuc•a•lor•us n., [orig. Gk. kukaloris, the dance of the shadows.]1. a film set apparatus placed in front of a light source to create a dappled lighting effect on a subject or background. also cookie, UK. gobo. 2. a film festival in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Press Contacts
Dan Brawley, dan@cucalorus.org
Hannah Black, press@cucalorus.org
Cucalorus Downloads
Download the 25th anniversary Cucalorus logo here.
Download the Cucalorus Festival logo here.
Stills (300dpi) Downloads – Cucalorus 25
Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway
Connect Downloads
Nick Adkins: The Power of Connection
The Art of Requirements Workshop
Jake Kheel: Building Resilient Coastal Companies
Marie Johnson: Digital Humans and Healthcare
More Than Words: How Visuals Can Help Us Heal Healthcare
You’re in The Matrix, You Just Don’t Know It
Stage Downloads
Animal Law with Mime Explains String Theory
Press Releases:
Time travel, dead comics, digital doctors collide at Cucalorus 25: a festival for everyone
Reach dan@cucalorus.org for full press kits, more photos, and recipes for peanut butter nachos!!
In the News
- WRAL TechWire- Something for everyone at Cucalorus: Best bets in tech, stage, and film
- WRAL TechWire- Cucalorus Connect Conference Nov. 14-15 explores intersection of creativity and technology
- Star News: The dances of Dance-a-lorus
- WilmingtonBiz Magazine- Cucalous Widens Its Lens
- WRAL Techwire – Cucalorus explores human – tech interaction on stage and screen
- The Robesonian – Lumbee Film Festival to be held May 16-17
- MovieMaker – 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee
- Greater Wilmington Business Journal: Info Junkie – Dan Brawley
- Greater Wilmington Business Journal: Cucalorus Signs 2 Additional Major Sponsors For 2019
- Outer Banks Voice – Surfalorus Festival in pursuit of new films for fall show
- Greater Wilmington Business Journal: Cucalorus Partners With Creative Capital To Bring Artists’ Workshop To Wilmington
- Star News: Cucalorus Fest gets dirty with bawdy Tainted Cabaret
- Encore: HASHTAG SEXUAL REFERENCE: Shirley Gnome dishes on burlesque, the creative process and her totally perv muse in ‘Tainted Cabaret’
- Star News: Cucalorus Festival gets a major NEA grant
- Star News: EDITORIAL: Cucalorus Festival illuminates shadows of history
- Greater Wilmington Business Journal: SAS Brand Director Aims To Connect Tech, Emotion Through Film
- Star News: Cucalorus Festival’s focus on performance comes into its own
- The Seahawk: Cucalorus 24 kicks off with Dance-a-lorus
- WECT First at Four: The 24th annual Cucalorus Festival takes place November 7-11, with guest Dan Brawley
- WWAY: Cucalorus Festival Ready to Kick Off
- Star News: 7 Movies to See at Cucalorus 24
- Indy Week: A Hurricane Can’t Stop Wilmington’s Cucalorus Festival, and Triangle Filmmakers and Musicians Are Heading East
- Star News: 24 things to know about the 24th Cucalorus Festival
- NCTech: November Executive Spotlight: Dan Brawley, Chief Instigating Officer
- Seahawk News: Cucalorus 24 preview // Highlighting UNCW students and staff talents
- Picture Lock Podcast: Interview with Dan Brawley & Lez Bomb’s Jenna Laurenzo
- WilmingtonBiz Insights: Cucalorus Connect Helps Highlight Area’s Economic & Cultural Identity
- Wilmington & Beaches: Cucalorus Takes Center Stage with Five days of Film, Technology, and Theatre
- WRAL Tech on Tap Conversations: Cucalorus marries the history of film in Wilmington and emerging tech scene
- Encore: Paving the Way: Cucalorus continues to evolve, welcomes live music and Superchunk to the stage
- Star News: Cucalorus Festival announces opening night band, film screenings
- MovieMaker Magazine: 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee, 2018
- Greater Wilmington Business Journal: Reframing Film Industry
- Greater Wilmington Business Journal: Achievers & Accolades—Kim Klein
- Clture: Cucalorus is worth the road trip to Wilmington
- WECT: Dan Brawley is taking Cucalorus in another new direction
- Star News: Innovation economy takes stage, editorial by Tom Looney
More News
- Star News: 8 Things to See & Do at UNCW’s Lumina Fest
- Convention and Visitor’s Bureau guest blog by Dan Brawley
- Greater Wilmington Business Journal: Tru Colors Brewing
- WHQR Communique: Inshiradu Receives Support From Cucalorus For 1898 Narrative: “What The River Knows”
- Star News: Tru Colors Brewing Up Solution to Gang Violence
- Matt Magne’s overview of Connect 2017
- MovieMaker Magazine: 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee, 2017
- Filmmaker Magazine: Dispatches from Cucalorus 2016
- Cultured Vulture: 10 Best Film Festivals Worth Your Time In 2017
- Star News: Cucalorus leader Dan Brawley to head Film Festival Alliance
- Blog: La Medea: un show interactivo de cine, música, danza y teatro brillará este sábado en Jengo’s Playhouse
- Wrightsville Beach Magazine: Independent Ascendant?
- MovieMaker: A Little Bit of Catharsis: Cucalorus 22 is the change we want to see in the world
- ExitEvent: Don’t Miss These Southeast Startup, Innovation and Tech Conferences in 2017
- StarNews: Cucalorus Film Festival receives grant
- Star News: Cucalorus Film Festival attendance figures released
- Exit Event: 5 Takeaways from Cucalorus Connect 2016 in Wilmington
- City of Wilmington: Joe Dunton Q&A Livestream
- Star News: Cucalorus Film Festival wraps 22nd year with packed screenings, festive atmosphere
Browse the Cucalorus 24 Program Guide
Keeping It Reel (with the Smooth Talking, Groove Often Emcee Omari Fox)
By Omari Fox “Hey, you’re the guy. You do those poems to open the films.” – Cucalorian “Well, I’m trying to get on your level at the coolest film festival in the universe.” – Omari Fox The big homie in my community is the guy with...
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HEYYYY CUCALORUS* (sung to the tune of “Macarena”)
by Bay Dariz I attended my first Cucalorus in 2015, the year the fest turned old enough to drink… 21! To celebrate, they threw a “21-Minute Party” where everyone received a shot of whiskey in the elevator to the bash, along with pickle juice...
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Connect explores the future of health, finance and justice
Cucalorus welcomes visionary leaders from around the world to downtown Wilmington for this year’s Connect Conference, A Future for Everyone, November 14-15 at the Brooklyn Arts Center. Nick Adkins, co-founder of Pinksocks Life, a former healthcare executive turned...
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