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It's a Friday night on Main Street in the small town north of Aberdeen, South Dakota is supposedly a jump event tent annual film festival in South Dakota in the theater instead of Capitol history.
And yet the road is almost empty. The crickets disturbed only occasionally by the passage of vehicles or pedestrians. Cannes or Sundance, it's not the case.
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Some consider an unfortunate side effect of being, and in the middle of nowhere in South Dakota, in a city gripped by corn fields and the next "big city" - Fargo, Bismarck, Sioux Falls and Pierre - each about three hours away.
Tom Black, but not see.
"We're not in the middle of nowhere. We are in the middle of everywhere," said Black, co-producer Film Festival South Dakota this weekend in her sixth year.
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Looking at a map, it is almost normal. As a viewer does not interfere that cattle outweigh residents, Aberdeen is close enough to be smack dab in the middle of the country.
And it is this focus that the festival has grown from a small town in one of the most popular filmmakers, always hundreds of people in the theater attracts quaint but spacious, each of the four days of the event.
It has become so large, in fact, that organizers said they need to in other parts of the city in the next year or two to spread.
"It's beautiful here. This is a great theater," said Mike Scholtz, 42, of Minnesota, whose latest documentary, "Run Wild Bill" has won awards from both South Dakota and Seattle festivals. "Crime capers Arctic" has in the movie Festival-known mountain in Canada Banff, Alberta has been accepted.
"Many parties are in the conference rooms of the hotel, or just areas that not so pleasant to watch the movie. This is a very nice place for them," says Scholtz.
In fact, the Capitol Theatre is the stuff theatrical past. Inside the lobby is decorated with a chandelier and restored 1920 organ. The theater itself is furnished with turn-of-the-century ornaments and balcony seats. The screen pulls down on a real stage, which is used for the stage of the Aberdeen Community Theatre.
It is a room Penny Stolsmark Pierpont, SD, has known since childhood - but Friday was the first time that she and her husband went to the film festival.
"We had to come. We have never been to it, but we always wanted," said Stolsmark. "We're big fans of cinema. I think that we really enjoyed today, we could VIP is next year."
What Stolsmark Festival this year was not a new movie, but a celebration of its 20th Birthday: "thunder" with Val Kilmer and Indian actor Graham Greene. Greene is probably best known for his role turned in another South Dakota known the movie "Dances with Wolves," for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for best supporting actor.
The screening, followed by a period of questions and answers with Greene, should be one of the highlights of the festival.
Saturday is to have an overview of the upcoming movies in South Dakota, as a six-minute film silent "1107 Bus," a horror film titled "Werewolf in a Sorority Girls" and that Black described as large in get this year: "Butter," a movie with Jennifer Garner, not be widely available until 5 October.
And this is only an example. Over 100 filmmakers entered their work, about half of those who were accepted, according to organizers. Many movies have cast or crew of the great High Plains.
"We are about 1,000 tickets on the weekend break," said Black.
Scholtz, who made his first film in 1997, said Aberdeen - to continue to deceive, because it is a "filmmaker" festival - population 27,000. "
"Everyone in the film industry in the Midwest, the party," he said. "Average people do not have one, but they have a very good reputation among the filmmakers."
Black said that although the festival. Difficult to artists of the Great Plains, it also attracts filmmakers from Florida, Washington State, Washington DC, and the rest of the country People do not only show love for their work in South Dakota, he said, they want to do well here.
Not only the government offer a picturesque landscape, the "Wolves" star Kevin Costner has a fan for life, but it is not expensive for Film Workers, Schwarz said. South Dakota has no income tax, labor, or heavy tax on the sale of certain other states, he said.
"You may think, Chicago is not in the middle of nowhere, but it takes much longer to get to Chicago for most people," said Black. "We are the perfect place."