{"id":560,"date":"2009-05-19T13:49:37","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T19:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=560"},"modified":"2009-05-19T13:55:52","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T19:55:52","slug":"five-easy-questions-b-movie-nation-leaderfilmmaker-bill-dever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=560","title":{"rendered":"Five Easy Questions: B MOVIE NATION LEADER\/FILMMAKER BILL DEVER"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"b-movie-nation-arise\"BILL DEVER is the<\/em> B Movie Mogul of the 21st Century. His various enterprises include this very web site, the annual B Movie Celebration<\/a>, Monogram Releasing<\/a> and various other ventures promoting, perpetuating and preserving B Movie Culture. He is a Man with a Mission.<\/p>\n

Will the Thrill:<\/em> What is the inspiration, and the ultimate goal, for the B Movie Celebration<\/a>, which returns for the third time this September in Franklin and Shelbyville, Indiana?
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\nBD:<\/em> The inspiration are the films and filmmakers whose films I loved growing up, from Charles Lamont<\/a> and his Ma and Pa Kettle<\/em><\/a> films, to Jacques Tourneur<\/a> to Tom Holland<\/a> and Fright Night<\/a>.<\/em> I think the goal is a simple one, to make film fans and filmmakers aware that there exists a tradition of filmmaking which is often ignored\u00a0 by the main stream film industry. As Hollywood exists today in their mind anyways there really are only two types of films: The Big Budget Blockbuster and The Independent Film (which in their mind is the same as “art films.”)\u00a0 What we are trying to do is celebrate the tradition of B Film and its current practitioners like Lloyd Kaufman<\/a>, Jim Wynorski<\/a>, Fred Olen Ray<\/a>, David DeCoteau