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The Awesome Fest Announces 2014 Summer Festival And First-Time Partnership With Wizard World Comic Con

The Awesome Fest returns with an exciting 2014 summer festival from June 19th through August 16th with sponsor Visit Philadelphia. Back bigger than ever, The Awesome Fest is bringing independent cinema, retro screenings, yet-to-be-released Hollywood Blockbusters, music, stand-up comedy and more to Philadelphia! Hitting the streets with an impressive variety of Philadelphia Premieres, free outdoor screenings, concerts, and talent appearances all through August, The Awesome Fest yet again brings premium fanfare and general all around “awesomeness” to the City of Brotherly Love.

The Awesome Fest is proud to announce an exciting first-time partnership with Wizard World Comic Con to kick off their 2014 festival. The Awesome Fest will showcase their unique brand of programming at Philly’s flagship comic book and pop culture convention from Thursday, June 19th through Sunday, June 22nd. With eyes ahead, The Awesome Fest will then travel with Wizard World to showcase their unique and innovative brand of programming at Wizard World Chicago Comic Con from August 19th-22nd.

The opening night celebration kicks off Thursday, June 19th with a Doug Benson Movie Interruption. For the first time ever in Philadelphia, comedian Doug Benson brings his now infamous live movie interruption to the Trocadero for a 30th Anniversary screening of Revenge of the Nerds. Curtis Armstrong (Booger) and other cast members will join Doug from the front row, performing a live comedy show as they riff on one of the great nerd classics of all time.

By Brett

Brett is a political consultant who resides in Arlington, VA. He grew up in Cleveland, OH and Buffalo, NY and attended the University at Buffalo, majoring in Political Science.
Since then Brett has made his mark on politics working in various positions such as a Legislative Staffer for the Erie County Legislature, Special Assistant for Senator John Kerry, as the Database Administrator for Forward Together PAC, Database Director for Chris Dodd for President, and Internet/Database Director for Virginians for Brian Moran, and Email Deliverability Czar for Salsa Labs and NGP VAN.
In 2007 Brett formed 5B Consulting providing his expertise on database solutions, new media and email strategy.
He's a long time geek, reading comics since he was a child and learning to spell his name on an Atari 800. When he's not working, he's reading comics, playing video games and relaxing with a nice cup of tea.
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