The Okotoks Film Festival is getting ready for their debut next summer, and they are starting with the Monthly Flicks.

The Monthly Flicks are classic movies the festival will be playing at the Okotoks Cinemas, and the funds raised will go towards the running of the Festival and programs it puts on.

Festival Director Katie Fournell says last month they played the Princess Bride and people came out and had some neat ideas with costumes, including one girl showing up wearing a 'hello my name is..." sticker. The sticker is a play on the character Inigo Montoya's line.

Fournell says she hopes this month's film will be just as successful with the showing of Galaxy Quest, adding the movie was picked in honor of Star Trek's 50th anniversary.

"Jokingly, Galaxy Quest has been called the greatest Star Trek movie ever made."

Fournell says the theme for this movie night is Get Your Geek On. The dress code is for people to show up in their favorite paraphernalia from any fandom, saying it could be anything from Star Trek to Harry Potter, Star Wars, superheroes or even Disney.

The hope is to bring people out and get them excited about the upcoming festival and the different things it will bring to the community.

Fournell says the movies being shown are classic ones that people either haven't seen in a long time or never got the chance to see, but they are ones most people thoroughly enjoy.

"They show what the film industry is capable of doing, how they have changed and affected the world, so they will excite people about the concept of film and what it can create."

With the monthly movies going well so far, and over 200 submissions coming in since the festival was opened at the beginning of September, Fournell and the rest of the Okotoks Film Festival staff are looking forward to the road ahead.

"I am looking forward to bringing international film to Okotoks. I know we will have some great films, and I am excited to bring them here, curate them and show people what I find interesting about films," Fournell says.

Galaxy Quest plays at Okotoks Cinemas on Wednesday at 9:00 pm.

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