Event

Hobo Film Fest

The railroad industry in America has played an immense role in the development and progression of our modern society. Besides its most obvious role as a life line for supplies and sustenance to newly burgeoning towns and industry, it helped spawn an incredible subculture of people, the hobos and tramps of America. These hobos used the trains during the great depression in order to seek work, and a whole society of people grew around the railroads.
Agency Films has long been associated with the railways and has produced multiple short films and television programming around the subject of train hopping and
have made it their mission to preserve the history of the American train tramp. We have generated national interest due to our increasingly popular television shows,
You Tube broadcasts, and the yearly Asheville Rejects Film Festival.
Agency Films is due to kick off the Canadian leg of their Hobo Film Festival May 2009 and will embark on a international tour culminating in Los Angeles, CA. They
have brought together dozens of filmmakers who produce films around train hopping and hobo culture and are gathering even more submissions to create the ultimate visual dichotomy of this colorful and truly important facet of American history.
The tour starts in Vermont and has over 12 stops along the route, including Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Ann Arbor, Milwaukee, Duluth, Winnipeg, Calgary, Vancouver and L.A.