'Robot Brewery Tour' Film Premieres At OCFF

'Robot Brewery Tour,' a short film starring Dogfish Head's Sam Calagione and actor/musician Will Oldham premiered at the 2010 Off-Centered Film Fest at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas on Saturday, April 17th.

This film stars the musician and actor Will Oldham as a reporter and brewery founder Sam Calagione as a robot. It's a brewery tour film wrapped around a dystopian vision of a near future in which robots have taken over Dogfish Head and reduced our diverse and colorful American craft brewing landscape to a monochromatic world of a single commoditized generic beer. Scary stuff!

This story almost came to life here in the U.S. during the 1970s until small, independent craft breweries, like Dogfish Head and so many others, revitalized the domestic beer scene.

Will Oldham is a Kentucky-based singer, musician and actor who has performed under a few variations of the Palace name, including Palace Brothers, Palace Songs, Palace Music, and simply Palace. He is currently touring under the Bonnie Prince Billy moniker and has performed at Dogfish Head Brewings & Eats at least twice in the past decade - most recently in April of 2010 when 'Robot Brewery Tour' was shot on location at Dogfish's Milton, Delaware brewery. Want to read more about Will? Check out this article from The New Yorker.

If you missed the 2010 Off-Centered Film Fest, you can still view 'Robot Brewery Tour' here:

Robot Brewery Tour credits:

Mr. Robot - Sam Calagione

Jonathan Smart - Will Oldham

The Amazing & Talented Dogfish Coworkers - Themselves

Director - Ryan Collerd

Director of Photography - Gabe DeLoach

Sound - Kirsten Fuoti

Editors - Gabe DeLoach & Ryan Collerd

Animation - Scott Lunny

Special Effects - David Ariew