Video Programming
DoubleTree by Hilton, Film Rooms 1 and 2 on the Upper Floor
Friday – Sunday: 10:00 am – 10:00 pm
Monday: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
It’s time for FanimeCon’s legendary video programming to return! Come and join us at the DoubleTree by Hilton and overindulge yourself in your favorite anime. With two rooms jam packed with a variety of shows and special FanimeCon Programming, we can’t wait to see you there!
No video recording is allowed during screenings.
AMVs
FanimeCon has long been a fan of AMVs and the people who make them. We here at Video Programming like to give AMVs the time they deserve in the spotlight by showcasing AMVs in many events during the con. So come and cheer for AMVs and their creators!
2024 AnimeMusicVideo.org Viewer’s Choice Award Winners
Since 2002, AnimeMusicVideos.org has held viewer’s choice awards each year. FanimeCon presents some of the best of each year to show our respect to the site and producers who have spent countless hours to entertain us all.
Video Room Events
FanimeCon Short Film Showcase
After 15 amazing years of programming, FanimeCon’s hit Short Film Showcase is hyping up for another exciting exhibition! Come and be a part of FanimeCon’s version of Spike and Mike festivals, showing some of the finest in animation, music videos, and commercials.
The Best of the Angry Video Game Nerd
Enjoy viewing YouTube video gameplay and game reviews? Well, we have something special for you! How do endless videos from The Angry Video Game Nerd sound? We’re excited to present The Angry Video Game Nerd as he explains the games that have haunted him from his childhood in characteristic reviews filled to the brim with surrealistic comedy. Watch him review and play through many games that are some of the most frustrating, buggy, and hated games in history. Be sure to stop by and partake in this celebration of humor and all things retro-gaming!
Remembering the Past with the Nostalgia Critic
Along with 5 Second Movies, The Nostalgia Critic is the most popular video series created by Walker, in which he plays the titular Nostalgia Critic, a grumpy and easily aggravated character who mostly reviews entertainment from the 1980s and 1990s. His catch-phrase, “I’m the Nostalgia Critic. I remember it, so you don’t have to,” usually opens and ends each video. Not all reviews are negative, such as the reviews of Double Dare and Gargoyles. He also does “Top 11 Countdowns” and “Old vs. New” comparisons between two movies that share source material.
The Best of Zero Punctuation/Fully Ramblomatic
Zero Punctuation is The Escapist’s groundbreaking video review series starring Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw. Every Wednesday, Zero Punctuation picks apart the games so you don’t have to! Called “hilariously cutting…the first legitimate breakout hit from the gaming community in recent memory” (by Boing Boing), join us for this presentation and see why gamers love Zero Punctuation and developers fear it!
Good Bad Flicks – athon
Come join us for Good Bad Flicks with athon.
It Came From the NET……
Come join us as we showcase some of the best, craziest, well made fan movies – movies so well made it blows your mind and makes you wonder why Hollywood hasn’t made something like this yet. Will we see unauthorized something-Rangers? Maybe The Apprentice, or will Kung Fury tell us he’s a cop? Come in and witness what came from beyond the net.
Abridged Series Screenings
Following the satire and comedy tradition of Mystery Science Theater 3000, these anime abridged shows hold nothing sacred as they poke at plot holes and have a good laugh. First proposed by our attendees, FanimeCon introduced this room a few years ago and we have never looked back! We welcome you to join us in watching these fan-made parodies, which are often the most ridiculous things you could ever imagine from your favorite shows! So pull up a chair and prepare to bust a gut!
AMV Hell Block Party
Anime Hell is a free-form video presentation featuring short film clips, commercials, failed pilots, amateur films, found video, instructional and educational films, music videos, and film trailers from Japan and elsewhere. Unfunny cable TV clip shows cannot compare to the live group fun of Anime Hell!
Late Night
The excitement of FanimeCon keeping you up at night? Do you want something better to watch than those late night infomercials? Worry not! We have you covered with an array of video programming that will feature a variety of films, including campy cult classics and eclectic oddities.
Midnight Madness
Some otaku hear voices…
Voices that say something completely different…
Sometimes, they do what the voices say…
Welcome to the twisted bizarro-world of fan-made parodies: an altered state in which pimps orchestrate Armageddon by pop music, dwarves sell life insurance to witches, and ninjas do “the Macarena.” Can you stand the shocking goof that is Midnight Madness? Or will you keel over in cachinnation? It’s a marathon of merciless mockery, and only the most tenacious masochists will persevere until dawn.
Hentai Block
Rules and Admittance
Must be 18 and over with valid government I.D.
Attendees are not allowed to film or take pictures. You may use your cell phones to text or check the time, but we ask that you keep your cell phones below the waist and pointed away from the screens. If you are caught filming or taking photos, you will be kicked out of the room, your badge information and personal information will be taken down, and you will be barred from re-entering any Hentai or Yaoi Night rooms for the remainder of the evening.
Hentai Nights (18+)
Hot, sweaty bodies, heavy breathing, and pounding heartbeats — and that’s just the audience! Oh my! Three scintillating nights of sexy shoujo in sizzling sapphic, sadomasochistic, surreal, and simply silly smut from the midnight moon to the rising sun. Imported from the land of the most exotic and imaginative erotica in the world.
Hentai Music Video Contest (18+)
Do you like hentai? Do you like music videos? If so, it’s that time again! Come to the Hentai Music Videos Competition and Exhibition! Watch as videos battle for prizes as you, the audience, decide who wins! After the entries for this year are shown and winners are decided, stick around for more Hentai Music Videos! Laughs will be had, hentai will be shown, and you’ll never listen to the Inspector Gadget theme the same way again!
FanimeCon Presents Hot Yaoi Nights (18+)
It’s raining bishonen! Three naughty nights of adult anime and live events dedicated to men who love men, and the fans who love to watch them love each other! Usually written by and for straight women (and often appreciated by gay men,) YAOI is known for emotionally complex storytelling akin to romance novels, with a delicious whipped-cream dollop of male bonding on top. You know you’re curious…
YAOI [n. ya-oh-ee] acronym for: “YAma nashi, Ochi nashi, Imi nashi” and “Yamete! Atashi no Oshiri Itai!” A self-deprecating genre label for homo-erotic manga and anime.