Editing Harry Knowles (section)

===Film events===
====Butt-Numb-a-Thon====
[[File:Tim League Harry Knowles Cole Dabney Fantastic Fest.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Harry Knowles (center) along with [[Tim League]] (left) and Cole Dabney at the 2010 [[Fantastic Fest]]]]
From 1999 to 2016, on the weekend closest to his birthday (December 11), Knowles hosted an event called [[Butt-Numb-A-Thon]]. The event, also known as Geek Christmas, was a 24-hour celebration of film, featuring unofficial [[premiere]]s and vintage films, from classics reprinted for the big-screen, to the rare, weird and unheard of. Film fans and professionals alike traveled from all over the United States and the world to attend the event, which was hosted in Austin at the South Lamar [[Alamo Drafthouse]]. BNAT was called "the world's most exclusive and mysteriously secretive film celebration" and "the hardest film event to get into in the country". Following revelations of sexual assault and harassment allegations against Knowles in September 2017, the Alamo Drafthouse, which had been the venue for the festival, ended all association with Knowles.<ref>{{cite web|title=Alamo Drafthouse Severs Ties With Harry Knowles Over Sexual Assault Allegations|date=September 25, 2017|last=Rahman |first=Abid|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/alamo-drafthouse-severs-ties-harry-knowles-sexual-assault-allegations-1042965}}</ref>

====Fantastic Fest====
Knowles is a co-founder of the annual [[Fantastic Fest]], held in [[Austin, Texas|Austin]]. It was founded in 2005 by Knowles, Tim League of [[Alamo Drafthouse]], Paul Alvarado-Dykstra and [[Tim McCanlies]], writer of ''[[The Iron Giant]]'' and ''[[Secondhand Lions]]''. The festival focuses on genre films such as horror, [[science fiction film|science fiction]], [[fantasy film|fantasy]], action, [[Asian cinema|Asian]] and [[cult status|cult cinema]]. The festival takes place in September at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar.

On September 21, 2017, days before allegations of sexual assault by Knowles surfaced, it was announced that ''AICN'' had been dropped as a sponsor of the festival.<ref>{{cite web|last=Erbland |first=Kate |url=http://www.indiewire.com/2017/09/fantastic-fest-sponsorship-aint-it-cool-news-harry-knowles-controversy-1201878731/ |title=Ain't It Cool News Dropped as Fantastic Fest Sponsor |publisher=IndieWire |date=September 21, 2017 |access-date=September 27, 2017}}</ref> On September 25, 2017, the Alamo Drafthouse severed all business ties with Knowles.<ref name="hollywoodreporter1">{{cite web|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/alamo-drafthouse-severs-ties-harry-knowles-sexual-assault-allegations-1042965 |title=Alamo Drafthouse Severs Ties With Harry Knowles Over Sexual Assault Allegations |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=2017-09-25 |access-date=September 27, 2017}}</ref>