48 Hr. Film Project San Diego

Greetings All,

We've just moved to a new place today and the internet is kind of janky, so it'll be a short post. Some interesting news today from the 48 Hour Film Project. San Diego will be one of the cities hosting the competition in August. The 48 hr. Film Project is a competition where entrants are given a genre, character, prop and line of dialogue, then have 48 hours to write, shoot, edit, and score the movie. The best film in the city competition moves onto the global contest and a chance to be screened at Cannes. Its a fun idea and a great teaching lesson for filmmakers to think outside the box in a time crunch. We're planning to do it this year and are excited to see how imaginative we can get under such intense pressure. That's about it for tonight. Cross your fingers, take a shot of Bourbon and prepare yourself for the Mongolian battlefield that is Monday.

Making a movie with 2 bucks and a candy wrapper

Well not quite...but Marc Price, has become the darling of Cannes for making a zombie movie with $70. Yes, that's right. He made a film that not only was accepted into Cannes, but has distributors fighting over it like rabid dogs, for only $70 bucks. You can read the story here. It's great inspiration for all filmmakers out there with little or no money but a cool idea and high hopes. Meanwhile as you can see from the pic of our lavish hotel room (kidding), we are out in lovely Los Angeles on a work/holiday trip. When we're done working, we plan to explore some musuems and scour Samy's camera for some cool gear. Have a great Saturday :)

Oy

Hey everyone,

Hope you survived Monday with all your dignity and at least some of your teeth. We've had a very busy day working on projects, on top of our normal 9-5 gigs, so not much to post today. However we did find an interesting site related to the Cannes Film Festival. The blog author, Chris Jones is a filmmaker who had a short film accepted into Cannes. He does a lot to debunk the myths related to how impenetrable the Cannes social scene. He is doing a lot of blogging from the Festival, so its nice to see someone relatively "normal" enjoying Cannes. On that subject, check out some current footage from the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.