It's looking like Lionbelly is going to officially compete in this year's Detroit 48 Hour Film Project, which tales place the weekend of July 24th - 26th. If you've never heard of the 48 Hour Film Project, it's a contest/film fest that's grown almost exponentially over the past few years and now encompasses over 70 cities around the world. Basically, teams of filmmakers are assigned a random genre, character, prop and line of dialog and they then have 48 hours to completely script, shoot, edit and score an entire short film. Looks to be a very exhausting and very fun endeavor-- though it will be interesting to see if our inner Danny Glovers exclaim that we are too old for this shiznit or not, once we get to hour 43 and still have music to add, etc.
To give you an idea of what can happen during one of these things, quality-wise, we present to you two shorts that were made for the Minneapolis 48 Hour Film Project by a really talented bunch of folks at a place called Token Media. Pretty amazing what these cats pulled off...
Here is their 2008 Best Film Award winner, Birthmarked for Death, directed by Matt Olson:
And here's their 2009 entry, Chuck Murray Knows, also directed by Matt Olson:
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ReplyDeleteI done found yer blogginz. My favorite part of Birthmarked for Death is that he makes the gun sounds with his mouth.
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