Fake Wood Wallpaper!

About a year ago, a bunch of us saw an amazing indie movie called BLOOD CAR, which was a completely hilarious, surreal horror movie/satire about "the future"-- where gas is $35.00 a gallon and nobody drives anymore. In it, a vegetarian guy who is trying to invent a new kind of engine that runs on wheatgrass accidentally invents one that runs on blood, instead. You'd think it would be pretty easy to guess where the whole thing goes, but in this case there are a busload of truly creative and hilarious twists. Quite a movie...

Turns out that Blood Car is the first feature-length film from a group of filmmakers out of the Atlanta area, called Fake Wood Wallpaper. FWW is made up, much as the fingers of a mighty hand, of five robust warriors of independent filmmaking: Tony Holley, Hugh Braselton, Mike Brune, Alex Orr, Adam Pinney. Like us, they are a band of friends who met in college and coagulated around a desire to make cool stuff.

Aside from Blood Car, they have tons of great shorts under their belts, which can be viewed at their website. A couple of my favorites are:

THE LAST LAST AND THE TRIBULATIONS OF JOHNNYBUSH and THE BIG CHECK, which were both made as part of the Atlanta 48hr Film Project.

Mike Brune, who stars in Blood Car, has an amazing short called THE ADVENTURE, which has been winning lots of film fests around this crazy world we call oith.

He and the director of Blood Car, Mr. Alex Orr, have very kindly agreed to be our first guest filmmakers and will be featured in our first "5 TIPS" segment. Yahoo! These guys have the chutzpah and creative wampum we admire, with the spirit of working hard and persevering without being cynics, which we aspire to.

Check 'em out. I guarantee you will laugh at least part of your ass off. It might be an "energetic" part, thus not noticeable to the naked eye-- but if I was there, I would definitely notice some missing energy-buttocks and would know that my work here is done...

Next up: Mike Brune's 5 TIPS!!!!

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