72 Hour Film Festival - The Results
The Grand Cinema’s 72 Hour Film Festival packed the Rialto tonight for the showing of 32 films – all under 5 minutes, with a Tacoma landmark, a hat, something being thrown, tossed, or dropped, and including the line of dialogue, “What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.”
We had a few surprises during the screening. The first film to hit the screen was South 5, a film produced by my neighbor and UPS classmate Brian Johnson. The first actor to appear on screen was Chris Martin, my freshman orientation leader – who I haven’t seen since… college. Their film went on to take the Audience Award.
A bigger surprise was seeing my alley, trees, and garage become the final location for A General Sense of Wellbeing. In the scene, my garage acts as the scene for a stabbing. The actor falls to the ground as blood forms on his chest – against our garage door! I wondered who moved my trash can. Now I know!
There were so many films we liked that it’s hard to do justice in just a few inches of blog space. We saw a crazy eyeball, the devil, several variations on the zombie theme, knitters, and a great French film.
So what were the results?
Best Use of Dialogue (...a failure to communicate): The Knitters
Best Use of a Prop (the hat): The Tower
Best Use of Action (the drop): Tintinnabulation
Best Use of Location (landmark): Tintinnabulation
Best Film: Letchworth Road
The Audience Award: South 5
Exit133 and the Horatio Theater partnered to produce the Tintinnabulation with Erik Hanberg as writer and director. Here’s the film – a romantic comedy written, produced, and edited in 72 hours:
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And now we bring you South 5 – winner of the Audience Choice Award and directed by Exit133 reader, Brian Johnson:
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Sent to us by teenage director, Ben Llewellyn, is his impressive contribution to the 72 Hour Film Festival, Five Dollar Watch. The movie is filmed entirely at Blackwater Cafe. We like it.
Congratulations to all the teams. It was a great evening.
8 comments
S Squid July 30, 2008
Tacoma’s dining scene is WAY too small for anyone to remain anonymous for long. In a bigger market anonymity is a realistic expectation, but in Tacoma, not so much.
Given what he had to work with, Ed Murrieta did a fine job in his position and was a significant upgrade in terms of not just ethics but overall food industry knowledge and writing ability over his disgraced predecessor.
C CA July 30, 2008
Sad to see Ed leaving the TNT, I enjoyed his writing very much. However, it sounds like he’ll feature prominently in the Tacoma blogosphere, so hooray for that!
E Ed Murrieta July 30, 2008
I will no longer work anonymously. Ruth Reichl can eat my shorts.
S Squid July 30, 2008
Step out of the shadows and into the light, Ed. You can stash the mullet wig now.
P pegsterdtown July 30, 2008
Sooo sad to see you go Ed. I have enjoyed our conversations over the past year. Good luck in your new venture.
M Mofo from the Hood July 30, 2008
WILL WORK FOR FOOD
K Knuckles July 31, 2008
“I will no longer work anonymously. Ruth Reichl can eat my shorts.”
Quote of the year, my friend. I love it.
J J. Cote July 31, 2008
The News Tribune has lost a class act in Ed. He made is predecessor look like the hack that he was.
I enjoyed Ed’s honesty most of all. If a restaurant was crap, he said so. but with a style and grace that made it look at least kind and gracious.
Thanks, Ed. All the best.