Congrats to Catey! (Best Actress Award of the whole 48 Competition!)

The 48 Hour Competition Award Ceremony was this past weekend. The competition was fierce - the quality of many of the films has really excellent - with lots of great ideas and clever stories.

(A wild aside - there were two teams at the ceremony on Friday who, while they were at the Tampa event, also had people in Orlando picking-up their genres for that competition at the same time!)

"Foos Don't Lie" was recognized in quite a few categories;

We were recognized in the categories of;

Best Use of Required Prop

Best Use of Required Character

Best Use of Special Effects (my face on the Foos Man!)

Best Editing

and

Catey Brannan was selected as winner of the award for "Best Actress" overall for her performance and incredible contributions as Kylie Cooper.

Even better perhaps were the people who came up to me after the showing to share how much they liked "Foos Don't Lie". While we may not have taken the top title this year, the film clearly touched some of our audience quite deeply.

Best of all - as before - the team was great to work with! The fun and excitement of the day and the satisfaction of knowing that we all worked together, and all applied our creativity together to create such an interesting and engaging short film.

Here is the link to the "Foos Don't Lie" - http://vimeo.com/groups/8324/videos/5910298

NOTE: I have had a few people tell me that their computers can't handle the HD video - try clicking the "HD Off" button on the right of the play-back screen. That may make the difference.

Thanks to all the great members of Team JumpCut!

It is the team that makes this all a pleasure every time.

Can't wait for the next project,.. and just in case you weren't at the Sarasota screening - I did commit that before the end of next year 2010 - Team JumpCut will have be tackling a project outside of the 48 hour environment. So while I do not know what that means yet,.. keep watching for the "Bat-Signal"! :)

JUMPCUT: "Charlie's Nuts" : Online and Winning Awards!

*** TEAM JUMPCUT UPDATES ***

Topics -

*** "Charlie's Nuts"now online.

*** "Charlie's Nuts" wins awards.

*** Details on "Charlie's Nuts" and screening at Filmapalooza (Not in San Jose!)

and Director's Notes

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*** "Charlie's Nuts"now online.

Go to the Team JumpCut Blog and click through to watch "Charlie's Nuts" online. It looks great in the online-HD format.

Click here:> www.teamjumpcut.com/

Be sure to post comments on the blog and the movie site!

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*** "Charlie's Nuts" wins awards.

Word has come back to us that we won again. This time at the local competition. It's a nice winning streak for our Team. Three films made, three films that have won awards. While I am waiting to hear more from Nick Tierce, co-writer of the story, and the writer of our screenplay-he was the Team JumpCut representative to accept the award-he let me know that we were only beaten-out by the cocaine-snorting tube sock in the "Puppet Movie". (The group that went to the screening guessed that this was out stiffest competition.)

So, Charlie's Nuts was well-received and clearly liked by the judges, a very solid Second Place Finish for Best 48 Hour Film. Congratulations to all! And above all - I hope that you are all as proud of this film as I am. Just seeing the clip of Greg above makes me smile.

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*** Details on "Crime's A Cookin'" and screening at Filmapalooza (Not in San Jose!)

Here is the email recently sent to me by the 48 Hour Competition (the "Crime's A Cookin'" contest.) 

2)       Filmapalooza—It's official!  We will screen your films as part of the Miami International Film Festival!

Sunny Florida here we come.  The Festival runs from March 5-14.  We will not know our official screenings dates until mid-November.  We will also have information on discounted hotel rooms.

So it's a big surprise, but for some reason the host festival has changed from San Jose to Miami. That certainly makes it an easier road trip! I'll try to get a confirmation that it is not screening at both, and that this is the actual location of the final competition.

Very exciting - seems like we will be able to represent in force!

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Director's Notes

I hope you all never get tired of me expressing my gratitude. It takes an incredible team to produce these polished, quality films. When I watch and re-watch our movies-I have them on my iphone, so it is a guilty pleasure! - I always marvel at how so many disparate elements came together so perfectly each time. As many of our team are new to the world of filmmaking, I thought it would be of interest to share a little perspective on just what an incredible accomplishment a 48 hour film is. The average low-budget movie shoots for between 45 to 60 days to make 100 minutes of film. So about two minutes of screen time per day of shooting. Team JumpCut is producing 7 minutes of screen time on one day's shooting. And of course that is without the three - six months of prep time, and the 6 to 12 months spent on editing and finishing. Everyone give yourselves a big pat on the back!

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Come to the 2008 48 GFC Screening

*** Come to the 2008 48 GFC Screening ***

Look below to see the times and dates for the screenings of all the films in this year's 48 GFC.
Come and support "Charlie's Nuts"!
Come and see all the other team's films - it's a great accomplishment to make a movie in 48 hours, and everyone deserves admiration for taking on the challenge.

It will be great to see the film on the huge screen. (I have checked, and the movie will most likely be screened in Standard Def. not in High Definition unfortunately, but it will still be great to see projected in a theatre!)

If you are mentioned in the credits of the film, you should be able to drop in to Digital 3 to get free tickets (I think) but I am not sure how that works. They do not really expect a team to have 20 people on it! I have four extra tickets they provided to me directly, I will bring them to the screening and give them to whomever I see first! See you all on Saturday! :)



*** The private screening was a success ***

Thanks to all who made it to the cast and crew screening. It was great to see all our work the fantastic HD screen at 1350 Main (Thanks to Anand and Andrew). As soon as the film is available online in high resolution, I will let everyone know.


*** More info to follow on the progress for "Crime's A Cookin'"will follow in a later email ***

*** IMPORTANT >> DATE CHANGE FOR PRIVATE TEAM JUMPCUT SCREENING ***

OK, we have a solid screening date and time of "Charlie's Nuts" for our team! There was an unexpected scheduling conflict with the Monday screening, but Paula and Andrew have come to the rescue and secured the room for us at 1350 Main for Tuesday. I hope that everyone who was planning to come Monday will be able to adjust to the new date, and perhaps we will pick-up some of the Team that let me know they couldn't make the Monday screening. Also - thank-you to everyone that let me know the RSVP email wasn't working. Apparently my account with Apple no longer allows the creation of new .mac email addresses, only .me - so you can RSVP to teamjumpcut@me.com and it will go through.

Enough small talk - announcing the private screening;




COME TO THE PREMIER OF "CHARLIE'S NUTS" THIS TUESDAY
DATE OF SCREENING: Tuesday, Oct. 21st. (*** Date has changed! ***)
TIME OF SCREENING: 7-9PM
LOCATION OF SCREENING: 1350 MAIN STREET, Downtown Sarasota (Across from Sarasota News and Books)
RSVP: Let us know if you can make it! Email to: teamjumpcut@me.com (RSVP email is fixed! Please re-confirm.)
SCREENING: Casual, come as you are. There might be light snacks, time permitting.
POPULAR DEMAND: Of course we will screen "Crime's A Cookin'" as an encore!
SPACE FOR MORE: Family and SO's welcome

JUMPCUT: Successful Shoot!

*** Another 48 Hour FIlm; "Charlie's Nuts", comes together beautifully.
*** Team JumpCut screening this Monday.
*** Screening of all 48 Hour GFC Films Oct. 25th

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*** Another 48 Hour FIlm; "Charlie's Nuts", comes together beautifully.
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My deepest thanks to the incredible members of Team JumpCut. This latest film is again something that I am truly proud of. It's great to see the talents of our crew deliver a film this beautiful and this sweet, and for it to be in such a completely different style and genre from "Crime's a Cookin'" Well done everyone!

I hope that every one of you, all of the extended "Team JumpCut" family, will be able to attend the private screening of "Charlie's Nuts" this Monday from 7-9pm. Please watch for an email confirming the location, but unless something unexpected arrises, we will once again be screening at 1350 Main, courtesy of Anand. ***I will send a confirmation email on the location.***

Especially I want to thank our incredible art, style, and production team; Paula, Lisl, Michael, Christine, Sarah, Beverly, and Liz. As anyone can see from the included picture, the "in-front of the camera" team once again brought the vision into reality. To Paula, our Producer, thanks for everything. Producing puts you behind the scenes, but at the heart of our ability to bring the story to life.

We had great actors; (Thanks Greg, Suzanne, Chris, Nick, Daniel and Chris!) and a wonderful crew (thanks for the loan of the lenses Gene! and to "mini-gene" Zoe, and to Daniel for pulling focus in French and to Dan for holding it high). You all really worked hard to support our newly more complicated (but worth it) camera equipment.





It was a great experience to partner on the story with Nick and Chris and to develop the final screenplay with Nick. Thanks guys!

The generosity of Hotel Indigo, Jim Robison, Joann and Robin, Cat, Kurt, and Andrew Foley were all vital. A special recognition for Thing-Wrangle for loaning us the "other" star of our film, that's Andrew Tanner, the man who tamed "The Thing!" And Jim Prosser for adding his musical stylings and providing our intro theme.

Always my most important thank you goes to Lisl, for making everything I do possible, and for knowing that everything can always be better.

I hope to see all of you and everyone who gets this email at the screening this Monday the 20th.

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*** Team JumpCut screening this Monday.
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Not to repeat myself, but;

COME TO THE SCREENING OF "CHARLIE'S NUTS" THIS MONDAY
DATE OF SCREENING: Monday, Oct. 20th.
TIME OF SCREENING: 7-9PM
TENTATIVE LOCATION OF SCREENING: 1350 MAIN STREET,
RSVP: Let us know if you can make it! Email to: teamjumpcut@mac.com
SCREENING: Casual, come as you are. There might be light snacks, time permitting.
POPULAR DEMAND: Of course we will screen "Crime's A Cookin'" as an encore!

***I will send a confirmation email on the location.***

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*** Screening of all 48 Hour GFC Films Oct. 25th
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if you cannot make the private screening, there is always the main screening! This will take place at Burns Court Cinemas Lakewood Ranch according to the original competition announcements.

When I have more information about the official screening, I will send it out. The website for the competition shows that the official screening will be October 25th, Saturday. This may also be the announcement of the awards, again-not sure. For me, we have already accomplished everything we set out to do and more, so the official screening is an opportunity to show our respects to the other filmmakers, and to hopefully see our movie on the huge screen at Burns Court Lakewood Ranch.

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FINALLY: I can't wait to do it again!

More happy viewers.

-----Original Message-----
From: Marjorie North [mailto:mnorth456@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 3:04 PM

This was great! Loved every minute of the film.
Marjorie North


mlknox@comcast.net
Subject: Winner!

Wes,

Wes and team: CONGRATULATIONS on sweeping the awards for the 48 Hour Film Project and the best to luck to you in the Filmapalooza competition. I am out of town and when I read online of your success, I was thrilled for you...once again, CONGRATULATIONS!
Linda Knox

PS…I couldn’t enter the above message on your blog so that’s why you’re receiving it from the SFF Board list I have.




FANTASTIC job on "Crime's a Cookin,'" Wes! I loved it. Such nostalgic fun! And what a perfect cast of characters.

Congratulations : )

To your radiant health!
Jenna

Jenna Norwood
Producer, Director & "Guinea Pig"
"Supercharge Me!"
www.SuperchargeMe.com


Dear Wes,
Congratulations on your creative talent winning the top prizes for your film “Crime’s a Cookin”… I just read about it in the latest Sarasota Arts newsletter. Of course you pulled together a team of other talented people, but your leadership was evidently key.
Of course, the win doesn’t surprise me because I have known of your multifaceted talents for many years!

Warmly,
Jean

(Ora Jean Henry, from your Pine View days!)



Wes,

Congrats on your success.

Jesse White
Owner
Sarasota Architectural Salvage
1093 Central Ave
Sarasota, FL 34236
941-362-0803
www.SarasotaSalvage.com

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