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"! :)