"Tigers" gets a second chance.
So in celebration of the upcoming Grindhouse (2007), Robert Rodriguez and the SXSW Film Festival is having a contest. Just as Eli Roth and Rob Zombie have created fake drive-in exploitation trailers that divide Quentin Tarantino's and Robert Rodriguez's features that comprise Grindhouse, this contest allows the participants to create their own grindhouse trailer for competition. Fortunately this time a jury and Rodriguez himself decides who the winner is, not some random, boggy internet-voting machine!
When I first read this news Monday night I flipped out at the prospect of creating a new short in homage to the rich legacy of grindhouse films. You see, I learned of this contest after having just come off wathcing 42st St. Forever (2006), which I dissected in my last post here. However, after awhile I realized I have already created something in the past four months that would apply very well: the Tigers on a Train trailer I concocted with techix and anarkistsdream, and shot and edited with techix for the Blank on a Blank contest.
It's free to enter, and entries have to be under two minutes. However, that's the problem: Tigers runs 2 min. 41 sec., which means it'll need forty seconds cut out, or else I'll need to create somthing from scratch. Either way I've got til Feb. 24th, so the possibiities are endless. I may consider doing something fresh for the fun of it. The GREAT thing is that the 2nd annual 24 Hr. Video Race at Living Arts/The Philbrook Museum is occuring Feb. 17th, so that means that conceivably the end product of that could be instantly submitted to the SXSW film festival for consideration in the Grindhouse contest! What's more is that my Bald Knobber historical documentary may be a selection of SXSW already, so having two selections screen during the same festival (one serious, the product of over 3,000 hrs. of work; and one fun, the product of 24 hrs.), would be FANTASTIC! As an aside I just mailed off my entry of the Bald Knobber documentary to Worldfest about an hour ago! Yea!
When I first read this news Monday night I flipped out at the prospect of creating a new short in homage to the rich legacy of grindhouse films. You see, I learned of this contest after having just come off wathcing 42st St. Forever (2006), which I dissected in my last post here. However, after awhile I realized I have already created something in the past four months that would apply very well: the Tigers on a Train trailer I concocted with techix and anarkistsdream, and shot and edited with techix for the Blank on a Blank contest.
It's free to enter, and entries have to be under two minutes. However, that's the problem: Tigers runs 2 min. 41 sec., which means it'll need forty seconds cut out, or else I'll need to create somthing from scratch. Either way I've got til Feb. 24th, so the possibiities are endless. I may consider doing something fresh for the fun of it. The GREAT thing is that the 2nd annual 24 Hr. Video Race at Living Arts/The Philbrook Museum is occuring Feb. 17th, so that means that conceivably the end product of that could be instantly submitted to the SXSW film festival for consideration in the Grindhouse contest! What's more is that my Bald Knobber historical documentary may be a selection of SXSW already, so having two selections screen during the same festival (one serious, the product of over 3,000 hrs. of work; and one fun, the product of 24 hrs.), would be FANTASTIC! As an aside I just mailed off my entry of the Bald Knobber documentary to Worldfest about an hour ago! Yea!