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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.
Link | Posted on 10. May 2007, 23:19
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“South 5”—the Audience Award winner—had a great concept about a Seattle-ite visiting Tacoma that was a lot of fun.
Look for it and the other films on Click! if you missed them Thursday.
1 | Posted by Erik Hanberg | May 10, 11:33 PM
That was such a cute video – VERY well done, and clever to boot!
2 | Posted by Krysta | May 11, 08:37 AM
Clever is Erik’s middle name. Now everyone knows…ooops!
3 | Posted by laura s. | May 11, 08:43 AM
Gaaawwwwsh, that’s cute…...
4 | Posted by James M | May 11, 09:57 AM
sniff sniff
Nice.
5 | Posted by NEAL | May 11, 10:51 AM
Does anyone know if other entries are posted anywhere?
6 | Posted by Krysta | May 11, 12:07 PM
How wonderful! This and the rest should be used in a Tacoma promotional TV event. Great job everyone.
7 | Posted by Davest | May 11, 05:09 PM
Exit133 and the Horatio Theater partnered to produce the Tintinnabulation with Erik Hanberg as writer and director.
Nice work. Sharp beginning and ending within a Tacoma historical setting.
This film piece makes me think that Tacoma has a potential for video blogging.
(Note: buried in the film is the directors’ view of the state of Tacoma)
8 | Posted by Erik B. | May 11, 08:36 PM
I used to have an internet game toon named Tintt Tintabulation. So the group’s name alone makes me go “ooh ahhh.”
9 | Posted by kc | May 11, 10:40 PM
Does anyone know if other entries are posted anywhere?
I hear that you can find all of the films in the on-demand portion of your Click menu for free. I don’t have Click so I can’t provide better directions.
10 | Posted by DavidS | May 16, 08:48 AM
THANKS for putting up the 3 films to Exit133, and for noting that Click! is offering the full list on-demand. (Yet another reason I’m glad to have Click! at home.) GREAT shorts – next year I will definitely attend the actual screening event!
11 | Posted by Anne | May 16, 05:37 PM
I was out of town so I missed seeing the festival. These three are hilarious and charming. Thanks for posting them.
12 | Posted by Sharon S | May 19, 09:23 AM
Good article in the Seattle Times today by Danny Westneat
One [block], in downtown Seattle, is so dangerous and rotten with drug dealers that cops apparently won’t go there in their off hours. “Is this block … at 10 p.m. at night someplace you would take your wife for a casual walk?” a Seattle police detective was asked this spring.
The article later discusses some of the street activity:
Out on that corner, a homeless guy, Manuel, offers me a foot-long switchblade — “$85 retail, but here only $15.” I ask him to show me around instead. He takes me to the county needle exchange to show the condos going up next door. Average price: $1.8 million.
...
“We’ve got some crack guys now. And our crazies, like that one who was down here swinging a samurai sword. But it used to be crazier. We used to cater to pimps.”
Drug Dealers? Switchblades? crack guys?
Crazies swinging samurai swords? Pimps?
Sounds like Seattle is still pretty dangerous to me.
And the article goes on to state that new condos are being built in the area.
That’s disapppointing that Seattle is trying to gentrify and betray its authentic crack dealing past of guys with switchblades swinging samurai swords. How dare they.
13 | Posted by Erik B. | May 20, 01:25 PM
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