Author: F C

Screener this weekend

Sorry, been busy catching up with things at work. Will have to make a make-up entry. This Saturday we’re doing an advanced screening of a number of the film festival contest entries in Chinatown -you’re invited.

Come by the FIVE POINTS Film Workshop (formerly Teabag)
for a special screening of our 72 Hour Shootout Entry, “The Encounter”, for friends on Saturday, July 14th, 2007, 6:30-8:30pm

the FIVE POINTS Film Workshop (formerly Teabag)
Silk Road Place – 30 Mott Street, Chinatown NYC
Cover: $5 (includes a free drink ticket for
beer, wine, bubble tea, etc.)

Other films will be screened as well.  Will include
Q&A with film makers, directors, producers, actors,
actresses, production crew, etc.

For more FIVE POINTS info:
http://www.nycfivepoints.com/filmworkshop.shtml

The Encounter

OK, here it is – the video that we made last weekend for the 72 Hour Film Shootout – we only had 72 hours from start to finish to do everything, from writing the script, shooting the scenes, editing the film, and geting it onto miniDV tapes to submit it for judging (the funny thing is that getting the edits onto miniDV was actually the hardest part of the whole thing). Hope you like it.

Shootout at the Waterfront

This past weekend I finally was able to check off another of those “No Opportunity Wasted” items, and joined in with a group of P’s friends to compete in the Asian American 72 Hour Film Shootout. I’ve always thought about doing it, but never got it together. This year, the critical mass finally came together.

The required theme for this year’s competition was “Elizabeth Ong is missing…”. We ended up with a 3 minute cannonball run thriller that had us dashing through the streets of Long Island City and driving through the back roads around the FDR Drive. I was technical director, which involved being the go-to guy when we ran into a problem, and making sure nobody hurt themselves.  We all gained practical experience in movie making. The best part of it was that we all made new hard and fast friends — that was the best takeaway from this experience. There’s 63 other teams out there, so let’s see how far we can go at the AAIFF film festival.