Solvent: Award winner in San Jose 2009
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ArtShots Screening and Awards Ceremony
Here’s a show you won’t want to miss. Heroic area filmmakers, prominent Silicon Valley artists and musicians! Arts community movers and shakers. They’re all coming out just to show off for you! So find May 24th on your calendar. Circle it. Line up a babysitter. Tell your boss you’re going to leave the office early. […]
Louise Gets an Accent
If you haven’t yet been introduced to The Louise Logs, we recommend checking out a couple of the earlier chapters in her saga. We’ve presented at least one episode here before, and we can recommend watching the series from this episode forward. This recently released chapter presents the developments we had to suspect were on […]
Shovel Ready
All sorts of things can happen that keep us from being home for dinner on time. We just wonder if this 2010 entry in the Washington DC 48 Hour Film Project depicts the sort of thing that might happen to you. Certainly the story reminds us of some things we might do to be better […]
Last Day In the Life
48HFP: Quelques Instants (A Few More Moments)
More Damn Ikea Heights
If you’ve never seen Ikea Heights before, you need to start now. If you saw the first episode but didn’t trace the series out and enjoy the rest of it, this is your day. And if you’ve seen a lot of it, but you haven’t finished seeing the series, this is the day to close […]
It’s the Little Things
With 24 hour cable news, disasters reported on Twitter within minutes, and blockbuster movies that shows us dozens of ways that the world can come to an end, we easily forget that it’s the very little things that matter the most in our lives. This charming short film created for the 2009 San Jose 48 […]
The Value of Life
Folks from the Inland Empire 48 Hour Film Project won several awards for this short film about the value of life. We really liked the makeup and special effects. Good work and congratulations to the team. Maybe now we really will give up eating meat!
Respect For the Roots
Walter Murch addressed an audience at the San Francisco Film Festival (#SFIFF for you Twitter types) that pays homage to the foundations of cinema. As a big fans of the value that sound adds to the filmmaker’s craft, we were very happy to hear some of the things he had to say in this substantial […]
It is Really French?
When competitors in the 48 Hour Film Project assemble on the Friday night of their weekend, the excitement centers around their selection of a genre. They draw from a hat that has genres from a list known to them in advance. One of the possible choices that most teams fear is “Foreign Film.” The team […]