Trust us, this is worth your 4 minutes
This post-apocalyptic fable entranced jurists during the 2009 San Jose 48 Hour Film Project. In a field that is usually dominate by comedies, mockumentaries, and zombie flicks, this existential struggle stood out in the judges minds. It took home awards for Score and Cinematography. Take a look and see what you feel when you see it.
We were sure that it created a world in which we didn’t want to live.
Here’s a show you won’t want to miss.
One part filmmaker, one part artist, every bit inspiring
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.
Then…
Then get yourself to downtown San Jose for the ArtShots Screening and Awards Ceremony. You’re in for an evening that you won’t soon forget.
The excitement begins at Morocco’s Restaurant (86 North Market Street – Map – Review). Starting at 5pm, Chef Jay will offer complimentary wine tasting and delectable appetizers at their sidewalk wine bar for ArtShots ticket holders. Plus receive $5 glasses of wine and a free dessert should you come inside for a delicious dinner. Reservations for dinner are strongly recommended, please mention ArtShots at the time that you reserve 408-998-1509.
At 7:30, the doors open at the lovely Theatre on San Pedro Square and you’ll mingle with ArtShots competing filmmakers along with the artists and arts community leaders who served as their subjects. The no-host bar will hum with conversation while you locate your favorite seat in this picturesque theater and get ready for an inspiring look at the arts in the South Bay.
At 8:00pm, the evening’s entertainment begins with live music from one of the area’s most talented singer/songwriters. Amy Obenski (http://www.amyobenski.com/) is no stranger to this venue. She’ll give us a sneak preview of her upcoming July 9th show at this very theater along with a taste of her soon to be released fourth album.
Before the night is over, you’ll be treated to a musical performance by local band Tin Cat (http://www.reverbnation.com/tincat) as they share their musical talents — the inspirations for one of the ArtShots entries to be screened at the show.
Throughout the evening we’ll roll the top ArtShots clips, both those in competition as well as model clips prepared by local artist, publisher, and filmmaker Kimy Martinez. You can expect the opportunity to acknowledge the featured artists and the competing filmmakers as their clips unfold.
Before the evening is over, we’ll present the Audience Choice Award (you can still vote here until May 21st), the Blue Ribbon Jury’s Award for Best of Show, and a few surprise giveaways designed to delight ticket holders at this special evening.
You’ll also get to hear a little of the buzz being created by sponsoring an partner organizations like San Jose 48 Hour Film Project, Artsopolis, CreaTV, Cinequest, Works/San Jose, Los Gatos KCAT and more.
So how on earth could you miss this? Tickets are available here. Your seat in the theater is waiting, and we expect to see you there!
Vincent Lowe
City Producer, San Jose 48 Hour Film Project
sanjose@48hourfilm.com
Susannah Greenwood
Director of Local Marketing, Artsopolis
artshots@artsopolis.com
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 the way. Louise has been growing toward something, and it seems that she’s starting to find it.
Now we have to wait anxiously to see where this leads her.
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 prepared.
Who knew that there might be career opportunities in this sort of thing.
We agree that the moments of our lives are to be treasured, and we appreciate film and literature that reminds us of that.
Team Squirrelist from Washington DC turned in this 2010 48 Hour Film that explores the shopworn idea that we could live a day as if it were our last. We though it was great work.
We love a delicate touch, and the score for this really delivered, so did the pacing of the film. The team reports that the idea to do a French language voiceover and subtitles occurred to them about 65% of the way through production. Good decision.
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 the office door and just read the rest of the tale.
No matter what, you’re going to love G-0Da%$ed Ikea Heights!
When you are feeling froggy, you might want to check out the story of Channel 101.
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 Hour Film Project reminds us that something as seemingly innocuous as our garbage cans in the street can cause a big impact. Especially if you have a neighbor like Mrs. Rigby.
Remind us not to order out Chinese for our next production.
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!
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 (18:29) address.
We hope you enjoy it as much as we did.
Keep this in mind, you aspiring filmmakers.
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 that made this movie had no such fear — in fact, they hoped for this.
They are a group of talented students from International High School in San Francisco. Because they study multiple languages and cultures (in fact, their teachers are from a variety of cultures,) they were easily able to speak French in this film. But do they really know what they’re saying? Who cares?!
We don’t think their French teachers gave them high marks for this film, but we sure did.
This year, they’ll be competing in the San Francisco event independently of their school, now that they’ve graduated. You can see what they produced on July 1st, 2010 at the screenings for Group E. Join them and the other competitors at the Lumiere Theater for a rocking evening of good fun.