Tickets Please Poster

Thanks to Matt Shepard for this awesome poster design!

Tickets Please

Tickets Please was another whirlwind weekend of filmmaking fun for the 48 Hour Film Project.  My and crew cast rocked it!  We had so much fun on this shoot and made a great little film.

Trailer for the short film "Tickets Please." When an assistant forgets to procure tickets to a sold out show for her boss, she enlists the help of her sister to get the tickets by any means necessary or lose her job and be forced to move back in with their parents.

The Perfect Spot

When the production company I belong to, Gorilla with a Mustache Films, won the grand prize with our movie Joint Effort part of the prize was to have free entry into the next year's competition.  Even though we've all been exhausted working on our comedy feature film, One Hell of an Angel, we decided we had to take advantage of the free entry and compete again this year. 

The competition, formerly "The National Film Challenge" re-branded itself this year (probably because it's an international competition and the title is a little confusing) and is now called "The 4 Points Film Project."  Our team created a short film in just one weekend with some new faces on set.  We had the talented and ruggedly handsome Paul Anderson as our cinematographer, Lisa Styles our awesome Canadian Producer friend who we met at the Cannes film festival came down just to help us with this production, Michael Valentino came on board to help with editing, and Eruch Kimball was our fabulous composer.  After a rocky start and a completely unexpected last minute script change, we set off to make a film pretty much by improv.  Luckily our actors are good at that.  While we didn't win any of the awards this year, we were chosen in the top 20 in the world, so not too shabby.  Here it is: The Perfect Spot.

http://youtu.be/CFB0xVCeafo

Delivering our 48 Hour Film

This film we have to make for the 48 hour film project needs to be done in one weekend.  Exactly one weekend.  If you are even one minute past the deadline time, you're disqualified.  I was editing and not paying close enough attention to the time. Wanting to do as much fixing as possible, I waited too long to start my export. As I stood watching the progress bar, I knew it was too late. I immediately broke the bad news to the team. Explaining that yes, it would be finished before the cutoff time, but there wasn't enough time to physically drive the file to the drop off location; someone piped in with, "What about Keresey's Ducati?" This was what happened next, recorded by our sound guy Scott Duncan on his iphone:

And yes, she did make it in time :)

48 Hour Film Project Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGzEaxUeOC0

For those who don't know about the 48 hour film project, it basically goes like this: you register a team, show up at a designated place and time, they tell you what genre you have to do, all teams have to use the same character, prop, and line of dialouge, then you have to write, shoot, and edit your movie... oh it all this has to be done in one weekend. We just finished our film and I've attached a link to the trailer. The whole video will be up later, when all the screenings are finished. I had a great time doing this again this year. Our team was amazing! More on this later.

Katie

Road Trip to Miami

I went to Miami on a whirlwind road trip to attend the Miami International Film Festival for the 48 Hour Film Project's Filmapalooza. Back in July the film I directed (Touched by Angels) for the 48 hour film project won the city award for best film in Asheville. That put us into the international competition (Filmapalooza.) Even though none of the other team members were able to make it, I managed to get my friend Ashley to drop everything she was doing and come along for the trip. She's just that awesome. So here is a little video I put together. Enjoy.

Katie

Just Won Best Film at the 48 Hour Film Festival

The movie that I just directed, shot and edited with the team "the young adults" just won the Best Film award at the 48 Hour Film Festival. That means we're going to the national competition!

In addition, we also took home Best Sound Design, Best Actress, Best Overall Line of Dialouge, and the Audience Award. I'm still on cloud nine! If we're chosen as one of the top ten in the next competition, our movie will play at the Cannes Film Festival. I can't imagine what the competition will be like, it's just so exciting to be in the running.

So where can you see this amazingly awesome film? Check it out on YouTube here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXuVGiLguUU

Katie

48 Hour Film Project shoot

I just wrapped up work on the 48 hour film project. I joined a team already assembled, save for a cinematographer and editor. A friend of a friend got in touch with me and I joined forces with the team "The Young Adults." It was an amazing experience. In the end I wound up directing as well as shooting and editing. Our team was wonderful and very well organized. Our movie came out great and I will share more soon.

If you want to see it watch my movie ("Touched by Angels") with some of the others from the 48 hour film project they're screening at the Asheville Pizza and Brewing on Merrimon on Tuesday @ 4pm, Wednesday @ 10pm or join me Thursday @7pm. Get tickets in advance, I'm told these screenings tend to sell out. These pictures are of us shooting the last scene of the movie on a rooftop downtown. We crashed my friend Dave's surprise birthday party and gave Dave a cameo. It was perfect!

Katie