Local filmmaker and generally cool-guy Colin MacDonald has organized the upcoming “‘Local’ is the Word” Film Screening & Art Auction as an attempt to raise funds for him upcoming film (The Withered Dead), that he hopes to shoot later on in the summer.
As part of the evening, I will be screening my piece de’ cinematic resistance, Dinner Etiquette Correctness. He also commissioned (and by ‘commissioned’ I mean ‘asked’) me to create the poster for the event. Check it out below!
Artistic integrity: dwindling? Fear not, the commercial is for Video Difference’s Emerging Filmmakers Program, which allows local filmmakers to put their work on the shelves at Video Difference! What’s even better, is that to encourage patrons to rent out the DVD’s, they’re free! Effing free!
If you’re a filmmaker: go in with your DVD (you can drop off 1 to 8 copies), fill out a short sheet, and voilah, in roughly two weeks your DVD will be rated by the ratings board and available to the public! Get off your ass and do it! If you need a hand with cover art, Christ, I’ll help you!
If you’re a filmwatcher: go into Video Difference, pick up the free rental, pay nothing, and watch it. For free.
Hey people, great news, straight from the Disney Vault and available online for your viewing pleasure is Evan Elliot’s The Top Dog, starring myself as Russell, a young man who has his comfortable dead-end life of couch surfing, home cooking and free laundry threatened by a new enemy.
This was the first film I was in that was screened in front of an audience, I remember chugging rum in the NSCAD bathroom before the screening to ease my nerves– I don’t remember much from that screening, but I believe people enjoyed it.
After that, it was screened at the Atlantic Film Festival, when, moments before it started, one of the AFF volunteers informed us that the disk had been scratched and was having some “complications”– what followed was essentially a slideshow of pixelated garbage and a headache. The original run time of 24 minutes had been dragged out close to 30 minutes. Brutal. However, the AFF offered to screen our short on another night, and that went swimmingly! I’m hoping your viewing experience is on the pleasurable side of things!
THE TOP DOG – http://www.vimeo.com/4709710
DIRECTOR: Evan Elliot
WRITER: Evan Elliot
CAST: Glen Matthews, Alison Miur, Andrew Elliot, Mojo Widgery, Robert Single
PRODUCER: Evan Elliot
CINEMATOGRAPHERS: Dan Jardine, Greg Boone
The other day I stumbled upon an article on the BBC’s website that was reporting that the much talked about Swine Flu strain had mutated into something completely different.
After death, this virus is able to restart the heart of it’s victim for up to two hours after the initial demise of the person where the individual behaves in extremely violent ways from what is believe to be a combination of brain damage and a chemical released into blood during “resurrection.”
(Click the image below to ready the article)
“HOLY SHIT! It’s actually happening!” I scanned the page as best I could to find some sort of evidence that this was a hoax, or some cruel joke. I came up with nothing.
My heart rate doubled, and I realized thatit was happening. Immediately, in my mind, I planned my route to Ron’s Army/Navy supplies to load up on zombie-battle supplies. Having only made it through 1/4 of The Zombie Survival Guide, I began to panic slightly.
Before I decided to rush out and demand that everyone destroy their staircases and collect gardening tools, I thought I’d Google the new virus strain “H1Z1″ for any info possible. This lead me to a video of a newsmaker explaining that it was indeed, a hoax, and that if you look at the website URL of the page, it is not the BBC’s. IDIOT!
A wave of relief washed over me, and also something odd: a little bit of dissapointment.
I’m not the only one, either. Sure, a zombie apocalypse would no doubt be terrible (any apocalypse, really), but anyone I talk to who is in my age range, seems pretty gung-ho to go to war with the zombies. No propagandha needed. Our generation has yet to be tested quite like our Fathers or Grandfathers (not just in terms of wars), but in terms of battling (literally, or non-literally) for what we believe in. Everything has been handed down to us.
If this is coming off as a pro-war blog entry, I apologize, because I *deep breath* support the troops, but not the war *exhale*. It’s just a reflection on the attitude of my generation, that we would love a good old fashion good vs. evil war; which sounds stupid I know, but c’mon, them Nazi’s were pretty fucking evil!
Perhaps I’m (likely) just an idiot, and I have no idea what I’m talking about, or maybe I’m right, or maybe I just want to be as cool as Simon Pegg…
