Austin visited the Voodoo Studios home office for Thanksgiving 2009. In this video, he gives us a glimpse into the past and we get to see the aftermath that comes when a grown man has had too much turkey and dressing.
I’m calling this Part I of the “Official Catfish Webb Holiday Memories Documentary Web Series”. Enjoy.
“Ashram”, the short film we made for the 2009 Houston 48 Hour Film Project, has been selected to be included on the first ever “Best of Houston” DVD!
A lot of really good short films were selected to be on the DVD, so be sure to order up a couple dozen copies for you and your friends.
This film was made as part of the 2009 Houston 48 Hour Film Project where teams made a 4 – 7 minute short film (before credits) using a few required elements and a genre pulled from a hat. All aspects of production including writing, filming, rehearsing and editing took place over the weekend of June 5th – June 7th.
The required elements were:
Character: Jarod or Janice Puller (Officer)
Prop: A ball
Line: “I’m just not sure about that”
Our genre: foreign film.
Amy’s husband Jai has been missing for two months and every time she closes her eyes she has nightmares about him dying. Unable to get help from the Indian authorities or the American embassy, she follows a vision to visit a guru with a secret who promises her dreams of much happier times.
We wrapped up our latest 48 Hour Film Project entry yesterday and got a film turned in on time.
The required elements were:
Character: Jarod or Janice Puller (Officer)
Prop: A ball
Line: “I’m just not sure about that”
Our genre was western/musical foreign film.
Our 2009 48HFP cast and crew:
Saurabh Bhatnagar – Jai Gurnani
Brandy Copley – Producer, Make-Up
Jennie Donovan – Make-up, Goon
Raju Eason – Soori Baba
Jenny Frame – Amy Gurnani
Adam Frye – Team Leader / Producer, Writer, Director, Editor
Henry Gallagher – Producer
Julie Leithner – Talent Scout
Randy LeBlanc – Officer Jarod Puller, Goon, Music Supervisor
Garvin O’Connor – Goon
Ron Reinoso – Best Boy Grip
Diana Urbanski – Location Scout
John J. Urbanski Jr. – Director of Photography, Production Designer, Make-up
Austin Webb – Location Scout, Goon
Ashram – Amy’s husband Jai has been missing for two months and every time she closes her eyes she has nightmares about him dying. Unable to get help from the Indian authorities or the American embassy, she follows a vision to visit a guru with a secret who promises her dreams of much happier times.
I’ll be posting an online video as soon as the screenings happen. Tickets to the screenings can be purchased here. Note that we are in Screening Group C.
Here we go again…
Today we signed up to compete in the annual Houston 48 Hour Film Project where we will once again be tasked with completing a 4 to 7 minute short film over the course of one weekend using a genre drawn from a hat along with a required character, prop, and line of dialogue.
Wish us luck!
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Here are a few outtakes from our adventures making a short film “The Brothers Watkins” for the 2008 National Film Challenge.
43 hours ago, we found out what our required elements would be for the 2008 National Film Challenge. It is a filmmaking competition where competitors basically have one weekend to complete a 4-7 minute short film using some required elements as determined by the Challenge producers. It’s essentially the National version of the 48 Hour Film Project that we did earlier this year when we made Lifeline.
Here are the required elements this go round:
Character: Alex Watkins (Chiropractor)
Prop: A net
Dialogue: “Darn the luck.”
Genre: Holiday Film or Film de Femme
Lifeline was a Film de Femme, so we went with Holiday Film just to do try another genre.
Logline: After Wally makes a mistake that ruins the memory of past holidays, the Watkins brothers try to come up with something to make this Christmas a merry one for their mother.
Enjoy the show…
About 6 hours ago, we were given a genre of film, a character, a prop, and a line of dialogue. We will have to incorporate all of this into a 4 – 7 minute short film similar to what we did on the 48 Hour Film Project.
Our genre is Holiday Film, and our script was just completed. It’s a Christmas comedy about three brothers trying to make mom happy. We start shooting tomorrow. Wish us luck!
Adam
Looks like definition 2 may not be accurate any longer. I still think it’s a cool poster.
It’s been a long time coming, but I was finally able to salvage some footage from the Trolls shoot that John did earlier this year. We thought the tapes were lost for good when they got dropped in the swamp, but just enough of the good stuff was left so that we could throw this little teaser together for you guys.
Here are some outtakes from our 2008 Houston 48 Hour Film Project entry “Lifeline”.
If you’re looking for the full short, and haven’t scrolled down one post yet, you could just click here.
