The old Voodoo Studios gang gets awfully busy around October with the football and haunted house seasons in full swing. So, when it came time for the National Film Challenge, Adam ran up to Dallas and work with a new corp of rising stars under the Fried Apple Films banner. Without further adieu, here’s what one of the Voodoo alums worked on for the NFC…
When Company Retreat was selected for the Best of Houston screening in the 2011 48HFP, I was worried that we would be getting a green participation ribbon or some lame made up award that they use as an excuse to have twice as many teams in the screening than really need to be there.
I was wrong. We won: Best Death By Sausage!
We rocked this the same way that I – an only son – proudly rock the Favorite Son award every year from my mom.
The bad news is that I bet all of the teams are going to try to take the Best Death by Sausage crown away from us next year. Buncha savages in this town.
Our latest 48HFP short film – Company Retreat – has been selected to screen at the 2011 48 Hour Film Project Best-of Houston Screening on July 21, 2011.
For more details on the screening, please see http://48hourfilm.com/houston/
Here is a 48 second trailer for our 2011 Houston 48 Hour Film Project entry entitled “Company Retreat”.
We pulled Thriller/Suspense from the hat and the required elements were:
Character: Kevin/Katie Keenan – graphic designer
Prop: A bowl
Line: “I owe you an apology.”
I found this in some old clips from last year. We had been working on a screen test and equipment check and I asked Austin to give us a short comment about the upcoming 48HFP. Here’s what we captured.