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As most people who read this blog know, my friends and I have participated in the 48 Hour Film Project for the past couple of years. In a nutshell, the competition requires you to write, shoot, edit, and score a short (up to 8 minute) film in one weekend. We were unable to do it this year, because several of us were in Canada celebrating the nuptials of The Greatness and The Sweetness during the Atlanta 48 Hour weekend. However, last year, the 48 Hour people started an October contest called the National Film Challenge. Same thing as the local city version, but you get your genre, prop, dialogue, and character via email and you compete on a National level. They only allow 250 teams nationwide.

We're one of them this year.

The weekend is October 21-23. The film has to be Fedex'd overnight to them on Monday morning to arrive by Tuesday in order to qualify for competition. Our crew has changed a little, twisted, with some old people and some new people. But it's always a good, if tiring, time, and we end up with a film at the end of it all.

If you've never seen them, our two previous films can be seen here:

http://www.rationalspirit.net/film/index.html

Out of town people who would like to join us are always welcome. There's plenty of room at the Elf Inn. We're going to do that movie-making thing we do. You should come do it with us.

Replies: 5 Comments

on Thursday, September 15th, Vampire Elf said

Yeah, let's not tell my wife about the dead cat thing. I saw that this morning and I thought to myself, "that might actually mentally damage my wife if she found out about that." Loves the kitties and all.

on Thursday, September 15th, The Greatness said

Sounds like great fun. Believe it or not, I still intend to write the toilet-transporting short sometime, maybe even soon. Not that it will affect your plot for this thing.

On the subject of renewable transportation, let's not forget the dead cat biomass sector.

on Thursday, September 15th, beaumontkitty said

Air Trans still flies between Atlanta and DC starting at $59 one way. Gas would run about $150-ish bucks round trip.

Yeah, I have nothing better to do.

on Wednesday, September 14th, Vampire Elf said

Yeah, it would great if you could come. Lodging is free, so all you have to do is find transportation. Maybe a cheap flight? The drive is about ten hours from DC, but with gas prices the way they are, it might very well be cheaper to fly. Unless you have one of those vegetable oil cars. Those things are awesome.

on Wednesday, September 14th, The Ape Man said

You know, I really want to do this. It may be completely impossible, but I'm definitely going to look into it.