two dear friends share a burger and then commit a terrorist attack
Out of 64 films around the US, our film "thr33" won 1st place in the Grand Prix this years' 100 hour film festival.
Here are the standings:
http://www.filmracing.com/films/competitions/grandprix2008.htm
We also won:
Best Direction - "thr33" by clean teef films
Best Leading Actor - "thr33" by clean teef films
Best Acting Ensemble - "thr33" by clean teef films
Best Editing - "thr33" by clean teef films
I had no idea we'd even place.
I want to thank ALL the crew:
Zach Paul - excellent job directing my friend. john polnik, so glad we had you for the weekend, TJ Williams Jr. owner of the RED, Tj thank you so much man I'm really liking working with you, our actors jason adkins and wayne bastrup - you guys pulled it ALL together with so much dialogue, and so little time...also, wayne for eating that cold crusty burger....our ambitious cast who showed up for us: britney, tracy, mandy, sarah, landon, leanne, damien, ian THANK YOU. Our sound designer who Yancy Phillips, and our songwriter Daniel Kamas - I don't know what I can possibly do without these 2 very loyal and dear friends, excellent job in post production and really feeling the story. And joe heuft and adam gehrke for audio, thank you, thank you... Ryan Griffith for helping TJ.
Our writers: thomas tsergneri and craig packard for writing the first 3-4 scripts, and when we had to step in and be assholes and suppress ideas that would have been too ambitious, you still stayed friends, no hard feelings, and you guys were as much apart of this project as anyone else was, so thanks for helping us acheive a win. Steve Edmiston for writing THR33, thank you Steve, you've got a real knack of talent my friend. titles and credits to garrett westphal - thanks man, seriously, and thanks for keeping me company in the post room for like 8 hours. david krause thanks for helping art dept/pa, daine andrews thanks for gripping, steven eytel thank you so much for helping on set, you are an amazing young film-maker, and i'm sorry i didn't put your credit in the movie, please let me help out on your projects in the future...i'm going to unthank joe for no putting stephen's name on the list! lol.... TO EVERYONE: Let's do this again soon! Thanks a lot guys, it was a long weekend with no sleep, but worth it, right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV38IEuyyco
i'd also like to shout out to the owner of Twist, that rick the bouncer got for me: dave lyons, the owner, and chef joe, and liam hillinan....Thank you!
the guy w/ the beard looks and acts like paul giamatti in 'sideways' (or 'shoot em up' for that matter). what cam did u shoot w/? did u win?
buffilms 3 years ago
shot with the RED, contest isn't over yet, let's hope we win!
krfilms 3 years ago
THE RED? That's amazing! You guys definitely deserved to win that competition. What software did you use for editing and sound mixing?
evband17 3 years ago
fcp, and fcp
krfilms 3 years ago