2012.02.23
Marginal Arts Festival: Entries from the Shadowbox Cinema’s 24-hour film challenge [UPDATED]
Update 2/23: Three more teams have checked in. See below.
Over this past weekend, in one of the Marginal Arts Festival-highlighted events, The Shadowbox Cinema on Kirk Avenue in Roanoke challenged teams of local screenwriters, film makers and actors to created “Sweded” film versions of Back to the Future in 24 hours. Here are three of the resulting eight films. (Hey, remaining participants, send me embed codes for your versions and I’ll add them.)
Comedy troupe Big Lick Conspiracy, “Back to the Fruiture.” This is pretty hilarious.
Team “How Swede It Is,” Hank Ebert, director of photography, Dwayne Yancey, artistic director, actual DeLorean courtesy of Rod Dillman of Troutville.
Here's the entry for team "How Swede It Is" for the 24 Hours Film Event from Hank Ebert on Vimeo.
Team “The Kickass Movie Badgers,” led by Jeremy Holmes
Team “Epic Mustache” (Billy Chase, Mark Skelley, Chris Taylor, Lynne Buchanan, B.B. Rierson, Ingrid Chase, Jennifer Fowler)
The “The Red Shadow Productions” team, led by Katherine Devine
“Team Lovin’” directed by Temple Lee (aka Blake Lipscomb)
Temple Lee’s film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R97gzr550Ts
Comment by Heather Brush — February 22, 2012 @ 8:39 pm
The Red Shadow Productions film http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9Bz4dMYP9U&feature=youtu.be
Comment by Katherine Devine — February 22, 2012 @ 10:04 pm
http://youtu.be/dh6kJn-Ys0k
Team Epic Mustache:
Billy Chase
Mark Skelley
Chris Taylor
Lynne Buchanan
B.B. Rierson
Ingrid Chase
Jennifer Fowler
Comment by Billy — February 23, 2012 @ 8:16 am
A great evening full of laughs, giggles, & OMGs!
Comment by Jane — February 23, 2012 @ 12:24 pm
The Shadowbox was packed for this; standing room only. I’m glad even more people will get to see these by using your blog as a kind of secondary venue — just hoping those last two filmmakers will post theirs so people can see all eight. As the emcee said that night, for eight groups re-making the same film, there were eight very different approaches.
All in all, a good testament to the creative energy in the Roanoke Valley; I’m more familiar with it on the stage theatre side, but it’s clearly out there in the local filmmaking scene, as well (and some of those groups overlap.)
I’ve posted details on how the “How Swede It Is” team found an actual DeLorean on my personal blog:
http://dwayneyancey.wordpress.com/2012/02/23/video-my-teams-film-entry-in-the-marginal-arts-festival/
Comment by Dwayne Yancey — February 24, 2012 @ 12:27 pm