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Fiasco in Florida
Depending on your situation, twenty-four hours can seem like an eternity. If, say, you're stranded at Chicago's O'Hare airport during the weekly blizzards we have here come winter, you're likely going to feel every minute of each of those twenty-four. On the other hand, if you find yourself having to make a complete movie with set rules and people you've never met before, well, you're going to be looking at your watch at the end, wondering what happened to make time slip by so quickly. That's the story we heard from Andrew Kamphey, Managing Director of the Film Fiasco 24-hour film fest:
"I got the idea for the Film Fiasco August of 2004 after I had wanted to make a short movie within a day and became upset at the lack of infrastructure that Gainesville, FL and the University of Florida had for short video production. There was no community to speak of in an otherwise creative city. I didn't want to start something because I knew that someone else could do it better. I started the Film Fiasco out of a need. By just challenging myself to make a movie in 24 hours, I had inadvertently challenged the city of Gainesville. I started talking to people about my idea and finally told it to my friend Priscilla who said 'Let's do it!' Two months later was the first Film Fiasco and the movies you watch on the DVD were all created in 24 hours."
"There are similar events all around the country in no association with each other and a 48 hour video competition that has events in many cities. We have made ours stand out by including the element of signing up actors independently of the movie-making teams. Two actors are assigned to each team that must include them in the movie, besides the required elements that all of the teams get. This ends up being the toughest part of putting on the event but it makes it special as it speaks to another group of people."
"There were so many similarities of how the Film Fiasco got started and the beginning of Jewelboxing. From what I know, you guys looked for something that would match your standards of quality, while I looked around for something to quench my creative thirst. Neither of us found anything available out there, so we just made our own, Film Fiasco and Jewelboxing. I think both of the products speak of our passion for something so great that we took on the challenge ourselves. That always gets me, so I had to go with it. I picked up the whole Studio."
Here's to all the people making interesting things, in whatever time frame they so desire, in Santa Barbara, Blackstone, Salt Lake City, San Diego, Etobicoke, Toronto, Wicomico, Phila, Santa Rosa, Cedar Park, Los Angeles, Savannah, Irvine, Dulles, Round Lake, Kansas City, Winston-Salem, Brookline and Brompton.
June 18, 2007 10:24 AM