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Monday, August 3, 2009
Attention Scensters And Hipsters Who Go On And On About Wanting To Be Filmmakers…
Words Jesse Scaccia
Monday, August 3rd, 2009 at 9:26 am
I bet this guy could make some really good movies if he ever tried.
Take a look at this character to the right.
The Army-issued-yet-totally-not-Army-issued glasses.
The screw-your-9-to-5-job scruff.
That smirk like he just deconcustructed the impact of Mad Magazine through the prism of Foucault meets the lyrics of Conor Oberst.
The forearm tattoos. The backpack. And the icing on the hipster cake: the hot dog bun without a hot dog.
Classic.
See, this is the kind of guy that should be taking part in the 48-hour Film Project, which comes back to Hampton Roads this weekend.
From the organizers:
The 48 Hour Film Project is a wild and sleepless weekend in which you and a team make a movie–write, shoot, edit and score it–in just 48 hours.
On Friday night August 7th, you get a character, a prop, a line of dialogue and a genre, all to include in your movie. 48 hours later, the movie must be complete. Then it will show at the Naro Cinema the next week.
In 2008, some 30,000 filmmakers made films in 70 cities. This year, we’re even bigger, with filmmakers around the world taking the challenge to make a film in just 48 hours.
For more information, my brilliant young friends, go here: hyperlink for you. This other hyperlink should take you straight to the registration for Hampton Roads.
And if you want to participate but don’t have a team of fellow filmmakers, shoot me an email. We might be able to hook you up with some good people we know.
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Jesse is the editor in chief of AltDaily, and he's going to take this bio seriously, but not so seriously that he's going to continue in the third person. I've been involved with a bunch of local projects and civic groups in various roles, including: Hampton Roads, The Canvas; Art | Everywhere, Street Performance in Norfolk; Survive Norfolk; Hampton Roads Pride/Out in the Park; Bike Norfolk; re:Vision Norfolk, and such.
I originally came to Norfolk as a Perry Morgan fellow in ODU's creative writing program. Before that I bummed around quite a bit, writing stacks of books that never got published, hitchhiking, couchsurfing, riding the Greyhound up down and back across this country. Some of my favorite jobs and volunteer gigs have included working on organic farms in Ireland; being first mate on an old sail boat in Holland; working at a long-term home for young men in South Africa; being a journalist and high school teacher in New York and California; washing dishes in Yosemite National Park; teaching English in DC and swimming in Florida; and interning at ESPN in Bristol, which was much less cool that you'd want it to be. My career highlights have been having three of my op-eds run in the New York Times, and being the executive producer of a six-part docu-drama on BET. Because school is cool I have three master's degrees (ODU for MFA, NYU for magazine journalism, University of Connecticut for secondary English education). I live in Norfolk because I believe in its potential. Email your ideas or nicely couched criticism to jesse@altdaily.com.
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Yay local indie films! I’ll be working with Dropout Productions – see all you big talkers there.
By the way, if you’re looking to see what local indie filmmakers have to offer, screenings are at the Naro on Wednesday, 7 PM and 9 PM. They’re actually two different groups of films, so if you want to see all of them get the $12 combo ticket.