Back from the Washington DC 48 hour film project screening, where I saw my "Festival of Dullness," a Holiday film about the world's dullest holiday as celebrated by the world's dullest man.
It was fun seeing the 48-Hour Film Project at "the Mother Ship." They had nearly a hundred teams, many of whom had done the project many times before. That creates a kind of energy I haven't seen anywhere else. At the dropoff last Sunday, we had people sprinting down the street at one minute before the deadline, tape in hand, a small crowd out front cheering them in . . . it was really a riot.
This was also the first time I've done a 48-Hour Film in which the required character, (Tim Tate, Gay Glass Sculptor Extraordinaire) was a real, living person. I didn't know that when making the film, but did meet him at the dropoff event. He was present at all 8 screenings, sitting through 98 different depictions of himself as a fictional character. Tim "bought" the right to be portrayed in all the films by winning a fund-raising auction earlier in the year. I didn't get a chance to hear how he felt about the films once he actually saw them. That would have to be quite a trip.
