The screening of finalists' films at the Highball was a bit... informal, but still a lot of fun. Zack Carlson, he of the Alamo's weekly Terror Tuesday fame, served as our ultimate juror, and after deliberating for a full three minutes, the ultimate winner was determined to be Clasico Entertainment's NECRO MADNESS, mainly due to the fact that it was entertaining and managed to blend both subgenres into one hodgepodge of a picture almost seamlessly.
Congratulations to the formidable gang of Clasico Entertainment, and to all of the other finalists (and really anyone who managed to complete a film at all!). I had a blast watching each and every one of them this year, and I'm still just really, really hoping I can schedule the next Filmmaking Frenzy during a time when I can play and make a movie as well. It's been too damned long.
No word on when exactly that next Frenzy will be yet, but keep this blog in your RSS feed and check out our Facebook updates and we'll let you know soon!
Monday, November 2, 2009
BLOODSHOTS Winners!
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
BLOODSHOTS Finalists Announced!
We've finally learned how to count again, and have tallied up the ballots, used that rediscovered skill to add up the number of votes from audience members at the screenings and blended those results in with the tallies of votes from the online posting of films, and have put together our list of finalists in this year's Bloodshots!
The rules stated that we would have ten finalists, depending on the number of completed entries, and that the final judging would be done by our jury. We didn't have all that many actually complete entries, though, so we're going to cut down the number of final finalists to the top 5, and because that show wouldn't be long enough to fill a time slot at the Alamo, we're going to make this a Rolling Roadshow version of Bloodshots and host our final screening and awards ceremony down at The Highball instead.
The show will be this Friday, Oct 30 (All Devil's Night! OOoohh!) at 6pm. Terror Tuesday host and horror movie lover extraordinaire will serve as head juror and be determining the ultimate winner at that show, then, if the winning team is present, we will crown them with awesomeness.
It'll be free to come out, and one of the few times you'll be able to watch your movie while standing up on a dance floor, so if you're one of the finalists and in town, we hope you can join us! Otherwise we'll be updating the site with results immediately after the ceremony.
And the finalists are, in some sort of order determined by the first letter of each group's place in the alphabet:
Clasico Entertainment - Necro Madness
Good Enough - Meat Shack
lucidrage - EXTRATERRESTRIAL? EXOCISM!
Nirofex - A Vampire's Love Story
Team FOGAR! - DEATH AT DUSK
Thursday, October 15, 2009
BLOODSHOTS 2009 Screenings!
Screenings for this year's BLOODSHOTS movies in Austin have been announced, and tickets are on sale now! Both nights of screenings will be at the Alamo South Lamar, and they'll be happening on Tuesday, Oct 20 and Wednesday, Oct 21, both at 9:40pm.
You can get your tickets to these right here, or just pick yours up at the door (assuming they still have some left).
Both of these screenings will include ALL of the movies, so come out to whichever one works for you. They will also both be balloted, so you can vote online or in person or both!
It looks like we only have 15 completed films to screen, so there may not be a secondary Awards screening. That'll most likely be determined at these shows. If you want to make absolutely sure you see 'em on the big screen, though, plan on joining us Tuesday or Wednesday.
Afterwards we'll be heading over to the Highball for a late night Thai One On if anyone wants to come over to talk filming and swap real life horror tales.
Friday, October 9, 2009
BLOODSHOTS 2009 Assignments
All right kids, the time is here, and here are the assignments!
The line of dialog that must appear somewhere in every team's movie is, "Pump up the jams!"
Because the mash up of two subgenres is already making the assignments this year a bit more specific than in year's past, we're also assigning every team the same weapon: FIREWORKS. Yeah, those might be hard to find (if you aren't smart enough to buy in large quantities every July and December). If you can't get any real fireworks, try to interpret it differently, but be ready to defend that interpretation online and at the screenings. Anything too weak won't count!
As I've said, this year each team is being assigned TWO subgenres, and you'll be responsible for blending them both into a seamless short. Alphabetized by Team Name, here are your assignments!
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BLOODSHOTS 2009 starts tonight!
Yeah, it's rainy in cold here in Austin, so there'll be lots of wet movies getting made this weekend!
Everything starts up at 7pm tonight, and if you're here in town you can meet up at The Highball, which is at 1142 South Lamar Blvd (in the same shopping center as that Alamo Drafthouse) to get your team's assignment live. I'd recommend showing up for that by 6:30pm, because once we have all of the teams there I'll be going over the general rules and answering questions and whatnot BEFORE 7pm so that once the contest is on everyone can run and start making their movies.
If you can't make it out, you can check back to this blog at exactly 7pm, and I'll have all of the info posted here as well!
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
TOTALLY AWESOME VIDEO GAMES Frenzy results are in!
The jury over at G4 TV was in charge of deciding finalists on this one, and the man himself Mr. Uwe Boll chose the ultimate winner last night at the Fantastic Fest Awards Ceremony!
And the ultimate winner was... MARIO PAINT! Congratulations go out to Team FilthyButt, and now we can all focus on stocking up on caffeine for the upcoming BLOODSHOTS weekend!
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Fantastic Fest 2009 Bumper Results, Pt. 2!
Several people have written in to us concerned over the plan to announce the jury winners of the Fantastic Fest Bumper competition at the Awards Ceremony because they were very cocky, convinced that they were going to win, and wanted to be able to spend some of their Alamo prize money while they were in town for the festival. It just so happens that we kind of like cocky people, and we quickly realized that these concerns were completely valid, so we're going to go ahead and announce our jury prize winners now!
Jurors viewed ALL 58 of the 2009 Fantastic Fest Bumper videos, deliberated amongst themselves, and selected the following ten as their very favorites of the bunch. We were sticklers to the time limit for the grand prize, but for the jury-picked winners we went ahead and let them choose their absolute favorites, which was helpful since sooooo many entries were at least a couple of seconds over the time limit. Listed in alphabetic order by film title, the winners are:
The Dryad and the Centaur - electric sheep
Fantastic Attack - Take Mole to Your Leader (chicken)
Fantasutikki Kaiju - Rollerfeet.com
Garden Party Massacre - Baker's Dozen
Ice Cream!!! - Parallactic Pictures
Little Red Riding Hoodie - Comedia A Go-Go
Night of the Milk Beast - Scab Farm
The Number to Heaven -Yer Dead
The Weiner Dog Gang - The Weiner Dog Gang
Where's Your Mummy - BlueGogglesFilms
Each team will receive a $100 Alamo gift certificate to enjoy whatever they like throughout the festival.
Congratulations to all of the winners, and to everyone who's coming out to Fantastic Fest this year. We can't wait to hang out with you and watch your work up on the big screen! If you're one of the winners and you're coming by the festival, we'll have your gift card available through the Alamo managers. You'll need to have the team name and the email you used to sign up with, and they'll set you up. If you get confused at all, just find me somewhere in the theater or shoot me an email at henri (@) originalalamo.com and I'll find a time to come meet you.
The next Filmmaking Frenzy is BLOODSHOTS, our annual 48 hour horror filmmaking competition. Registration will be open for BLOODSHOTS on October 5, and our shooting weekend will begin on Friday, October 9 at 7pm and continue through Sunday, October 11 at 7pm. You can find information on that contest on our website right here.
Cheers,
Henri
