Woody Cavenaugh

Tomorrow is the night. kick off for this years 48 Hour Film Project is at 7pm. The gist of the thing is that at 7pm a prop, a character, and a line of dialogue will be revealed to all teams. Each team draws a genre from a hat. 48 hours from then they have to come back with a finished 7 minute film. If you don't make the deadline, you don't get judged. If you win, you get sent to the World Headquarters in Washington DC. The top 5 finishers there will get to to shoot and edit their piece all over again with professional grade equipment. The winner of that gets to keep the professional grade equipment!

"Team Underexposed" is ready to go. This year there are something like 33 teams competeing. Here's the dates and place to keep up with.

KICKOFF
Friday, July 22nd, 5:30-7pm
Sky Bar, 221 S. Elm St. in downtown Greensboro
Doors open at 5:30 PM for free hors d’oeuvres provided courtesy of Catering Carolina and Sky Bar; drawings begin at 6:30pm; the competition starts at 7:00pm sharp!

DROP OFF
Sunday, July 24th, 5:30pm-12 midnight (on-time films by 7:30pm!)
Next Door Tavern, located at 219 S. Elm Street, in downtown Greensboro. Share war stories with other teams, have a couple of drinks, eat some pizza, and wow the crowd with some karaoke!

SCREENINGS
CAROUSEL CINEMA
http://carouselcinemas.com/showtimes.php
1305 Battleground Ave., Greensboro.
336.230.1620

Group A - July 26 6:30pm & 8:30pm
Group B - July 27 6:30pm & 8:30pm
Group C - July 28 6:30pm & 8:30pm

Since I am in Group "B" and Cam will be with the Doc at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs Colorado, there will be no fencing on the 27th.

If you are interested in what's going on, feel free to check out the kickoff, the dropoff (both are like the Cannonball Run) very exciting and fun events. If you aren't interested in racing filmmakers, check out the films themselves on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday -but buy your tickets early, last year every showing was sold out early.

I will keep you posted as I can, and if nothing else I will give the "dirt" about how it went for Team Underexposed on Monday.

Wish us luck...