Woody Cavenaugh

Keep your eyes open, if in the middle of the night you see someone with a video camera chasing someone else, you might be witness to someone's team shooting footage for their entry in the 48 Hour Film Project: Greensboro.

If you've not been paying attention the 48 Hour Film Project covers 33 cities and over 1000 teams across the globe where in each city each team draws a genre from a hat and has 48 hours to write, produce, and edit a seven to twelve minute film. Oh yeah, one other thing. They all must use predetermined prop, line of dialogue and character no matter what. All that cross the finish line in 48 hours will be screened. In Greensboro this year, the screening of the Greensboro entries is on Saturday July 29th at The Carolina Theatre.

If you are interested in seeing the "Cannon Ball Run" aspects of the event, come to The Flying Anvil in Downtown Greensboro this Friday the 21st from 6-7 as the teams draw their genres, and the character, line of dialogue, and prop are announced.

Or if you want to see the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat head over to Natty Green's on Sunday the 23rd. Entries will start trickling in almost as soon as the doors open and they won't stop until those heart pounding minutes before the 7:30 deadline. In previous years there have been actual foot races to check in with Ed and Nisha before the alarm goes off! Sometimes, computer and powersupply in hand as every possible second is used to get their submission rendered and burned. It's completely wild!

As always I will be blogging the event for the team I am on, and I will give the same quality reviews I have done in the past. As always my comments section during my reviews will be filled with people I genually like who attempt to rip me a new one for not liking or getting their submission. You might not agree with my opinion, but that doesn't make it wrong, and no, you won't hurt my feelings when you insult me for not thinking yours was the greatest film ever. We're still friends even if you don't realize it.

I have to admit, it is exciting to see the 39 teams assigned to their groups for their screening times. There are some amazing people and some amazing teams to compete against and Matt Moore of Good as a Mugg is sure to raise the bar again this year! As the overall winner in Greensboro two years running, Matt and his team is bound to feel the target on their back as everyone is hoping that this is the year they topple him.