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| Jay and Victor speak with Jessica Delfino |
Hosts Jay
and Victor kicked off November's show with special guest judge of the evening,
Jessica Delfino, a comedic musician who shared her experience riding a bicycle
around New York by performing a song titled "My Experiences Riding a
Bicycle Around NYC".
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| Jessica sings! |
Before
introducing the night's films, the hosts started off with a screening of
GENTRIFY OR DIE, a film written by Joshua Fisher and Mike Brown with host
Victor Varnado (who also directed), where tenants of a building fear hipsters moving in and
ultimately gentrifying the neighborhood.
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| with Mike Brown and Joshua Fisher |
The first
film in competition came to us from Australia titled TRASH, a story about a
man who after fighting with his girlfriend needs to discreetly
dispose of "something" with the help of his laid-back younger brother
who has "done this before". Written and directed by Ryan
O'Donnell.
Next,
Abby Holland's THE RETURN OF SATURN introduced a fun web series about how a
planet's orbit could bring big changes into adulthood, whether you like it or
not, even if it involves seeing imaginary friends. The series is
directed by Geoffrey Stevens.
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| with Abby Holland and Geoffrey Stevens |
Then, Rahdy
Elwan's amusing one minute short SUPERSNACKERS made us desire the power
to instantaneously snack whenever from wherever.
The
animated portion of the evening featured SPAMORAMA by Mondo
Ghulam, a creative puppet animation that made going through spam mail
entertaining, and DICTIONARY MODELS, a cleverly funny illustration created by
Jason Coates about Chuply and Babcock's career as models for dictionary words.
Rounding
out the final two films were HOW GUYS' THOUGHTS RUIN PERFECT RELATIONSHIPS by
Marvin Lemus, a humorous inside look of a guy's actual feelings about his girl,
and lastly Rob Muraskin's CARPOOL THERAPY, an offbeat take on
people's problems in carpooling.
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| Rob Murskin talks about "Carpool Therapy." |
Last
month's "Wanna Be a Star" winner Martin Lund introduced his role in
FRONT ROW CENTER, which in typical "Wanna Be a Star" fashion was finished mere hours before the screening. The Audience and Judges' Award went to DICTIONARY
MODELS by Jason Coates.
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| Star Martin Lund talks about "Front Row Center." |
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| Jason Coates receives the Judges' Prize |
Thanks to all of you who came out to the screening and we'll see you
at the next show on December 7th at 7:30pm!
