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| Intensity TV: Episode #101 |
Intense Comedy: Airplanes, Cars, Spiders and the End of the World as We Know It
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In their first independent cooperation Bruce Branit (supervising animator on "Star Trek: Voyager" and" Star Trek: Deep Space Nine") and Jeremy Hunt (supervising animator on X-Files and actor in this film) open their production with a man driving on an empty freeway. What the unsuspecting driver doesn't know is that the highway has been cleared for an emergency landing of a DC-10 aircraft. The filmmakers created the amazing visual effects in only three months with home computers. This American production has already been viewed by more than 3 million people via the Internet.
George Lucas in Love
American directors Joe Nussbaum and Joseph Levy who attended the same film school as George Lucas (USC) worked out a clever and hilarious fictional chronicle about Lucas' inspirations for his films: Troubled young Lucas has writer's block and won't graduate from film school if he doesn't finish his "agricultural space tragedy" within three days. What he doesn't realize is that the story he is looking for is all around him. George Lucas in Love has been screened at Palm Springs International Film festival, U.S. Comedy Arts Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival and Aspen Shorts Fest.
Peep Show
Director, producer and editor Charlie Call and his crew did a lot of "research" in local peep shows for their American independent film. This masterpiece shows a woman sneaking into what looks like a seedy X-rated theater. But instead of a sexually charged dance, we see one of the world's greatest mysteries solved in a hilarious and brutally honest way: What women really want. Among others Peep Show has appeared at U.S. Comedy Arts Festival, Slamdance, Mill Valley Film Festival, Cinequest (San Jose), St. Louis International Film Festival and Shorts International Film Festival (New York).
Free Parking (Frei Parken)
With a budget of just $2,000, director Bernhard Jasper describes the frustrating experience of not finding a parking place. The film—shot in six days at a shopping mall in Ludwigsburg, Germany -- shows a frantic young woman in a beat-up Volkswagen Rabbit facing down an expensive new Porsche in a heart-pumping showdown for the last parking place in the civilized world. Fasten your seatbelts and prepare for a breathtaking race to the finish! Free Parking was shown at Munich International Film Festival, Montreal World Festival and BBC British Short Film Festival, among others.
Larger than Life
At the time it was produced, Larger than Life was the most expensive short film ever made in New Zealand -- at a cost of $65,000. Ellory Elkayem is now working on a feature length version of this film that shows a woman moving into her new home. The bad news is that the chemical plant nearby just had a toxic spill, and it looks like the woman isn't the only one who's moving in. Get ready for some creepy special effects as her problems get bigger. Larger than Life has been included in Telluride Film Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, Hamburg Film Festival, Norwegian Short Film Festival, Portugal Vila Do Conde Short Film Festival and Auckland Film Festival.
This Guy is Falling
Michael Horowitz and Gareth Smith worked on this film for three years. The two former UCLA students created a feast for the eyes showing the impact of a careless flick of an anti-gravity switch to our planet. Can love pull its weight in this chaos of zero gravity? Among others, this short film has appeared at Sundance Film Festival, Aspen Shorts Fest, Mill Valley Film Festival, Resfest, Los Angeles Independent Film Festival and 1 Reel Film Festival (Seattle).
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