Dan and Jacob’s film sweeps Ed Wood festival
At USC there is something called the Ed Wood Film Festival. Each year, dozens of student teams enter the contest, and are given 24 hours to write, shoot, and edit a film based on a certain set of parameters.
This year’s film was supposed to be related to the theme “You asked for it” and somehow involve sunglasses. Despite both Dan and I having plans the following day, and neither of us having a camera, we decided to enter the festival.
Our film, “Grimlak Attak,” was written, shot (on a webcam), and edited between 1am and 8am the night before the festival. It was one of 20 films selected to be screened, and also won the top two awards at the festival: the Audience Choice Award, and the juried Best Picture Award. The judges were John August (screenwriter of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Big Fish, Go), and Scott Alexander (screenwriter of Ed Wood, The Man on the Moon).
Update!
Looks like the USC Daily Trojan wrote an article about the festival, and mentioned our short:
“Grimiak Attak,” a short film created by Dan Lippert, a junior majoring in theatre and Jacob Reed, a senior majoring in cinema-television critical studies, was one of the simplest entries, highlighting an intoxicated and fearful astronaut’s monologue, but it left everyone in stitches and won the two biggest awards of the night: Best Picture and Audience Choice to an eruption of applause.
amazing what you can do with a web cam and great writing.