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Mint Films‘ 2009 48 Hour Film Project submission: The Burden. Winner of Best Actress and Best Sound Design awards. 1st runner up for Best Film.
World News Update (Simplified Indefinite Article Version with Commentary)
- A pigeon is faster than broadband. (Yep.)
- A bunch of promising films are to be shown in Toronto. (Michael Caine in an Urban Western? A big-screen biopic about Charles Darwin? Ricky Gervais and Jennifer Garner in a film together? Awesome.)
- A man tries to come off as a strong and capable leader on national television. (That man is Barak Obama.)
- A dead cockroach will freak other cockroaches out. (Would freak me out too.)
- A bunch of people don’t like the idea of giving this one guy the key to the city. (I personally don’t like it either.)
- A toymaker invents a game where you can buy any street in the world. (If I bought every street I’ve ever lived on I’d probably lose.)
- A new mirror is being designed by an internet and technology based company. (I want to look at myself in one.)
Martin Scorsese does a horror picture and it looks pretty good. No gangsters, but we still get a deep dish serving of Leonardo DiCaprio’s Boston accent and a creepy Sir Ben Kingsley. The trailer looks promising. The whole thing is based on a novel written by Dennis Lehane (Mystic River) and should be pretty good. (This is the point where I drop the fact that I’ve met the author.)
Also: a preview for The Burden is up and once we get word from the 48 Hour Film Project we’ll put the whole thing up. I’m excited about this, the entire project was like making a haunted house. There’s something very satisfying in playing with things we fear and trying to illicit a response from the audience. Hopefully we did well.
Watch the preview below in the H’est of D’s.
