The results for the 48 Hour Film Project Boston Go Green event are in, and the Malarkey entry How Mobile Apps Saved the World did pretty well, although we didn't get the big prize. The film won "Best Director" and "Best Ensemble Acting", which were both ironic since the directing consisted of one camera shot and most of the actors were non-actors who were interviewed in the Errol Morris style.
Of the 15 Boston entries, ours was named the Runner Up for Best Film which was a heck of a showing for something that was even more of an ad hoc production than is usually the case for a 48 Hour Film Project production. We basically showed up on Saturday with a few pages of notes, a homemade "Interrotron" and the hopes that we could get normal people to make up stuff that we could fit together into a coherent piece. It just goes to show how well the normal people brave enough to go on camera did when asked to riff on stuff, and how good the editing was.
Viewing the slate of movies last Thursday, I felt there were maybe five movies that could have won the Boston group. Two ambitious "serious" pieces, and three which were more funny and crowd pleasing, which was where our film was. The serious ones were a bit too grim and pessimistic, perhaps. Some really funny ones didn't quite fit an environmental theme well enough. The piece that won, Thumbosis, was definitely a deserving winner. It was entertaining and it fit the theme as well as any in our group. If our film had a shortcoming, it was the fit with the environmental theme. Ours occasionally drifted to flights of fancy such as zombie invasions and such.
With that past, onto the next. The regular 48 Hour Film Project is May 6-8.
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