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So besides being a cubicle monkey in a vast sea of cubicle farms in my spare time I make short-films in 24 and 48 hour competitions here in Toronto a few times a year. This is more or less a summary of the films I've done. They're all pretty damn silly but I enjoy them.

So as a quick background. These challenges started with an organization called Toronto Film challenge. The idea is to get teams of filmmakers from a variety of background working on a tight deadline to make a film with a predetermined criteria such as; genre, theme, character trait, a prop and a line of spoken dialogue. Since starting these, my team has placed 1st in two of the challenges. Typically I do all the writing and a large portion of the conceptual work. Sometimes I direct, act or record sound. My team members often change, but there is a core group that's always consistent.

Lets have a look!

Film Number 1 - Legends of Music:The Burning Spurs



This is the first film and it's is goddamned silly. Made for the summer 2005 48hour competition.
It followed this criteria;
Prop: Mini umbrella picks
Soundbite: Cuckoo Clock
Location: Train Station
Character Trait: Creative
Colour: Sepia
Time Limit: 12min

We ended up making the top 10. There is huge difference the quality of our films. I'll post the next one and I'll be adding more tomorrow.

Film Number 2 - Subject 11




This is the second film we've done. Still the quality isn't up to our usual par yet. This was the fall 2006 24 hour challenge. Every team did a horror film for this challenge.

It followed this criteria;
Prop: Bottle of TFC poison, rubber gloves.
Theme: Horror
Genre: Any branch of horror (we chose zombie)
Spoken Line: "Legend"
Time Limit: 6 min


We get better as the years progress and coming up in April our winning film will be competing internationally. Anyways I'll be posting more of them you can see for yourself.

HUZZAH!