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April 18, 2006
Back Row Opener Redux
The Back Row Film Series got off to an encouraging start Saturday night at GPS’ Evans Auditorium as a somewhat small yet enthusiastic crowd enjoyed a wide range of music videos and short films by local and regional students and independent filmmakers.
Highlights included Stratton Tingle’s Best Friend and Krusty by Jim Burer. Local musicians Travis Knight (Actress), Brad Merrill (Night of the Wolf) and Josh Boutwell (Tremont Beauty Salon) came together as Sound and Vision to debut their very rocking original score to Edwin S. Potter’s 1903 film, The Great Train Robbery, and Corey Critser, who showed two films -- the funny short A Plague of Tics and a music video for Unwed Sailor’s “Cuckoo Clocks” — took home the first annual Hadrienne Kathleen Mendonsa Young Filmmaker’s Award. Hadrienne’s father Andy was on hand to present the award and a short film by her brother Asher was also shown.
Also on hand was Nashville director Seth Worley, director of the evening’s main feature, Suburban Tumbleweed, the very entertaining story of a 12 year-old zombie-fighting superhero. Worley talked a little bit about the film, relaying stories about the perils of shooting with broken gear and was ecstatic that the audience “laughed a lot.” (The film can be watched in its entirety on the Web at www.NoiseBoxMedia.com.)
Immediately preceding Tumbleweed was the premier of a trailer for the next Lazy Bear Productions movie, Killing Elvis, starring Kashad Moore. While Lazy Bear’s Ryan DiGiorgi and Logan Lee are extremely tight-lipped about the near full-length project, if the trailer is to be believed, the film will be parody of Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill series. Watch it and decide for yourself at www.KillingElvisMovie.com. The film will premiere in Chattanooga this fall.
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