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Winners and weirdness
The top 10 shorts from this year’s 48-Hour Film Project contest screen at 7 p.m. July 23 at the Arbor.
A panel of judges tapped the 10 from a final batch of 25 shorts (which would have been 27 shorts, but two teams missed the deadline). Films will vie for awards in 12 categories, from acting to costumes, and the best film will compete nationally.
How the contest, sponsored by Austin’s Reel Women, ran: Teams drew a genre and were given a character, prop and line of dialogue that had to be included in their film. They then had one weekend to finish the entire thing, scripting down to scoring.
Tix for this greatest-hits show are $10 and go on sale Wednesday at www.reelwomen.org. Also available at the door.
Fantastic Fest — that smash movie bash about all things sci-fi, horror, animation and fantasy — announces more crazy titles for its Sept. 20 through 27 run at the Alamo South:
A few:
“Exte: Hair Extensions” (bizarro Japanese horror with lots of hair)
“A Dirty Carnival” (Asian mob madness)
“End of the Line” (supernatural carnage in a subway tunnel; director Maurice Devereaux will be there to present)
“Finishing the Game” (Justin Lin’s spoof about finding Bruce Lee’s stand-in)
“Sex And Death 101” (Simon Baker, Winona Ryder and Patton Oswalt star in a sci-fi noir directed by Daniel Waters)
“Wrong Turn 2” (Director Joe Lynch is there to present the sequel to “Wrong Turn,” in which reality TV goes cannibal)
Get badges and all the films announced so far at www.fantasticfest.com.
Guess what movie this is …
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