We congratulate the winners of the
Storyrocket Screenwriters Contest
that participated during the 2017 Austin Film Festival.
"Best Logline"
Ambitious politician Jack Cowherd never dreamed he’d become ...
Comedy
PG-13
Jack Cowherd wants to be elected governor of Texas. Toward that end he will say or do anything, even climb into ...
Jeff Kerr
Writer
,
"Best overal submission"
Blood is thicker than time.
Drama
Sci Fi
PG-13
1981: A research project into time-travel is derailed when, fearing for his life and worried about the true motivations of the federal ...
Warren Dodds
Writer
London, City of , United Kingdom
"Best Poster"
"Do not go gentle into that good night..."
Film Noir
R
“SHADOW MEN” is a dark noir murder story set in Raleigh, N.C. A madman stalks a young female bank manager and ...
Al Julian
Writer
North Carolina , United States
Sarah Hartman
Director (Film/TV)
United States
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CRONOS (1993) Guillermo del Toro wrote and directed his first feature, Cronos, when he was only 28 years old. With a budget of $2 million, del Toro shot this unforgettable film in about 8 weeks and it went on to win 9 Ariel Awards in Mexico, the Critic’s Prize at France’s Cannes Film Festival, and many other awards. Cronos, set in Veracruz in 1536, is a re-telling of the vampire-monster myth. While the film’s title alludes to the disturbing story of the Greek deity Cronus, who castrated his father and ate his children, the film’s setting hints at the violence […]
When I heard that Coco would be screened at the Excélsior theater in the town of Cabo Rojo in Puerto Rico last December, I quickly added the event to my calendar. In the 19th C., the Excélsior began its life as a traditional theater, opening its doors with the premiere of Salvador Brau y Asencio’s play Héroe y Martir (1871). And even though in 2016 it was converted to a cinema, today the Excélsior, and the art school next to it housed in a building dating to 1903, strike me as welcomed flashbacks to more romantic and humanitarian times. […]
On November 1st, 1946, A Matter of Life and Death premiered in London, England. It had been written, directed and produced by The Archers creative duo, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It was shot in Technicolor and the DP had been Jack Cardiff who in 2001 was awarded an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement as Master of Light and Color. The film premiered at the Leicester Square Empire Theatre a short walk away from Piccadilly Circus. King George VI and his wife, Queen Elizabeth II’s parents, attended. It must have been a “full dress affair” as Conductor 71 (Marius Goring) […]
Philip K. Dick’s Organic Androids In the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) Philip K. Dick describes an Earth that has undergone a human-made cataclysm,“World War Terminus,” and no one remembers why it began or if any side had won. The specific enemy is left unnamed but the author mentions the Pentagon and Rand Corporation, meaning that the USA was at least one of the involved parties. Moreover, the strange dust covering everything, blocking out the sun, and killing most animals had not been a by-product that neither the military nor business interests had included in their “cost” […]
The message, in Roman Jakobson’s Theory of Communication, is what you want to communicate to the receiving end of the conversation. The Romans used the words of Cato the Elder to describe its importance: Rem tene, verba sequentur – grasp the concept, and the words will follow. Albert Einstein delved even deeper in the importance of being able to convey the message in multiple ways, including the simplest, when he said that “You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother”. Awareness on what we want to communicate greatly improves the delivery of the message: […]
Hurricanes make great disaster films. It’s hard to look away as people battle the elements. Often many people die in these films, but we don’t really care, or at least don’t care for long, because we are focused on the heroes, and we know they will make it to the end. Precisely 80 years ago a visually sensational disaster film premiered: The Hurricane(1937). For this film Thomas T. Moulton (1896-1967) won an Oscar for Best Sound Recording. Moulton would go on to win four more Oscars and two Technical Achievement Awards in the field of sound. Moulton was nominated for 15 […]
Taking Diab Fattah’s picture could change everything – it would raise all kinds of red flags regarding Hugo Chavez’ associations with international terrorists and it would shed a light on the threat Venezuela now posed to America’s national security. * * * The camera was pointed straight at Fattah – the anticipation… the fear… all of it made my heart pound so loud I thought everybody in the car could hear it. Once I looked at him, I could not keep my eyes off him. I stared right at him and he right at me, but […]
One of the courses I will be teaching this semester at UPRM’s English Department/Minor in Film Program is all about archetypal supernatural characters. I’ve been teaching this course for some time now and it’s become a favorite among students. But it’s still surprising to me that I now make a living in part thinking, reading and talking about angels, vampires and monsters. HOW DID I GET HERE? When I was doing my B.A. and graduate studies, I read and wrote on “canonical” writers such as Milton, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Chaucer… and I also read Beowulf. which sure is about some […]
We were on the run – I could hear gunshots popping in the distance and the sound of bullets hitting the side of our vehicle. I could feel the engine rev up and down as we swerved around and jumped a few curbs before getting off the road, across a muddy field and onto a narrow highway. We blew through town really fast and my heart started to pound so hard it felt like it was going to blow right out of my chest. I still remember feeling the bitterness of adrenaline as it flooded my mouth and the loud […]
Irony is defined as the ability to say one thing while meaning another. It’s a subtle technique that implies the risk of not being immediately grasped by the audience, while providing an immensely powerful tool for communication by tapping into the mutual understanding and interpretation of context. Not surprisingly, the use of irony is an exquisitely human trait: despite increasing degrees of contextual awareness that can be embedded in computer code, artificial intelligence has the structural limit of a literal understanding of natural language. Context is sometimes an underestimated but extremely important item in the list of the 6 elements […]
