You’re not going to believe this.

Well, actually, you will, I’m sure.

As was documented previously, we made a movie last weekend for the 72hr Film Festival. It was fun!

Thursday night was the big screening of all 30 films. There were some REALLY good ones, some really interesting ones, and a few that you ended up reading your program instead of watching. The one that won the audience choice was called South 5, and detailed the adventures of a team that made sure that visitors from Seattle had a bad day in Tacoma if they were down here to look at houses. It was hilarious. Another of my favorites was inexplicably in German and featured ‘The Ecrutiating Eyeball’ that watches us all. It was so great! Tacoma looked COOL.

Our movie was in the second half, and we knew by this time that it was going to be one of the better ones. I was so nervous when ours came on, I was squeezing the life out of SB’s hand. But then…people liked it. We got big laughs! And a big Awww! And lots of applause! Sitting in the dark, in the giant old timey theater with our movie flickering off of people’s smiling faces, I was really proud of us. I no longer felt like our movie was just ‘not that bad’.

At the end, the lights came up, and a guy got up on stage and started giving instructions for turning in your ballots and spieling about The Grand. SB and I figured we had enough time for a smoke while they counted the votes, so we went outside into the lovely night, enjoyed the twinkly city, and took some pictures.

When we finished and went back inside, we heard people clapping, so we raced in and saw them giving out the Best Picture award, handing the filmakers big, fat, white envelopes full of gift certificates and a cool trophy. Then they gave away the audience choice award, and it was over. As we were walking out to the lobby, I said to SB that I’d thought they were giving out awards for the best use of the elements, too. Huh, we thought. 

We went outside to wait for Erik, our director, to say thanks and goodbye. As we’re standing there, smoking again, he comes up to us with this huge grin on his face…and two big, fat, white envelopes in his hands. And we just had to roll with it. We immediatly started acting excited and pretended like we knew about it. We were all, oh, let me see the trophy, so WE COULD READ WHICH AWARD WE HAD WON.

Our movie won two TWO! of the awards and we missed it. Erik had to go up and accept the awards by himself, and we missed out on our moment of glory. Because we were smoking.

So kids, the moral of the story is, smoking not only causes lung cancer and heart disease, it also causes you to miss out on major awards.

…The More You Know…

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Here is a link to the movie on Google. We won the award for Best Use of Location (a Tacoma Landmark) and Best Use of Action (throwing, tossing, or dropping). If you have 4:38 to spare, check it out. I hope you like it!

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Here is a link to Exit133′s Film Festival recap which includes a link to South 5. SO FUNNY.