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Guerrero scores with ‘Therapy,’ and musical zombies cry foul
No surprise that Austin moviemakers do well in the ocean of filmmaking contests cluttering the Internet and beyond.
Austinite Jeff Guerrero is one of the talented and lucky. He’s one of 15 finalists in the Doorpost Film Project, picked from an international pool of aspiring directors.
What it means: Guerrero, who co-starred in the hit Austin comedy “Chalk,” gets $10,000 to make a second film. If he beats out the 14 others during a September screening, he’ll be given $100,000 and a trip to Hollywood to meet producers.
What Doorpost is: “A short filmmaking contest aimed at discovering and developing filmmakers capable of producing films that inspire and influence, rather than simply entertain.” … Guerro and his fellow contestants “have each been given $10,000 to produce a final-round short film, (eight to 15 minutes) based on the designated topic of hope …”
Guerrero’s round-one short film, “Therapy” — “one man struggles to express himself and ultimately finds his voice with the help of some unconventional finger puppets” — addresses the subject of freedom.
Watch “Therapy” here.
Jeff Guerrero
Here’s a fishy tale:
The Austin makers of the zombie spoof “Z: A Zombie Musical” tell us that they sent their film to Troma, pioneers of fun camp-trash, but were turned down because of its own zombie movie “Poultrygeist” Night of the Chicken Dead”.
The “Z” people continue:
“Well, since that time they ‘revised’ their imdb.com listing for the great ‘Cannibal: The Musical’ and stole our marketing tagline of: ‘All Singing! All Dancing! All Zombies!’ with their own version, which appeared on NONE of the ‘Cannibal’ marketing/DVD packaging in the past! Check check out their purloined version of our tagline here.
Troma’s got some ‘splaining to do …
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By Nada Zombie
June 30, 2008 5:40 PM | Link to this
They ought to change the name of their movie to Z: The Movie That Won’t Die. I don’t know what kind of pull they have with the press, but I, for one, am tired of hearing about it.
Besides, Z is a steaming (blank).