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Austin’s ‘Goomba’ filmmaker speaks
Austin filmmaker Cole Evans might not have won Nintendo’s Short Cuts contest and a trip to the Tribeca Film Festival, but the University of Texas radio-television-film program student probably made a few fans online.
Evans’ film, “The Killing of a No Good Goomba,” created with Johny Riggs, was a finalist in the contest, but failed to place in the top three when winners were announced Tuesday.
The noir short, inspired, Evans says, by the idea of a “C.S.I.” investigation of an animated mushroom’s death, took only five days to write, shoot and edit. “Finding the actors and working around their schedules was tough,” Evans says, “Considering that, I thought we did fairly well.”
Evans and Riggs play multiple parts in the short (Evans plays Donkey Kong as well as Luigi and Waluigi), while classmates at UT and Riggs’ school, Austin Community College, filled out the rest of the cast.
“Goomba” was shot on a Sony HD camera, edited in Final Cut Pro and filmed partially in an alley between Congress Avenue and Brazos Street, near the Paramount Theatre. The interrogation scenes were done inside Riggs’ apartment with a black background.
The filmmakers will be awarded a Nintendo DS game system and a game to play on it. Since Riggs already has a DS, Evans says he’ll get to pocket the system.
Both filmmakers are big Nintendo fans and enjoyed dipping into the company’s wealth of characters. “I love Nintendo,” Evans says, “I grew up on it and like all their stuff. It was fun to play those characters.”
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