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Dr. Phillip General First Friday Shorts: A Duel to the Death
Dr. Phillip General First Friday Shorts: A Duel to the Death | First Friday Shorts: A Duel to the Death |
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| Written by Dr. Phillip | ||
| Mar 08, 2009 at 12:00 AM | ||
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Last Friday at The Loft Cinema's monthly short film showdown, there was a contest first: a tie. Party host, Max Cannon, declared that the audience was split equally between two films (counting exactly 182 individual clappers in the audience - not an easy feat using only one's ears!). The two winning films were Joel Lopez's "Condom" and Phillip Lybrand's (that's me!) "Batman Versus Superman: A Duel to the Death." Max wasn't going to settle for a tie, though. No, this sort of thing called for creative thinking. Max asked the audience what they thought should be done, and in the spirit of 'Batman vs. Superman,' the first response was "duel to the death!" And Max obliged... kinda. It was decided that the two winning filmmakers would do battle on the stage in front of the rabid audience like two Roman gladiators, but only without the bizarre historically inaccurate British accents. The game? Ro. Sham. Bo. The prize? The $200 monthly prize. And the results were shocking.... Well, maybe not "shocking," but still cool. I actually won the game of ROCK/PAPER/SCISSORS, but The Loft is going to let both films be represented as March 2009 Winner(s) in May at the First Friday Shorts Year-End Spectacular (with a $1,000 grand prize up for grabs). I haven't been able to locate the other film online as of yet, but if Joel or anybody has a link to it - SEND IT OVER! Joel's film was really funny, and I hope that he comes back to the event next month - the contest has been missing out on quality films for the past few months, so it was very nice to have an abundance this time around! I love you, Doc
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