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On the weekend of January 23rd-25th, Exile will compete in the 48 Hour Film Project international competition. Only teams which won the best of their city are allowed to compete. This time we have three days to make a movie. We have vowed to always stick to the rules and never pre-plan for these events, so there is no telling what our film will be. Stay tuned to see what we come up with.

Exile won this years 48 Hour Film Project in Providence. If you are unfamiliar with the project, you can learn about it here:

http://www.48hourfilm.com/

Here were the elements:
Character: Monte or Monica Chaney, Hairstylist
Prop: a pear
Line of Dialogue: “If you see him again, tell me.”

For our Genre we drew “Film de Femme”. We felt confident that that would be nice and easy (we had five women on our team). Too confident. I had always secretly wanted to draw the wildcard. We quickly decided to gamble and go with the wildcard. Wildcards tend to be notoriously awful genres. We decided to give it a shot.

We were handed “Political Drama” for our genre. The whole team cringed in terror at the thought of making a Political Drama. We should have stuck with the chick flick.

We pushed ahead anyway and wrote throughout the night. I woke up at 6am with a script that made absolutely no sense to anyone. By Noon on Saturday we had shot 1% of the movie. We spent most of the day in an Eddy’s bar shooting while people tried to unwind with a beer. The patrons were incredibly kind and quiet. We finished at 6pm and had shot only 30 percent of our movie.

We went back to Deb and Harrison Condit’s house which doubled as at least twelve different locations and ended up taking home the award for “Best production design.” There we shot until 4:30 in the morning and then passed out from exhaustion.

The editors Jose Reyes and Phil Kruta worked throughout the night. I woke up to see a good chunk of the cut. We worked the rest of the day and despite a few scares and some minor computer errors, (and one minor freakout by me) we got it in with fifteen minutes to spare.

We all watched the movie last night and had an amazing time. And bizarrely enough, the movie made sense.

You can see it here:

Thanks to everybody involved. Special thanks to Deb and Harrison Condit for their hospitality, as well as Deb’s terrific performance and Harrison’s great song. Also thanks to Eddy’s Bar and the

The list of thanks goes on and on:

The Crew: DP: Dave Kruta; Lighting: Scott Crowningshield; Sound: Dana Neugent; co-producer; Michele Metivier; AD: Beth Czerny; PA: Kevin Chamberlain.

The Actors: Dan Dawson, Jon Audette, Deb Condit, Jonathan Jacobs, Kathy Knight, Michele Metivier, Joe Henry, Erin Megin, Patrick Gallagher & John “Chach” Dziadosz.

The Editors: Philip Kruta & Jose Reyes, compositor – Dave Kruta, Music – Josh Csehak

Plans are in the works for a “Final Cut” with Color correction, sound mix, etc. Stay tuned for updates

Here is the full notice about the project:

http://www.48hourfilm.com/providence/2008.php