The TEN Festival Trailer Inspiration
2. Phantom Love
A 2008 surreal drama about an alienated family set in Koreatown, Los Angeles and Rishikesh, India. Directed by Nina Menkes. Director of Photography, Chris Soos. Starring Marina Shoif and Juliette Marquis.
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4. Death by Hanging (絞死刑) is a 1968 film directed by Ōshima Nagisa, acclaimed for its innovative Brechtian techniques and complex treatments of guilt and consciousness, justice, and the persecution of ethnic Koreans in Japan.
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The Thing With Two Heads (1972) part blacksploitation part socially minded message film, would seem a hard film to market. But this sells it. The makers seem aware that it will become a cult film with the writer of the trailer putting in obviously meant to be funny narration. The film shows exactly what one will get from this film (silly lines, ridiculous effects and action) without letting the audience feel as tho they saw everything in the trailer. Very well done.
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So you are making a film. You are writing in notebooks, sketching storyboards, collecting script elements on your laptop, making test cuts, imagining and curating and commissioning music. You are eating, sleeping, breathing, sweating and dreaming a process that will one day lead to a moment when you shout ‘action!’ and the camera begins to record for the first time.
The TEN festival celebrates films in this embryo state. Ten’s mission is to help a new generation of filmmakers take those all-important first steps toward making their first feature film a reality by bringing professional exposure to the filmmakers’ pitches, seeding the most promising project with prize money, and opening up traditional industry and new media channels for the top ten.
The festival itself is comprised of short films as movie-trailers or teasers to films that don’t yet exist. If you have a feature film concept you want to bring to light, you make the trailer first as a ‘pitch’ for it, and submit it to the festival. It costs $10 to enter. You’ll be asked to add some production details (because we want to see that you are serious about getting this film made, and not just lost in wild imagination). Out of the total submissions, 20 finalists will be selected…
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Bubble is a movie directed by Steven Soderbergh. It was shot on high-definition video and was made for a relatively small budget of $1.6 million. It also featured some unusual production aspects.
In traditional terms, the movie has no script. All lines were improvised according to an outline written by screenwriter Coleman Hough, who previously teamed with Soderbergh on Full Frontal. Bubble was also shot and edited by Soderbergh under the pseudonyms Peter Andrews and Mary Ann Bernard, respectively.
The film utilizes non-professional actors recruited from the Parkersburg, West Virginia / Belpre, Ohio area where the film was shot. Lead Debbie Doebereiner was found working the drive-through window in a Parkersburg KFC, for example.
Bubble was released simultaneously in movie theaters and on the cable/satellite TV network HDNet Movies on January 27, 2006. The DVD was released a few days later on January 31.
The Girlfriend Experience is a 2009 experimental drama film shot in New York City. It is directed by Steven Soderbergh and stars adult film actress Sasha Grey. A rough cut was screened at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2009. The film has also been made available on Amazon Video on Demand as a pre-theatrical rental. Soderbergh mentioned Michelangelo Antonioni’s Red Desert and Ingmar Bergman’s Cries and Whispers as influences. The film is also notable because it was produced for 1.3 million dollars and was shot with a relatively inexpensive RedOne camera.
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Bad Education (Spanish: La mala educación) is a 2004 Spanish film directed by Pedro Almodóvar about two reunited childhood friends (and lovers) in the vein of a murder mystery. Sexual abuse by Catholic priests, transsexuality, drug abuse, and a metafiction are also important themes and devices in the plot.
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Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film, directed by and starring Orson Welles. The film is widely considered the greatest of all time and is particularly praised for its innovative cinematography, music and narrative structure. Citizen Kane was Welles’ first feature film. The film was nominated for Academy Awards in nine categories; it won an Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) by Herman Mankiewicz and Welles. It was released by RKO Pictures.
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Dr. Strangelove is a black comedy film directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott, and featuring Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens and Tracy Reed. Loosely based on Peter George’s Cold War thriller novel Red Alert (aka Two Hours to Doom), Dr. Strangelove satirized the nuclear scare.
The story concerns an unhinged US Air Force general who orders a first strike nuclear attack on the Soviet Union, and follows the President of the United States, his advisors, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a Royal Air Force (RAF) officer as they try to recall the bombers to prevent a nuclear apocalypse, as well as the crew of one B-52 as they attempt to deliver their payload.
In 1989, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film “culturally significant” and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.
Mr. Sardonicus (1961)
Mr. Sardonicus is a horror film produced and directed by William Castle. It tells the story of Sardonicus, a man whose face becomes frozen in a horrifying grin while robbing his father’s grave to obtain a winning lottery ticket. He tries to force a doctor to cure him, but…
Corruption (1968)
Corruption is a British film directed by Robert Hartford-Davis, from a screenplay by Derek Ford and Donald Ford, and featuring Peter Cushing, Sue Lloyd, Noel Trevarthen, Kate O’Mara, David Lodge, Wendy Varnals, Billy Murray, and Vanessa Howard. B-classic.
Brief Encounter (1945)
Brief Encounter is a 1945 British film directed by David Lean about the mores of British suburban life, centring on a housewife for whom real love (as opposed to the polite arrangement of her marriage) was an unexpectedly “violent” thing. The film stars Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway and Joyce Carey. The screenplay is by Noël Coward, and is based on his 1936 one-act play Still Life. The soundtrack prominently features the Piano Concerto No. 2 by Sergei Rachmaninoff, played by Eileen Joyce.
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Eyes Wide Shut is an American/British neo-noir drama film directed, produced and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1926 novella Traumnovelle (Dream Story) by Arthur Schnitzler. It was Kubrick’s last film before his death. The slightly surreal story, set in and around New York City, follows the sexually charged adventures of Dr. Bill Harford (Tom Cruise), who is shocked by the revelation by his wife, Alice (Nicole Kidman), that she had contemplated an affair a year earlier.
Sin City (2005)
Sin City (full title: Frank Miller’s Sin City) is an American crime thriller film written, produced, and directed by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez. It is a film noir based on Miller’s graphic novel series of the same name.
The film is primarily based on three of Miller’s works: The Hard Goodbye, about a man who embarks on a brutal rampage in search of his one-time sweetheart’s killer; The Big Fat Kill, which focuses on a street war between a group of prostitutes and a group of mercenaries; and That Yellow Bastard, which follows an aging police officer who protects a young woman from a grotesquely disfigured serial killer. The movie stars Bruce Willis, Alexis Bledel, Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Clive Owen, Michael Clarke Duncan, Rosario Dawson, Benicio del Toro, Michael Madsen, Nick Stahl, Powers Boothe, Josh Hartnett, Jaime King, Brittany Murphy, Elijah Wood and Rutger Hauer, among others.
Sin City opened to wide critical and commercial success, gathering particular recognition for the film’s unique coloring procession, which rendered most of the film in black and white but retained or added coloring for select objects. The film was screened at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival in-competition and won the Technical Grand Prize for the film’s “visual shaping”
Lady in the Lake (1947) first large scale POV movie where the camera is the leading man. Robert Montgomery directs and stars in this groundbreaking detective story
Charade (1963)
Charade is a film directed by Stanley Donen, written by Peter Stone and Marc Behm, and starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. It also features Walter Matthau, James Coburn, George Kennedy, Dominique Minot, Ned Glass, and Jacques Marin. It spans three genres: suspense thriller, romance, and comedy.
The film is notable for its screenplay, especially the repartee between Grant and Hepburn, for having been filmed on location in Paris, for Henry Mancini’s score and theme song, and for the animated titles by Maurice Binder. Charade has been referred to as “the best Hitchcock movie that Hitchcock never made.”
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? (1962)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? is a American psychological horror film produced and directed by Robert Aldrich. The screenplay by Lukas Heller is based on the novel of the same name by Henry Farrell. In 2003, the character of Baby Jane Hudson was ranked #44 on the American Film Institute’s list of the 50 Best Villains of American Cinema.
The Blair Witch Project is an American horror film released in 1999. The narrative is presented as a documentary pieced together from amateur footage, filmed in real time. The film was produced by the Haxan Films production company. The film relates the story of three young student filmmakers (Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, and Michael C. Williams) who hike into the Black Hills near Burkittsville, Maryland to film a documentary about a local legend known as the Blair Witch, and subsequently go missing. The viewer is told that the three were never found, although their video and sound equipment (along with most of the footage they shot) was discovered a year later. This “recovered footage” is presented as the film the viewer is watching.
So you are making a film. You are writing in notebooks, sketching storyboards, collecting script elements on your laptop, making test cuts, imagining and curating and commissioning music. You are eating, sleeping, breathing, sweating and dreaming a process that will one day lead to a moment when you shout ‘action!’ and the camera begins to record for the first time.
The TEN festival celebrates films in this embryo state. Ten’s mission is to help a new generation of filmmakers take those all-important first steps toward making their first feature film a reality by bringing professional exposure to the filmmakers’ pitches, seeding the most promising project with prize money, and opening up traditional industry and new media channels for the top ten.
The festival itself is comprised of short films as movie-trailers or teasers to films that don’t yet exist. If you have a feature film concept you want to bring to light, you make the trailer first as a ‘pitch’ for it, and submit it to the festival. It costs $10 to enter. You’ll be asked to add some production details (because we want to see that you are serious about getting this film made, and not just lost in wild imagination). Out of the total submissions, 20 finalists will be selected by the Garage and TEN curation team: these finalists will then be invited to make coherent, full pitches for their productions, covering all aspects from complete budgetary breakdown to coherent script. Garage producers will personally mentor each of the selected finalists in their pitch until they reach professional levels. At this stage, candidates may submit extra audio-visual materials to support their case: actor bios, director notes, production and license necessities, scripts, music and so forth. Much of this extra information can be embedded in the Garage Production Journals channel. The finalists will be given an opportunity at this stage to refine their trailers for the final event.
On the 10th of October 2010, at an as yet undisclosed location in San Francisco, the 20 films will be screened, final pitches will be considered, and 10 will be chosen. A combination of audience vote and a jury of industry professionals will decide on one to get a $10,000 bonus seed fund, based on the excellence of their presentation. All ten finalists, however, will then be brought into The Garage production studio and helped to get their films funded, produced, marketed and distributed by connecting them in each case with the exact resource network that will best help them achieve their goal.
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Trash Humpers
Trash Humpers is a 2009 American drama film directed by Harmony Korine. Using a visual style that mimics a worn VHS home video, the film features a “loser-gang cult-freak collective” and their whereabouts in Nashville, Tennessee. The film won the main prize at one of Europe’s largest and most adventuresome documentary film festivals, CPH:DOX – Copenhagen International Documentary Festival – in November 2009.
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