The winner of the "Auteur" category tells a sad story.
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When Twitter first released the 6-second Vine video format, a lot of people wondered just how much information you could convey in such a short amount of time. It turns out the answer is a lot, if you do it right.
A Tribeca Film Festival competition has brought a sense of legitimacy to the new realm of Vine filmmaking. Some of the winners are wild, wacky, and just a little bit worrying.
The “Genre” category welcomed everything from Westerns to sci-fi to LOLcats. The winner, however, is definitely in the horror genre. “LazerAndDonald Close Shave” crams a lot of creepy into just 6 seconds. Juror and famous filmmaker Penny Marshall says, “The use of lighting is amazingly set for this 6 second Vine.”
The contest put a call out through Twitter and racked up 400 entries that the panel of judges had to comb through. Besides Marshall, the jurors also included actor Adam Goldberg and comedy Web site 5-Second Films. The winners each received a $600 prize, $100 for each second of film.
The “Animate” category is described as being for “filmmakers that saw Vine as the perfect medium for some creative animation and don’t want to deal with the live-action riffraff.” The… [Read more]
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