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Here is Echoplanar’s 2008 entry into the 48 Hour Film Project Boston.

Thanks to the cast (Christopher Player, Nathanael Hevelone, Vihann Kong, Le Nguyen, Khoa Nguyen, Julie Kong, Troy Turick, Mai-Khuyen Nguyen & Allison Stevens); and crew (Allison Stevens who produced, Nathanael Hevelone who directed and Christopher Player who did foley work & assistant editing; also to the others who worked tirelessly on this but prefer their anonymity). Lastly, we’re extremely grateful to the musicians - Mediafriend and Action Set.

I’m just back from the screening and post-screening celebration for our new short, “It’s OK to Be Afraid”. Overall I’m more or less pleased with how it went. The reception wasn’t wildly enthusiastic, trending towards individual level bewilderment which is just about what we expected. Now we’ll wait and see what happens - I’m not particularly holding my breath for any of the general awards.

I’ve had this feeling the last couple of years that the films we make aren’t really appropriate for the 48 Hour venue yet we keep coming back to do them - there’s something about the intensity of the process that’s wholly captivating, even if our end product doesn’t fit into the SNL-lite mode that seems to be normative. Regardless, I’m happy with what we showed from a visual, technical & audio perspective and am more than happy to discuss the plot as I understand it with anyone who cares to. I’ll post the film before I leave tomorrow night - please check back if you’re interested in seeing it.

One side note - I just wanted to say that Ben Guaraldi is a good and decent man who went well out of his way to accommodate us by getting us in tonight on very short notice. Many, many thanks to him. Also thanks to everyone who came out and that one dude we don’t know who voted for us.

We’ve officially switched our screening for “It’s OK to Be Afraid” to 7pm, Tuesday the 8th. Buy your tickets here! Ancillary benefit to switching- Michelle Barbera and We’re Making a Movie (of The Guts and the Glory fame) is now in our group. Collateral downside- we’re no longer grouped with our Open Screen 友人そして敵 Jeff Stern and Stand Up Mandy. Actually know that I’ve checked they switched to Group G on 4/15 anyway - that’ll be worth seeing.

I’m really looking forward to seeing whoever can make it out tomorrow. Vote early, vote often, vote without regard towards future political endeavors!!

For the legions waiting with baited breath, we submitted Echoplanar’s 2008 Boston Film Project entry, “It’s OK to Be Afraid”, ridiculously ahead of schedule today. More details will be forthcoming posts sometime after a) I get some sleep and b) the Kansas/Memphis game tomorrow. The screening is still scheduled for Thursday at 7:00, I’m still unsuccessfully trying to change it.

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We’ve got a location. Secret weapon: spotlight! No longer so secret I guess.

Also, footlights.

I’ve been remiss in not really mentioning something that merits actual pimping as opposed to my typical drivel. This weekend will find us shooting Echoplanar’s fifth (!??!?!!) annual entry in the 48 Hour Film Project. Per my recent articulate and thoughtfully reasoned manifesto, things are going to be different this year, as we move away from actors and towards a strike-proof distorted non-reality format.

Our core corps is different and mad better this year after the rickety old riff-raff blew town under false the pretense of “attending ‘graduate school’”. We’re thrilled to have AS writing and shoplifting props & CP doing audio, providing location master keys and scooter stuntz (Chris of course worked with us, exhaustively, on the post-production audio for last year’s entry). I’ll post some preparation updates as the week progresses and of course as time allows this weekend. If you’re interested in coming to the screening (and you are) it’s currently scheduled for April 10th at 7pm at the Kendall Square Cinema (tickets not yet available). I’m trying to move this date since I can’t be there then so try not to get emotionally attached to it.

Echoplanar is confirmed for The 48 Hours Film Project 2008. This year is going to be different, improved, slimmer, trimmer, more pixel-vision, less manager-of-the-week, more after effects, less eating off the floor, more 3D glasses, less whiskey, better sound effects, only one intestinal issue, more textured seatbacks, fewer prima donnas, better smell-o-vision, less following the rules, more compost, less headaches, more potato gun explosions, less body armor, more happiness. Check back for updates this April.

*we ain’t winning shizzle.