While actor and film director Bill LeVasseur was listening to an NPR segment about Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer (editor Robert Swartwood) last November, he was inspired to visualize the short stories as short films. Eventually, he created the idea for the "Hint Fiction Film Contest."
Producing the contest along with Bill LeVasseur is filmmaker/actor Michael Howard, who runs the Indie film company Invisible Productions.
The film contest will be based upon ten of the stories that appear in the anthology. Congratulations to my co-contributors for having their stories chosen.
There is an entry fee of $25.00 per submission. Once an entry form and fee is received, the entrant will receive two stories to choose from to create a one-minute film. The deadline for submission is January 15, 2012.
The top five submissions of each story will compete in the "Hint Fiction Film" program at the 2012 Vail Film Festival in Colorado. All finalists will receive two filmmaker passes to attend the festival.
The official rules and guidelines can be found here.
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5 comments:
Kathy, I just love the ripples generated by Swartwood's hint fiction project. Art breeding art--wonderful when that happens.
Well that's pretty cool. I'll have to go back and reread these stories.
Hi Anita!
It's been very exciting...the art show based on the stories, and now a film contest! How cool is that?
Hi Charles,
I thought you'd like it! The art show and the film contest are a DIRECT RESULT of the interview Robert Swartwood had on NPR. How exciting for the finalists to attend the Vail Film Fest in Colorado!
I love this idea. It's always fun to visualize a story in film, but I must say I've not made the attempt when reading hint fiction. Now I will!
Hi Lois,
I love it, too! What a great way for someone to break into the film industry!
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