Off Topic, but a creation of my own...

[Mark Thibodeau]

Thanks, Dave!

Well, for those who are interested, here are the short films I've been
a part of over the last few years (just under a decade). It's not
exactly a vast body of work, and some of it is rather shoddily put
together due to the circumstances of their creation (explanations
below).

In Summer, 2007, my friend and writing partner Marc Roussel and I
entered the Mobifest "Caught on Camera" contest for best short film
shot entirely on mobile phones. Our entry, which was titled "Alchemy",
won first place! You can see the film here:
http://vimeo.com/41564777

In late October of the same year, Marc and I (and a team of five
others) entered the Toronto 24 Hour Film Challenge, during which we
had to write, shoot, edit and create the music for a 5 minute horror
film in LESS THAN 24 HOURS! Out of over a hundred participating teams,
only 40 managed to finish their films on time. Our film, "Sweet
Tooth", came in 3rd according to the judges - winning us thousands of
dollars worth of movie equipment rental vouchers - and we also won the
Audience Favorite Award at the gala event where all the competing
films were screened... which we were very happy about, seeing as it
turns out that the two films that "beat" us were created by friends of
the judges, by teams who had won pretty much all the previous contests
(of which there had been about a dozen over a fix year span)!
Here's a link to the finished film (fair warning - we wrote and shot
it in a day, so it's kinda rough):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuHihxQQp8U

After "Sweet Tooth", Marc used the prize vouchers to shoot "Remote",
which has won multiple awards over the last couple years. I had a very
minor role in "Remote", but it's still very much worth watching.
Here is a trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh0MB-mU0Sg

And here is the entire film
http://vimeo.com/29814386

About a year and a half later, Marc asked me to come up with a story
for a crime comedy short, so I wrote the story for "The Elusive Man",
which Marc then scripted and directed with another partner, Mark
Sanders.
Here's a trailer I helped cut (I prefer it to the movie!):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQVMDRpIYRo&feature=relmfu

And here is the whole film:
http://vimeo.com/29878731

After "Elusive Man" won a bunch of awards, we were approached by a
producer who wanted us to create a short film centered on the song
"Sweetest Hippopotamus" by one of her performers, named Suitcase Sam
(who just happened to be the producer's son). He sings in the style of
Leon Redbone and Doctor John - Louisiana style slow-and-easy Blues.
It's not my cup of tea, but he's a nice enough guy, and we constructed
a little story to go around his song. We secured BravoFACT funding for
the project, for which I wrote the narration and dialogue. You can
watch the movie here:
http://vimeo.com/36025155

Strangely enough, Sweetest Hippopotamus was chosen to be one of four
nominees for Best Canadian Short Film of 2012 by the Director's Guild
of Canada! We didn't win, but BravoFACT was so happy about the
nomination that we got the maximum possible funding for our next
project, The Last Halloween, many of you have already watched on
Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4MEpR2-vQI

We're currently working on a bunch of new projects so please keep your
fingers crossed for us!

Sincerely,
Mark Thibodeau
aka Jerky

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:31 AM, Dave Monroe
<against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> Finally got to watch this, I'm using an old, borrowed iPad + a similar
> connection, but the first hing I noticed was the production values were well
> above those of the kind of things I see @ many, if not most, short film
> fests, and certainly the at least occasional horror themed ones I catch.
> Didn't take quite the turn I expected (so if/when you ever see my own take
> on this, do please note the "inspired by" credit + the notable differences +
> the absolute lack of profit I'll ever make off of it, so ...). I thought the
> final title credit was kind of cartoony given what came before, but then I
> remembered it was a comic book adaptation and assumed that it was the logo,
> so I'll see if I can get a copy ince I'm out of rehab or assissted living or
> whatever.
>
> I also noticed you have a couple/three other films out, so if you want to
> make our lives easier ...
>
> Keep up the good work!
>
> On Wednesday, October 29, 2014, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Okay, so last year my friends and I created a ten minute short film
>> based on a comic that I drew. It's called The Last Halloween, and it's
>> been making the festival rounds, racking up a few awards (Best Short
>> Film Chicago Horror Film Fest, Best Horror Short PollyGrind Film Fest,
>> a few editing and directing nods, some technical awards).
>>
>> This week, in honor of the season, we decided to make our film
>> available to watch for free on Youtube. So here is the link.
>>
>> THE LAST HALLOWEEN
>
>>
>> Hope you enjoy it!
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> yer old pal Jerky (aka Mark Thibodeau)
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