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

[Mark Thibodeau]

By the way, I make an appearance in SWEET TOOTH - another
Halloween-themed short - playing the semi-titular, candy-poisoning,
would-be serial killer, Sweet Tooth Sullivan!

Jerky

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:43 AM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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