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

Fri Oct 31 07:55:45 CDT 2014

Good work! Really enjoyed Halloween and will check out the others.

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:47 AM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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>

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