Sixty Second Film Festival

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I like sixty seconds.

It is a nice even number and it has the letter x in it, which makes it forever cool and fashionable.

Here is what we’ll do

We’ll get together at the Vashon Theater April 28 from about 4pm-6pm.

We’ll hang out with some friends, drink some wine, eat some popcorn, and then we’ll watch somewhere between 20-30 sixty second films on the big screen.

Afterwards, we’ll drink a bit more and laugh or cry about what we saw and then, anyone in the mood, can carry to good times over to the Snapdragon.

Upload your sixty second film

Want to be rich and famous? Then upload your 60 second masterpiece to vimeo and then send me the link: 60@thevashonline.com

Films submitted to the festival can be shot anywhere, by anyone, at anytime.

  1. shoot your video
  2. upload it to Vimeo
  3. email us the link: 60@thevashonline.com
  4. we’ll pick from the best ones to screen it at the festival on April 28

The gory details

  1. Submit your film by April 27, 2012.
  2. TheVashonLine editors will curate the submissions down to the best films.
  3. If you don’t want to be left out, RSVP a seat for the film fest. It’s free.

The Screening

This is a free event open to all ages. It will be a good time had by all. I sincerely hope you can make it.

Odds & Ends

Once again, email the link here: 60@thevashonline.com

What kinds of films are we looking for? 
Try for beautiful, funny, meaningful, deep, shallow, weird or scary.
You can submit a film that was shot off Vashon, you don’t need to be a Vashon resident.

Submissions by all ages are gladly accepted.

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  • http://thevashonline.com Matt Lawrence

    Thanks everyone for your huge support for this first event. I am super excited for it.

    If you plan on going, I encourage you to RSVP using the Eventbrite tool, otherwise – tell a friend about it.

    The film submissions will be live after the event.

  • http://vimeo.com/markrigler Mark Rigler

    Looks like I’m going to miss a great afternoon, good luck with the event

    Mark

    • http://thevashonline.com Matt Lawrence

      Thanks Mark – people LOVED the dancing decay of fruit. Glad to have you in the fest this year.

  • http://yousefkawar.com Yousef Kawar

    Good luck Matt

    • http://thevashonline.com Matt Lawrence

      Thanks Yousef – your film awed the audience. Really glad you submitted. Thanks again.

  • http://kf7qci.com/ Maggie Sudduth

    Looking forward to the event this afternoon!

  • http://thevashonline.com Matt Lawrence

    Thank you all for making this event so fun to produce.

    In case you missed it, here is the link to all the films that screened at the festival. 60 Second Channel – I encourage you to “like” the films and comment on them, letting the filmmakers know you saw it at the fest.

    I didn’t realize it until much later, I had no expectations about how the event would play out.

    But if I had, the filmmakers and the audience would have far surpassed anything I could have come up with.

    Having PSE, Theo, Manny’s and Andrew Will on board as sponsors was a huge comfort, as it allowed me the ability to produce the event the way I wanted to.

    One of my favorite things about the event was the level of audience participation.

    At one point, @SudsyMaggie tweeted me during the event (that is just her way) and asked me if I was recording it.
    @SudsyMaggie tweet

    I didn’t record it, by the way. The thought didn’t even dawn on me.

    Though, it would be great to give the reactions to the filmmakers, because I know they would have loved to hear how well their films were received.

    I guess we’ll just have to do it again.

    A couple of interesting little tidbits:

    1. My wife, Mary Lawrence submitted a film of our daughter reciting a Robert Louis Stevenson poem, unbeknownst to him, Elouise’s grandfather Dennis McCabe also submitted a poem, The Jabberwocky.

    The Jabberwocky

    2. Pat Smalley, one of the filmmakers is a friend from when I was like 5. (Thank you internet.)

    3. Raechel Wolcott, who manages the Vashon Theatre was driving past Brian Hilderbrand as he shot his sixty second film about Andy Fuller and the big box head. (Another audience favorite.)

    The best way to stay in touch with the goings on of this project is to sign up for the newsletter. I have a few more good ideas, and I would like to share them with you.

    Oh, and HUGE props to the Vashon Theatre for being so absolutely incredibly awesome to work with.

  • http://www.thoughtshotconsulting.com Karrie Kohlhaas

    From sweet to deep to WTF, the experience of the first Sixty Second Film Festival on Vashon was worth the ferry ride from the mainland. After the last images flickered (sic) from the screen, I panned the room and saw wide eyes on more than one face and then heard a voice: “Wow, this makes me think about what I would want to say in 60 seconds…” A thought that seemed to cross all of our minds.

    It’s not just about a shrinking cultural attention span. The time constraint encourages the maker to choose in a way that’s brief, but meaningful. We let minutes flit in our lives by but what if we only had a minute. What would we devote it to?

    Whether a statement about the construction of the bologna sandwich, the end of a life, or the danceable stylings of decomposing fruit, art does not live in time but in the minds of those who have experienced it. I can still see a figure being wrapped in an unknown material by another pedaling in circles…What does it mean? What does it MEAN?!

    Definitely do it again. Long live brevity and live events, both vastly underrated soul food.

    • http://thevashonline.com Matt Lawrence

      Thank you immensely Karrie. I love this part of your comment:

      “Art does not live in time but in the minds of those who have experienced it.”

      Funny, how the limiting nature of time opened the doors of possibility.

      The time constraint was a low barrier to entry and is what allowed the vast majority of the filmmakers to feel like they could submit.

      Conversely, I remember one afternoon in film school with Herb Di Gioia. He told us we were to interview a subject, and edit it down to seven minutes. We were horrified! How could we possibly make a film in seven minutes. He said, “Fine. Now you have to cut it to three minutes. Care to make it one?”

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  • Marc Pease

    60 on Vashon was a fun, unique, energy filled event which should take place again. Thanks Matt.

    • http://thevashonline.com Matt Lawrence

      Thanks Marc! Great to have your submission and your presence.