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Chinese Takeout has been busy! Jonah Ansell came to us with a script and one of our favorite things: a crazy deadline (Sundance’s deadline, to be precise)! A few insanely busy months later, we’ve finished a new animated short film. Here’s the trailer and here’s the website. Stay tuned for news and the eventual online premiere of CADAVER!

Awesome awards update:

“How The Spot Was Won” (our entry into the 2011 48 Hour Film Project) won the following awards in San Francisco:

Best Use of Genre, Best Sound Design (Tie), Best Editing, Best Direction, Audience Choice Award (Screening Group A), & BEST FILM!

“Woolf” (our entry into the 2011 24 Hour Film Race) won the following awards in San Francisco and Worldwide:

San Francisco:

Best Writing (Tie), Best Editing (Tie), Best Sound Design (Tie), Best Visual Effects, Audience Choice Award, & 1st Runner Up

International:

Best Visual Effects & BEST FILM!

It’s Chinese Takeout’s 3rd year of speed filmmaking and I think we’re starting to get the hang of it!  Our entry in the San Francisco 24 Hour Film Race (“Woolf”) won the Audience Award and was awarded 1st Runner-Up by the Judges!

Our entry in the San Francisco 48 Hour Film Project was well-received at the screening and was even featured on the Richmond SF Blog and on SFist!  Awards are expected to be announced in early July.

In other news, Extra Lives TV continues on in a somewhat limited capacity as I’ve been hard at work as a Script Coordinator at Pixar Animation Studios!

Chinese Takeout entered the 48 Hour Film Project for the 2nd year in a row, and we feel pretty proud of our short. Please check it out below and let me know what you think! Also, my gaming podcast with Winnie has been focused on games in the app store for the past 2 months and, thanks to being featured in the iTunes store, is getting almost 10,000 downloads an episode! Make sure to check that out at extralives.tv, facebook.com/extralivestv, and youtube.com/extralivestv. If you or someone you know might want to advertise to 10,000 iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad gamers every week… let me know!

We (and by we, I mean Chinese Takeout) won the San Francisco 24 Hour Film Race’s Audience Award! I think we’re starting to get the hang of this speed filmmaking thing…

We had 24 hours to create a film with the following 2 givens:

Theme: Goodbye

Surprise Element: a Wig

Here’s the result:

I’ve started a new video podcast with friend Winnie Tong. It’s called Extra Lives and its goal is to cover gaming (both digital and non-digital) and gaming culture from both the male and female perspectives.

Please check out the Extra Lives site (extralives.tv) and our channels on YouTube (youtube.com/extralivestv) and Vimeo (vimeo.com/extralives).

And if you’ve got 10 minutes right now, watch our 2nd episode right here and right now:

My summer of speed filmmaking continues!

I just returned from a brief stint teaching filmmaking at a sleep-away summer camp (http://ucamps.org) down in the Santa Cruz mountains. As one of the instructors with the film department, I had the exciting and exhausting opportunity to help campers ranging from grades 2 through 12 make their very own short films in less than a week. Oh, and I had the pleasure of doing this 5 weeks in a row…

One of my favorite things to do with the kids was make music videos. Here’s one of my favorites:

If you’d like to see the other films made this summer, here’s a link to uCamps’ YouTube channel.

On a side note, Chinese Takeout won Best Writing (tie) in the San Francisco 48 Hour Film Project with our short film”1/3″ (watch it in HD here)!

So, as the end of summer looms nearer, I’m definitely looking forward to moving on to some less-rushed projects… But, as my friends over at 12films12weeks.com and I have been learning, speed filmmaking is both highly addictive and extremely rewarding.