b-side.com and Atlanta Film Fest

The complete 2009 Atlanta Film Festival schedule including "The Farm Team" is located at bside.com. The short will screen at 9:35 PM Wednesday Aprill 22 and at 1:45 PM on Friday April 24 in the Doc Shorts Program 2 both at the Landmark Theater in Atlanta.

The Farm Team Screens in Atlanta

Yesterday received notification that "The Farm Team" will be screening this year as part of the 2009 Atlanta Film Festival happening this April 16-25. Im really excited about this one for obvious reasons. Hopefully we will have a great crowd for the screening which should be announced in the coming weeks.

U.S. Premiere of "The Farm Team"

So the U.S. Premiere of my short film "The Farm Team" was this past weekend in Starkville, MS as part of The Magnolia Independent Film Festival . I however wasn't able to attend due to my "day job" which is a hot commodity to have these days I guess. Anyway, turns out "The Farm Team" won for Best Short Documentary! Hell yeah! I got notification late Sunday evening about the win and still cant believe it. Ive been told the award will be in the mail soon enough. I will post a picture asap! Thanks Magnolia Indie Film Fest!!!

The Hollywood Premier Cinemas in Starkville, MS where most of the Magnolia Indie Film Fest is held.

Break Out The Sunscreen!

The Farm Team has been accepted into it's second film festival of this new year. The Sunscreen Film Festival held in St. Petersberg, FL has invited my short film to be a part of it's 2009 lineup. The festival is happening this April 29th till May the 3rd.

The Magnolia Independent Film Festival

"The Farm Team" has been officially accepted into it's first film festival of 2009, The Magnolia Independent Film Festival. The film fest is February 19-21 in Starkville, MS.

Ten-X-Films and Coffee, Hmmm Good.

This Wednesday December 17th @ 7:30PM, Bobb Lovett of Double B Photography has managed to arrange as part of Park Grounds Coffee Shop's Indie Film Series a selection of Ten-X-Films short films to screen inside the coffee shop. They will in turn be followed by locally produced feature film, The Last Goodbye. I will say that I self picked the shorts and tried to mix it up between comedy and experimentation. 

The Velcro Pinch!

Hey recently completed another short film for 2008 entitled "The Velcro Pinch". That makes four total for the year. Anyway, we screened it on December 4th at The Plaza Theater as part of something created by local writer and filmmaker Josh Wilcox called the Doorways Screening. The screening consisted of I believe 5 short films that were all written by Josh and given to various local filmmakers to direct except for one that Josh directed himself called 50/50. I was very surprised by the big turnout of people to show their support and I think most of them got a kick out of our goofy short film. The short features Mike Brune, Damian Dunn and Derek Mize. The supporting cast consists of Robin Spera, Jennifer Caldwell, Melissa Mason-Buck and Kenneth Buck.  We had fun shooting it over two days the weekend before Thanksgiving where it got no warmer than 40 degrees the first and longest day of shooting.

Screengrab of Mike Brune and Damian Dunn

Behind The Scenes with Mike Brune and Director Scott Balzer (me)

More Behind The Scenes (Photos Courtesy of D. Dunn)

The Farm Team on Myspace & Facebook

"The Farm Team" can now be found on Myspace and Facebook. Check it out here!
http://www.myspace.com/farmteamfilm
And here!
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=34219832214&ref=mf

New Website!!!

"The Farm Team" officially has a working website. After toiling around for hours I finally launched http://www.thefarmteamfilm.com

So check it out.

The Farm Team NEW Trailer

My short documentary film The Farm Team has a new trailer online to watch. The film has been completed and hopefully sometime in the new year will be available too view somewhere somehow. I'm working on getting a website up and running solely for the film complete with pictures, screenings, etc.

The Idiot Boxer Lives...In Seattle

Found out today that our short film "The Idiot Boxer" was accepted into the 1st annual Couchfest Film Festival happening in Seattle Washington September 27. I submitted the film a few months back after seeing their call for short films. How could I not submit "The Idiot Boxer" to a film festival called Couchfest! I wish I could make it up there since all the short films are being shown at various generous peoples homes. Never been to Seattle... 

Oh yeah, I sent out an email to all the guys involved in the short...Brian Didsbury who stars in film wrote me back saying "that's fucking sweet...". 

New TEN-X-FILMS Logo

New logo design...inspired by the one and only Saul Bass.

Tibbets' Trust Mentioned On Atlanta Film Fest Blog

Click here for more info:

http://atlfilmfest365.blogspot.com/

New Doc "The Farm Team" Coming Soon

This past June and July I traveled to Mobile, AL to shoot a documentary about the grounds crew of a professional minor league baseball team. The team is the Mobile BayBears in the Southern League (AA) who play at Hank Aaron Stadium and are affiliated with the Arizona Diamondbacks. I am a former minor league baseball groundskeeper and did so for most of the 1990's for three different teams. Ever since making the career move into filmmaking I've always been interested in marrying both my interest in groundskeeping and my passion for making movies. The goal of this documentary is to inform the viewer about what it is these guys go through long before you hear the sound of "Play Ball"! It's an up close and on the field look into what it takes to maintain daily a professional playing surface and battle the always changing elements of mother nature.

"Hoopla" on Atlanta Shorts

Our short film "Hoopla" debuted this weekend on Atlanta's WPBA Ch. 30  "Atlanta Shorts". The episode aired on Saturday 7/26 and Sunday 7/27 and featured a brief interview with me not willing to give too much away about the short's meaning(s).

Tibbets' and AUFF '08

Our short film "Tibbets' Trust" was recently accepted into the 5th annual Atlanta Underground Film Festival happening this August 20-24. This is also the third year in a row TEN-X-FILMS has had a short film at this festival. The Local Shorts Program is on Friday August 22 and begins at 8PM at The Plaza Theatre. Its kind of fitting that the first time anyone saw this short was at this same exact venue last November. And this very well could be it's last public appearance before it officially hits the web, again.

Screening Info

"Tibbets' Trust" 2 Nights

Friday August 23 8 PM Local Short Films The Plaza Theater

Saturday August 24 7 PM Comedy Short Films The Plaza Theater

New Short Film...WTF

This week TEN-X-FILMS got together for a very

impromptu day of short filmmaking. After securing

our location by phone call from Paris, France

we decided to just go ahead and shoot something

with no script, two actors and a swimming pool.

The shoot ended up being four hours of WTF

are we shooting, WTF are we doing and WTF

does this make any sense. But WTF we got it

done, its done being edited, and it awaits all

your WTF were you guys smoking, thinking, 

doing in someone's private swimming pool.

The short is still untitled but it's a cross between

Jacobs Ladder with Tim Robbins and our first

short film The Idiot Boxer. 

Here are some screen grabs BTW.

Eliot Levin (acting debut I think)

Damian Dunn (next time use the ND 64 while shooting this guy)

Where did that beer come from?

"Ms. Leading" Screens at Decatur Film Festival

The festival will be located at the Holiday Inn Select Decatur. We will be there for the screening as well as a planned Q&A . "Ms. Leading" is scheduled to screen at 11:05AM as well as 3:20PM on Saturday May 24th. For more festival info visit the Decatur Film Festival website.

Douches. Film Festival. Cable TV. Oh MY!

This week a commercial parody we did last year surpassed 10,000 views on youtube.com. 

I dont know about you but that's kind of cool. Yeah? No? Anyway here is the original version:

Now here is our version:

Im for hire people. Seriously.

Our short film "Ms. Leading" was accepted into the 

Decatur Film Festival happening May 24 in

Decatur, GA.

"Wild Goose Chase" is now available to watch on Comcast

OnDemand locally in the Atlanta, GA viewing area. And

feel free to also check out our other short "Tibbets' Trust"

also currently OnDemand through Comcast.

Quoted!

While attending the 2008 Atlanta Film Festival I wondered to myself which of the 10-15 films or so would I really come away from seeing and say that one was the my favorite. About half way through the week long event I managed to attend an afternoon screening of "Let Them Chirp Awhile" directed by Jonathan Blitstein. I think I was intrigued by the films premise which I read in the festival's guide. Also I noticed that it was screening as 35 mm print instead of the usual dvd or beta tape used in most festivals. It sunk in during the film that yes I really liked it. And by the end I really knew that I really enjoyed it and the effort made by the filmmakers. It just seemed so different from what alot of young filmmakers are catching up to and doing these days. I later on posted my thoughts and review on the Atlanta Film Fest webpage. Cut to this morning while reading the new blog by the film's director (courtesy of myspace bulletin) and low and behold I see that he has quoted me (rushmore92) from my review about the film. I guess this is my first time being quoted on the internet. Woohoo! Here is the films myspace page followed by the films blog. My full quote and the director's thoughts are under the title "New and Approved Blog" heading (scroll halfway down).

http://myspace.com/letthemchirpawhile

http://letthemchirp.blogspot.com