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We have been very busy lately producing and editing some of our best work to date. We have also been working hard with Tampa Wonderworks’ sister company, Leftover Films as we put our team together for this year’s48 Hour Film Project

The 48 Hour Film Project is the largest international film competition. This is Tampa’s second year in the competition and Leftover will be competing again. Last year we took home “best use of character” and “best graphics” honors with out film “Last Chance.” This year we are looking to win and have a chance at international distribution. Some of Last Years winning films were even shown at Cannes!

On Friday July 18th at 7pm we meet at the kickoff party being held at Limey’s Pub(if you join us I may even buy you a beer!) ourselves and 23 other teams are given a random genre, line of dialog, prop, and character and charged with the task of creating a 4 – 7 min film in 48 Hours. On Wednesday July 23 all films (that finish) will be screened at Channelside Cinemas in Downtown Tampa.

This year we have a phenomenal director in Ben Eytalis
a talented, well rounded shooter, editor, writer, producer at Channel 8 in Tampa. Ben was influential in our story idea for last years film as well as our DP on “Absent” our entry into ’06’s National Film Challenge. Joe Bamford another freelance talent out of the Bay Area will be our DP and its his 1st time joining the Leftover Crew and we are very excited to have him.

We have some other great crew members including writer John Statton and musician Rob Rose as well as some phenomenal talent! We have cast Jaclyn Jardine, Danielle Laughlin, Johanne Maurasse, Elizabeth Hentschl, Doug Landin, Austin Ventura, Paakow Arku, Jean Paul Reymont and Jeni Perillo.

Check back soon for more updates!