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If you aren't familiar with The Doorpost Film Project, you can learn more about this annual online film contest by visiting thedoorpost.com. For the past two years, their creative department has been headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida while their board of directors has been located in Nashville. Last week Doorpost showed the ten finalist films from their 2009 competition at the historic Bellcourt Theatre in Nashville. Although most of the films are worth a watch, I especially suggest The Resurrection of Officer Rollins.
The festivities in Nashville involved the screening of the ten short film finalists, a series of lectures from Hollywood insiders, and a red carpet event where the winners of the contest were announced. The creative team at Doorpost partnered with Fogle by presenting films at the Emergence events earlier in the year. That team put together the event in Nashville, then parted ways with Doorpost to venture out on their own endeavor; Jacksonville's own Indigenous Media.
Some of the Hollywood insiders that Doorpost filmmakers got to hang out with include Dean Batali (writer for The Adventures of Pete & Pete, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Exec Producer of That 70s Show), Jeff "The Dude" Dowd (Hollywood producer and the basis for the Coen brother's character The Dude in the Big Lebowski), Dan "The King of Indie Film" Ireland and Marketing wiz Mickey Cotrell, among others.
Check out some of the amazing films they helped produce for the 2009 contest on the Doorpost website, and then look for these talented folks to be doing some amazing things with film in the River City in the near future.
If you want to see the short film The Resurrection of Officer Rollins, it will be playing as part of the short film series at the 5 Points Theatre's Halloween event on Sunday (10/25) at 5pm.
The fact that Doorpost and Fogle both have Jacksonville/Nashville connections seems to simply be a coincidence, but the number of strange coincidences between Nashville and Jacksonville is interesting. Do you know of any others?
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