Barewitness Wins at the 2009 48 Hour Film Project!
BW
Member Mark Rachel wins Best Director with
"Open"
A
huge congratulations to Mark Rachel for
winning Best Director in the 2009 48 Hour
Film Project !l! Starring BW member
Marie Bouquet (also nominated for Best
Single
Performance) and BW alumnus David Babich,
this improvised short tells the story of
a pair of strangers who bond over music
and take a chance on love.
On
Friday night at 7pm, each of the groups
participating in the Project
were given the following parameters:
the film had to include
the use of a hat as a prop, a character
named Claudia/Claude Green who was a
guitarist, and the line of dialogue "I
believe anyone can change". Each group
participating in the competition then drew
a different genre - in BW's case, our film
had to be a romance.
After
receiving these details, the members of
BW came together
to generate
the
story
and
characters, then
set out to make a short film that had
to be completed by 7pm that following Sunday.
Made in only 48 hours, this project is
a testament
to BW's style of filmmaking: collaborative,
spontaneous, honest, and entertaining.
This is BW's second win with the 48 Hour
Film
Project
- BW
member
Matthew
Gardner won Best Editing for the group's
2007 entry, "Served
Cold".
