A team of UNC Asheville students and faculty took home the Best Graphics award at the Greensboro 48-Hour Film Project for their short “Code Chickadee: The Sensei Bob Story.”
The 48-Hour Film Project challenges teams to write, shoot and deliver a short film over a single weekend. Organizers give each team a randomly assigned genre and several required elements: a character, a prop and a line of dialogue that teams must use in their films before a local screening and awards night. Judges at the Greensboro screening and awards held at the Carolina Theatre announced winners from films produced during the event.
The group drew the mockumentary genre this year, a format Anne Slatton, an Assistant Professor for Mass Communications at UNC Asheville said she has wanted to tackle for years. “This allowed you so much freedom,” she said. “I’ve been wanting to do a mockumentary for years.” Slatton said she first entered the competition in 2006 as an actor and has led or helped organize UNCA entries almost every year since.“
Slatton described the festival as a “forced creativity” exercise that suits students and professionals – it requires fast decisions, minimizes overthinking and forces teams to deliver a finished product by the end of the weekend. “You have to just go,” she said. “I love being on set. It energizes me.”…