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STRANGE CREATURES running loose downtown bring fantasy & color to San Diego's 48-Hour Film Festival

08-18-2008 01:47 PM CET | Leisure, Entertainment, Miscellaneous

Press release from: BB Hollywood reports

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Ogre effect make-up by the artists of Victor Ciccarelli and PhotoChimera

Ogre effect make-up by the artists of Victor Ciccarelli and PhotoChimera

Monsters? Aliens? Nope. It was a group of unusual actors pushing a hospital gurney up and down the city's downtown streets while in full makeup as ogres, thanks to the magic of Victor Ciccarelli, PhotoChimera, and Quixana Productions.

Residents stopped their cars and raised their eyebrows in shock, surprise, and amusement as a troupe of green creatures raced around the streets of San Diego pushing a hospital gurney. But rather than "little green men from Mars", this band or creatures was a delightful group of ogres created by the special makeup effects of Victor Ciccarelli and his team of experts at PhotoChimera. What's the film about? You'll have to watch it yourself at the 48-Hour Film Festival on Saturday, August 16.

Past the gallons of makeup, the real story is in the labor of love in the planning, preparation, and execution of an idea. On Friday, August 8, 2008, at 7:00 PM. Just as with the other 43 entrants, Ciccarelli was handed a slip of paper setting his priorities for the festival. Mixed and matched, there were a dozen genres, a selection of characters and a multitude of props and catchphrases that he might have received in the random draw. His only proviso was to take the information on that slip and in 48 hours create, write, film, and edit a short film... creating a film that included a specific character, a specific name, a specific prop, and a specific phrase.

The list handed to Ciccarelli was terse:
-- Genre: road movie
-- Character: a construction worker named Joe Beeble
-- Prop: tweezers
-- Catchphrase: "Have you heard the news"

So, after receiving these parameters Friday night, Ciccarelli gathered his team and spent hours hashing out the possibilities and permutations of a storyline. Then the team slept as Ciccarelli's writing staff created the story based upon the meeting. And before sunrise on Saturday morning, his actors were in makeup and sets were being constructed.

Over the next 12 hours the imaginative script was brought to a and the action was filmed. By Saturday afternoon, the cast was dismissed, the makeup artists had gone home, and the real work began as Ciccarelli and his production staff spent Saturday evening and all day Sunday editing the footage and adding the score. Racing the ticking clock, they had a finished film presented to the festival by 6:25 PM... 35 minutes ahead of the 7:00 PM deadline. Out of the 43 teams in competition, 41 were able to create and submit a film and 31 of those film makers submitted before the 48-hour deadline.

Ciccarelli proudly credits his entire production team for their contributions in making the film a reality, with a skilled abilities of actors Clay Pederson, Christina Morillo, Vienna Hill, Robyn Jean Springer, Michael Q. Schmidt, Anna Castiglioni, Tamara Leach, Click Hamilton, Chad Arnold, and Brian Swimme, and the extraordinary makeup skills of Rosemary Ciccarelli, Jennifer Rodriguez-Mueller, Megan Ciccarelli, and Francia Cohen.

For more information about the filmmaker,
please visit http://www.PhotoChimera.com
For information about the 48-Hour Film Festival,
please visit http://www.48hourfilm.com/sandiego

BB Hollywood Reports
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Hollywood, CA 90028

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