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Jun
30
2006

Oh No! It’s The Blanks on a Blank Film Maker Challenge!

Posted by Todd Brown at 5:45pm.

Posted in Giveaways .

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Okay, we don’t normally promote other people’s contests, but this is just far too funny ... The Alamo Drafthouse has just announced their Blanks on a Blank film mkaer challenge and it’s ... well, I’ll let them explain:
“This July, teams of filmmakers all over the world will be participating in the Blanks On A Blank challenge. After registering a team online, participants will be assigned a random animal and vehicle combination and then they will have from that minute until Thursday, August 3rd to submit: either upload their movie directly to our webserver or snailmail their film to us on DVD or miniDV.

WHEN:
Registration for teams is now open. will continue from now until the final deadline, of Thursday, August 3, 11:59pm (CST). Voting will continue online throughout the process as soon as films start to come in. Online voting will close on Thursday, August 10.

Showings of best Austin films will be Wed, Aug 9 and Thursday, Aug 10 at the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown (409 B Colorado St, in downtown Austin, TX)

Theatrical screening of the best of the world’s entries will be Thursday, Aug 17 at 10pm at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar (1120 South Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX) and lead in directly to a midnight sneak screening of SNAKES ON A PLANE featuring live snakes in the theater and actual snakemeat available on the menu.

ABOUT BLANKS ON A BLANK:
Animals and vehicles: they just don’t mix. The biggest film of this summer, obviously, will show us the inherent dangers of putting motherf***ing snakes on a motherf***ing plane. But what will be the biggest film of NEXT summer?

To us, the success of SNAKES ON A PLANE is a foregone conclusion. And when any film is a success, sequels are inevitable. But how do you follow up the brilliance of S.O.A.P.? Do you put snakes somewhere else? Do you put a different animal on a plane? The options, of course, are endless, and as we were sitting around a table at a pub talking about all the different possible cinematic combinations, we realized that we really, really, really wanted to see all those movies become a reality. And so we set up the Blanks On A Blank filmmaking challenge, giving the whole world the chance to show us the future of animal/vehicle disaster films.

As soon as we receive movies we will post them to our website where people all over the planet can check out the films and vote for which ones they like the best and which ones are just incredibly lame.

There will be cash prizes for the best three films as well as other prizes, which will be announced in the coming weeks.”
Visit the Blanks on a Blank website now.

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  1. Todd Brown 07/13/2006 @ 9:58am

    Zowie. Prize announcement:

    The dream prize that we’ve been holding out for has been confirmed by our friends at New Line! Ladies and gentlemen, we are proud to announce the grand prize…

    1st prize: 2 tickets to the premiere of Snakes on a Plane in Los Angeles, including 2 round trip airfares from any major airport in the continental United States and hotel accommodations for 1 night. If the winner is not from the continental United States, the prize will be the 2 tickets to the LA premiere of Snakes on a Plane and the hotel accommodations.

    We can’t necessarily guarantee that you will hit it off and become best friends for life with Sam Jackson, but you will at least have a topic of discussion with which to break the ice…

    2nd prize: $500 cash

    3rd prize: $250 cash

    Filmmakers can sign up online at http://www.blanksonablank.com. Films will be voted on by the public and winners will be announced on Friday, August 11 at 8 AM CST.

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