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Private Film Festival: Chris Wiatt’s DUPE

I have been planning a mini-fest of my own: six features, six scripts, one weekend. As I write this I have eleven to go. I just added one short to the list. Howard Gertler tipped me to Chris Wiatt‘s short DUPE as an example of good low bud use of VFX where the storytelling doesn’t suffer due to the use of the incredible tools now available. I am glad he did. Check it out.

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Ted Hope is a “holistic film producer”: he aims to be there from the beginning and then forever after, involved in every aspect of a film’s life cycle and ecosystem, as committed to engineering serendipity as preventing problems, as obsessed with lifting the good into the great, as he is…

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