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73-hour winners screen at festival
Written by Christopher Fox Graham   
Friday, 01 March 2013 10:15

With the Sedona International Film Festival in full swing, attendees will see a range of films, some that took years or even decades to go from director’s vision to storyboard to finished film. At the other end of the spectrum is a short film screened Sunday, Feb. 24, at the Sedona Performing Arts Center.

The cast and crew of the short film “Retrograde,” from left, Michele Araque, Jessalyn Carpino, Jaron Druyon, Derek Ellis and Alex Thomas, pose on the red carpet following the screening of their film at the Sedona International Film Festival on Sunday, Feb. 24. The Northern Arizona University students shot the film for the 2012 NAU 73 Hour Film Festival.“Retrograde,” whose cast and crew are all Northern Arizona University students, went from storyboard to final print in just over three days. In doing so, the filmmakers went on to win the 2012 NAU 73 Hour Film Festival’s Audience Pick Award. The filmmakers were given a weekend, from noon Nov. 2 to 1 p.m. Nov. 5 to write, shoot, edit and master a film under five minutes in length.

“I was talking to [cinematographer] Derek [Ellis] and I said ‘there was no way you could convince me to do that’ and I just said I didn’t want to do it,” Thomas said. “Jessalyn [Carpino] called me that same night and she was like, ‘Alex, I heard the 73-hour film competition is going on; I really want to do it, you’ve got to be the director.’”

For the full story, see the Wednesday, Feb. 27, edition of the Sedona Red Rock News.

 

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