crewless news and notes

After slacking last time, due to Hide and Creep stuff, I’m back this week with a new “This Movie Aint’ Gonna Shoot Itself” column at MoviePoopShoot.com.

So that happened. The Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival wrapped up on Sunday, and I’m still recovering. It was an amazing fest. It started with a bang, especially for the cast and crew of Hide and Creep, on Thursday night when a standing-room-only crowd showed up for the movie’s world premiere at Sloss Furnace. The crowd was quite rowdy – it was almost like a rock show. Everyone seemed to really enjoy the zombie fun.

The fest ended with another bang – Hide and Creep DP Robb Rugan won the Sidewalk jury prize for best feature for Alice’s Misadventures in Wonderland, which he wrote and directed. Congrats to Robb and the rest of the Alice cast and crew, especially Jimbo Roberson and Mike Benson.

Rather than try to sum up the craziness myself, I’ve put a few links together. We’ve been fortunate to have lots of press coverage of Hide and Creep and Sidewalk ‘04 (shout out to Sidewalk PR goddess Kelly Marshall!). Happy reading and let me know if you find any other news stories about Hide and Creep that I missed.

Birmingham Post-Herald Sidewalk preview

FilmThreat.com coverage of Sidewalk

Birmingham News article about Alice (with a Hide and Creep mention!)

Two Ain’t It Cool News reader reviews

Hide and Creep IMDB.com listing, now featuring a reader review

Forgot to post this last week: The Birmingham News ran a nice story about Hide and Creep in their “City Scene” pullout last Friday.

Also, I just sent a copy of the movie to Sundance for consideration for their 2005 festival. Wish us luck – we’ll need it on that one.

If you somehow haven’t heard, the world premiere of Hide and Creep is tomorrow night at Sloss Furnace. Check out the Sidewalk site for more details.

Carey Norris over at the Kaleidoscope, UAB’s newspaper, wrote a really cool (and in-depth) story about Hide and Creep for today’s edition. Read it online here.

… we’re done. With the “premiere” cut of Hide and Creep, at least. I’m sure we’ll tweak it a little more before everything is said and done, but we just output to tape the version that will play at Sloss Furnace this coming Thursday as part of the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival.

It’s been a little more than ten months since we started shooting Hide and Creep, and I’d be ecstatic about getting it done if I weren’t so tired – we’ve been working like crazy the last couple of weeks to get things wrapped up. I’d especially like to thank Robb Rugan and Jimbo Roberson over at FReD and music composer Eric McGinty for all of their extra hard work of late. They really knocked out some incredibly good stuff in a short amount of time.

So, if you’re looking for something to do Thursday, stop by Sloss and see what we’ve concocted. Also be sure to check out Alice’s Misadventures in Wonderland, written and directed by Robb, at the Alabama Theatre on Saturday. The Sidewalk fest is always a blast – definitely not to be missed.

Chuck got quoted talking about Hide and Creep in a recent issue of Kaleidoscope, UAB’s college newspaper. You can read an online version of the story here.