Rhyme Animal gets it's due.

We knew that eventually Rhyme Animal would find it's people. And it turns out those people live in Decatur,Georgia. I am pleased to announce that Rhyme Animal won the "Best Short Film" at the 2008 Spaghetti Junction Urban Film Festival!

Winners Announced at 6th Annual Spaghetti Junction Urban Film Fest.

Decatur, GA

2008 IMPACT AWARD Recipient: Ralph Scott

Best Short: Rhyme Animal (DIRECTOR: Phil Roc CAST: MuMs, Al Thompson and Bridget Barkan)

Best Documentary: Black To Our Roots (DIRECTOR: Ras Tre Subira)

Best Feature & 2008 SJUFF Best Film: Black August Award $1,000. (DIRECTOR: Tcinque J. Sampson & Samm Styles. CAST: Gary Dourdan, Darren Bridgett, Vonetta McGee, Ezra Stanely, Tina Marie Murray, Leith M. Burk, Elizabeth Nunziato, Big' Leroy Mobley. PRODUCERS: Jan Mabry, Judd Flemming)


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Rhyme Animal News

I'll be back shortly with a wrap up of some fantastic films I saw during Tribeca...but wanted to share some good news regarding one of the short films I cut last year, RHYME ANIMAL.

- A web site is up at www.rhymeanimalmovie.com

- The movie has been accepted and screened at the Cleveland International Film Festival, as well as the Newport Beach Film Festival.

- We've got some festival dates coming up in the New York area. Rhyme Animal was accepted into the Brooklyn International Film Festival (http://www.wbff.org/) and the Hoboken International Film Festival(http://www.filmfestivalnj.com/). Those two websites are a fascinating study in contrasts. I'm not sure either site has been updated with the actual screening times yet. I believe we're screening in Hoboken on Monday, June 4, 2pm but I don't know the location.

And we're also screening in a pretty cool event, the Cannes Short Film Corner. It's not the festival proper, but it's real, it's a market, and it's online as well. Check our rhymes out here:

http://shortfilmcorner.withoutabox.com/festivals/event_item.php?id=6435

And finally, please check out the trailer for the short.

Hi Rez:

http://www.synchrostudio.com/clients/rhymeanimal/rhymeanimaltrailer.mov

Lo-fi:

http://www.synchrostudio.com/clients/rhymeanimal/rhymeanimaltrailerlr.mov


That's all the news so far!

So freakin close

Rhyme Animal is almost done. We are retransfered, picture locked...everything but the mix is final. It's been a long road, and I am looking to resume many frivolous activities once more, such as cooking, sleeping, writing here and generally not making my girlfriend's life quite so miserable. It's a lot of work to make a film, even a short, but I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out. We've already submitted to Sundance, Slamdance, Tribeca FF and SXSW...wish us luck...