Anthony and Joe Russo’s AGBO introduced the winners of its 48-hour filmmaking competitors, “No Sleep ‘til Movie Fest” at this time.
Waldo Levendal, a filmmaker based mostly in Cape City, South Africa, gained first place for his brief P E N, a couple of easy object that represents the complexity of life.
Second place went to Australian filmmaker Joel Philips for his brief, Commerce, a horror-comedy-musical a couple of lady held for ransom.
Clay Lacey, an aspiring director from California, took third place for his movie Film, The Movie: A Movement Image, wherein a filmmaker forces a bot to observe hours of romance, motion, drama and horror films to create the world’s first AI-produced movie.
The entire successful shorts can be found to observe on the AGBO YouTube channel.
AGBO’s “No Sleep ‘til Movie Fest” is a 48-hour brief filmmaking competitors, which invitations rising creators to make a bite-sized movie that runs three minutes or much less and relies on a supplied artistic immediate. The judges for the pageant included AGBO Co-Founders and Administrators Anthony and Joe Russo, Co-Founder and Producer Mike Larocca, Co-Presidents of Story Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely and President of Artistic Angela Russo-Otstot.
All three winners will be part of the AGBO Storytellers Collective, an alumni community of individuals from different AGBO fellowship applications.
The present members of the Storytellers Collective voted on a successful movie to obtain the inaugural “AGBO Storytellers Collective Award” which brings in one other filmmaker to the mentorship and alumni program with their colleagues. The recipient of this yr’s award is Dreamer 21B, directed by South London group Sofía Isabella and Ashwin Noel.
Winners and honorable mentions:
First Place
P E N, directed by Waldo Levendal (Cape City, South Africa)
Second Place
Commerce, directed by Joel Philips (Sydney, Australia)
Third Place
Film, The Movie: A Movement Image, directed by Clay Lacey (Apple Valley, California)
AGBO Storytellers Collective Award
Dreamer 21B, directed by Sofía Isabella and Ashwin Noel (South London)
Honorable Mentions
Distance, directed by Eric Yang (Brooklyn, NY)
Strays, directed by Harry Smith (Grapevine, TX)
The Third Act, directed by Ben Lapides & Craig Dewey (Baltimore, MD)
VHS Sandwich, directed by Louie Gallagher and Exavier Orlino (Southern California)
The Sins Of Our Sons, directed by Jake Barcus (Cleveland, OH)
The Domino Impact, directed by Alessandro (AxiA) Serradimigni and Joe Daru (Los Angeles, CA)
5 Stars, directed by Spencer Higginson and Jesse Kendall (Los Angeles, CA)
Guys Be Like, directed by Tommy Heffernan (Seattle, WA)
Don’t Fear, directed by Phee Chai and Dara Xiong (Hastings, MN)
AGBO is an unbiased studio centered on growing and producing mental property universes spanning movie, TV, audio, and interactive experiences. Based in 2017 by award-winning and record-breaking administrators Anthony and Joe Russo, together with producer Mike Larocca, AGBO’s mission is to innovate and advance the following era of storytelling to entertain and encourage worldwide audiences.
