Released on: August 15, 2008, 3:04 pm

Press Release Author: BB Hollywood Reports

Industry: Entertainment

Press Release Summary: Drivers stopped their cars. Joggers halted in mid-step.
Tourists gawked in surprise. Was it a presidential motorcade? Was it an off-season
parade? No. It was a group of unusual actors pushing a hospital gurney up and down
the city\'s downtown streets while in full makeup as ogres. Created by the special
effects makeup team of Victor Ciccarelli\'s PhotoChimera, the actors were paying out
a scene for the film \"Gurney Journey\" to be shared at the 48-Hour Film Festival on
Saturday, August 16.


Press Release Body: Past the gallons of makeup, the real story is in the planning,
preparation, and execution of an idea. On Friday, August 8, 2008, at 7:00 PM. Just
as with the other 43 entrants, Ciccarelli was handed a slip of paper setting his
priorities for the festival. Mixed and matched, there were a dozen genres, a
selection of characters and a multitude of props and catchphrases that he might have
received in the random draw. His only proviso was to take the information on that
slip and in 48 hours create, write, film, and edit a short film... creating a film
that included a specific character, a specific name, a specific prop, and a specific
phrase.

The list handed to Ciccarelli was terse:
-- Genre: road movie
-- Character: a construction worker named Joe Beeble
-- Prop: tweezers
-- Catchphrase: \"Have you heard the news\"

So, after receiving these parameters Friday night, Ciccarelli gathered his team and
spent hours hashing out the possibilities and permutations of a storyline. Then the
team slept as Ciccarelli\'s writing staff created the story based upon the meeting.
And before sunrise on Saturday morning, his actors were in makeup and sets were
being constructed.

Over the next 12 hours the script was brought to a very green life as the action was
filmed. By Saturday afternoon, the cast was dismissed, the makeup artists had gone
home, and the real work began as Ciccarelli and his production staff spent Saturday
evening and all day Sunday editing the footage and adding the score. Racing the
ticking clock, they had a finished film presented to the festival by 6:25 PM... 35
minutes ahead of the 7:00 PM deadline. Out of the 43 teams in competition, 41 were
able to create and submit a film and 31 of those film makers submitted before the
48-hour deadline.

Ciccarelli proudly credits his entire production team for their contributions in
making the film a reality, with a special thanks to actors Clay Pederson, Christina
Morillo, Vienna Hill, Robyn Jean Springer, Michael Q. Schmidt, Anna Castiglioni,
Tamara Leach, Click Hamilton, Chad Arnold, and Brian Swimme, and the extraordinary
makeup skills of Rosemary Ciccarelli, Jennifer Rodriguez-Mueller, Megan Ciccarelli,
and Francia Cohen.

For more information about the filmmaker, please visit http://www.PhotoChimera.com
For information about the 48-Hour Film Festival, please visit
http://www.48hourfilm.com/sandiego

Web Site: http://photochimera.com/48

Contact Details: BBHollywoodReports@gmail.com