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08/01/2007
Coming to a theater near youLocal shorts usher in many screeningsTRAVERSE CITY — "Jerrytown” is taking it to the big screen. The group of friends who describe their TCTV2 show as everything from "assorted greatness” to "skits from a bunch of guys with too much time on their hands” to "Jerrytown: It's like Skittles for your eyes,” will have two short films running before the start of film festival features. "I think it's funny, because this will be the most exposure we've ever had,” said Jerrytown member Joe Perkette. "I mean, we've been on public access, but you can't really track ratings with public access.” Perkette, along with fellow Jerrytowners Travis Crawford, Ian Bock, Patrick McDonnell and Chris Horvath, submitted several short films as part of the festival's first trailer competition. Lars Kelto, IT manager for the festival, said that around 20 of the 30-second films were submitted. "It was a terrific batch of ideas,” Kelto said. "There really wasn't a single one that was a bad idea.” That was a pleasant surprise. "We were hoping people would get pretty creative with it,” Kelto said. "My hope was, we're a volunteer festival so any way we can offset some work and give somebody a chance to be creative goes with the spirit of the festival.” Of the 20 that were submitted, organizers selected around six films. "Our film festival is about bringing great movies here, but it doesn't really have a focus on bringing local films,” Kelto said. "So this is going to provide that where local talent can shine for 30 seconds.” While organizers had not anticipated it, Kelto said that most shorts this year are comedies. And Jerrytown certainly fits into that category. The group, which claims Mountain Dew and sugar as their greatest filming warm-ups, originally created around 30 plots, then selected 10 to make, and eventually submitted about eight. Every film fits under a "making movies is tough” and a sort of "what not to do” theme — "which we all have a lot of experience in doing, what not to do,” Bock said. The trailers will be shown before the start of most of this week's film festival screenings. Kelto said he hopes to see the competition expand eventually so even people without their own production capabilities could submit story lines and have help making the 30-second shorts. Clearing the Record
Because of incorrect information supplied to the Record-Eagle, Patrick McDonnell was originally misidentified in the photo above.
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