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Indie of the Month!
A monthly competition with a new theme or challenge each month. This time you have 3 months!

May/June/July is:
Quarantine Film Challenge
aka Social Distance Film Challenge Part II

Most of us are still confined to home. We hope everyone is safe and well! So please be SAFE! DO NOT get together a crew, work with yourself and those you are quarantined with, as well as remotely with others. Form your own indietalk team! If a team wins, all members will receive the award as long as they are indietalk members.

If you happen to be in an area where restrictions are relaxed, please follow proper safety protocols. This is for fun and to challenge yourself, not to relax any safety protocols.

This runs for 3 months so as production starts to pick up you will hopefully have more resources!

This is similar to the 48 hour-style challenges. It must be made for this contest only. And to prove that you must adhere to the following:
Genre: Comedy or Comedy Horror
Dialogue: Must include the line "Why didn't I think of that?" as dialogue, monologue, audio, or text
Prop: Must include a can opener

Requirements: Any length. Must adhere to the genre restriction and include the dialogue and prop. We figured everyone has a can opener, manual or electric. If you do not, be creative, and show one on the computer screen, etc. Just be sure to work in all the elements.

Entrants: You have until July 21 to submit your entries, and 2 entries are permitted. You may only enter more than once if you are on a team where upon another team member must post the entry. Example: You entered your own, and did the sound for another.

To enter click Add Media on this page.

Voters: Voting begins after the submission period, you will see a button on each entry. Be sure to bookmark your faves! You will only have one vote so use it wisely! You will not be able to vote for yourself, and any improprieties will be detected*.

Most votes wins. Ties are broken by a 24 hour voting period.

You will see new posts in this thread when members enter, vote, and when deadlines are approaching.

Winner receives:
  • 1 year indiePRO membership
  • A special IOTM membership with an "IOTM Winner" badge
  • A "Winner" ribbon over your entry
  • A "Winner" ribbon over your avatar for the month
  • A winning contest to add to your press kit
  • Bragging rights
Enter every month and if you win, you can extend your membership each time!

ENTER!

*Anyone caught manipulating the system will banned from indietalk. Do not even try!

Good luck!
 
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Alcove Audio said:
Isn't getting older wonderful? For me it's arthritis, a bad back (my mom was in an auto accident when she was pregnant with me; my spine does not align with my hips properly, so my lower vertebrae are always moving out of place) and a bout with kidney stones every two or three years.
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Yeah i totally feel that pain.
I have arthritis in my knees and a bad back as well. Apparently there is a cure to these ailments that makes your body more robust.

You submerge your body in ice water for 2-3 minutes every day or two as part of your health regiment.
You become so strong... Wim Hof trained 12 people for four days. After four days they took those people to a laboratory, injected e. coli directly into their blood stream. And not a single one of them got sick!!! Totally flew in the face of modern science because their immune systems had become so strong.


People have testimonials about how it removed all their inflammation, arthritis, allergies, etc
So far I've only done two cold showers and I'm working my way up to the ice bath... really hoping it makes me healthier.
 
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here is an example, this guy couldn't open a carton of milk. and now he works with his hands every day
(turn on closed captions)

 
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May I see a show of hands if you are working on this? If NO ONE is I will extend it to next month.
 
Here's what I am going to do.
If 2 people enter by the end of the month we will vote for May.
If only 0/1 person enters this will extend into June's contest.
No worries!
 
sfoster said:
just keep in mind you can’t have started working on it before May. If it’s just an idea that’s fine but no development before May or it’s unfair to everyone else
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Oh yeah that's true. I think I started it before then... I'll have to check my earliest files.
 
@PaulWrightyThen, if it follows this you are good to go.
If you make it for this contest (meaning it has not been released before) and it has the below elements you are golden. Using previous elements is fine. That's filmmaking. Even stock footage would pre-date so no biggie. It's the finished product made for this contest and the elements that are key. ;)

IOTM said:
This is similar to the 48 hour-style challenges. It must be made for this contest only. And to prove that you must adhere to the following:
Genre: Comedy or Comedy Horror
Dialogue: Must include the line "Why didn't I think of that?" as dialogue, monologue, audio, or text
Prop: Must include a can opener

Requirements: Any length. Must adhere to the genre restriction and include the dialogue and prop. We figured everyone has a can opener, manual or electric. If you do not, be creative, and show one on the computer screen, etc. Just be sure to work in all the elements.
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PaulWrightyThen said:
I'm hoping to. Problem is its a pretty much 100% vfx short and I'm still doing my day job.
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I made an executive decision. We talked about quarterly challenges before and monthly ones. Obviously monthly are great for things you've already made and small challenges. More full-scale challenges can be a quarter. So this one is now officially a May/June/July Film Challenge.

Let's see what y'all got!
 
Sure I could send you laurels upon request.
 
Look at the avatar in post #1.

You haven't even entered yet why are worried about laurels? :lol:
 
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