Anthony and Joe Russo’s AGBO announced the winners of its 48-hour filmmaking competition, “No Sleep ‘til Film Fest” today. Waldo Levendal, a filmmaker based in Cape Town, South Africa, won first place for his short P E N, about a simple object that represents the complexity of life.
Second place went to Australian filmmaker Joel Philips for his short, Trade, a horror-comedy-musical about a woman held for ransom.Clay Lacey, an aspiring director from California, took third place for his film Movie, The Film: A Motion Picture, in which a filmmaker forces a bot to watch hours of romance, action, drama and horror movies to create the world’s first AI-produced film.
All of the winning shorts are available to watch on the AGBO YouTube channel.AGBO’s “No Sleep ‘til Film Fest” is a 48-hour short filmmaking competition, which invites emerging creators to make a bite-sized film that runs three minutes or less and is based on a provided creative prompt.
The judges for the festival included AGBO Co-Founders and Directors Anthony and Joe Russo, Co-Founder and Producer Mike Larocca, Co-Presidents of Story Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely and President of Creative Angela Russo-Otstot.All three winners will join the AGBO Storytellers Collective, an alumni network of participants from other AGBO fellowship programs.
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