The Nightmare, a short film directed by Aurora’s Jeff M.
Breyer, has been announced as a Top 10 finalist in the Chiller
Channel-Universal Studios Hollywood Studios Hollywood Halloween Horror
Nights Scary Good Short Film Contest. A panel of four judges, including
Saw VI director Kevin Greutert, picked the 10 finalists, and the
general public gets to vote on the winner. The director of the top film
gets an all-expense-paid trip to the opening night of Universal
Studios’ Hollywood Horror Nights. More than 100 films were submitted,
and Breyer said he had to rush to finish his film about a nightmare in
which a guy imagines himself doing an endless stream of dishes.
“Everyone you see in there is me, from the guy washing the dishes to
the guy in the bed to the clown,” he says. “I just want to bring
originality back to filmmaking and hopefully entertain people. I do
love horror, and this was the perfect opportunity for me to explore
some of my dark thoughts.” A hardwood-floor installer by day, Breyer
has been making short films for the past three years. Check out his
website, vizualcandi.com. Go to
halloweenhorrornights.com/chiller to cast a vote.
The inaugural Pie Fight Film Festival takes place September
18-20 at the Karaoke Station (153 E. Aurora Rd., Northfield,
330.468.0450, the karaokestation.com). The festival will
feature five different competitions and three free workshops. While
most of the competitions are comedy-oriented, the 48-hour video-making
challenge and the music-video competition are not. “We have about 30
films of various lengths we’ll be showing,” says organizer John Varga,
an attorney who specializes in entertainment law. “We have one from
Spain called The Gynecologist, which is a 22-minute short. So we
can call ourselves an international festival. We’re also trying to get
some stand-up comedians to perform in between shows. We want as much of
the local crowd involved as we can. It should be a fun weekend.”
Admission is free. Go to piefightfilmfest.com for more
information.
The Struggle for Existence is a new documentary
film about the very different Cleveland Museum of Natural History and
the Creation Museum in Cincinnati. The film, which includes extensive
interviews with members from each institution, has a special free
screening at 7 p.m. Thursday, September 17, at Case Western Reserve
University’s Strosacker Auditorium (2125 Adelbert Rd., 216.368.2463).
Go to films.cwru.edu for more
info.
This article appears in Sep 16-22, 2009.
