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InTension Industries Launches Competition To Fund A Feature Film
Courtesy of InTension Industries
InTension Industries, a Provo, Utah-based production company with plenty of Hollywood pedigree, has launched a short-film competition that’ll give one lucky winner a million dollars to turn their short into a feature.
The Big Picture: Hollywood is clearly in the midst of a microbudget horror renaissance, with the groundbreaking success of Obsession becoming one of the industry’s biggest conversation starters. If a sub-$1 million film from an unknown can make such a splash, why can’t others? The key may be two-way curation: input from fans and guidance from former studio executives. Essentially, a curated YouTube.
Behind The Scenes: InTension Industries is inviting thriller and horror short-film submissions for “The Million-Dollar $hortcut.”
There will be four rounds of voting, with fans able to vote in the first two — casting 25 votes in the first round and five in the second.
InTension’s executive team — former Disney producer Brigham Taylor, former EPIX SVP Ian Puente, Nitro Circus co-creator Dave Hunter, and producer Tom Goodall — will select 10 finalists after reading their screenplays.
Next June, the executives will choose a winner, who will get the green light to make their feature film with a million-dollar budget, produced by InTension.
Meanwhile, an unspecified number of runners-up will receive “personalized feedback from InTension’s creative development team and participate in a development session with InTension’s industry veterans.”
Final Decision: InTension’s ambition here is to find the next Curry Barker — the YouTuber-turned-breakout director who spent years honing his craft with viral short films, refining his work through fan feedback, and knocking on Hollywood’s door. All those reps paid off when he got the chance to make his first real feature film, Obsession, which made an astonishing $525 million at the box office. That’s unheard of for an indie movie, especially one made on such a tiny budget.
Could anyone have spotted Curry Barker’s potential earlier in his career based on his short films? It’s entirely possible (and used to be a major way directors broke in)... so InTension is hoping to get in on the ground floor with the next promising talent.
Coming Soon: Getting noticed by Hollywood has one of the highest barriers to entry in entertainment, so expect every film-school student and aspiring filmmaker to crash the site for “The Million-Dollar $hortcut.”
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Today’s email was written by David Vendrell.
Edited by Nick Comney. Polled and Copy-edited by Kait Cunniff.
Published by Darline Salazar.
