Humidity [Utah Debut]

Jon and I are very excited. Thank you to artist Jeff Heins who has asked for us to debut Humidity at his studio.

Okay it sounds official but its not official at all. Just a fun little get together. He's an amazing artist who's just cracked into the filmmaking sect. Check out his short called "I Got Mine." After you watch it... as I understand it, that's his first attempt at filmmaking. WOW! Right!!! He did really, really well!!!

Anyhow, I guess this pushes up my completion date for the Directors Cut of Humidity by a week. I love deadlines!!! (Really, I do... they force you to get things done.)

Update: The showing was great! We really enjoyed ourselves. It was nice hanging out with film folk again. Talkin' film and so on. It's been about a month since we have and to be honest, we've been having withdrawals from it, so it was really satisfying. We are also excited because we were able to talk about some upcoming projects that we're going to collaborate on, which will be really exciting. The style of the projects will also be really new for us, so we'll have an experience. Even better!

Humidity

Most everyone who knows about Humidity thus far has seen it, however I'm sure there will be some people who read this who have no idea what it is. Well, it's a short film that basically helped Jon and I discover who we really are as directors and the true path that we should take. Basically it was us finding our voice. Anyhow, it showed in the UNLV Spring Flicks Film Festival 2010 and was selected for the UNLV Showcase at the 2010 Las Vegas Film Festival. We have an LVFF cut but we'd like to finish it off with a Directors cut... we were limited to 15 minutes for the last two festivals but really the short should be closer to 20. Anyhow, we hope to get it into some film festivals which is why we haven't posted it on here yet... But just to tease you... here is the poster. Enjoy!

By the way, the Photography was by Abby, a dear friend of ours. And thank you to her and her family, who were kind enough to let us shoot there... as well as a number of other places that I'm so indebted to! Thank you to everyone who helped in any way, shape or form.

Las Vegas Film Festival 2010

We’re excited to announce that Humidity, a short that we spent the first half of the year filming and editing, has been selected to be a part of the UNLV Student Showcase at the Las Vegas Film Festival 2010.

It will play Saturday, June 5th at 12 PM in the Hilton Theater. Tickets are $10 so get yours now. I must say last year I went to almost all of the short film blocks at the Cinevegas Film Festival... well, all but one and ours was actually probably the best showcase. I was surprised. I know that the UNLV students do good work but I didn’t expect the difference when compared to outside work. And the line up this year is going to rock.

Hope to see you there. We’re really excited!!!

PS. I know we haven't posted it to be viewed yet and we're very sorry. We're hoping to get it into some film festivals but to be honest we don't know their stipulations. So we're going to try it out. If it flies. Yeah. Hopefully someone will like the story and will trust us with some funding to make a feature.

Cross your fingers everyone! :)

Sarah & Mike

Shooting Sarah & Mike's wedding was such a fun experience! The first day was super chill when we went by to capture a few shots of the set up. A lot of friends and family arriving in from out of town. The day of the wedding was a blast. From the spunky little ring bearers, to the wedding dance and then the awesome photographers at ATLF who were such a great team to work with. Thanks everyone for making this such a wonderful experience, I hope we were able to do the same for you. And Sarah & Mike: Best of luck you two crazy love birds!!!

Spring Flicks 2010

It’s that time of year again! The UNLV Spring Flicks Film Festival 2010. It’s what the film students here at UNLV look forward to every year. There were 80 entries this year and the usual two night event has been lengthened to three. It began Friday, April 23rd at 6 PM and ran through Sunday, April 25th, at which time all the winners were announced. This is a pretty big event this year. We are competing for a Best Short grand prize of $1,500, first runner up is $1,000 and second runner up, $500. We didn’t have any grand illusions for our films but we definitely wanted to be selected to be featured in the Las Vegas Film Festival. Last year we made it to Cinevegas with Superflash, and we have to admit, we were really hoping for a similar event this year. Well, Friday night passed, and Saturday night came. Humidity, a film that we’ve spent the entire semester working on, closed that night, which is an exciting spot to have. It went over really well and we were very pleased with the results. Sunday night then came and went. We showed Sin City Chronicles that night but it didn’t go over as well as Humidity, which was fine because to be honest we just wanted to try every genre to really find our voice. I really think we found it with Humidity. Plus, we did Sin City Chronicles about a year ago so I don’t feel like we took a step back or anything like that. It’s always progress.

Anyhow, we did win a few awards. We were in a 3 way tie for 2nd runner up Best Short, unfortunately there was only one $500 check to give away and the judges selected another short but we still get a trophy. We also got 2nd runner up Best Director, 1st runner up Best Actor, and 1st runner up Best Actor. We also would have gotten 2nd runner up Best Screenplay but we were knocked out of the running the last night with a short film called Marko. by Mike Vara.

All in all we are really happy with the night and the results. It makes us so excited to get started on our next project and to adapt Humidity into a feature. Will it be in Las Vegas Film Fest, I don’t know yet. When I do, you will be the first to know.

Have a great day everyone!

Erika & Jon Huff

A New Start [Get it?]

We are excited to announce that we finally have a logo that will play before our short films and feature productions... as soon as we get there. It was created by Don Carroll, a local graphic designer, who we think is just amazing. He was so patient with us and all of our fifty-zillion changes, right up to the last minute. The original ending had the roller coaster going out of frame somewhere off to the right but Jon suggested that it fly right by the screen and use that as the transition into the ferris wheel. We all thought it was a great idea and as you can see below we kept it.

Don was nice enough to leave the end tentative, so once we figured out what we wanted Jon went ahead and added the black matting and the name using Final Cut Pro. He then used Sound Track Pro to tack on some sound effects and last I put it in Adobe After Effects and added the 8mm film overlay to it.

It will debut at the 2010 UNLV Spring Flicks Film Festival. We’re both so excited. We’re also pumped to start working on our wedding logo that we’ll use at the start or end of our wedding videos and other family oriented productions.

Cinevegas 2009

We are proud to say that Superflash was selected as one of the ten student films to be showcased at the Cinevegas International Film Festival, 2009. The festival runs from June 10 to June 15 at the Palms Hotel and Casino. I am currently unsure of the exact date and time that our short will be viewed but I hope to find out more information shortly. We’ll definitely keep you posted.

Update: It will be shown the last day of the festival, Monday, June 15th.