- So, have you been wondering what MOVIES ASKEW is all about? Well, we’ve got answers! This new site allows new filmmakers the chance to submit their short films for a very nominal entry fee. Each month, we’re gonna pick the best 5, and then the viewers will pick the monthly best! After the first year, the 12 monthly winners all get put on our Movies Askew Volume 1 DVD. And there’s even more coolness than that, as one BIG winner will become an apprentice on the next View Askew film and win a kick-ass home theater. Cool, huh? Ya interested? Here’s the official press release:
KEVIN SMITH LAUNCHES NEW FILMMAKER WEBSITE: MOVIESASKEW.COM!
SOMEWHERE, CA – AUGUST 19, 2004
Make movies, not love!
For years, View Askew has made you sit through our shitty, amateurish, self-indulgent (yet *ahem* award-winning) excuses for cinema. Now, it’s payback time… and this time, it’s personal! Because just because they serve you, doesn’t mean they like you (insert a dozen other taglines here)!
Anyhoo, View Askew is weeks away from launching a new website to join its already over-crowded ‘net empire of ViewAskew.com, NewsAskew.com, MoviePoopShot.com, and Google.com (I’m pretty sure we own that last one too), and this one’s a doozy! We’re giving you, the undiscovered filmmakers, a chance to show the world what you’ve got, via the stunningly originally titled…MoviesAskew.Com!
“What’s the skinny, Tubby?â€
For a small fee (what – you thought it’d be free? It’s View Askew, sir – we’re money-grubbing whores), wanna-be filmmakers (and has-beens too; I’ll be submitting “Jersey Girl†myself) will be able to submit their short films of thirty minutes or less to our distinguished panel of judges and a chance to secure one of five monthly spots at MoviesAskew.com. From there, visitors to the site will vote to decide which of the five shorts gets named Best of the Month, and all twelve of the monthly winners will earn a place on the MoviesAskew Vol. 1 DVD!
But wait! There’s more!
The fun doesn’t stop with the MoviesAskew DVD. Fuck no! Those twelve winning shorts will also screen at the First Annual MoviesAskew Film Festival (to be held in either Red Bank, NJ or Westwood, CA; y’know – close to one of the two Secret Stash locations, so we can foist some of our merchandise on ya’) where a panel of celebrity judges (me and Mewes, probably; maybe someone with more juice) will pick the best five shorts. Filmmakers making it to the last final round will have their shorts re-screeened, followed by a sit down Q&A session with the audience. After that, the audience will determine, by vote, which film will be named the Best Short of the Year!
The Winner will walk away with the Grand Prize: a Panasonic Home Entertainment Center, a bunch of Miramax/Dimension Home Videos, and an apprentice position on the next View Askew Film (which is hardly a prize, we realize; more like a punishment).
WIN LIFE ETERNAL!
Or at least feel like you have. Don’t miss out on all the pseudo-fun! Dig deep into your circular files and yank out those terrible-looking shorts your film school teachers failed you for, your friends mocked for, and your parents berated you for, and get ready to flip ‘em all the bird, compliments of the home of second chances and dreams come true – View Askew Productions!
Don’t call it Project Greenlight (or else we’ll get sued); call it Project Bluelight Special (old school K-Mart style – before all this Big K crap). Or better yet, just call it what it is: a crass grab at your wallet. Aka MoviesAskew.Com!
We’ll of course keep you updated on when you can start submitting your flicks, or you can just watch the Movies Askew site. There’s also a thread right now over at The Board where you can pose your questions about the contest. Should be a blast! Makes us wish we knew how to make movies…
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