This just in:

MUCKFUPPET, the short film from the 2006 Sidewalk Sidewrite Grand Prize winning script, will be showing at the Alabama Theater (the 1800 block of 3rd Avenue North, you uncultured heathens) as part of the Alabama Shorts number 2 block of films.  Also included in this block are Yuri Shapochka’s WAITING, the production prize winner from Sidewrite, and Jennifer West’s PIECE OF CAKE.

MUCKFUPPET stars Melissa Bush and Scott Ross as two friends meeting for lunch and conversation.  I would tell you more, but at just under 8 minutes long, do you really need to know more than that?

Really?

Okay — it’s a romantic piece, there’s no twist, and not a single element of gore or horror.  I know — how unlike me, right?  But it worked.  Let’s see — it also features an amazing look, thanks to the cinematography of Chance Shirley, the lighting of Chris Hilleke, and 16mm film.

That’s right: this film was shot on film.  You don’t see that every day. Probably because it’s painfully expensive, but ignore that.

Better yet: don’t ignore it.  Come see it, and then tell the stars and the crew what a great job they did, because this was an expensive venture.

Saturday, September 23, 1:30 PM at the Alabama Theater. See Sidewalk Film Festival for more details.