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Director: B. Scott Birmingham
Producer(s):
B. Scott Birmingham & Ron Walker
Screenplay:
Adapted by B. Scott Birmingham
Source:
Based on the story, “The Shelter”, by Rod
Serling
TRT:
40 min.
Awards:
Berkeley Video & Film Festival (2001)
The Communicator Awards (2001)
The Videographer Awards (2002)
Reno Film Festival (Finalist - Indie Shorts Competition)
(2004)
Theatre Screenings:
Premiere - Deer Valley High - Antioch, CA. (2001)
DVC Film Festival - Pleasant Hill, CA. (2002)
Reno Film Festival - El Dorado Showroom - Reno, NV(2004)
Public Screening - Hug High - Reno, NV (2005)
Truckee Meadows Community College
Campus-wide screening - Reno, NV (2005)
5-Year Cast Reunion Screening - Hug High - Reno, NV
(2006)
There have been a number of educational theatre screenings
since 2005, mainly at Truckee Meadows Community College
which includes a Questions and Answers session.
Television Broadcast(s):
The week of 6/13/02, “The Shelter” airs
on Community Access Channels 26 & 54 which results
in eight (8) San Francisco Bay Area cities being able
to view it.
Since its premiere in 2001, “The Shelter”
has been seen by an estimated audience of about 500+.
Currently on the Web:
http://www.upwardrising.com/submissions.html
Story Synopsis: Several friends are celebrating the
birthday of a neighborhood doctor when a radio announcer
interrupts programming to warn of a possible threat
from abroad of an unidentified flying object.It's not
long before the neighborhood goes into a panic and the
friends turn on one another, and all scrambling in a
desperate attempt to get into the only shelter in the
neighborhood.
Trailer Comments From
"On The Lot"
okay... but it doesn't make me want to---BERKLEY
FILM FESTIVAL and ..winner of other awards......BLEEP
I want to see this!
I really enjoyed watching this movie trailer.
Emotional, well cast and superbly directed. Playing
on human fear, anxiety and a mob-rules mentality, this
clever trailer succeeds as an intensely compact and
moving piece. The viewer is captivated throughout and
eager to see the movie in it entirety.
Holy Moly what a great trailer! This is how a
one should be cut together. By the way I've seen this
film and it's great.
The trailer idea is great. More people should
do this if they are creative enough. Awesome flick.
I'd like to see all of it but I'm guessing it's longer
than 5 minutes long.
Unlike the other reviewers I did not love the
acting, but the concept is intriguing. It looks like
this was put together with a limited budget, and I would
love to see what you could do with more funds available
to you. All in all this did what a trailers supposed
to do, left me wanting more. Very nice ending.
Great trailer. Great acting. Great editing. Great
story. What more can I ask for?
FINALLY. Someone puts up a trailer that's NOT
a short film, but a TRAILER. Trailer's should be 2.5
minutes or less, so for that, I salute you. AND, it
was pretty awesome. Good acting, cool concept. It reminded
me of that Simpson's episode where Ned Flanders is the
only one with a shelter, and the mob breaks into it
and eventually kicks Ned out. I wonder if this ends
the same way? Either way, I liked this.
Very entertaining doomsday concept. The casting
was fantastically appropriate and the performances equally
as such. Absent of Hollywood-ish glamour, this film
felt very real and chilling.
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