Filmmaking Frenzy is your home on the web for Fantastic Fest's filmmaking competitions.

We just finished up the 2009 FANTASTIC FEST Bumper Competition, and you can check out all the entries for that contest in our Frenzy page.. We'veĀ  also just wrapped on a collaboration with G4 TV to produce Uwe Boll's TOTALLY AWESOME VIDEO GAMES Frenzy, and congratulations go out to Team FilthyButt for their Uwe Boll favorite film, MARIO PAINT.

Up next we have our annual 48 Hour Horror Filmmaking Challenge: BLOODSHOTS. Registration opens on October 5, and our shooting weekend will begin that Friday, October 9 at 7pm.

When you sign up for any competition you'll need to register as a Filmmaking Frenzy user first, then that account will be tied to all of the events you enter and you'll be able to access your info in one centralized location. But don't worry, you can still change your team name from Skippy Monkey Jumpers to Harpoon Happies whenever you feel like it.

Individual competitions may have different registration fees (although most are free), but signing on as a FilmmakingFrenzy.com user will always be totally free, so several people from your team can register and join the community as it builds. We also post information, videos, photos and updates at our Filmmaking Frenzy Facebook community.
BLOODSHOTS Winners!
The screening of finalists' films at the Highball was a bit... informal, but still a lot of fun. Zack Carlson, he of the Alamo's weekly Terror Tuesday fame, served as our ultimate juror, and after deliberating for a full three minutes, the ultimate winner was determined to be Clasico Entertainment's NECRO MADNESS, mainly due to the fact that it was entertaining and managed to blend both subgenres into one hodgepodge of a picture almost seamlessly.

Congratulations to the formidable gang of Clasico Entertainment, and to all of the other finalists (and really anyone who managed to complete a film at all!). I had a blast watching each and every one of them this year, and I'm still just really, really hoping I can schedule the next Filmmaking Frenzy during a time when I can play and make a movie as well. It's been too damned long.

No word on when exactly that next Frenzy will be yet, but keep this blog in your RSS feed and check out our Facebook updates and we'll let you know soon! ..more

BLOODSHOTS Finalists Announced!

We've finally learned how to count again, and have tallied up the ballots, used that rediscovered skill to add up the number of votes from audience members at the screenings and blended those results in with the tallies of votes from the online posting of films, and have put together our list of finalists in this year's Bloodshots!

The rules stated that we would have ten finalists, depending on the number of completed entries, and that the final judging would be done by our jury. We didn't have all that many actually complete entries, though, so we're going to cut down the number of final finalists to the top 5, and because that show wouldn't be long enough to fill a time slot at the Alamo, we're going to make this a Rolling Roadshow version of Bloodshots and host our final screening and awards ceremony down at The Highball instead.

The show will be this Friday, Oct 30 (All Devil's Night! OOoohh!) at 6pm. Terror Tuesday host and horror movie lover extraordinaire will serve as head juror and be determining the ultimate winner at that show, then, if the winning team is present, we will crown them with awesomeness.

It'll be free to come out, and one of the few times you'll be able to watch your movie while standing up on a dance floor, so if you're one of the finalists and in town, we hope you can join us! Otherwise we'll be updating the site with results immediately after the ceremony.

And the finalists are, in some sort of order determined by the first letter of each group's place in the alphabet:

Clasico Entertainment - Necro Madness
Good Enough - Meat Shack
lucidrage - EXTRATERRESTRIAL? EXOCISM!
Nirofex - A Vampire's Love Story
Team FOGAR! - DEATH AT DUSK ..more