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Send us your shorts! The Grenada Afterglow Film Festival is now accepting films; the submission fee is only $10, and it's FREE for high school students!
Don't miss out on your chance to have your film screen at Mississippi's most unusual film festival! It's even been refered to as a "mini sxsw!"
Guidelines:
Films must be short; 30 minutes and under.
Only family friendly films will be accepted; keep language and adult...
Director: Alap Mohile and Nupoor Kajbaje.
Billy smokes into his glass of whiskey. He is enjoying his evening. His nephew Dumpy is reading a joke book. Billy wants to listen too. Dumpy obliges. As Dumpy narrates the jokes, Billy laughs and laughs creating different types of weired laughters. His nephew eventually leaves the place as Billy gets wild!.
I started my involvement in films as an actor, turned into a writer and then decided to make short films on my own amusing stories. As a writer I created a character of Billy Moore, a jolly old man now. He had many amusing stories in his life. I wrote 8 stories-4 to be shot indoors and 4 to be shot outdoors. There was nobody to finance me as I had no background as a film maker. Nobody listened to me being an international award winning actor and a writer with good stories which can be easily f...
Director: Alap Mohile .
Billy Moore is now a jolly old man.
'Billy goes out'
Billy is in a hurry to go out. He gets a wrong call on his cell phone which irritates him. His door is a voice command door. He asks the door to open to which the door says 'voice not recognized'. This further infuriates Billy. There follows then a fight between Billy & the door. Billy gets exhausted and collapses on the floor. His pretty wife comes kisses the door lovingly and the door ......opens! Billy while going out curses the door at which, the door shuts on Billy's face throwing Billy out!
Director: Alap Mohile & Nupoor Kajbaje.
Billy's grandson is getting ready to go to school. Feeling sleepy, his shoe slips and hits Billy. Apologizing, requests Billy to help him. Billy obliges but puts the shoes the wrong way around. The grandson points Billy his mistake. Billy tries again, succeeds, then feeling cold, asks his grandson where are his gloves and then..Kid answers...BANG!..
and Billy collapses!!
This is a slide show of stills from the series of our short films "The amusing life of Billy Moore" , films shot and completed in May 2011.
"THE AMUSING LIFE OF BILLY MOORE"
WHO IS BILLY MOORE?
BILLY MOORE
Billy Moore alias Balram More is an elderly, educated and an amusing character. His background is ambiguous. It's said he was found by a priest on an early morning, as a child, crying on the dead body of his father who died due to overindulgence in alcohol and extreme cold in a village field near Mahabaleshwar in Maharastra, India.
The priest rechristened him to ‘Billy Moore' from Balram More.
Later, w...
CALL FOR ENTRIESOpen Now!Regular deadline 23 November 2010 Filmmakers of the world, it's time to get your skates on! Over The Fence announces its CALL FOR ENTRIES for the 2011 Comedy Film Festival. Films must fulfill the following guidelines: Can be shot on any format, but must be submitted on DVD (PAL or NTSC) Can be a short film (up to 19 mins), a long-form short (20+ mins), or a short-form series Any comic genre: black, slapstick, irreverent, romantic, political, subversive, absur...
The British Council, in cooperation with Comedy Nights the Comedy Club, presented, for the first time in Greece, stand up comedy from Britain. The thought behind the British comedy month was mainly based on the entertainment of the public in Athens through its contact with three of the brightest talents of British comedy today, namely Craig Hill, Lucy Porter Rob Hitchmough, Owen O’Neill. Humor though, especially British humor, isn’t always entertaining.
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