Raleigh, NC
This year, Red Truck Films has produced three :30 television spots for the North Carolina Education Lottery’s latest scratch-off games.
The spot, “They’re Coming,” directed by New York-based director Joe Leih, features Game Show Gary in a souped-up Mustang atop a car transporter semi truck. The spot announces the “Mustang Fever” scratch-off game, which will award six fully-loaded 2010 Ford Mustang V6 convertibles. The commercial begins airing in September. View spot: http://www.redtruckfilms.com/blogmovies/ncelmustangfever.mov.
Game Show Gary, showing off his stellar poker face, appears again in a spot announcing the “World Series of Poker” instant scratch-off game. Payouts include a top cash prize of $75,000 or a chance to win a seat at the 2010 WSOP Main Event Tournament. The “World Series of Poker” was directed by Garye Costner of Red Truck Films. View spot: http://www.redtruckfilms.com/blogmovies/sunglasses.mov.
Different in concept and style, the third spot promoted the N.C. Lottery’s “$500,000 Jackpot” scratch-off game. Directed by Red Truck’s Leih, the spot presents the “Lottery Win-Team” on red alert to dispense cash prizes of a half million dollars. It features big check writers on stand-by to pay out prizes and a team investigating the winning effects of $500,000. View spot: http://www.redtruckfilms.com/blogmovies/winteam.mov.
Red Truck Films’ Cathy Wilson was executive producer for all three spots, working with agency Wray Ward. Blazing Music+Sound provided audio for the spots, and Serious Robots handled post production.
One hundred percent of the net proceeds of the North Carolina Education Lottery go to education expenses, including reducing class size in early grades, academic pre-kindergarten programs, school construction, and scholarships for needy college and university students.
With a roster of award-winning directors based throughout the country, Red Truck Films, represented by Trailblazer Studios, produces spot work and non-traditional content, on location anywhere or on one of its two sound stages.
Serious Robots, a top post production company in the Southeast, provides editorial, design and finishing to companies in the commercial and broadcast industries. Blazing Music+Sound provides all aspects of music and sound production, including original music composition, voiceover recording, and sound design. Both are divisions of Trailblazer Studios.
Contact:Sarah Styron Group3 Communications 606 West Peace Street Raleigh, NC 27605 919.838.3328 sarah@group3online.com
“Ǝvolution” Comes Full Circle At The Chelsea Film Festival
The Chelsea Film Festival, running from October 16th through October 20th, 2024, at Regal Cinemas here in Union Square, is set to host the East Coast premiere of Ǝvolution, a thought-provoking experimental micro-short film that proves big ideas can come in small packages and in perfect circles.
In just 1 minute 16 seconds, this cinematic gem by Award-Winning Director Romina Schwedler, with original music by Argentine Composer Ignacio Montoya Carlotto, explores a cycle as old as time: life leads to progress, progress leads to destruction, and destruction, well, leads back to life. But is this vicious circle unbreakable? Ǝvolution suggests the answer is yes, unless we decide to open our eyes.
Inspired by the overwhelming number of recent events that threaten human existence, Ǝvolution, possibly the shortest film in this 12th edition of the festival, plays out entirely through the symbolism of circles, cleverly illustrating —in the blink of an eye— the repeating patterns of history, and confronting viewers with the uncomfortable truth that our so-called “progress” may, in fact, be guiding us to our own ruin.Premiering at the Regal 14 Union Square, New York City, on October 18, 2024, at 11 a.m., Romina Schwedler's micro-short, featuring Leah Young with cinematography by Alan J. Carmona, will be sure to spark conversations longer than the film itself! Forcing viewers to reconsider the true meaning of evolution, not just as a biological process, but as a reflection of our collective journey as humans.
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