Review: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

Review: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

At the first sight of the trailer, my reaction was this. “Oh, they just want you to jump out of your skin by flying giant meatballs at you in 3D. Not interested”. But from the suggestion of another filmmaker I decided to see it. And from my surprise, I loved it. It had a great theme, a great story that was unpredictable, it was funny and heartwarming. I give it 4 out of 5 stars.

Doorpost Film Project

Doorpost Film Project has one of the most unique ways of promoting independent films. This is how it works. Anybody can submit a short film with one of the following themes. Hope, Forgiveness, Freedom, Humility, Joy and Redemption. Your film will then be viewed by the judges to see if it meets qualifications. They then release all the films on their website to be viewed and voted on. Judges account for 70% of the score and online voters for 30%. All of the films are narrowed down to ten finalists.

The Doorpost Film Project then gives each of those ten finalists 30,000$ to make another short film. Then the judges along with online voters will determine the top three winners. 1st place prize being 100,000$, 2nd place prize 35,000$ and 3rd place prize 25,000$.

So not only are they encouraging filmmakers to rise to the occasion, but they are giving them the resources to do it.

Here is one of my favorite short films in the competition. Enjoy!
http://www.thedoorpost.com/hope/The%20Butterfly%20Circus/