Short film chosen for Internet film site
Release Date: 8/30/2001. Expired: 11/10/2001
Ever since he was a young boy, David Van Hooser wanted to make films. Now that he has done exactly that, he’s going a step farther as his independent short film “Saved” has been selected to show online.
Van Hooser is a producer for The Renaissance Center’s Multimedia Department and his film was selected as an IFILM Pick by the online network.
The IFILM network provides consumers the largest online video on-demand library in the world and selected Van Hooser’s work, a Renaissance Center production.
“It was a short video production that we did the last part of 2000 and the first part of this year,” Van Hooser said. “Basically it was done for two or three reasons, none of which had anything to do with making any money off of it. Because it’s a short video there’s no commercial value to it. One reason was to do it just because it felt like it was going to be something fun to do. It was going to be something creative and outside the boundaries of what we normally do here at The Renaissance Center.”
The short film also provided an outlet for the many talents in the Multimedia Department as well as other departments at the center.
“It gave them an opportunity to do things they don’t usually get to do, whether that was the music for it or acting in it or the people who run the cameras, the lights,” he said.
In addition, Van Hooser said making the short film was a chance for area high school and middle school students interested in film to work with professionals and learn something.
“It was an educational opportunity for those students to give them a chance to work as production assistants on something they might be interested in as part of their field,” he said.
Van Hooser wrote the storyline, produced and directed the 16-minute film that focuses on how the forces of good and evil battle each other while humans “wrestle with demons.”
He calls it an adventure/chase film that takes place in another world between a little girl and two men. Both men have their own purposes in mind for the little girl: one has evil intent while the other wants to save her.
“It’s a drama, almost like a chase movie,” he said. “It’s presented very dramatically. The little girl discovers in the end why she’s in this strange world and what has been going on with her as far as why these two men have been pursuing her and what their intentions really have been.”
The video was filmed at a local rock quarry and on Main Street in Dickson. It was shown as part of the 2001 Nashville Independent Film Festival.
The IFILM network is programmed in genre specific movie channels by film and editorial experts. As the definitive online film portal with more than 80,000 films, IFILM offers news, reviews, trailers and movie showcases, as well as robust user communities and a comparison DVD and video shopping guide.
To view “Saved” visit the IFILM online network at www.ifilm.com/ifilm/product/film_info/0,3699,2401182,00.html. The film is encoded in Real SureStream, QuickTime and WindowsMedia formats.
For more information on “Saved” or to contact Van Hooser call him at The Renaissance Center at 740-5516.