.: featured short film: “screening process”
Screening Process (A Loser’s Guide to Love)
2004 ♦ 7:34 ♦ produced by Geoffrey Long ♦ directed by William R. Coughlan
Kevin can’t seem to catch a break in the romantic arena, and his poker buddies aren’t afraid to let him know it. Over the course of a friendly game, they recount his romantic misadventures, and a pattern emerges — all of Kevin’s concepts of romance derive from 1980s-era films. Which might be all right, except that Kevin can’t seem to execute them the way they come off in the movies. Whether he’s reenacting his favorite scenes from “Pretty in Pink,” “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” “Top Gun,” or “Say Anything,” he always manages to end up with egg on his face. That is, until he meets just the right woman...
Screening Process (A Loser’s Guide to Love) — a romance — was Tohubohu’s official entry into the 2004 National Film Challenge competition. The short was written, shot, and edited over the weekend of October 1–4, 2004. Its first theatrical screening was at the Warehouse Theater on Tuesday, November 9, followed by a showing as part of Washington, D.C.’s Art-O-Matic festival on December 2.
TOHUBOHU PRODUCTIONS presents “SCREENING PROCESS (A LOSER’S GUIDE TO LOVE)” starring SHAWN “FELT” FELTY STUART SCOTTEN NELLO DeBLASIO BJORN MUNSON RICIA WEINER featuring MEGAN STAUBITZ PAM W. COUGHLAN and LAUREN WALSH edited by WILLIAM R. COUGHLAN, ADAM YOUNG, SHAWN “FELT” FELTY and GEOFFREY LONG director of photography ADAM YOUNG executive producer WILLIAM R. COUGHLAN story by TOHUBOBU screenplay by NELLO DeBLASIO and LAUREN WALSH produced by GEOFFREY LONG directed by WILLIAM R. COUGHLAN
WINNER: BEST ROMANCE