Welcome to IMAGE's inaugural Rapid "i" Movement Finals! On the weekend of March 16-18, 40 teams of Atlanta filmmakers wrote, directed, produced, shot, and edited short films in less than 50 hours. Then, on March 20 & 21, audiences selected these films to advance to the Atlanta Film Festival.

The following films will compete for Prizes--including the Grand Prize: Avid Express Pro Editing software:

3:01 Director: Spencer Williams, USA, 6 min, video
A woman has a premonition of a terrible event that will occur at 3:01.

31 DEGREES Director: Raymond Wood & Randall Blizzard, USA, 6 min, video
A desperate man races against time and temperature to make a delivery.

31 FLAVORS OF EVIL Director: Lisa Ward and Eric Bomba-Ire, USA, 5 min, video
A stream-of-conciousness meditation on the true costs of consumerism.

BETWEEN A ROCK AND A STONE Director: Charles Hess, USA, 6 min, video
The day has come for a journeyman janitor to rise above his station in life and grab the loot from his hardboiled detective boss Stone Gabbard.

CAST V. CREW Director: Keith Hooker, USA, 6 min, video
The ancient animosity between stage actors and backstage crew is about to explode into open warfare.

ELEVATOR Director: Steven Turner, USA, 6 min, video
Social differences become obvious as an elevator picks up passengers in a building.

ENLIGHTENMENT Director: Dale Saini, USA, 7 min, video In the course of his work, a print shop worker experiences a revelation about prejudice.

HORIZON COWBOY Director: Darrick Patterson, USA, 6 min, video
A showdown between jingle-slinging marketers can leave only one cowboy standing.

THE MIDGARD SERPANT Director: Pat Clark, Matthew Cornwell, Jay D Zimmerman, USA, 6 min, video
A man's noir-ish fantasy life constantly intrudes on his quest to return a rented DVD.

REDNECK, SITTING ON A COUCH, WATCHING NASCAR: PLATINUM COLLECTOR'S EDITION Director: Michael Friedman, USA, 6 min, grainy video
A chatty commentary track is your guide to the subtle joys of watching a redneck sitting on a couch, watching NASCAR.

SOUP Director: Matt Ruggles, USA, 7 min, video
A man confused about his love life gets advice (mostly bad) from friends.

Just Announced: Wild Card winners:

Rapid i Movement films received over 5575 total views. We received over 1000 legitimate votes for the Wild Card portion of our contest.

We are pleased to include the following two films to the final showdown on Monday, April 23 at 7:00 pm:

31 Pieces, dir. Jeremiah Bennett, USA, 6 min, video
Peel, dir. Garrett Dehart, USA, 7 min, video
Rupert Shackleford, dir. Bailey Sharp, USA, 7 min., video