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Last weekend, 20 musical acts teamed up with 20 filmmakers at the Sports Basement in San Francisco to embark on a 48 hour journey to produce 20 original music videos in the first-ever Music Video Race. This Sunday, May 27th, the videos will hit the big screen. At the end of the night, Music Video Race will declare a winner. 

Who is judging? Well, Jacob Krupnick, captain of Girl Walk // All Day, is one of the two judges, alongside Brent Hoff, curator of Wholphin, the quarterly DVD magazine published by McSweeney’s. They’re both busy watching the videos this week as they gear up for this Sunday’s party and finale. 

This Sunday’s Screening Party is open to all ages, and will go down at The Rickshaw Stop (155 Fell Street, San Francisco, CA) with live performances by three of the competing bands, Big Light, Le VICE and doppio. Get your tickets here, check out the videos and say hi to Jacob, who’s heading out to SF just for the occasion. 

Though we couldn’t make it out to yesterday’s screening at the Free State Film Festival in Lawrence, Kansas, Jacob facetime’d in for a Q&A at the theater. Today, the awesome organizers sent over a picture of the director on the big screen. 

Thanks to all who came out to see the film yesterday — especially all the moms! 

John Doyle (The Creep), Jacob Krupnick (Director) and Youngna Park (Producer) will be representing Girl Walk // All Day down in Mexico City this Sunday, April 22nd with a free screening at the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo at UNAM, the largest university in Latin America (300,000 students!), as part of Telmex Hub. 

Girl Walk // All Day screening at Telmex Hub UNAM
Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo (MUAC) - Insurgentes Sur 3000
Sunday, 22.04.2012 
1:00 p.m. 
Free + open to the public (no tickets or RSVP required)

There will be a Q & A directly following the screening, and we plan to take the dance party all over campus and into the streets. Look for the three of us, and John’s giant old school Bose boom box bopping around town. 

We’ll also be giving a workshop about creative collaboration + the making, marketing and distribution of the film on Monday, 4/23. Details TBA. 

If you’re in Mexico City, we hope to see you there! 

We’ve had a lot of interviews over the last 15 months, but yesterday’s 45 minute conversation between Director Jacob Krupnick and CNET’s Daniel Terdiman was the first to take the gchat format. 

Krupnick and Terdiman discuss the making of the film, at length, whether Krupnick thought the film “would work,” the role of Kickstarter, advice for filmmakers headed down the Kickstarter route, and why we released the film online in chapters. 

A few excerpts are below, and head over to CNET to read the full article.

We live in a world with $100 million action films with massively expensive special effects. How does a small film like yours end up being so intriguing? 

Krupnick: I have a pretty strong aversion to heavy-duty special effects work, actually. I’m just not a fan of fakeness. With “Girl Walk,” there are a bunch of layers of reality. As the viewer, you know it really happened. You know the dancers performed their routine; they’re not marionettes.

We wanted to create a film that would be constantly engaging, and totally immersive, so that you’d feel like you were on a custom roller coaster, swimming through the city in pursuit of these wily, unpredictable dancers.

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What does your success story say about the future of funding small independent films? 

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Krupnick: What gives me pause as a creator is whether I could produce something that requires less crowd-calling. I’ve embraced every aspect of the crowd with this film, but I worry that projects might wind up spending too much energy on campaigning. That worked wonderfully for our project, but isn’t necessarily the ticket for quieter projects. The lesson for an independent filmmaker is that money is just half the battle. Arguably, the bigger one is finding your audience. Kickstarter helped get us both of these.