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By John Cabrera on Feb 03 2009

I’ve been meaning to post this for a while. The story behind it is pretty simple.

In 2006 my film The Man Who Invented the Moon played at The Midwest Independent Film Festival, an ongoing festival in Chicago comprised of monthly screenings. Later that year it was nominated for best comedy and was included in an online voting process.

After a month of voting, the organizers of the festival called me to see if any of our team could accept the award if we won. I told them I wasn’t sure. Then they suggested we shoot a quick ‘thank you’ video.

I thought that was kinda funny. So later that night I met the writer, Lee Kirk, for a drink, and we tossed around some ideas for what that might be. The next evening we shot this.

And they played it.

Acceptance Speech: MWITM from John Cabrera on Vimeo.

9 Responses to “Acceptance”

itzel on 03 Feb 2009 at 3:26 pm #

LOL, that was pretty funny, now the real question, when are we seeing your webseries??? if it’s as witty as the video acceptance speech, then it’s all good =)

DJSmackMackey on 03 Feb 2009 at 3:26 pm #

That has to be, hands down, the best absentee acceptance speech ever. Great job!

Michelle Kelly on 03 Feb 2009 at 3:33 pm #

OMG that was funny. No wonder you won the award!

I actually scrolled down and watched The Man Who Invented the Moon and I thought it was genuis. I’m not sure if I commented after I watched it or not. Some serious talent my friend.

*waves from Canada*
Michelle

Viv on 03 Feb 2009 at 3:42 pm #