Remember the ads that read, “Draw Me!” or “Are You an Artist?” They used to run in magazines and on matchbooks, enticing would-be artists into “auditioning” for an opportunity to receive an art course from an official sounding art school.
I remember them well, even drew the side profile of a woman’s head when I was about 10. I didn’t win, of course, but was offered the opportunity to “buy” their course because I “showed great promise as an artist.” Like the fellow in this well done short film, I believed my submission was a masterpiece. But I handled the rejection a little differently…
Completed in August of 2003, this short, comedic film was written and directed by Jeff Hopkins, a writer-director living in Los Angeles, whose previous works include writing “P1” an audience favorite at the Palm Springs Film Festival, and “Vacancy” a winner of the Kan Film Festival. It stars David Snell, a series regular on the Emmy-award winning crime-drama The Shield.