'Time Freak' in Real Time
UT grad Gigi Causey produces Oscar-nominated short film "Time Freak"
By Marjorie Baumgarten, 2:15PM, Fri. Jan. 27, 2012
"Time Freak" producer Gigi Causey and her husband Andrew Bowler, the director of the live-action short, show us dreamers what it feels like to have your film nominated for an Oscar.
The husband-and-wife filmmaking team recorded themselves viewing the list of nominees on the website of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science. The couple are still in their bathrobes and nighttime flannels as they check the announcements at 5:30am Tuesday morning.
Gigi Causey is an alumna of the University of Texas at Austin undergraduate film program who, while in Austin, got her start working on George Ratliff's comedy feature, Purgatory County, and three of Bob Byington's films. Now based in L.A., Causey also served as the production supervisor on 2008's Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist and the Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds' starrer, Safe House, which opens on February 10.
"Time Freak," which won the Grand Jury Prize at Seattle International Film Festival, is described as "a short film comedy about a time machine and the power of nagging regret." View the trailer and look for it when it hits theatres in February as part of the Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2012 program.
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