Robin's Movie Review: Film Making Contests

Besides catching up on all those streaming options you meant to watch for the past three or four years, the Covid-19 pandemic provides opportunities to start your movie making career. Based on an idea spawned by schlock movie mogul Roger Corman, some Ely Film Festival board members created a “Stay Home Means Nevada” movie contest going on right now through May First. I’m now a board member too but can’t take credit for the idea, which strikes me as a fun and simple one. Using a cell phone, shoot a two-minute, family friendly piece that includes the line “Home Means Nevada,” title of the state’s official song. You can learn more about entering the contest on the Ely Film Festival’s Facebook page. The page also features winners from a student contest held in March, and you can even find a seven-minute cell-phone video I created about the area’s screen history called Desperation in Ely. That title comes because Stephen King set one of his horror tales in the region after spending some