Want to remake ‘Home Alone’? Fresno filmmakers called to recreate slices of the holiday classic
FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Fresno’s budding filmmakers and creative talents are being called upon to help remake a holiday classic.
The Community Media Access Collaborative (CMAC) wants your help to recreate the classic 1990 film Home Alone as part of its Crowdsourced Cinema program.
Anyone interested should sign up and they will be assigned a random scene from the movie to recreate. Those segments will be made by individual groups of filmmakers and the scenes combined will make up one movie – featuring a collage of different styles to tell one story.
CMAC Executive Director Bryan Harley says it’s the first time CMAC is helping to recreate an entire feature-length film.
“We’ve cut the movie up into about 42 scenes that range from like one minute to three minutes in length,” Harley said, “and then it’ll be up to you to sort of creatively re-imagine the scene.”
Harley says participants are only required to try to stick to the dialogue of the script and stay within the same timeframe as the original scene, which participants will receive as a frame of reference.
“But we’re not too restrictive about the other things,” Harley said. “The other things you do – as the director of your scene it’s sort of up to you to inject your own creativity into it.”
Though this will be the first time CMAC invites filmmakers to recreate a full-length film, Harley says CMAC has previously hosted similar projects.
“The community has created hundreds of these short four-minute or less remakes of popular movies – there are so many amazing examples,” Harley said.
Harley says the lengthy editing process will begin once all the submissions for the Crowdsource Cinema project are submitted. Once that is done, CMAC will announce a screening of the film.
Scenes will be distributed randomly to teams starting Monday, May, 13, and completed scenes must be turned in by Friday, September 6, 2024. A Q&A on Zoom will also be available to attend on May 21, which can be found on CMAC’s Crowdsourced Cinema page.
Harley says he is excited and hopes no one without a group is discouraged from participating. He says the project is a great opportunity to learn filmmaking and make friends.
“Filmmaking tends to be a collaborative art,” Harley said, “if you’re looking to find someone to collaborate with or jump on a team, that’ll be a great opportunity to connect with others.”
