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Watch Panic Attack from 30-year-old Uruguayan director Fede Alvarez. This is the video that sent Hollywood into panic attacks about who was going to rep Alvarez after Kanye West featured a link to the video on his blog. The video cost $500 to produce and is about giant robots invading apocalyptic earth.
After the dust settled along Wilshire Boulevard, Alvarez took home a $1 million deal based on his astonishing short video and feature pitch. During his short visit to Hell-A, Alvarez also managed to sign with CAA (one of the largest talent/lit agencies in Hollywood), Anonymous Content (management for Hollywood stars like Sam Jackson and Joaquin Phoenix) and entertainment attorney Karl Austen. And if that wasn’t enough, Alvarez’s $1 million feature deal is with Ghost House (producers of The Grudge series, Drag Me To Hell and other freak-me-out films). Oh…yeah…Alvarez’s mentor for his first feature film will be Sam Raimi (director of Spider Man, The Gift and producer of a video store full of films).
Yeah, I know the video isn’t funny, but the panic attack Alvarez sent the Hollywood hipsters into…that’s real funny. Power to the filmmakers!
February 18th, 2010 at 11:55 pm
This was amazing I am ready to see the movie in theaters