By Michael Rutschky
Published on October 10, 2007
Pensacola motorists may have noticed a strange bus passing through town last Sunday, October 14, with the words “Road to Oprah” on the side. The bus was the touring vehicle for The 1 Second Film, a non-profit collaboration that was started seven years ago in Los Angeles, California by director Nirvan Mullick. The bus was taking a group of filmmakers as well as a musical group, The Evangenitals, 10,000 miles to ask talk show mogul Oprah Winfrey for one dollar towards their cause. The crew stopped in Pensacola only long enough to fill up on biodiesel fuel and get back on the road en route to Tallahassee, Florida, where they had a performance later that night at a party for Florida State University.
“We stopped here to get our biodiesel on,” said Mullick while filling up the van with the environmentally friendly fuel at the Shell station on the corner of Ninth Avenue and Underwood Avenue, right across the street from PJC’s Pensacola campus.
The 1 Second Film is a unique opportunity for normal people to join in a collaborative project with many of the Nation’s top celebrities. The film itself features one second, or 12 frames, of animation using giant collaborative paintings. The rest of the film is comprised of ninety minutes of credits, where the names of all the people who donated money towards the project are credited as producers. Meanwhile, a documentary of the making of the movie will play underneath the credits as they roll.
The film currently boasts such big name stars such as Stephen Colbert, Woody Harrelson, and Pierce Brosnan as producers, as well as thousands of every day people who have donated their own money towards the production of the film. As an added incentive, if a person were to donate just a penny more to the production than any other producer, they would be listed higher on the billing.
“I like to support this kind of artistic endeavor,” said actor Seth Green in a video on <b><a href=”www.the1secondfilm.com”>the1secondfilm.com</a></b>. Green has donated $41 to the film so far.
Currently, actor Keifer Sutherland is at the top of the billing, having donated $600.23 to the film. If anyone were to donate $600.24, they would top Keifer Sutherland as producer. All profits will be given to the Global Fund for Women.
The bus and its crew left Los Angeles on September 20, and have traced a path along the southern perimeter of the United States. Their trip through Florida also includes events in St. Petersburg and Daytona Beach. The bus will then trek up the east coast to New York before crossing west to Chicago for their rendezvous with Winfrey.