ABOUT

The film premiered March 6  in South Bend, IN at the Mid America Filmmakers annual winter screening, where the script won "Audience Choice Award" in the $100 Movie Project contest a year ago. 

The task was for each of the six screenwriters to pull an incomplete B movie title from the hat, and Tim Richardson drew "Night of the Living _______." They then performed a staged reading and at the end the audience voted on which one should be made into a short film, which is then screened a year later at the annual event. Since Tim has a huge Mr. Potato Head collection, he decided he would use his resources and shoot the 10-minute film as miniatures over five weekends in his basement studio. The Mr. Potato Heads were puppeteered for the entire film. Zombie effects were created by Andrew Swisher and costumes by Janice Bennett, who both had worked on The Dork of the Rings and Harvey Putter and the Ridiculous Premise.

More information about the not-for-profit Mid America Filmmakers can be found online at www.midamericafilmmakers.org.

“Night of the Living Spuds” Copyright 2011 Richardson Productions LLC
This film not associated with or endorsed by Hasbro, Play School or Mr. Potato Head.

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