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Until I got my bike I had gas!

Status: In production.

Project Description: A One hour documentary about the video-taped death of 14 year-old Martin Anderson during his first day in a Panama City, Fl sherriff's boot camp. View video clip.

 

Status: Premiered Spring 2008 on FSU Campus.

Project Description: Utilizing a grant from the Florida State University Sustainable Campus Initiative Dr. Opel led a team of undergraduate and graduate production assistants that wrote, shot and edited the series of public service announcements. View PSA's.

 
Until I got my bike I had gas!
  • The Cargo Bike
  • Written and Directed by Andy Opel
  • Produced by Donna Nudd and Faust Films.


Status: Premiered March 3, 2006 at the Mickee Faust Clubhouse, Railroad Square, Tallahasse, FL.

Project Description: In a world dominated by SUVs and global warming, one bicycle is out to make a difference. 30 Minute narrative video in the Eco-Horror-Humor Genre.
Read Tallahassee Democrat Article.
Look for clip online soon.

 

Status: Expected release, winter 2009.

Project Description: One hour documentary profiling survivors of torture who have resettled in the U.S. Produced in cooperation with the Center for the Advancement of Human Rights at FSU and Florida Center for the Survivors of Torture.

  • Tough
  • Produced and Directed by T. Galloway, D. Nudd and A. Opel. Video Production by A. Opel.

Status: To be included in a DVD companion to the book Gay Shame, edited by David Halperin and Valerie Traub, University of Chicago Press. **Refereed**

Project Description : 16 minute video collage of performance art piece by Terry Galloway. In the tradition of Spaulding Gray, Galloway performs an introspective interrogation of her disability, homosexuality and experimentation with gender roles. View video clip.

 

Competitive Screenings:

●Florida State University Literature and Film Conference, February, 2003.
●Console-ing Passions Conference, New Orleans, LA, May, 2004.

Project Description: Moving between the fiction of the film Minority Report and the "fiction" of President Bush's pre-war intelligence claims, this experimental 8 minute video (de)construction explores the contradictions inherent in the concept of preemption. Simple drop-jaw animations punctuate this piece. View video.

  • Power (2000)
  • Produced and Directed by Andy Opel


Competitive Screenings:

● Duke University Film and Video Documentary Happening, Durham, NC. February 2000.

Project Description: A 7 minute experimental documentary exploring power as a social force and a theoretical concept.

 

Competitive Screenings:

● First Place winner in the student competition at the Marco Island Film Festival, Marco Island, FL. $1,000 cash prize. October 1998.
● Fort Worth Film Festival, Fort Worth, TX, October 1998.
● Duke University Film and Video Documentary Happening, Durham, NC, January 1999.

Project Description: A 30 minute video documentary produced as my Master’s project at the U. of O. This piece unpacks the 1996 shooting of 11 cows by an environmentalist trying to protect a salmon spawning stream on his Eastern Oregon property. View video.



Project Description: Free radio activists march on Washington to confront the global media monopoly. View video.

 

Competitions:

● Semi-finalist in the Lonestar Screenplay Competition, 1998.
● Quarter-finalist in the Empire Screenplay Competition, 1998.

Project Description: A Feature length screenplay about two twenty-something friends who decide to abandon cubicle lives and race across the country hitch-hiking.