CFP member and former Mountaintop resident Faith Sherry Feighan and her husband, Keith Feighan, were recently invited by the 48 Hour Film Project (48HFP) to participate in its first ever invitational competition, The American Red Cross Challenge. The competition was created in honor of the American Red Cross’ 125th anniversary. Feighan's Anomaly Pictures was one of only six teams in the country selected for the honor.

Each team was assigned a genre randomly, and given 48 hours to write, shoot, and edit a short (125 second) film. Each film had to incorporate the character C. Longfellow, an artificial plant as a prop, and the line of dialogue, "I know it's around here somewhere." Feighan received the category "Mockumentary", and produced the film Utter Disaster, about the fundraising hardships of a rural Red Cross chapter.

The first place winner will be chosen in May by a panel of ten members of the American Red Cross National Celebrity Cabinet – Zach Braff, Jamie Lee Curtis, Marcia Gay Harden, Angie Harmon, Marlee Matlin, Julianne Moore, Nancy O’Dell, Elisabeth Rohm, Jane Seymour and Jason Sehorn.

The second place winner will be chosen via online poll. You can vote for Utter Disaster here (and you can watch the other five films, if you like). You can vote once per day, so please support your fellow CFP member's efforts.

Anomaly Pictures' feature length film The Suicide Notes recently appeared in the Silver Lake Film Festival and in the Omaha Film Festival. A host of local actors and CFP veterans appear in the film, including Ron Araya, Bob Balitski, Paul Clisham, K.K. Gordon, Greg Korin, Walter Mitchell, Ellen O'Brien, Jason Sherry, Stephen Stylinski, and Paula Deignan Reynolds.