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Last year, a week after returning from Ethiopia, I got roped into narrating a movie that was being submitted to the 48 Hour Film Festival in New Hampshire. As well as narrating, I helped brainstorm the plot and had a small onscreen role. I was asked to participate again this year, but since my wife works at weekends, when the competition takes place, I had to say no. But Newmarket is a small place…

So when the kids and I went down to Crackskulls Cafe for icecream, I bumped into the crew and was invited to be an extra. Fame! Again!

So here are two shots of my brief appearance onscreen. You really need the stills, otherwise you’d miss me!

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So last night I went to Londonderry (New Hampshire) to watch movies that had been submitted as part of the New Hampshire 48 Hour Film Project — including the following short, film, in which I did the narration:

The 48 Hour Film Project is a worldwide enterprise where on Friday evening teams of filmmakers (usually amateur and often first-time) are given a genre (in our case fantasy — others included musical, suspense, cop, and buddy movie), a character (either Marie or Max Otterbein), the character’s profession (waitress/waiter), a prop (sunglasses), and a line of dialogue (“Don’t just stand there. Move it!”). Teams also had t include a New Hampshire landmark in the movie. By Sunday evening the film must be handed in.

John Herman was the force behind our effort. He’d asked me to do the narration, …