Adrenaline Film Project movies

Fast becoming a Film Festival favorite, the Volvo Adrenaline Film Project has a premise that’s brutally simple: 10 teams of three aspiring filmmakers have just 72 hours to write, shoot and edit a short film, with the payoff of a Sunday afternoon screening and award presentation in front of a capacity crowd. Each team is given a film genre (action/adventure, fantasy, etc.) and required to incorporate a prop and a line of dialogue (this year, a jar of Miracle Whip and “I want to believe it,” both befitting this year’s festival theme — religion).

Charlottesville filmmakers Ben Haslup, Brian Wimer and Ruth Morton won both the Audience and Jury awards for their innovative, laugh-out-loud entry, “Taste of Evil,” a film noir spoof on a power struggle among the condiments inhabiting a refrigerator.