Table Tennis Movie wins Amazon / Tribeca Award

"Duel at Red Table" wins Amazon/Tribeca Short Film Competition

First published on Sunday, November 27, 2005

Last updated on Sunday, November 27, 2005

Jack Paccione Jr�s short film, �Duel at Red Table,� has been selected as the winner of the Amazon/Tribeca Short Film Competition. �Duel,� featuring a table tennis match between a man and the devil for a young girl�s soul, was featured in a story on megaspin.net several weeks ago.

Paccione feels it was the help from the table tennis community that pushed his film over the top.

�No question about it,� says Paccione, 32. �Table tennis players and fans voted in droves. We received emails from table tennis halls all over the country. All the support was awesome, just awesome. I�m very appreciative.�

Paccione plans to spend the entire $50,000 grand prize on film equipment. Which begs the question: what�s his next project?

�Originally I wanted to do a longer table tennis movie, but there�s one coming out in the theatres soon called �Balls of Fury,� so we�re going to have to wait and see if it�s too similar to what we were planning. So my next project is a feature length comedy called �Worst Movie Ever�.�

Paccione isn�t quite done with the film competition scene.
�Right now I have a 64-second short playing in a Dreamworks competition. The topic was �waitlessness,� which was kind of tricky, but I think we did okay. It�s about an unfortunate turned fortunate incident with a bee. Let�s leave it at that.�

The film is called �Route 24,� and can be viewed on www.64seconds.com.