UI filmmakers debut new film at IMAX

By Deanna Truman-Cook / IOWA CITY PRESS-CITIZEN / November 9, 2006

This weekend, Scott Beck and Bryan Woods will premiere their 22nd film, "The Bride Wore Blood," at the IMAX Theatre in Davenport.

Though the title is gruesome, the film really isn't, Woods said.

"There is violence and there is blood, but nothing graphic or explicit," he said.

In fact, he and Beck give the movie a PG-13 rating. The film will be shown 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $7.

The movie is a contemporary Western about a bounty hunter who is hired to protect a bride-to-be, Beck said.

Not wanting to give too much away, he will only say that "when secrets reveal the past, blood is shed and a deadly mystery unfolds."

Both filmmakers are senior communication studies majors at the University of Iowa.

Together, the pair runs Bluebox Limited Films.

Last December, the two won an MTV student filmmaking contest, which included a movie deal.

While negotiating with MTV on the specifics, which they are still doing, the pair grew restless and produced another film, "The Bride Wore Blood."

"It really stems from our love of Westerns," Beck said.

To finance the $600 production, he auctioned off on eBay a 42-inch Plasma HDTV, another prize awarded to him from the MTV competition.

To Woods, it is the duo's best work ever.

"I think we have really taken the low budget movie as far as you can," he said.