It’s not easy being the Top Dog. Just ask Bernice.
Made for the 2013 National Film Challenge where it won the award for Best Dark Comedy.
A Discordian Films production.
About the film
It was fall of 2013 and Mikki Barry contacted Joe. There’s this thing called the National Film Challenge. It’s an offshoot of the 48 Hour Film Project, only this time you get a whole 3 days to make a film. Want to do it?
Sounds like fun, said Joe. But I’d like to direct.
Sure, said Mikki, and it was on.
We gathered at Mikki’s house on Friday evening, brainstormed, and did all the filming there on Saturday and Sunday. Joe skipped out of work for a day to do the editing and got the film in with half an hour to spare.
The assignment was:
- Make a dark comedy
- With Carrie or Carl Leffler, Dog Trainer
- Including earplugs
- Having the line “We can’t all be perfect.”
Credits
Cast
| Nikki | Sam David |
| Carrie | Amy Davis |
| Bernice | Kate Smith-Morse |
Crew
| Director | Joe Dzikewicz |
| Producer | Mikki Barry |
| Assistant Director | Carol Calhoun |
| Covert Beach | |
| Written by | Amy Davis |
| Story by | Discordian Films |
| Production design | Julie Dzikiewicz |
| Sound operator | Chris Hom |
| Props | Kate Smith-Morse |
| Dog wrangler | Wes Worrell |
| Training consultants | Ellen Engel |
| Marc Shepanek | |
| Dogs | Jepp |
| Chiana | |
| Buffy | |
| Willow | |
| Xander | |
| Kelsey | |
| Bushi | |
| Hobbes |