Christopher Compton will shoot a side project Saturday, March 1st, for the 2008 DFWshortfest presented by DFWindie. It is a short, unrelated to Fifth Floor Pictures, that will be part of an anonymous competition lead by Compton and Anthony Akiniz. The short will be available online when the competition is over in late April. Compton has courted a cast from some of Dallas’ finest talent, who have to remain unnamed due to the anonymity of the competition, as most of them are very well known in the Dallas film community.

Fifth Floor Pictures has resumed the search for financing for The Van Zandt Shakedown (2009). The recent strike between the WGA and AMPTP which officially ended earlier this month was the largest factor in the delay of the project; which began on November 5, 2007 and ended February 12, 2008. This was the exact time frame VZS had been slated to begin.