This is pretty cool. My man Patricio Ginelsa, the do-it-yourself indie filmmaker behind films like Lumpia and the music video for Black Eyed Peas' "Bebot," won big last week at the Los Angeles Film Festival Canon BRING IT 72-Hour Film Competition. After being chosen on June 18 to be one of four filmmakers to take part in the competition, he took home the prize with his film Being Reel.

The filmmakers were all required to write, shoot, and edit a short movie about "festival stories" in just 3 days. The process apparently took a lot of Patricio, as he fought a sore throat, lost his voice, and shot the movie in the middle of a summer heat wave. Ah, the things an artist will do for his craft. In the end, he barely made it to the finish line with only 6 minutes left on the clock. But he won! The audience at an industry event voted his film the winner. For his efforts, he won a brand new HF10 Camcorder, and supreme bragging rights.

You can follow along with the entire grueling process of making the film, as well as the prize-winning finished product, over at the KidHeroes website here. Nice work, Patricio. And congratulations.