Robert Rodriguez put up his new short films on Youtube. Rodriguez was helped in completing the film by his fans who took footage that he put up on the net and edited the ending via their blackberries.

Robert Rodriguez put out what looks like an allegory about another kind of illegal alien in the new featurette that the director released through Blackberry 10.

Robert Rodriguez is known for doing whatever he can do by himself in his films. Rodriguez writes the screenplays, shoots the footage, mans the cameras, edits the film, composes and plays the music, and he gets his friends to play parts or sometimes to contribute shots. For “Two Scoops,” Robert Rodriguez let his tech-savvy fans assist with the filmmaking process.

“Two Scoops” is a film short featurette that was announced as part of Blackberry’s “Keep It Moving” project that invited wannabe filmmakers make films. Rodriguez shot most of the short film himself and then put the scenes on the web to let his fans finish it.

According to the Miramax website, Rodriguez said “Their whole thing was about ‘keep moving’ and using technology to be creative on-the-spot. I said, ‘Oh, that sounds like a great fit.” He put up his unfinished short and put it round that “I’d like you guys to use your creativity and imagination to help complete them.”

"We're not from here," says the two women who scoop cool desserts from an ice cream truck. There is a wall by the truck where the two young women add pages to an assortment of missing children posters. The women get assignments via a “Mission: Impossible” style blackberry to go chasing after monsters. Ultimately “Two Scoops” tells the plot of a completely different kind of illegal alien.

by Tony Sokol