NEW YORK - Imagine The Sound of Music as a documentary on the origin of snuff movies. Or Gandhi as a biopic about a standup comedian. Among other absurdities, that's what participants at the Association of Independent Creative Editors' first Trailer Park New York competition were treated to as 31 assistant editors from the Big Apple battled it out for best faux-trailer.

They were given a list of five classic movies and asked to pick one and create a trailer - but in a different genre.

First prize was awarded to WildChild, NY's Kevin Halleran, who turned The Sound of Music into a thriller. "I was trying to create a story that wasn't there that made sense when you watched it," he says, noting that others had produced trailers that, while hilarious and creative, were obviously not real. "I'd better get a raise," he said, moments after winning.

Second and third prizes were won by Dan Aronin from Red Car for his Platoon-turned-gay love story; and Cameron Kelly from Homestead, for his musical version of Citizen Kane.

Also of note were Mad River assistant Lisa Olshanski's Forrest Gump as 007, Blue Rock assistant Andreas Lee's Kung-fu Sound of Music, and WildChild's Chris Carson's 'Mahatma G' crime comedy cut from the 1982 epic Gandhi.

The contest has been held thrice before in Chicago and LA. At those events, the assignment was to make a trailer for the film that won best editing at the Academy Awards that year. "The [New York] board came up with the changing genre thing. We though it would be both a challenge and a fun twist," says Bernadette Quinn, president of the AICE's NY chapter. Anticipating a bigger event next year, Quinn says, "We think we're going to open it up to more films."