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Sara Dering
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Jeanne Romanoff
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Women In Film Los Angeles is accepting applications for its 2010 Film Finishing Fund Cycle.
With support from Netflix, the WIF Foundation’s Film Finishing Fund provides cash grants and in-kind production services to filmmakers working on projects for, by, and about women.
The fund awards finishing funds to women and male filmmakers who are making projects about women or women’s issues. Applications are encouraged from around the world. The program funds filmmakers working in both short and long formats in all genres — narrative, documentary, educational, animated, and experimental. Student projects are not eligible.
In order to be eligible for an FFF grant, a filmmaker must have completed principal photography and a rough cut at the time of application.
Cash awards range from $1,000 to $15,000 each, with the number of grants varying from year to year. In-kind services may be available upon request.
The application period is March 23, 2010, to April 30, 2010. Visit the WIF Web site for complete program information.
Contact:
Link to Complete RFP
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Group works with new partner on fall date for Reel Stuff Film Festival of Aviation
(Feb. 9, 2010 – Dayton, Ohio) The National Aviation Hall of Fame will not hold the 2010 Reel Stuff Film Festival of Aviation during its originally scheduled Feb. 26-28 dates, but officials are working out details of a partnership with a local arts group to produce the event this fall.
“With the loss of a major sponsor and the reorganization of the Hall of Fame operations in 2009, we simply could not make the February date,” said Alan Hoeweler, chairman of the Hall of Fame’s board of trustees. “But Southwest Ohio has a vibrant creative community, and we believe that working with one of these organizations and signing on some new sponsors will help make a great event even better.”
The board is in discussions with a Dayton-based nonprofit group that expressed its interest in producing the festival while keeping the Hall as the beneficiary. Board members declined to identify the organization until further details of funding and operation of the festival are settled.
In November, the Hall of Fame underwent a reorganization that included staff reductions and other cost-cutting measures. Kaplan, the Hall of Fame’s former executive director, was hired in January to act as a consultant to help the board coordinate the organization’s 2010 enshrinement weekend activities, set for July 16-17.
While Kaplan will focus his attention on the enshrinement, he said the Reel Stuff Film Festival is another event that can help showcase not only the area’s unparalleled aviation heritage, but the arts and business communities of the greater Dayton area.
Kaplan, the founding director of the Reel Stuff festival, added that he hopes the film festival can make a 2010 date, noting that the Hall again had a robust lineup of presenters eager to screen their feature films and documentaries this year.
“This event has been second only to our annual enshrinement ceremonies in nationally spotlighting the Hall of Fame,” Kaplan said. “For anyone with a passion for flight and the filmmaking process, Reel Stuff makes the ‘Birthplace of Aviation’ the place to be.”
Past presenters at the Reel Stuff Film Festival include Academy Award-winning actor, pilot and enshrinee Cliff Robertson; aerial cinematographer Clay Lacy (who is set to be enshrined in the Hall of Fame in July); Catherine Wyler, producer of “Memphis Belle” in 1990 and daughter of William Wyler, director of the 1944 documentary, “The Memphis Belle: The Story of a B-17.” The 2009 festival also included the North American premiere of “Der Rote Baron,” (The Red Baron), a German production of the life of Baron von Richthofen that has its national release next month.
“In just two years, this festival has become the top aviation film festival in the country,” Hoeweler said. “We’ve set a high standard, and have every intention of raising that bar even higher. The postponement will be worth the wait and a “win-win” for the Hall of Fame, the Festival and the region.”
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Contact: Ron Kaplan
O: (937) 256-0944 x16
C: (937) 212-8847
CLEVELAND – The Greater Cleveland Film Commission congratulates Cleveland filmmaker Eyad Zahra, whose film The Taqwacores is and Official Selection for the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Filmed entirely in Cleveland in 2008, The Taqwacores will be featured in Sundance’s NEXT (<=>) section, which is composed of eight American films selected for their innovative and original work in low- and no-budget filmmaking. The world premiere of the film was at Sundance on Sunday, January 24.
Raised by Syrian-Muslim immigrants in Cleveland, Eyad Zahra read The Taqwacores in 2007 and was immediately inspired by the novel’s accurate depiction of the complexities of growing up young and Muslim in modern-day America. Zahra has worked on award-winning productions around the globe, and opted to film The Taqwacores entirely in Cleveland. “Shooting in Cleveland was a dream come true,” Zahra said. “As a Cleveland native, I had always wanted to return home to shoot my first indie feature. The city is very friendly to indie filmmakers. Had it not been for Cleveland, I perhaps would not have been able to shoot this film at all.”
The Film Commission worked with Zahra and the The Taqwacores crew to provide production assistance and logistical support to help make the most out of the small budget. “Eyad and his team were incredibly professional and resourceful, creating a truly spectacular film on a shoestring,” said Film Commission Executive Director Ivan Schwarz. “We are all proud that their work is being recognized nationally and offer sincere congratulations.”
Based on the novel by Michael Muhammad Knight, The Taqwacores tells the story of a first-general Pakistani engineering student who shares a house in Buffalo, NY, with a group of Muslim punk rockers and is introduced to Taqwacore– a hardcore, Muslim punk rock scene that only exists out west. The title combines “taqwa,” the Arabic word for “piety,” with “hardcore.” The films stars a mostly Muslim-American cast, including Bobby Naderi, Noureen DeWulf, Dominic Rains, Rasika Mathur, Tony Yalda and Anne Marie Leighton.
Midnight Syndicate Halloween Music is hosting a 13th Anniversary Video Contest where filmmakers and animators can create a silent film or music video to an existing Midnight Syndicate track. The winner will be featured on “The Dead Matter” DVD as well as win prizes from sponsors: Screamline Studios, Conquest Graphics, Robert Kurtzman’s Creature Corps, Van Helsing’s Curse Halloween music, and Midnight Syndicate. Other finalists will also win prizes and special promotions.
Judges include legendary frontman and horror fan Dee Snider (Twisted Sister, Strangeland), Horror FX-legends Tom Savini (Friday the 13th, Dusk Till Dawn) and Robert Kurtzman (producer From Dusk Till Dawn, KNB FX, Wishmaster), as well as Edward Douglas (The Dead Matter) and Gavin Goszka of Midnight Syndicate and producer director Gary Jones (Xena, Hercules, Boogeyman 3).
Additional information on the video contest can be found at www.MidnightSyndicate.com. The official rules are posted at www.MidnightSyndicate.com/videocontest.htm
Robert McKee’s Story Seminar
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Loyola Marymount University
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Presented by Independent Pictures.
Submit your films and videos! Deadlines to submit films and videos
for the 2010 OIFF are: February 1, 2010; March 1, 2010 (late). Please
call (216) 926.6166, email Ohiofilms@yahoo.com , for film and video
entry information. Or visit withoutabox.com to enter via their website.
Personal coverage and feedback from programmers and readers on your
screenplay will be available to every screenplay entrant.
Cash prizes are awarded in each of three categories – Best Screenplay, Best Voice of Color Screenplay (written by or about people of color), and Best Northcoast Screenplay (set in or about northern Ohio).
Deadlines to submit screenplays for the 2010 screenplay competition
are: February 1; March 1 (late). Please email ohiofilms@yahoo.com
or visit withoutabox.com for Screenplay entry information.
Winners will be announced at our 2010 Ohio Independent Film Festival – the week of May 1, 2010.
Cleveland, Ohio- We are thrilled to announce that The Dancing Wheels Company, America’s first physically integrated dance company, received a call to set up a priority audition for the hit reality show America’s Got Talent!
Members from The Dancing Wheels Company will be traveling to New York City on November 1, 2009. We have chosen to audition to a piece called “Fly”, which was choreographed by Keith Young, a Los Angeles-based choreographer who is noted for his work in film, television, music videos, and concert tours for notables such as Madonna, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Bette Midler. The Dancing Wheels Company originally performed this piece at the Dancers Transition Gala in New York City and premiered it in 1998 for the nationally-televised special Christopher Reeve: A Celebration of Hope.
This is an amazing opportunity to show America just how talented our company of artists with and without disabilities really are! America’s Got Talent will air in June and will be concentrating on more artistic groups, so we are hoping to help fill the bill.
Stay tuned for more information on this exciting development…
CLEVELAND – Today, the Greater Cleveland Film Commission (GCFC) praised Governor Ted Strickland and the members of the Ohio General Assembly for their efforts to create new jobs in Ohio’s film industry through the inclusion of the Ohio Film Production Incentive in Ohio’s biennial budget bill.
“The Governor and General Assembly have done more than just close a budget deficit with this bill - they have opened opportunities for Ohioans to build new careers in an energized film industry,” said Dan McMullen, chair of the GCFC Board of Directors.
The budget bill allocates $10 million in Fiscal Year 2010 and $20 million in Fiscal Year 2011 to provide tax credits to film, television and other media productions in Ohio. Through the Film Production Incentive, film productions that spend at least $300,000 in Ohio would receive a tax credit of 25% of its Ohio expenditures, up to a maximum of $5 million per production. To take full advantage of the Film Production Incentive, Ohio’s film industry will need to spend $120 million on film production in Ohio during the next two years, $40 million in FY2010 and $80 million in FY2011.
“This is a program we can work with to begin building a much stronger film industry in Ohio,” said GCFC Executive Director Ivan Schwarz. “With film production jobs paying between 20% to 30% above the statewide average, this is a great investment in Ohio jobs.”
In FY2010, the Ohio Film Production Incentive could, for example, support five $8 million film projects, which would create nearly 400 FTE jobs. With the available tax credit doubling in FY2011, ten $8 million film projects would create approximately 800 FTE jobs.
Film production also has a high economic output multiplier. A good portion of every film budget is spent purchasing goods and services from local vendors of such things as lumber, paint, rental cars and hotels. A dollar spent in film production generates more statewide economic activity than the same dollar spent in three-quarters of other industries. In Ohio’s current film industry, economists calculate that every dollar spent will generate approximately $1.50 in economic activity and that this 1.5 multiplier will increase as Ohio’s film industry matures and attracts businesses that currently do not exist in the state but will move here to take advantage of regular productions. If the Ohio Film Production Incentive is fully utilized during the next two years, Ohio’s $30 million investment in film production will generate an estimated $180 million in economic activity.
“We are grateful to Governor Ted Strickland, Lt. Governor Lee Fisher, Senate President Bill Harris, House Speaker Armond Budish, and, State Senator Tom Patton, State Senator Tom Niehaus, Senate Minority Leader Capri Cafaro, House Minority Leader Bill Batchelder, State Representative Mark Schneider, State Representative Matt Patten , and State Representative Matthew Dolan for their leadership and effort. We also appreciate the hard work of a broad coalition of labor, business and community organizations and leaders that worked for several years to help pass this groundbreaking initiative” McMullen added.
For more information about the film tax credit, and/or to submit an application, click here.
For exciting job opportunities click here
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