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WEEKLY 28 October 2005
Independent
Projects - Spring 2006
Students interested in taking an Independent Project in Documentary,
Screenwriting, Narrative Production, Producing or Post-Production
during the spring semester must attend one of the following mandatory
info sessions: Monday, 10/31 at 1 pm; Tuesday, 11/1 at 4 pm or 6 pm.
All meetings take place in Room 503 at 1104 S. Wabash. Questions or
conflicts: peterhawley@earthlink.net
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Advanced Directors--Informational Meetings
Monday,
11/7, 5-7pm
Room 504, 1104 S. Wabash
Thursday,
11/10, 6-7:30pm
Room 502, 1104 S. Wabash
Are
you interested in...
The Directing Practicum; Directing III; Scene Study with Camera (new
advanced class); and/or Directing for the Camera???
Bruce Sheridan, Department Chair, and Directing Instructors, Lisa
Gottlieb and Tom Fraterrigo will explain the application process and
present their ideas for making the most of your final semesters in
Directing.
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Production Fund -- Deadline is November 15, 2005
www.filmatcolumbia.com/prodfund.html
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Semester
in LA Open House Sessions for Spring, Summer and Fall 2006
Thursday, 11/10 at 5:30pm, Room 317, 1104 S. Wabash;
Tuesday, 11/1 at 12 noon (with Jon Katzman from LA), 600 S. Michigan,
Room 1301;
Tuesday, 11/1, 3:30 p.m. (with Jon Katzman), 1104 S. Wabash, Room
317;
Tuesday, 11/1, 5 p.m. (with Jon Katzman) 624 S. Michigan, 11th Faculty
Lounge
www.filmatcolumbia.com/LA.html
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Call
for entries for the 27th Annual College Television Awards.
Information and application forms are available online at http://www.emmys.tv/foundation.
See the poster displayed in Suite 301 of the Film & Video Department.
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The Film & Video Department is looking for Student Ambassadors
to work Open House on Saturday, November 5, 2005--pay is $50
for the day (10 a.m. to 3 p.m.). Contact Margie Barrett in
office 301-E at 1104 S. Wabash, drop her an e-mail at mbarrett@colum.edu
or call her at 312-344-6701.
FILM
ROW CINEMA
Paula Froehle's IFP grant-winning film, Up
On the Rope will premiere at the Flyover Zone Short
Film Festival as part of the IFP Midwest Conference on Saturday, November
5th at 8pm. At Film Row Cinema, 1104 S. Wabash, 8th floor. Check out
production details: www.opalpics.com.
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Reeling: The 24th Chicago Lesbian & Gay International
Film Festival November 3-12, 2005
www.reelingfilmfestival.org
(TICKETS GO ON SALE OCTOBER 22)
Bad Girls Behind Bars
Sharon Zurek, US, 2005
8:30 pm
Sharpen
up your shank and get ready to cool your heels in the Big House. Bad
Girls Behind Bars takes a campy look at women-in-prison films, blending
audience participation with segments of four classics of the genre
recut to highlight their Sapphic content. Barbara Stanwyck, Pam Grier,
Anne Heche, and Ione Skye star as the cellmates you wouldn't mind
having. You'll beat feet with your bull dagger bunkie by the end of
this wacky prison send-up. Video, 90 min.
http://www.reelingfilmfestival.org/film_badgirlsbehindbars.html
Okay
Chicago --- BAD GIRLS BEHIND BARS is back and playing to our hometown
crowd. They are shouting out in New York (very verbal group), Austin
(didn't see 'em), Washington DC (10/20 - I'll let you know) and Indianapolis
(we have audience spies).
ARE
YOU TOUGH ENOUGH TO TAKE A TRIP TO THE BIG HOUSE?
VISITOR
BADGES WILL BE PROVIDED!
PS
- It's safer to come in a REALLY BIG GROUP! If you can't find a REALLY
BIG GROUP then come a little early and slide into line and pretend
you know everyone!!
Also,
Sam Patterson's Directing III film "Short Trip Home" will
screen on Saturday, November 12 at 5 p.m. in Room 302 of 1104 S. Wabash.
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Elsewhere....
Monday,
October 31, 2005
Independent Film Festival & Halloween Party
Crashfest--Halloween Crash Bash 2005
www.crashfest.com
Spin Night Club
700 W. Halsted at Belmont
Doors Open at 7pm
The
Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee will be celebrating its 10th
Anniversary in April 2006.
Film,
video and media makers are invited to submit your short film or video
(under 30 minutes).
The next deadline is November 1. The final deadline is December 1,
2005
Send
us your comedies, dramas, animations, documentaries and experimental
works.
A
new category for this year is work inspired by JAZZ. Kansas City has
a rich jazz heritage and it has always been a part of our festival.
You can add to that heritage by creating and entering work - dramas,
comedies, music videos, documentaries or experimental works - inspired
by jazz -make them cool or hot, improvisational. The best films will
become part of the permanent collection of the American Jazz Museum
and the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri.
For
forms and guidelines visit our website - www.kcjubilee org or go to
www.withoutabox.com.
To make our celebration extra special, the co-chairs of our Jury this
year are producers Julie Corman and Sam Grogg. Julie continues to
produce films with her husband Roger Corman. Sam has just taken over
the helm of the University of Miami Film School. Esther Robinson of
the Creative Capital Foundation will be returning as a juror.
Other confirmed festival guests are John Sloss and John & Janet
Pierson.
If you have any questions, please email kcjub@kcjubilee.org or
call 913-649-0244
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POST TOASTIES* MEET AND GREET
MONTHLY GATHERINGS OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE* FILM/VIDEO
POST PRODUCTION/AUDIO FACULTY AND STAFF
*Post Toasties events are informal, unofficial gatherings, without
a budget. We will all pick up our own tab --- unless you win the lottery
or have an expense account and want to buy a round for all of us ---
then we won’t stop you. Faculty and Staff from all Film/Video
Areas are welcome to join us.
Questions?
szurek@colum.edu
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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
contact:
Dan Rybicky
312/498-2492
danrybicky@hotmail.com
what: an art show of aphorisms!
where: Country Club Chicago gallery
1100 N. Damen Ave. (NW corner of Damen & Thomas)
when: opening Friday, October 21, 2005 from 6-10 p.m.
running Saturdays and Sundays from noon-6 p.m.
closing night party Friday, November 18, 2005
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GOD BLESS THE “ME”-“S”-“A”
t-shirts for a country told that it will feel better
if it just keeps buying more stuff
by
Dan Rybicky
A
new gallery will be opening a show featuring fifty red, white and
blue t-shirts all printed with text exploring the dichotomies of a
dysfunctional country in denial, divided between rich and poor and
torn between shopping and killing.
Inspired
by the classic t-shirts of the past spouting slogans like “My
brother went to Iraq and all I got was this damned body bag,”
this show will examine with dark humor and bright colors the gulf
between what one hopes for and what one actually ends up with –
and how it relates to American’s addiction to conspicuously
consuming.
The
gallery space will resemble a sleek retail store with t-shirts descending
en masse from the ceiling.
The
opening night will feature live performances of real people made up
to look like dead, bloodied soldiers singing patriotic songs from
the balcony. Iraqi-shaped cakes (with “Have your cake and eat
it, too” written on them) will be served.
The
closing night will feature a special live performance from beat-boxer
Yuri Lane.
“I’ve
always been interested in how t-shirts can deliver subversive slogans
and aphorisms.”
For
more information, please contact me. And, by all means, please come!
www.timeoutchicago.com/Details.do?xyurl=xyl://TOCWebArticles1/34/out_there/t_ed_off.xml
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The IFP/Chicago
MIDWEST
FILMMAKERS SUMMIT
November 4th - 6th
film row cinema, 1104 S Wabash, 8th Fl
Register NOW at http://chi.ifp.org!
PREVIEWS,
PANELS, WORKSHOPS and PARTIES!
EVERYTHING INCLUDED WITH PASS!
*please
note ICE HARVEST preview will be NOVEBER 2nd.
SPECIAL
COLUMBIA COLLEGE RATES!!!
FACULTY PASS: $60 – STUDENTS FREE with IFP/Chicago Membership!!
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IN PERSON!
HAROLD
RAMIS (DIR.), TOM BUSCH (PROD.) ICE
HARVEST
JOE SWANBERG (DIR.) KISSING ON THE MOUTH
MIKE MEINERS (DIR.) & BOB BROWN
(PROD.) THE TROUBLE WITH DEE DEE
DOCUMENTARIANS! RUTH LEITMAN - LIPSTICK AND DYNAMITE,
TOD LENDING - OMAR AND PETE
BRUCE TERRIS (DIR.), JENNIFER VINCENT
(PROD.), SHARON ZUREK (ED.) - DIRTYWORK
STEVE JONES (PROD.) AND CHRISTINA VAROTSIS
(PROD.) - DRUNKBOAT
PLUS!
ANTHONY KAUFMAN - VARIETY, INDIEWIRE I JASON
STEPHENS - SPLIT PILLOW
AND!
Programmers from: Chicago International, Chicago Underground,
Waterfront
Film Fest, Facets and the Siskel Film Center
More
to come as we get closer……
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PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE:
NOVEMBER
2
7:00 pm
ICE HARVEST PREVIEW WITH HAROLD RAMIS
NOVEMBER
4
12 noon - 6:00 pm
INDIE EXPO ALL DAY - Vendors and Demos with participants
including: Adobe - Fletcher Chicago - Kodak -i^3 - Filmworkers/Astrolabs
1:00
PM
ICE HARVEST CASE STUDY
Tom Busch and Laurel Ward
2:30
PM TBD
4:00
PM
Adobe Presents: DI Workflows for Independent Filmmakers
5:30
PM DIRTYWORK Case Study
7:00
PM LONESOME JIM Preview
9:00
PM DIRTYWORK Preview
NOVEMBER 5
10:00
AM
KISSING ON THE MOUTH and
THE TROUBLE WITH DEE DEE Case Studies
11:30
AM
MEET THE PROGRAMMERS
12:45-
2:00 LUNCH
2:00
PM
MEET THE DISTRIBUTORS
3:30
PM
BRIDGING CHICAGO COMMUNITIES: ACTING, MUSIIC and FILM
5:00
PM
MIDWEST DOCUMENTARIES
6:00
PM OMAR AND PETE
8:00
PM
FLYOVER ZONE SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
UP ON THE ROPE - PRODUCTION FUND PREMIERE
9:30
PM
BLOODSHOT RECORDS – SAG-INDIE
PARTY
NOVEMBER
6
Closing Brunch
HOUSE OF BLUES
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SENSIBLE
SUSAN Package:
$60 for members
BASIC Package:
$125 for membership plus admission
STRENGTH IN NUMBERS Package:
$105 for membership plus admission if 5 or more tickets are purchased
at one time.
STUBBORN SENILITY Package:
$85 for admission without membership
LIFE OF THE MIND Package:
$60 for students who are not members
LIFE OF THE BETTER MIND Package:
Free for students who are members membership
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Call: 312-235-0161 to give this info over the phone; or
Mail this form to to: IFP/Chicago, 1104 South Wabash, Suite 403, Chicago,
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To be received no later than November 1.
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Ron Fleischer's LEMMINGS was honored with
the "Chicago Award" on Friday, October 14 at the Chicago
International Film Festival's awards ceremony. This is given to the
Chicago/Illinois filmmaker for best feature, short, or documentary.
Also, Lemmings was chosen as a 2005 finalist in the Reno Film Festival's
Indie Competition to be held at the Nevada Museum of Art. Check out:
www.renofilmfestival.com/schedule.html
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Check out Vol. 11, No.5, of the September 2005 issue of SCR(i)PT
magazine ( www.scriptmag.com/
) for a full page ad announcing the winners of the 2005 Written Image
Awards. Note that the winners from years past are also included.
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Congratulations Rick Rios and Subliminal Pictures!
Their short All's Fair... will be screening at the Austin
Film Festival as part of the Second City Shorts Program on Saturday,
10/22 at 10:45 pm & Tuesday, 10/25 at 7 pm. Both screenings will
be held at The Hideout Theater. www.austinfilmfestival.net/aff/new/bside.jsp?page=filmdetails&filmId=46
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Dan Dinello's story "Life Without Tremors:
Neural Implant Surgery Subdues Symptoms in Parkinson's Patients"
appeared in the Q section of Sunday's Chicago Tribune (Sept. 11).
If you missed it, you can probably find it here: http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0509110380sep11,1,7431781.story?coll=chi-techtopheds-hed
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Jeff Spitz's The Return of Navajo Boy will
be broadcast on the Maori TV Network in New Zealand. The documentary
began airing there in the spring. See the extreme right side of the
link below...
http://www.maoritelevision.com/newsletter/issue58/
PS.
there will be a special screening/discussion of the film hosted by
Galeria Mistica (2318 S. 4th Avenue) in Tucson, Arizona on November
19th from 1 - 4pm with Elsie Mae Cly Begay, John Wayne Cly and Jeff
Spitz.
The
Return of Navajo Boy has also been selected to lead
off the Northern California festival on October 7th at 11am. Please
help us spread the word with any friends in the Mt. Shasta area of
Northern California.
http://www.shastafilmfest.com/films2005/navajoboy.php
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The short film Homesick Blues, photographed and edited
by Stephen Combs and with sound recorded by Ben Steger,
will screen at this years’ Chicago International Film Festival
on October 8, 10, 11. Stephen and Ben traveled to Osaka, Japan with
Chicago directors Ed Koziarski and Junko Kajino to work with a crew
of local Japanese filmmakers. The film will also screen at this fall’s
Hawaii International Film Festival. Tickets for the CIFF screenings
can be purchased on-line at www.chicagofilmfestival.com.
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Serena Moy's thesis film PLUM FLOWER
begins its film festival journey with the Palm Springs International
Film Festival, September 20-26 in Palm Springs, California.
Visit the festival website at www.psfilmfest.org
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Maria Gigante's Directing III project, TOOTH
& NAILS just got accepted to the San Diego
Girl Film Festival being held October 7 to 9, 2005 in San
Diego at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park.
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Bryan McHenry's thesis film BETSY WETSY
has been in the following film festivals: The North Carolina
Gay and Lesbian Film Festival; Outflix Memphis; The Lisbon
Gay and Lesbian Film Festival; and has recently been selected for
the 4th festival, Reeling 2005, The Chicago Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
November 3-12.
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Rachel Benjamin's MFA thesis film THE
MISSING PEACE screened opening night, August 4, at The
Black Harvest Film Festival at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
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Sharon
Zurek's Black Cat Productions is pleased
to announce that two projects they edited are being shown at the Chicago
International Film Festival over the next two weeks. Please visit
http://www.blackcatfilm.net/
for information about show times and tickets.
Mike Meiners, writer, director and producer of the feature comedy,
The Trouble with Dee Dee and to Wenhwa Ts'ao, writer, director
and producer of Wonton, a dramatic short.
Coming
up in November two more projects will premiere in Chicago. Executive
Producer - Jennifer Vincent, Producer - Christina Varotsis and Director
- Bruce Terris of the dramatic feature film "Dirty Work"
and to Paula Froehle, Producer and Director of "Up on the Rope"
who will screen their films at the Independent Feature Project Conference.
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