What's Going On....
Visit PIFVA's Philadelphia Film Calendar and find out.
Make Videos, Not War
No Time
to Waste: The 48 Hour PSA Project Confronting
War (Deadline: September 4)
Get Out the (Online) Vote...
...in the Second
Annual Hayden Films Online Film Festival and you
could win a $250 Viewer Appreciation Award in
November.
Learn the Write Stuff
...during the Bryn Mawr Film Institute's six-week
Screenwriting
Essentials workshop that begins on September
14th.
Get Welles Soon
...on September 14th when Andrew's Video Vault
celebrates Orson Welles with two of the actor-
director's most intriguing, but less famous flicks -
Chimes at Midnight and Don Quixote De
Orson Welles.
See Academy Award-nominated
screenwriter
Nora Ephron
(Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally,
Sleepless in Seattle) when she visits the Free
Library of Philadelphia on September 21st to muse
upon movies, menopause and...her neck.
Show Your Work
...on the big screen as part of two regular open
screening series at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute (monthly)
and North 3rd Bar's Fancy Pants Cinema (weekly)
Celebrate the 20th Anniversary
...of Spike Lee's She's
Gotta Have It on
October 12th with a little help from Reelblack,
Philadelphia's film series dedicated to the promotion
and preservation of "Good Movies 'Bout Black Folks."
Ponder The
Shame of A City
...with a little help from filmmaker Tigre Hill on
October 18th.
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MovieMaker Magazine Wants You!
MovieMaker Magazine is seeking editorial
content
from Philadelphia-area moviemakers for their
upcoming On Location column.
They want to know:
How has living in Philadelphia informed your work
and increased your knowledge as a moviemaker? How
has the city itself participated in your education as a
visual artist? Why is living in Philly an education in
itself?
Comments must be no more than 50 words and
must be sent by the September 13, 2006 deadline.
Selected entries will receive editorial, e-mail and
possible photo publication in an upcoming issue of
MovieMaker Magazine, as well as a complimentary
copy of the issue.
Please e-mail all entries to: onlocation
@moviemaker.com and use "On Location:
PHILADELPHIA" as the subject line.
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Reel Headlines
Local mediamakers make headlines and other news of note...
Cinematical.com's Scott Weinberg debates the merits
of Netflix versus the new CreepyFlix online rental
service for fans of horror, sci-fi, action and cult
films. Here's a hint: Which one has a Philadelphia
based shipping hub closed to the writer's house?
Hmm, there's plenty of Philadelphia-
themed film footage being sold on eBay. Items
include historic
Philadelphia in the 1950s film on DVD, 1930s to 1950s
Philadelphia Levittown films on DVD, vintage film
footage of the Philadelphia Phillies in the World
Series, and more copies of Philadelphia, it's
soundtrack, and The Philadelphia Story than
you can shake a light meter at.
Philadelphia-born screenwriter Joseph
Stefano, who wrote the script for film classic
Psycho, has died at the age of 84.
Harry Potter podcast makes 17-year-old from Medford,
PA a star. Insert your own Muggles joke here.
Area actors try out for 30-seconds of fame with Philadelphia casting director Mike
Lemon.
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Job Opportunities
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PIFVA Cash Subsidy Winners Announced
We had a significant increase in applicants this
year, all of whom submitted quality pieces for
review. Unfortunately, PIFVA could only award eight
cash grants of $750 each toward post-production
services for each grant winner's film or video project.
Without further ado, the winners are: Nhieu
Do (Cry River), Ben Kalina
(Diorama), Seymour Levin (Hard Coal: The Last
of the Bootleg Miners),
Theodore Nannicelli (Away Game),
Debbie Rudman (City Harvest),
Heidi Saman (Walkers/Drivers),
Erika J. Street (The Closure Myth),
and Melissa
Thompson (Like A Ship in the
Night).
Many thanks to the Cash Subsidy review panel,
our hosts at the University of the Arts, and all
applicants!
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