PIFVA's Philadelphia Film Calendar has prompted some serious questioning this week.

True or False:

• Bambi can still make a grown woman cry.
  
  

• 82.5% of regional PIFVA members who planned to apply for ITVS funding will actually make the August 4th deadline.
  
  

• Philadelphia's abundance of outdoor film screenings - Lawn Chair Drive-In, Street Movies!, Better Than Bootleg, Penns Landing's Screenings Under the Stars, and Make It A Film Night - make it mandatory that you finally buy a portable lawn or beach chair.
  
  

• Tony Chiango, the late founder of the Roxy Screening Room, will be there in spirit when The Secret Cinema teams up once again with the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania to present their 7th Annual Summer Movie Party in August.

• Want to learn The Skinny on Screenwriting, ways to wrangle ProTools into submission or how to excel at Animation with Adobe After Effects? Registration for these and other media-savvy Fall 2006 University of the Arts Continuing Education classes is underway now.
  
  
• The University of Pennsylvania's College of General Studies wants to teach you The Art of the Screenplay, ways to go Beyond Bollywood, and how to navigate the intersection between Road Books, Road Moviesthis fall.
  
  
• Novella Nelson: Acting for the Camera
  Scribe Video Center
  4212 Chestnut Street, 3rd Floor
  Philadelphia, PA 19106
  215-222-4201; inquiry@scribe.org
  Saturdays, September 9 and 16
  1:00 - 4:00 PM
  $70
  
  This special Scribe Video Center workshop is designed for both actors with stage training, who wish to develop the skills of acting for the camera, and for film/video directors, who are new to the process of collaborating with actors. Through a variety of exercises, screenings, critique and discussion, participants will explore the process of creating characters for the camera. This workshop will also address how directors can best communicate their vision of a character to allow actors to do their best work. Space is limited and advance registration is required.
  
  
• Music...Meet Film
  Black Box, Prince Music Theater, 1412 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
  September 12, 2006 at 7pm
  
  Greater Philadelphia Filmmakers, a program of the Greater Philadelphia Film Office, presents Melody in Motion - Music....Meet Film in partnership with American Composers Forum. At this FREE panel and reception, music composers and filmmakers will discuss scenes, scores, paratnerships and the process of working together. You must RSVP via phone (215-686-2668) or e-mail (joanb@film.org to the Greater Philadelphia Film Office by September 5th to attend. Sponsored by: MONSTER TRACKS Original Music.

• Pittsburgh Film office critics want to scrap it, start over
  The Pittsburgh-Post Gazette reports that yesterday dozens of industry folks sent a letter yesterday to the mayor, county executive and governor asking for a "bold new approach to nurturing film production in Western Pennsylvania," and delivered a resounding vote of no confidence to the Pittsburgh Film Office. Ouch!
  
  

• Creativity in Focus: The Pennsylvania Film Production Grant Initiative
  Meanwhile, the Philadelphia Film Office posts guidelines and a downloadable application for productions intrigued by the 20 percent Film Production Grant for film production expenses incurred in the Commonwealth.
  
  
• Philadelphia-based screenwriter Johneshia McCray was named one of 10 finalists in the 3rd Annual Rap- It-Up/Black AIDS Short Subject Film Competition sponsored by BET Networks, the Black AIDS Institute, and the Kaiser Family Foundation.
  
  
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  Missed Last Week's Free Screening Tickets?
  Find out what you missed as the About.com World and Independent Film Guide's guest writer reviews Lou Pepe and Keith Fulton's new film, Brothers of the Head, and dubs it the "best conjoined twin movie ever made." Fans of the Greg Kinnear-Matt Damon conjoined twin comedy Stuck on You ready themselves for a fight....And Filmmaker magazine chimes in, too.
  
  
  Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Michael Klein spotlighted former PIFVA member Justin Novelli-Stuempfle as cast and crew finished production on the writer/director's debut feature film The Eclipse. Filming took place in Philadelphia, Manayunk, and Glen Mills, PA, through July 15, 2006. Justin and his post-production team will be diligently working on the film edit as well as the score and final audio mix up through the end of September in hopes of meeting the Sundance Film Festival deadline.
  
  
• Tape of Good Hope
  Grist Magazine's Umbra Fisk tells you how to recycle those pesky videotapes and CDs.

• The NBPC Technology & New Media Institute 2006 Call for Submissions
  
  NBPC seeks filmmakers with intriguing new media based ideas for its Technology and New Media Institute - an intensive production course in understanding and developing content for new media. The workshop is in conjunction with NBPC's Black Technology Now! summit on the evolving role of new media in the African American experience.
  
  
• Let's see...Hershey's Take 5 Taste & Believe Film Contest, Current TV's Seeds of Tolerance Video Contest, 2007 Slamdance Film Festival, 2006 Slamdance Teleplay Competition, Third Screen Film Festival....they all have deadlines coming up in the next few weeks, so check June and July's previous E- Bulletins for details to make sure you don't miss out.
  
  
• And don't forget - The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts deadline for the 2007 Individual Artists Fellowship program is August 1st, just days away!
  
  
• Want more festival deadlines to hit or miss? Filmmaker Magazine has deadlines galore -- from Prized Pieces International Film & Video Festival and the Toronto Online Film Festival to the Festival International du Cinema Mediterraneen -- waiting for you here.

Anxious to hear about the outcome of your PIFVA Cash Grant Subsidy application? We haven't forgotten about you! The Subsidy Panel will meet to go over applications on August 1st, and all applicants will be contacted directly within the following week. And winners will be announced via the PIFVA Web site and via the newsletter by mid-August. Stay tuned....

PIFVA member Lauren Galanter wrote to let us know what a great experience she had working on the production and post-production of Will You, the short film chosen as the winner of the Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival's first annual From Sheets to Screen screenplay competition. Will You screened yesterday as part of the festival's closing night activities, but you can get the skinny on it here.

On August 7th, PIFVA member, board member and independent filmmaker Anula Shetty will stop by the Atwater Kent Museum of Philadelphia's Summer Film Series to introduce two films about North Philadelphia's American Street corridor - African Gardens and Life Stories from American Street.

Email submissions can be sent to jguokas@uarts.edu The University of the Arts is an equal opportunity employer.

Temple University Seeks Video Adjuncts

Temple is looking to hire a pair of adjunct instructors for a beginning audio- visual class in Fall 2006. They would be working with a full-time faculty member as the lead. One instructor would work with the students mostly on technical production for three hours on Fridays, and the other would work two hours on technical production on Fridays and lead a student work feedback group on Wednesday morning.

The jobs would start the first of September and go until the first week of December. Temple pays their adjuncts a decent salary - at least $3,000 - and Susan Jacobson, a Temple University Department of Journalism professor, would give both adjuncts significant support. The job requires someone with a bachelor's degree and some audio-visual experience. Teaching experience is preferred.

Qualified and interested parties should contact Professor Susan Jacobson at susanj@temple.edu .

Creative Filmmaker Wanted!

Amaryllis Theatre Company/VSA arts of Pennsylvania, a professional arts organization dedicated to providing quality inclusive programming to children and adults of Pennsylvania, is seeking an experienced filmmaker to contribute to an eight week project.

The eight week project, entitled Life Stories, begins on Saturday, July 29th from 1:30-3:30 pm. The project is the creation of original choral work (in the tradition of Greek theatre/ chorus) through the use of voice and movement. Six to eight wheelchair users will write their own verse on the topics of The Humor of It All and Movement. Director, and voice and movement coach, Stephen Patrick Smith will lead the participants in the creation of a 30 minute performance piece. Pay is $1,000.

This position does not require that the filmmaker be present for all 16 hours of development. The goal is for the filmmaker to film some of the rehearsal period which will include discussion, sidebar conversations, movement and voice work, and parts of the final performance piece for example, and then edit the material to a viewing length of 3, 10 and 20 minute segments. The final product should be in DVD/CD form. We are interested in a filmmaker with highly creative style- this project demands artistic flair and unconventional style.

Please send letter of interest and resume to Managing Director Josette Todaro jtodaro@ amaryllistheatre.org. Deadline to apply is July 27, 2006 -- so hurry!

Aspire Productions Inc. is casting all types for a feature film comedy entitled OUR SUMMER MOVIE shooting in the Philadelphia area this August and September. They are especially seeking college- age actors, but also have many roles for those aged 30 to 70. Non-union only. Some pay for lead roles. Director: Michael Wellenreiter of Severine Pictures.

To schedule an audition, please email a headshot/resume to casting@aspireproductionsinc.com.

Remember, PIFVA is fond of e-mail, but you can also call the PIFVA office at 215-717-6464 from 12 to 4pm, Mondays through Fridays.

Thanks for reading!