• Forget the Ramones screenplay touted during the last season of Entourage and get the real story at the September 14th free Live Arts Cabaret screening of End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones.
  
  
• Find out how to Take Pictures Like a Photojournalist for free on September 16th.
  
  
• Screenwriter Nora Ephron feels bad about her neck, but if you swing by the Free Library of Philadelphia on September 21st, you can ask her how she feels about screenwriting, directing Sleepless in Seattle, or the screen adaptation of her autobiographical he-done-her-wrong book Heartburn.
  
  
• Or, on that same day, settle once and for all that Jamaican-born producer, director and photojournalist Sean Jean is not Sean "P. Diddy" Combs at Better Than Bootleg's screening of two of his latest docs.
  
  September 21st is also a great night to swing by the opening of Out of Frame: Motion Art from Mobius, which includes a continuous screening of experimental filmmaker Peter Rose's Flat Rock, a half-hour suite of works commissioned for high definition television by MoovLab.
  
  
• Check with your cable or satellite TV provider to see if they'll be carrying ReelzChannel when it debuts on September 27th. Because who isn't curious about a movie channel that won't show films, but still aims to be for movie lovers what the Food Network is for gourmets?
  
  
• Double your fun at the September 27th screening of Mirror Dance, Frances McElroy and Maria Teresa Rodriguez's tale of two Cuban-born identical twin sisters separated by 40 years -- and connected by a shared passion for dance.
  
  
• Get Close to Death at the October 15th screening of the Camden, NJ and North Philadelphia-based, anti-gun violence docudrama of the same name.
  
  
• Have a Conversation with Carrie Rickey, The Philadelphia Inquirers 's esteemed long-time film critic, on October 18th.
  
  
• Speak in tongues at the America-Italy Society of Philadelphia's screening of Neopolitan Spell (Incantesimo Napoletano), a fanciful tale of a fifth-generation Neapolitan couple whose 10-year old daughter doesn't toe the linguistic line.
  
  
• Head out to the luxurious Bryn Mawr Film Institute to see the Academy Award-nominated shorts you've missed in recent years on October 25th.

• Start Your Keyboards
  The 2007 Set in Philadelphia Screenwriting Competition is open for entries!
  
  
• A Reel Life Saver
  Cinematical's Scott Weinberg posts a thoughtful interview with local attorney, movie palace lover, and Friend of the Boyd director Howard Haas.
  
  
• Filmmakers Say Hooray for Cleveland
  One of the few loft developments in the country geared toward filmmakers and animators is located in an old working-class neighborhood of Cleveland called Slavic Village, says Lisa Chamberlain of The New York Times. Read it and weep with envy.
  
  * Bonus points for anyone who knew there were any loft developments geared toward filmmakers and animators....
  
  
• Room at the Inn
  Award–winning documentary filmmaker Gerard Straub debuts his eighth documentary, which depicts the lives of some of the people who frequent the St. Francis Inn, a Franciscan Soup kitchen in Philadelphia.
  
  
• Twentysomething
  The Rutgers Film Festival is celebrating its 25th anniversary.
  
  
• Yardsale! - The Movie
  Not quite sure the subject matter merits an exclamation point, but we're excited to see the 20- minute short subject documentary on South Jersey residents' passion for yard sales anyway.
  
  
• Nix to Netflix?
  Apple's expected announcement of a movie- download service has many wondering what the DVD- by-mail provider has planned, but Business Week's Catherine Holahan says don't nix Netflix just yet.
  
  
• Ridley Park filmmaker Sean McKnight's new doc Cry of the City: The Legend of Cornbread, tells the story of Darryl A. "Cornbread" McCray, the man the graffiti-as-urban- art movement has tagged as "the first bomber."

Now that you've made the film or video, why let it languish on your shelf or hard drive? Establishing a clear set of marketing and distribution goals for your film or video is essential for your project's success -- and if you didn't do it before you began shooting, it's not too late!

Filmmaker Kelley Baker will help workshop participants explore different marketing strategies and different markets (i.e. theatrical, educational, broadcast, home video, public screenings, DVD self- distribution), enabling participants to map out a uniquely perfect marketing and distribution strategy for their film or video.

About Kelley Baker:
Kelley Baker has had a long and promising career in the film industry. He has directed 3 full-length films (“The Gas Café”, “Kicking Bird” and “Birddog”) and was the sound designer on six of Gus Van Sant's feature films including, My Own Private Idaho, Good Will Hunting, and Finding Forrester.

Baker has written and directed 8 short films which have aired on a variety of channels including PBS, The Learning Channel, Canadian and Australian television. He also directs commercials and videos for a variety of clients including NIKE, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Department of Juvenile Justice, Howard University, and Wells Fargo Bank.

Baker is currently promoting and distributing his short and feature films, and working on a book tentatively titled, The Angry Filmmaker's Guide to Independent Filmmaking. He has spent the last three years teaching his subversive brand of filmmaking and screening his films at art house theaters and colleges across the country.

Where and When: 6:30 to 9:00pm, Thursday, September 28th, 2006 at University of the Arts, Terra Bldg, 211 S. Broad Street, room # TBA.

Cost: $20 for students and current PIFVA members; $25 for all others.

To register: Call 215-717-6464 or e-mail contactus@pifva.org.

Current TV is looking for 3-15 minute non-fiction videos that pose the question(s): What does tolerance (or intolerance) mean to you? What are your feelings on racism? Sexism? Ageism? Genocide? Homophobia? Religion?
The prize is $100k and the deadline is OCTOBER 2ND.

And an additional $15k will be donated to a charity that fights for a winner's chosen cause. The judges include some folks you may have heard of (Ed Norton, M. Night Shyamalan and Paul Haggis, to name a few) and the winning films will screen on World Tolerance Day (Nov 16), with agents and managers in the audience.
Check out www.current.tv/tolerance for further info... And then enter!

Check previous E- Bulletins or Filmmaker Magazine's Film Festival Database for details on upcoming festival deadlines to make sure you don't miss out!

• GreenTreks Network, Inc. is looking for experienced Avid or FCP Editor to work on an hour-long children's dramatic film on J.S. Bach. This project will be edited at their Center City office from October through November 2006. Please e-mail your availability, rates and resume to abailey@greentreks.org.
  
  
• KYW Newsradio 1060 is looking for self- starting, energetic individuals to service the all-news format with a near-continuous flow of text and audio material for use by news anchors and reporters.

  Newsroom Service Aide duties include accepting and preparing for broadcast audio material that arrives by Internet, ISDN or telephone from KYW reporters and contributors to be used by news anchors and editors, (Whew!) and assisting the News Editor with placement of audio cuts into the appropriate on-air shows.

  College seniors with a demonstrated interest in broadcasting through internships or experience in college radio will be considered.
  
  

• Ruffnation Films Seeks Interns for Fall/Winter 2006.
  
  
• A suburban PA communications company is looking for a Business Video/Multimedia Producer/Project Manager. Duties include: budgeting, scheduling, design and production planning, producing and directing video shoots, and supervising post-production graphics, animation, and editing, as well as communicating with and managing interactive designers and programmers. Writing scripts, treatments, proposals and other copy will be a key aspect of this position.
  
  
• SuperKid Films Needs a Fight Choreographer
  Independent Filmmaker seeks a fight choreographer with a background in martial arts to work on a low budget non-union film. The martial arts featured in the film are of Chinese/Filipino origin (as seen in The Bourne Identity and The Hunted), specifically Arnis/ Jeet Kune do. Check out the film's trailer at www.Mikeseltzer.com/Trailer.mov
  
  If interested, please email resume contact info to Chentus@aol.com or send to:
  SuperKid Films
  Attn: Fight choreographer
  7126 North Mt Pleasant Place
  Philadelphia, PA 19119
  
  
• WPVI-TV needs a part-time Production Assistant and a Television Traffic Copy Coordinator.

Elmo and Big Bird and Oscar, oh my!

The Independent Television Service's (ITVS) Community Cinema series kicks off on Thursday, September 28th with a FREE advance screening of The World According to Sesame Street, a behind-the-scenes look at Sesame Street in the 21st century.

Follow three Sesame Workshop producers to Bangladesh, Kosovo and South Africa where they localize the world's most-watched children's television program with indigenous songs, puppets and curricula -- reminding usthat social change can come from the most unlikely sources, even a team of cuddly Muppets.

The screening takes place at WHYY Independence Foundation Civic Space at 150 N. 6th Street in downtown Philadelphia.

Doors open at 6:00 pm, the film begins promptly at 6:30 pm, and a lively post-screening discussion led by Dr. Renee Hobbs and Dr. Amy Jordan begins at 8:00 pm. Light refreshments, including free popcorn, will be served.

Reserve your seat at www.whyy.org or call 215-351-3358.

Can't make the screening? Watch it on Tuesday, October 24 at 10 p.m. on WHYY TV12.

Termite TV inaugurates its new screening series - Lifesize Action Pictures: video that drives you to action!

Termite Tv Collective & The Philadelphia Museum of Art present:

"Democracy"

When: Sunday, September 24, 2006 at 2:30 PM, Free
Where: At the Philadelphia Museum of Art
26th & the Parkway
in The Van Pelt Auditorium

From animation to documentary to comedy, this collection of short films is thought provoking, informative, funny and sometimes aggravating. In short, just what is needed to ensure debate in a vibrant democracy.

Join some of the filmmakers -- several of whom are PIFVA members -- for a conversation after the screening. Hosted by Michael McGonigle, CTS Film Lecturer/Audio Visual Dept.

Program is FREE with ticket after regular Museum Admission (Pay what you will on Sunday). Tickets are available at the Admissions Desk or by calling (215) 235-SHOW (7469). Some charges may apply to telephone orders.

For more information www.termite.org.

The National Film Challenge is back! Brought to you by KDHX Community Media and the creators of the 48 Hour Film Project, here's another chance to stop talking and start filming.
The premise? Filmmaking teams have just one weekend to make a short film. On Friday, to make things interesting, each team is emailed a genre for its film, and a character, prop and line of dialogue that must appear in each team's movie.

All creativity - writing, shooting, editing and adding a musical soundtrack - must occur beginning Friday evening at 7 p.m. on October 20, 2006 and ending Monday October 23, 2006. Then the film must be sent to National Film Challenge Headquarters with a postmark no later than Monday, October 23.

In the following weeks, the top films (determined by a panel of judges) will be available for viewing (and voting!) on the Film Challenge Web site. If your team wins, cash, glory and bragging rights will be yours....

Register your team at www.filmchallenge.org today. The Early Bird Entry Fee is $110 if you register on or before September 20, 2006 and $125 if you register between September 21, 2006 and October 29, 2006. Teams can be anywhere from 1 person to 30 or more people. Read all of the rules of the contest here: www.filmchallenge.org/rules.htm.

Remember, PIFVA loves e-mail, but you can also call the PIFVA office on weekdays between 12 and 4pm.

See you next week,