• Kick-off the Independent Television Service 's (ITVS) Community Cinema series this fall with a FREE screening of The World According to Sesame Street on September 28th.
  
  
• Keep it Reel Black at the 20th anniversary screening of Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have it.
  
  
• In love with Liz Taylor? Or does the mention of the violet-eyed screen legend make you draw a blank? Either way, head to the Bryn Mawr Film Institute on October 4th for Philadelphia Inquirer movie critic Carrie Rickey's take on La Liz.
  
  
• The kids are alright at the October 19th premiere of Scribe Video Center's annual Documentary History Project for Youth. This year, the DHPY students take on military recruitment, why youth enlist, and how war influences society and youth culture from camouflage clothing to video games.
  
  
• What's the matter with Rosemary's Baby? Colic? Teething? Or is...Satan? Find out at the October 20th and 21st screenings of the still-creepy-after-all-these-years classic.
  
  
• Ring in November by spending an evening with experimental filmmaker Peter Rose.

• Screw Hollywood
  Philadelphia Weekly's film editor Cassidy Hartmann dishes on how "filmmakers on the verge" are using MySpace, YouTube and the like to bypass or segue into Hollywood. Note to Cassidy: Film and videomakers above the age of 25 are doing it too.
  
  
• We Prefer "Phillywood"
  ...but like Inquirer columnist Michael Klein's suggestion that Philadelphia is becoming Filmville in the coming weeks.
  
  
• Pennsylvania Makes Jackson Cry Uncle
  He transformed New Zealand into Middle-earth and a Lower Hutt suburb into 1930s New York. But faced with shooting the southeatern PA-based film version of Alice Sebold's bestselling The Lovely Bones, well, this time Peter Jackson has conceded defeat.
  
  
• Minding Their P's & Queues
  Slate's Sam Anderson judges his friends by their Netflix queues...and knows you do too.
  
  
• You Can Take the Girl Out of Philly...
  We'll admit it. It makes us a little sad that a production company called Philly Chick Pictures is based in...Los Angeles. But we understand.
  
  
• Comcast's Biggest Fans
  The Philadelphia-headquartered media behemoth has received the "People's Choice Award" for The Fan(TM) media player at the 16th Flashforward Conference and Film Festival held in Austin, TX from September 11-14, 2006. The Fan competed against 60 other Internet sites and applications for the coveted award. No, this is not a sign of the coming apocalypse.
  
  
• Player Finances Independent Film With Online Poker Winnings
  The film Breaker is making the film festival circuit rounds this year thanks to the online poker play of director Nick Scott who won the film's budget online at Betfair Poker.

• The HBO Comedy Festival's Film Discovery Program has become the premier showcase for independent comedic features and shorts. Submit your funny features, short, documentary, or commercial by the December 1st deadline.
  
  
• Ignore the affiliation with Carson Daly, and enter your short film or video in NBC's It's Your Show competition anyway. Simply pick a challenge or create your own category, submit your brilliant video, and hope you win the weekly $1,000 -- or the ultimate $100,000 -- prize.
  
  
• The PYXIX Documentary Channel is calling on filmmakers from around the world to enter their short documentary -- from 2 to 30 minutes long, in any language -- into the first PYXIX documentary contest. The winning entry will be awarded $1,000 (US) and the runner-up $500 There is no entry fee, and multiple entries are allowed. A $200 display fee will be paid for contest entries that are selected to run on the new PYXIX Documentary Channel launching this fall.
  
  
• Current TV's Seeds of Tolerance Video Competition and the Set In Philadelphia Screenwriting Competition are still waiting to hear from you.
  
  
• Oh, and IFC TV's Media Lab wants you to create a short video about Australia for its Shorts Down Under Short Film Contest that includes the line "So where the bloody hell are you?" No pressure!
  
  
• And as always, don't forget Filmmaker Magazine's handy database of upcoming festival deadlines.

PIFVA's Open Screen is back on Friday, November 3rd, with The Shape of Identity, a night of films by Philadelphia-based filmmakers including PIFVA board member Lynn Denton (Scumbling), Vanessa Briceno (Fading Away), Elizabeth Doyle and Deborah Rudman (Hard Hearted One), and Jen Schneider (Something Rubber, Something Glue). A Q&A with the directors will follow the screening. Mark your calendars (or ours), and remember -- PIFVA members get in free.

Head to University City's International House for the world premiere of PIFVA member -- and one- time PIFVA Subsidy Grant winner -- Sherone Rabinovitz's film The Push on September 29th at 9pm -- and check out the film's trailer online before you go.

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 602.

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

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

• Scribe Video Center is seeking Production Facilitators for its Community Visions program. Production Facilitators are skilled independent videomakers who work as instructors with members of grassroots community groups in assisting them to tell their stories.
  Facilitators should be adept creative problem solvers as well as have experience in the following; production planning, digital video camera operation, lighting, audio, editing using Final Cut Pro. Facilitators will meet with their group on average 3 to 4 hours a week over the next 6 months. An honorarium is provided. If this position describes you, please email a letter of interest and your resume to Scribe at jobs@scribe.org.
  
  
• Center City production company seeks part-time video editor.
  
  
• CN8 TV's Your Morning seeks an undergraduate or graduate college student to work three months as a (paid) intern/ tv producer's assistant.
  
  Responsibilities may include greeting and escorting morning show guests to make-up and studio, researching and contributing show ideas, assisting with planning of segments, and more. Hands-on- training is provided and responsibilities may be tailored to the student's interests.
  
  To apply, visit careers.comcast. com and search under requisition number 20486BR.
  
  
• Comcast seeks a VOD Content Specialist to work at its Malvern, PA location. Primary responsibilities include managing the downloading of Spotlight content, administering folder additions and changes in the Searchlight folder structure, Encoding Spotlight VOD Content, and more. To apply, visit careers.comcast. com and search under requisition number 34486BR.
  
  
• University of the Arts seeks a full-time Media Equipment Room Supervisor to be responsible for the maintenance and oversight of the Foundation Program's Media Equipment Room and Nature Lab.
  
  
• Erica Pavrette is looking for a videographer to shoot her stage comedy I'll Fight A Little Kid on Saturday, September 30th at 4:00pm. To apply for the position call 215-863-0161 or 215-471-4967.

Rise and shine early on Thursday, September 28th to sample the Greater Philadelphia Filmmakers Film Financing seminar, in the Plaza Ballroom at The Ritz-Carlton.

After you register and have a little breakfast, the featured panel will examine private/ public funding and government incentives for area filmmakers.

Interested? The event is FREE and space is limited, so RSVP to Joanb@film.org today.

Thanks for reading, and feel free to call or drop PIFVA a line anytime.

Best,