OCTOBER

SPEEDCREWING 4 : Tuesday, October 5th-NEW DATE

Presented by the Philadelphia Independent Film and Video Association (PIFVA) and the Greater Philadelphia Film Office and sponsored by Superfluid.

For tickets, click here.

What: Meet and mingle for filmmakers and related professionals

When: October 5th, 6:00-8:30pm

Where: L’Etage (above Creperie Beau Monde), 624 South 6th Street, entrance on Bainbridge

Starting this September, Speedcrewing happens twice a year and we’ve relocated to a new, center-city location. Come join us at L’Etage, the 2nd floor cabaret bar at 6th and Bainbridge to meet and network with other Philadelphia-area film professionals. Home to our monthly screening series, L’Etage is a beautifully appointed bar and a great place to meet and mingle. September’s Speedcrewing does not have a specific theme so we’re inviting everyone to come with their business cards in hand no matter what role you have in the filmmaking process.

From PAs to producers, sound mixers to editors, composers to directors, this event is for media makers from all ends of the industry. Bring 40-50 business cards, and remember, while speedcrewing is an informal networking event you should be sure to have a thirty-second elevator pitch, or at least a half-a-beer pitch. Speedcrewing events draw over 100 people, and with just a couple hours to meet everyone you want to be succinct.

This event is sponsored by Superfluid, the fast-growing online tool that makes collaboration in social networks fair by enabling members to trade favors using a virtual currency: Quids. For filmmakers in search of collaborators, Superfluid offers a mechanism for bartering that levels the playing field. For those in search of commercial service bartering, Superfluid can help you as well. Superfluid will be at the event to answer questions about their innovative and useful website.

Rich Wexler, VJ & DJ extraordinaire and founder of Sherman Community Arts, will once again be mixing up the entertainment from his broad spectrum library of sound and image.

SEPTEMBER

Utopia in Four Movements: Saturday, September 11 at 7pm

dir. Sam Green and Dave Cerf, US, 2010, video, 80 mins, color

Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe

Co-presented by International House

In this “live documentary,” filmmaker Sam Green cues images and narrates while musician Dave Cerf performs the soundtrack composed by T Griffin, Catherine McRae and Dennis Cronin. An Award-winning documentarian, Green was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and Best Feature Documentary at the Academy Awards for 2002’s The Weather Underground.

Throughout human history, people have had giddy dreams and fantastic notions about what the future would bring. Today the future has become more of a threat than a promise — a knot of intractable problems looming menacingly on the horizon. With a powerful sense of poetry, Utopia in Four Movements uses the collective experience of cinema to explore the battered state of the utopian impulse at the dawn of the twenty-first century.

From the establishment of a man-made language designed to end war and cultural conflict and the undying optimism of an American exile in Cuba, to the current economic boom in China and the desire to give the remains in mass graves a dignified burial, Green and Cerf sift through the history of the utopian impulse with audiences and search for insights about the way to build a vision of the future based on humankind’s noblest impulses.

Free admission members above Internationalist level; $7 Internationalists;

$8 students + seniors; $10 general admission.  In advance at TICKETWEB or one hour hour before showtime at The Ibrahim Theater Box Office.

with

Master Class by Sam Green:  Sunday, September 12 from 1pm – 4pm

What:  Sam Green conducts a master class on his journey from journalism to performance documentaries.

When: September 12, 1:00-4:00 pm

Where: The South American Room, International House, 3701 Chestnut Street

Free admission to attendees of Utopia in Four Movements (save your ticket); $10 IHouse + PIFVA members; $20 general admission.

AUGUST

PIFVA Cinema Speakeasy August 3rd, 2o10

Six Stories from Philadelphia Stories 7, media makers in person

WHEN: Tuesday, August 3, 2010
WHERE: L’Etage, NW Corner, 6th and Bainbridge, Philadelphia 19147

This PIFVA Cinema Speakeasy, in collaboration with MiND TV, will showcase six non-fiction videos from MiND TV’s independent film series Philadelphia Stories 7. This exciting new screening will showcase local work, at the informal and intimate cabaret space of L’Etage where patrons can enjoy food and beverages while watching films. Meet members of the creative teams making the videos who will be attending in person to engage in conversation about their projects. Hebert Peck, Producer of Philadelphia Stories, will be our host and engage the creative teams in lively conversation. Witness Philadelphia’s unique history through this tapestry of films, perspectives and voices.

Philadelphia’s Scribe by Tina Morton

This film chronicles the 25-year history of Scribe Video Center. Scribe is a media arts organization, founded by award winning filmmaker Louis Massiah, which teaches video production skills for nominal fees, giving many people and non-profit community groups access to the video and editing facilities within the Philadelphia region.

Harvey Finkle’s Photography by Joy Butts
For the past 41 years, Harvey Finkle has given numerous activist groups, otherwise overlooked by mainstream media, the opportunity to tell their story through the medium of photography. This film showcases his extraordinary ability to capture the grassroots movements for social, economic, political and cultural change as they happen in the streets of Philadelphia.
Porches by Tatiana Bacchus, Cymande Lewis, David Allen Ruth

Through candid conversations, this film captures the oral traditions and historical events of 5 African American women who have lived in Philadelphia for decades and witnessed the city’s highs and lows. Porches honors those who came before us and in many ways paved the way.

Restoring La Communidad by Big Picture Alliance
This work is a student-created video from the teen-program run by the Big Picture Alliance in conjunction with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Taller Puertorriqueño and Congreso de Latinos Unidos. In this very public work, these students challenge community residents to better their living conditions. They work to create large word sculptures in Spanish, each representing the stages of community change: reparar (realize), soporte (support), and restore. To supplement their artwork, the student crew ask community members on the street about the problems they face and how best to make a concerted effort to improve the neighborhood.

Illvibe! by Rashid Zakat and Kali Baker-Johnson

This work is about the Illvibe collectivewho since 2000 have been a part of the Philadelphia hip hop scene with their “Do It Yourself” mentality, their old school aesthetic, and their attention to every sonic detail. They throw consistently successful parties, release regularly listened to podcasts, travel the world to DJ, host a successful radio show and have shared the stage with such notable acts as Gang Starr, King Britt, Jazzy Jeff, Q-Bert, Cee-Lo, Les Nubians, Public Enemy, Prince Paul, The New Deal, Zap Mama, Nelly.

The New Scenery by Black Lily
In the summer of 2009, as part of the Black Lily Girls Workshop, a group of ten girls ages 11-15 wrote, shot, directed, and edited a music video for Grammy-nominated recording artist Wayna. New Scenery is their end result. The Black Lily Girls Workshop is a project of the Black Lily Film & Music Festival for Women funded by The Valentine Foundation.

PIFVA Cinema Speakeasy is a collaboration between PIFVA and L’Etage, to engage our community in provocative conversations for and about media arts.

The Philadelphia Film and Video Association (PIFVA) has inaugurated a new series, Cinema SPEAKEASY,featuring Philadelphia media makers who have received grants from PIFVA to complete their media projects. Regularly scheduled on the 1st Tuesday of every month, this event will be hosted by a Philadelphia “creative” who will introduce the filmmaker and their screening and after the screening, will engage in a lively conversation that will illuminate current issues, ideas and movements in today’s media arts.
Once the formal evening’s events are finished, everyone will be encouraged to network (bring your laptop) share projects and meet others in the Media Arts. You can order food and drinks from the L’Etage menu.

NW corner of Bainbridge and 6th St, South Philadelphia, 19147
215.592.0656
More info…

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JULY

Canon Filmmakers Live

July 11, 2010

DSLR Filmmaking + Social Media + More

Register at: www.canonfilmmakerslive.com
World Cafe Live
3025 Walnut St.
Philadelphia, PA
10 AM – 5 PM

Sign up before 7/1/10 for discounted pricing:
$95 General Admission . $75 GPVA, NJVA, LIVA . $75 Students

Contact
Cristina Valdivieso

Contact Phone
267 499 7257

Contact Email
info@canonfilmmakerslive.com

Website
www.canonfilmmakerslive.com

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PIFVA Cinema Speakeasy July 6, 2010

Q & A with Q & Ted: Filmmaking in Philly

Q with Pink on a Man and Ted Passon with This One Time in Paris; special screenings of Maple Rabbit music videos.

WHEN: July 6, 2010, Doors open at 7pm, food and drinks available from Beau Monde
WHAT: Q with Pink on a Man and Ted Passonwith This One Time in Paris; special screenings of Maple Rabbit music videos.
WHERE: L’Etage, Bainbridge and 6th, Philadelphia, 19147

More info: contact Caroline at PIFVA – 215-382-2579 or contactus@pifva.org

A collaboration between PIFVA and L’Etage, to engage our community in provocative conversations for and about media arts.

Pink a Man by Q and This One Time in Paris by Ted Passon In anticipation of Q Fest, PIFVA presents the filmwork of Q with Pink on a Man and This One Time in Paris by Ted Passon with Maple Rabbit music videos as ongoing video delight. Q and Ted will exchange roles as artist and interviewer.

Pink on a Man by Q

Adrian “Q” Quintero, a genderqueer identified trans person, documents the decision making process around whether or not to physically transition on hormones. The journey includes discussions about gender roles, identity, and language with people who are a part of the process: patient friends, fellow trans people, an inquisitive chiropractor, and the filmmaker’s own mother. Pink premiered in May 2008 at the Trans Health Conference in Philadelphia.

This One Time in Paris by Ted Passon Reality develops in front of the camera as fantastical expectations develop behind it. A true story of love and loss in the city of Paris is told as it unfolds.Music by: Tender Forever, Chris Ward, and Jen Rice.Animation by: Bonnie B. Scott

Maple Rabbit is a 3-person, all-keyboard video band that prefers their cuteness with edge, their politics with glitz and stop-motion, and their drum machines with careful harmonies.

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JUNE

Linda Blackaby Conducts Two Master Classes

Saturday, June 26; 2:00-7:00 PM, 2010 @ Scribe Video Center

Linda Blackaby is a media arts programmer whose influence can be felt in just about every step of the ecology of the independent film world: funding, production, exhibition, promotion, and distribution. Linda has been Director of Programming for the San Francisco International Film Festival and Co-Director of Programming for the Hampton’s International Film Festival. Here in Philadelphia, Blackaby founded and directed the Neighborhood Film/Video Project for 22 years and the Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema. It is a rare privilege to have her at Scribe to talk about festivals from both a filmmaker’s and a programmer’s perspective. Click these links for info on the two Master Classes she will teach at Scribe: Programming Arts and Crafts and Festival Programmer’s Confidential

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PIFVA Members’ Events in Philly:

Lavender Hall ‘Real World’ Fundraiser – Hosted by PIFVA!

Lavender Hall is a residential care home that houses a wild bunch of irreverent residents who boast surprising backgrounds from classically trained pianist to plastic surgeon. One of the last family-run residential care homes in an era of expanding corporate-run facilities and managed-care, Lavender Hall is an anachronism and so too is its owner, Bill Kopec, with his drill sergeant-like approach to taking care of his residents. Normally off limits to cameras, this film has unprecedented access to this privately run care facility. For more info about the film please visit http://lavenderhallfilm.com/
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THE FUNDRAISER COUNTDOWN: June 17th – 8 DAYS TO GO!

DEADLINE LOOMING: Our June 17th Philadelphia fundraiser is hugely important as we head into our last week of the Lavender Hall Kickstarter Campaign to raise $10K to finish the film. We really need your help to rally friends, family and film fans to come to the June 17th fundraiser to see some great new clips and pledge whatever they can.

FRIENDS: Our fabulous friends at PHILADELPHIA INDEPENDENT FILM & VIDEO ASSOCIATION http://www.pifva.org/ who are inspiring filmmakers to “Connect. Create. Conspire,” will be kindly hosting the event from 7.30pm onwards at L’Etage, Creperie Beaumonde and we can’t thank them enough for supporting Lavender Hall.

FOOD: 8PM we will be serving some delicious L’Etage crêpes (including my personal favorite with Nutella!), but its first come first serve so get there early! http://www.creperie-beaumonde.com/

FILM: 9PM we will be showing new clips from Lavender Hall, which include footage of original music composed and played by resident Joel Colker as well as raffling off some fab gifts!

FUNDS: $10K fundraising goal has to be reached by JUNE 25th or we get ZERO dollars! So we are pulling out all the stops and hope YOU will HELP by coming out on THURSDAY JUNE 17th! All funds raised go towards finishing the film.
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TO BUY A TICKET…

~ ONLINE: http://www.lavenderhallfilm.com/ Just click on DONATE!***
$10 minimum, but the sky’s the limit!

***When you pledge in advance you can pick your gift online. Please let us know your online pledge was for the Phili event so we can add you to the evening’s guest list.

~ ON THE NIGHT: $10 minimum.
You can pledge at the door for no gift/reward other than a fun night!
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If anyone has any questions about the event or how to pledge please don’t hesitate to post your queries here or email us: lisa@jeffersonst.com and rfkopec@yahoo.com

JUNE 17th: 8 DAYS TO GO!
Look forward to seeing you there! (Nurses uniforms optional

Lisa & Renee
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PIFVA Cinema Speakeasy, June 1, 2010

The Other America: Interrogating Storytelling & Original Histories

with filmmaker Nadine Patterson and WHYY Executive Producer of Audio Content Elisabeth Perez Luna

Above artwork is from a mixed media collage by Theodore A. Harris used in Cosmic Trane entitled  “2002, Sonia Sanchez and Lamont Steptoe Poets Against War”.

On Tuesday June 1, 2010 PIFVA  presents a Cinema Speakeasy event at L’Etage (6th and Bainbridge in south Philadelphia) featuring three documentaries by Nadine Patterson. After the screening WHYY’s/NPR’s Elisabeth Perez Luna will lead a discussion about Ms. Patterson’s documentary work and engage Ms. Patterson and the audience in a provocative analysis of current media practices. How are stories selected? Who has the right to tell them? What is mainstream media missing when it comes to depicting the Black community? How does the official story effect how we view each other?

Program starts at 7:30pm. Admission is free. Contact PIFVA  for more information.

Works to be screened include Thirty Eight Twenty, I Used to Teach English, and Cosmic Trane.

MAY

WHEN: Tuesday, May 4, 2010, Doors open at 7pm, screening at 7:30PM.
COST: FREE
WHERE: L’ETAGE, 6th and Bainbridge, South Philadelphia

WHAT: Films by Philadelphia filmmaker -  Alison Crouse.

Host and interviewer, Robert SmythePhiladelphia theatre artist, playwright & director

Films screening:
A Song of Fishes, © 2009. Super-16mm narrative film, TRT: 18:00
Farewell, Silk City, © 2007. Documentary Video, TRT: 18:00

Tear-water Tea, ©2007. 16mm narrative film, 6:13.
Nadira, ©2006. Documentary video, 3:20

Alison Crouse Bio
Her narrative short A Song of Fishes has screened at the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, The Iris Prize (Wales, UK), Mix Brasil, and the NextFrame Film Festival. Her documentary “Farewell, Silk City” was a regional finalist for the Student Academy Awards and screened as part of the Philadelphia Film Festival and the Northampton Independent Film Festival. It made its broadcast debut in April 2009 on Philadelphia’s MiND network. She is the recipient of a Cine Motion Picture Award, received a Ben Lazaroff Screenwriting Scholarship for her script A Song of Fishes, and was recently honored with a subsidy grant from the Philadelphia Independent Film and Video Association. Since moving to Philadelphia, she has co-created “Seeing Our Voices,” an independent, grassroots program dedicated to articulating the voices of inner city youth. Resulting from this work her film “Mayor for a Day” was honored with an award of distinction as part of the Great Expectations film contest.

Alison is a senior lecturer at the University of the Arts, and an adjunct professor at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. She currently teaches videography, digital editing, and thesis production, and directs a program in community media making.

Robert Smythe Bio
Robert is founder and Artistic Director for 23 years of Mum Puppettheatre, is one of the most influential puppeteers in the United States and the world. He has directed and designed puppet work for theaters, Such as the Arden and Wilm Theaters; created four original concert works with the Philadelphia Orchestra;and was named “Pick of the Fringe” at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2001 after winning three Barrymore awards and a Citation for Excellence in the Art of Puppetry from UNIMA-USA. Robert is currently a University Fellow at Temple University, is studying for his MFA in Playwrighting and teaching.

Robert is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts for Performance Art and six Solo Performer Fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He is one of the last solo performers ever to receive a Theater Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

APRIL

Finishing Funds Information Session

WHEN: April 5, 2010, 6:30 – 7:30

WHERE: PIFVA Office, 4212 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, PA

This will cover how to apply for Finishing Funds and what the criteria are for review. We will also how to prepare the best work sample.

MARCH

PIFVA is hosting The Bryn Mawr Film Institute’s Open Screen on March 1, 2010

WHAT: PIFVA Hosts The Bryn Mawr Film Institute’s Open Screen

WHEN: Monday March 1, 2010 from 9-11pm
WHERE:  The Bryn Mawr Film Institute 824 W. Lancaster Avenue, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
COST:   Free.

Meet us at 8pm in front of the theatre or an impromptu get together/mixer prior to the show.

We’ve been listening.  Many of you have asked for more opportunities to share work and network with other area filmmakers.  On Monday March 1, The Philadelphia Film and Video Association will host The Bryn Mawr Film Institute’s monthly Open Screen.  At 824 W. Lancaster Avenue in Bryn Mawr, PA from 9-11pm.

We invite area filmmakers to screen their films shorts, docs, snippets or works-in-progress — just bring your film in DVD or VHS format, and we’ll run it on the BIG SCREEN.  Host will be PIFVA board member Michael Dennis.

Admission, refreshments, and praise (or criticism) from your peers will all be offered free of charge.  Even if you don’t have work to share, this is a great opportunity to meet and mix.

To have your film added to the screening schedule, just bring it to the theater box office, any time after 8:00 pm the day of the screening. Films are shown in the order registered.

Films or clips should be 10 minutes or less in length. For directions and more info about the venue, visit www.brynmawrfilm.org

FEBRUARY

NEW DATE BECAUSE of SNOW!!!

SPEEDCREWING III: The Cue Sheet

When: February 18th, 6:00-8:30pm
Where: Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Avenue, http://www.johnnybrendas.com/

Registration at: http://speedcrewing3.eventbrite.com/

Presented by the Philadelphia Independent Film and Video Association (PIFVA) and the Greater Philadelphia Film Office (GPFO)

Back by popular demand!  Come join us at PIFVA’s annual networking event where Philadelphia’s independent media makers gather. This year we’re connecting composers, musicians, bands and all others of a musical persuasion with filmmakers looking for scores, cues or other sound effects.  Music from local composers will be played throughout the evening, and filmmakers will leave with their ears buzzing.

This year’s special focus is on music but the evening is, as usual, about mingling and the liberal exchange of business cards.  From PAs to producers, sound mixers to editors, composers to directors, this is for media makers from all sides of the industry.  Bring 40-50 business cards, and remember, while speedcrewing is an informal networking event you should be sure to have a thirty-second elevator pitch about your work ready to go.  Last year’s event drew over 120 people, and that’s a lot of folks to introduce yourself to.

Our MC this year will be Rich Wexler, VJ & DJ extraordinaire, and founder of Sherman Community Arts, an organization that promotes community building through music, films, and arts events (www.shermanarts.org).

*Note to Musicians: If you send us an mp3 in advance, we will be mixing your music throughout the evening as well as creating a “cue sheet” for filmmakers to follow up with you after the event.  If you’re interested, please email an MP3 file with 4 minutes or less of your original music to contactus@pifva.org by 2/4.  This can be an edited compilation of several songs, just one composition, or a mash-up or your work. Whatever you prefer, but in your email make sure to include your name or company and your contact information.

JANUARY

January 19 – MEMEBER’S MEETING

Where: L’ETage, Bainbridge and 6th St., Philadelphia

When: 6-8pm

Board elections, Networking, door prizes, Finishing Funds screening. Food and cash bar.

You can join at the door.

SUPERGIRL! FILM CHALLENGE

January 15 6 PM | Official launch of SUPERGIRL! video competition (a 48 hour video competition co-presented with the NEXUS Teams of film makers will compete to create their own SUPERGIRL! film within 48 hours. At the launch, the teams will be given a prop, a phrase and a character that MUST appear in the film. Prizes will be awarded

PIFVA ANNUAL MEMBER’S MEETING

Tuesday, January 19, at L’Etage, 6th and Bainbridge, 6-8

Films, networking and drinks and food!

DECEMBER

12/11 ARCHIVE FEVER 1.0 @ IHouse: An evening with filmmaker, Christina Battle @ 8pm; Co-presented with IHouse, 3701 CHestnut St., Philadelphia

Christina Battle has established herself as a significant artist and arts educator in the Toronto film community since moving there from Edmonton in 2002. She rigorously combines celluloid hand-processing techniques with a variety of other imaging methods. Battle?s tactile, DIY approach to film production finds a powerful accompaniment in the themes she explores – history and counter-memory, ideology and political mythology, gender, and environmental catastrophe. Effectively, the combination of Battle?s processes and subject matter is a hand-to-hand artistic engagement with some of our most pressing historical and contemporary issues. – Scott Birdwise, Programmer, The Canadian Film Institute (2008).

oil wells: sturgeon road & 97th street

dir. Christina Battle, Canada, 2002, 16mm, 3 mins, color

Highlighting the repetitive nature of oil wells in northern Alberta, this hand processed film documents a sighting common to the Canadian prairies, simultaneously managing to recall Cecile Fontaine’s delicacy of emulsion-layering technique while paying homage to Pat O’Neill’s 7362 (1967), and evoking with marvelous understatement the grand prize at the heart of the imperialist resource wars.

paradise falls, new mexico

dir. Christina Battle, Canada, 2004, 16mm, 5 mins, color

The desert wind from America?s Southwestern ghost towns blows through the film?s emulsion, stripping away the myth behind the imagery of shoot-outs, outlaws and the lone gunmen from Hollywood Westerns.

buffalo lifts

dir. Christina Battle, Canada, 2004, 16mm, 3 mins, color, silent

A herd of buffalo desperately try to hold on as they cross the film frame. In a process called “emulsion lifting”, the image of the buffalos was produced by boiling the original pictures and resettling them onto a new length of film.

hysteria

dir. Christina Battle, Canada, 2006, 35mm, 4 mins, b/w

In hysteria, Battle refers more obliquely to the contemporary political climate using schoolbook illustrations of the Salem witch trials. She works the surface of the film in distinctive ways, lifting the emulsion to add new wrinkles to the image one frame at a time. – Chris Gehman & Andrea Picard, Toronto International Film Festival

three hours, fifteen minutes before the hurricane struck

dir. Christina Battle, Canada, 2006, 35mm, 5 mins, b/w, silent

Inspired by the diorama-like boxes of Joseph Cornell, and with text taken from victims of hurricane Katrina, three hours, fifteen minutes before the hurricane struck imagines moments just before a violent weather storm.

Behind the Shadows

dir. Christina Battle, Canada, 2009, 16mm, 17 mins, color

Outside the window a storm like no other is taking shape. Behind the Shadows documents the imagined moment when the delicate balance between natural and developed worlds began to shift. As if caught in a void between dream and reality, characters struggle to reconcile threats from the outside environment. Inspired by natural disaster horror movies, Behind the Shadows examines how popular media has shaped our understandings of fear.

wandering through secret storms

dir. Christina Battle, Canada, 2009, 16mm, 7 mins, color

In the not-so-distant future, an old government archive is discovered. As workers sift through the files in an attempt to put them into context, a storm

locked up since the past is unleashed.

suddenly everything changed

dir. Christina Battle, Canada, 2009, 16mm, color

Looking back, the clues were clear. But by the time the emergency crews took flight it was too late. Things will never be the same.

Saturday, December 12 at 2pm

Working with the Loop – Workshop/Master Class with Christina Battle

Presented by PIFVA – Philadelphia Independent Film and Video Association

Continually turning back upon itself and endlessly repeating, the loop creates a unique relationship with viewers and allows artists not only to draw attention to, but also to sculpt time in unique ways. With a DIY approach and working within the confines of the loop, we will consider how working at the level of the (16mm film) frame can allow artists to manipulate time using handmade and manipulation techniques (painting, scratching, collage).

$10 PIFVA + IHouse members; $25 general admission.

JANUARY

1/15 Nexus Super Girl Challenge

1/26 PIFVA Member’s Meeting

FEBRUARY

2/10 Speedcrewing @ Johnny Brenda’s, Philadlephia

Digital Hack Days for Filmmakers with Indy Hall and Shooting People

MARCH

PIFVA hosts Open Screen at Bryn Mawr Film Institute

APRIL

Workshops on Fair Use and Copyright @ CINEFEST

MAY, JUNE

Curated screenings of PIFVA member’s work @ PIttsburgh Filmmakers, County and Ambler Theaters

JULY

Q Fest and Workshop TBD

AUGUST

Speedcrewing @ Johnny Brenda’s

PAST 2009

NOVEMBER

Click HERE to view more events from our PIFVA Media Arts Calendar

WHAT: PIFVA 30th ANNIVERSARY POTLUCK

WHEN: Friday, November, 20, 2009, 6:30pm – 10pm

WHERE: PIFVA, 4212 Chestnut Street 3rd Floor. Philadelphia, PA, 19104 See map: Google Maps

Bring food and drink to share and an appetite for media

A SEA CHANGE, a recent documentary film

presented by Scribe in the Storyville series

In Person – Benjamin M. Kalina, Associate Producer, PIFVA Board Member, Directed by Barbara Ettinger

To see trailer click on http://c0253471.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/a-sea-change.flv

WHEN: Friday, November 13, 2009 – 7:00pm

See map: Google Maps

OCTOBER

STORYVILLE:No Family History

a film by Sabrina McCormick, PIFVA Member and recipient of PIFVA Finishing Funds grant

WHEN: Friday, October 9, 7pm, $5, FREE for Scribe Members

WHERE: Scribe Video Center, 4212 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia

One hundred and eighty-two thousand women will contract breast cancer this year. Forty-one thousand will die from it. Every eleven minutes we will lose another woman to the disease. This documentary film makes these statistics real by following one woman who is diagnosed, treated and recovers from breast cancer. Robin demands to know why she got breast cancer, posing questions about her exposure to environmental toxins. Her intimate story brings the visually hidden experience of breast cancer to light, and motivates us to ask; Why so much illness? and why don’t we know how to stop it?

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Submit your films to Storyville
For more information and to download the call for works, follow this link: Storyville or call Joni C. Helton, Scribe’s Program Consultant at 215 222 4201 or email joni@scribe.org.

PHILADELPHIA HOME MOVIE DAY

WHERE: IHouse, 3701 Chestnut ST., Philadelphia, PA

WHEN: Saturday, October 17, 2009, noon – 4pm

Where can you discover the ecstasy of Christmas morning and the giddiness of a summer down the shore?  Where can your family members prance across a screen like the movie stars they think they are?  Where do film archivists inspect and project those mysterious film reels that have been entertaining the dust in your grandmother’s attic?  At Home Movie Day!

Home Movie Day is an annual film event that takes place in cities around the world on a single Saturday.  Now in its seventh year, Home Movie Day provides a unique service to the community: it illuminates the lives of friends and neighbors through their own films and family histories.  At Home Movie Day, everyone is encouraged to bring their 8mm, super 8mm and/or 16mm home movies.  Archivists inspect the reels and project the films that are in good condition.

Home Movie Day provides a rare opportunity for Philadelphians to see their movies that have sat in boxes unseen and forgotten for too many years.  Expect to see family holidays, milestones, and vacations, but don’t be surprised to encounter a child’s masked avenger fantasy film or a demonstration of an obscure hunting skill.  The charm of this singular event is in watching fashions change, families grow, and history unfold.

Join us for a day of casual anthropology at the third annual Philadelphia Home Movie Day on Saturday, October 17.  We will have some live soundtrack performances by JESSE SPARHAWK and JESSE KUDLER, as well as poetry by FRANK SHERLOCK, ISH KLEIN and C.A. CONRAD.

This year’s event will take place at International House (3701 Chestnut St.) from noon-4pm.  The event is free, but we hope you’ll bring your films and friends.  For more information, please visit the website (www.homemovieday.com/philadelphia) or send an email to jmp281@yahoo.com.

P21 Film Festival Workshops

PIFVA members can attend these workshops at no cost, however you must RSVP to info {at} projecttwenty1.com so you can save a space at both workshops

Friday, October 2, 2009

2:15 pm – 4:15pm – WORKSHOP: Hidden Treasure: Canon 5D Mark II Camera (individual ticket) (discount passes) $10/FREE with VIP Pass/PIFVA Membership Card Upstairs @ International House Philadelphia 3701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA (map) Over the past several years, Richard Power Hoffmann has perfected a new technique using a digital still camera exclusively to make films. The evocative time-lapse effects created gives the impression of being very costly, but in reality is within reach of most cost-conscious independent producers. This unique storytelling approach takes advantage of today’s low cost yet high resolution digital still cameras to acquire better than HD resolution imagery, and then dynamically manipulate it in post-production. Hoffmann will discuss how and why he gravitated towards this technique, and the benefits and limitations he has encountered.  He will also share some of his filming and non-linear editing tips in a hands-on portion of the class. Instructor: Richard Power Hoffmann is a graduate of New York University in 1996 he returned to his native Philadelphia and began creating a variety of personal and work-for-hire film and videos through his company, Coyopa Productions. His feature film debut, Invisible Mountains, was awarded a 2002 screenwriting fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. The completed film, which went on the win Best Feature at the 2003 DV Film Festival and a 2005 PCA media arts fellowship, is now available on Netflix. His most recent film, Fridays at the Farm, won Best Short at the 2007 Green Film Festival in Seoul and Sapporo Shortfest in Japan, and aired nationally in 2007 on The Sundance Channel. NOTE: This is an intimate workshop that is limited to 30 people. Purchase individual tickets in advance. Passholders, RSVP to info {at} projecttwenty1.com.

Ann Arbor 2009 Film Tour Screening

WHEN: Thursday, October 1, 2009, 7pm

WHERE: UARTS,
The University of the Arts
Connelly Auditorium
211 South Broad St.
Philadelphia, PA 19102

Featuring Jury Award winner and PIFVA member, PETER ROSE

2009 International Tour Program

Program 1
91 min

Detailed film descriptions, click here

SEPTEMBER

2009 FINISHING FUNDS’ RECIPIENTS SCREENING

as part of the Flickering Light Series

WHEN: September 26, 2009, 7PM

WHERE: The Sedgwick Theater, 7137 Germantown Ave., Mt. Airy, Philadelphia

Cost: Free to PIFVA Members, $5, non-members

For further info, go to Flickering Light

1. Fordham SDS by Bert Schultz (20 min)

Mixing dramatic 16mm black and white footage of antiwar protestors from a 1969 campus building takeover with contemporary interviews, Fordham SDS explores the struggle of working class college students in this Jesuit university in The Bronx, and how their participation in violent confrontations with authorities altered the course of their lives.

2. Broken Pots, Broken Dreams by Maris Gillette (20min) Work in Progress

This film examines the experiences of workers in China’s ceramic industry in Jingdezhen, a small city in southeast China, which is dominated by a large ceramics industry.

3. Gabriel Rising by Elan Emmanuel Gepner (20min) Work in Progress

Gabriel Rising tells the story of the restoration and transformation of an historic African American neighborhood in New Orleans after the devastation of HurricaneKatrina, guided and led by the priest and nun at the local Roman Catholic parish. It also tells the story of a group of volunteers who themselves were transformed by the experience of doing reconstruction in the church and
helping parishioners gut and rebuild their homes.

4. Continent of Light by Nikki Brake (20 min) Work in Progress

The Continent of Light is an observational documentary that weaves a story
demonstrating the triumph of the human spirit. The documentary challenges
stereotypes of Africa through the eyes of three Western volunteers. They
were all there for different reasons. Be it altruism, curiosity, or rebellion, they look for answers to discern the truth about Africa.

Film Handling Workshop, presented with the Philadelphia Film Archivists Collective (PFAC)

When: September 12, 10:30 -1:30

Where: PIFVA, 4212 Chestnut St., Philadelphia

We will be exchanging different handling tricks and techniques and focusing on inspection procedures for Home Movie Day (October 17 from noon to 4pm at IHouse in Philadelphia.)  PFAC encourages PIFVA members to attend so that we can bring local filmmakers and archivists into closer dialogue and collaboration.  Emphasis will be on 16mm, 8mm and S8mm film, but other gauges are welcome as well.  We will have supplies and equipment available, but we encourage people to contribute their own – it’s always fun to learn about new splicers!  For more information, please contact Joanna Poses at jmp281@nyu.edu.  More information about Home Movie Day is available here: www.homemovieday.com and http://www.ihousephilly.org/homemovieday.htm.

WALK PHILLY, a project of Termite TV Collective

Join Termite TV at the Fringe Festival

MULTIPLE LOCATIONS:

PAINTED BRIDE ART CENTER, 230 Vine Street
Friday September 4TH (6-8PM), Tuesday September 8TH (6-8PM),
Saturday, September 12TH (4-6PM), Wednesday September 16TH (6-8PM)

ASIAN ARTS INITIATIVE , 1219 Vine Street
ONGOING Friday September 4 – 18. During Regular Business Hours

BRANDYWINE WORKSHOP  728-730 S. Broad Street
Walk Philly Presentation as part of Scribe Video Center’s eSights,eSounds program.
Friday September 18 (8PM)

PHILADELPHIA, June 12, 2009– Termite TV is excited to introduce video walking tours to the 2009 Fringe Festival. As part of Termite TV’s ongoing Walk Philly project, video artists collaborated on three pieces playing off the theme Stimulus. People are invited to meet the participating artists and follow the walks  with an iPod for a unique, immersive experience of Old City. You can also download the video walks to your own iPod or iPhone. Any of the Walk Philly tours can also be accessed and downloaded from the Termite TV website http://www.termite.org/walkphilly/about/

More info, click here

VJ Yakov @ the Fringe Festival

VJ Yakov projects his special blend of found footage, Super 8, and 80s commercials all over the Festival Bar walls and a special network of screens.

WHEN: SEPT 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19 VJing at LIVE ARTS FRINGE FEST (Festival Bar at The Hub)
Click here for more info

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OCTOBER

October 2, 2009

12:00 – 2:00pm – PIFVA-sponsored WORKSHOP
Getting Grants: Strategies, Writing Tips & Sources

This PIFVA workshop, will give you an overview of grant seeking and writing, highlighting strategies and writing essentials.We will look at your filmmaker’s statement and your goals for your film. Also, we will look at PIFVA Finishing Funds and the Grantsmakers in Film and Electronic Media Database in detail.

Instructor:
Caroline Savage, is PIFVA Coordinator, a grantwriter, and former Program Director at PA Council on the Arts, where she managed the Media Arts and Individual Artist Fellowship grants programs. After she left PCA, she taught at Dickinson College and the SF Art Institute and received a PA Council on the Arts Fellowship in 2005 for her short film work.

Note: This workshop is FREE to PIFVA members and P21Fest 2009 VIP passholders. All others are welcome with tickets, available above

October 2, 2009 2:15 – 4:15 pm – WORKSHOP
Hidden Treasure: Canon 5D Mark II Camera

Over the past several years, Richard Power Hoffmann has perfected a new technique using a digital still camera exclusively to make films. The evocative time-lapse effects created gives the impression of being very costly, but in reality is within reach of most cost-conscious independent producers.

This unique storytelling approach takes advantage of today’s low cost yet high resolution digital still cameras to acquire better than HD resolution imagery, and then dynamically manipulate it in post-production. Hoffmann will discuss how and why he gravitated towards this technique, and the benefits and limitations he has encountered.  He will also share some of his filming and non-linear editing tips in a hands-on portion of the class.
Instructor: Richard Power Hoffmann is a graduate of New York University in 1996 he returned to his native Philadelphia and began creating a variety of personal and work-for-hire film and videos through his company, Coyopa Productions. His feature film debut, Invisible Mountains, was awarded a 2002 screenwriting fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. The completed film, which went on the win Best Feature at the 2003 DV Film Festival and a 2005 PCA media arts fellowship, is now available on Netflix. His most recent film, Fridays at the Farm, won Best Short at the 2007 Green Film Festival in Seoul and Sapporo Shortfest in Japan, and aired nationally in 2007 on The Sundance Channel.

Note: This workshop is FREE to PIFVA members and P21Fest 2009 VIP passholders. All others are welcome with tickets, available above!
Note: This workshop is FREE to PIFVA members and P21Fest 2009 VIP passholders. All others are welcome with tickets, available above!
Conference Room 1
International House
3701 Chestnut St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104

AUGUST

DIY DAYS PHILADELPHIA

Saturday, August 1,2009

University of the Arts,

8:30am-6pm

UArts, Terra Building, 211 S. Broad St.,7th Floor,  Philadelphia

Afterparty: 6:30 -8pm, Brandywine Workshop, 728 S. Broad St.

DIY DAYS is a FREE day of talks and networking centered on how to fund, create, distribute and sustain from your creative work. We are targeting everyone in  film, music, design, gaming and software development who wonder how to sustain themselves in challenging economic times.

MORE INFO…

JULY

Culture Hacking & Open Creativity:

A pre DIY Days meetup/Networking event for the first DIY Days Philadelphia to be held on  August 1 at the University of the Arts

Presented by The Workbook Project & DIY Days Philadelphia

and Philadelphia Independent Film and Video Association (PIFVA)

WHEN: Wednesday, July 8 from 7:00  – 11:00 pm

WHERE: Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia

COST: Tickets at the door: $5, free to PIFVA members

In anticipation of DIY Days Philadelphia on August 1, 2009 at the University of the Arts, on JULY 8, film, gaming and tech will meld to create a night of entertainment and networking for those in the creative arts . This  night at Johnny Brenda’s will include live performances by remix artist Scott Beibin(Lost Film Festival) as he debuts his newest creation “Scientists Are the new Rockstars,” a live multimedia spectacle exploring the fuzzy and quarky lines between hard science, social science, and metaphysics with hands-on examples of environmentally sustainable art and technologies. Through storytelling and an immersive audio/video experience VJ Scott Beibin presents a holistic ‘how-to’ and ‘who’s-who’ of postmodern innovation. Chief Wreckem and his battling organs and turntables creates a sonic tasting of the sublime while providing an exploration into social gaming and storytelling.

Enjoy speed presentations which look at the futures of entertainment.

Lance Weiler – discusses the evolution of storytelling

Brian McTear – shares new models for sustainability for artists

Mark Schoneveld – looks at the future of the live event

Alex Johnson – explains the future of identity online

AND MUCH MORE

MAY

MAY 7 – 9, 2009

A Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Filmmaker Helen Hill

Helen Hill was a champion of do-it-yourself filmmaking techniques and this program explores the uniquely imaginative landscape of her work.

Super 8 Film Hand-Processing Workshop.  Attendance limited, register NOW!

in collaboration with Community Screen and International House and the TRIBUTE TO HELEN HILL, MAY 7 -9

When: 12 -5 pm, Saturday

Where: 4212 Chestnut St. 3rd Floor

Cost: $25; PIFVA members, free

Super 8 film continues to be an artists’ medium, with its unique look and feel. Hand-processing and direct animation are an adventurous hands-on technique that adds character, meaning and texture to your footage. Participants will have access to Super-8 cameras (or bring your own) to shoot an in-camera edited  film, 1 roll of black and white Super 8 film and all the chemicals and supplies required for processing. In the first  hour, we will covers how to use a Super 8 camera, exposure basics, editing in the camera strategies and processing options. You can also bring your own previously shot B&W Super 8 reel. The remaining time, we will process your exposed film and learn the chemistry of hand-processing. We will also provide black and white leader so you can explore “direct animation” where you mark on the film with inks, stamps, sharpies, sandpaper and bleach.  After the workshop, we will gather for a tea in honor of Helen Hill and look at the works shot and processed in the workshop.

Contact PIFVA, at contactus@pifva.org for further information or phone, 215-382-2579.

Workshop instructor: Caroline E. Savage, experimental filmmaker, who honed her hand processing skills as a student and teacher at the San Francisco Art Institute where she received her MFA in Film. She received a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in Media Arts in 2005.

ON THURSDAY, MAY 7, SCREENING

When: 7PM

Where: @ International House, Philadelphia

The weekend will begin with a rare 35mm screening of Lotte Reiniger’s fantastic ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED. This is, perhaps, the earliest full length animation film and it still feels fresh and innovative today. Made entirely from cut paper silhouette figures, the film races through the tales of the Arabian Nights. Its creative approach to animation and filmmaking was an early influence on Helen Hill. This screening will feature live musical accompaniment by local musicians including Ken Ulansey, Jim Hamilton, Dan Kleiman, and Phyllis Chapell.

On Friday, MAY 8, Screening

When: 7PM

Where: @ International House, Philadelphia

The second screening will feature an assortment of Helen’s short films that were recently preserved by the Harvard Film Archive. This program features MADAME WINGER MAKES A FILM, Helen’s love letter to independent filmmaking and MOUSEHOLES, a tender remembrance of her adored grandfather. These films travel through animation, puppetry, live action sequences and more. Helen was constantly experimenting as a filmmaker, but her approach was always playful. Audiences are invited to discover an extraordinary artist with a singularly delightful vision of the world. For more information, click here.

HARNESSING THE INTERNET FOR INDIE FILMMAKERS,

with Brian Newman, from Tribeca Film Institute, NYC

WHEN: Thursday, May 14, 2009, 6:30 -8:30pm

WHERE: PIFVA, 4212 Chestnut St., 3rd Fl., Philadelphia

$10, Non-Members, $5 PIFVA, Scribe Members

With the models of distribution constantly changing, how can the full potential of the Web be harnessed in favor of the independent filmmaker?  In this workshop Brian Newman, President and CEO of the Tribeca Institute, will discuss a range of new methods and ideas available to filmmakers to help them distribute their work, develop audiences, and potentially finance their projects through online community building. Brian will discuss strategies to get audiences to buy your film when so much content can be found for free, the strengths/weaknesses of various new online distribution methods, how filmmakers are using Facebook and other social networks to build audiences and raise funds, and how the internet is changing storytelling.

Brian Newman, President and CEO, Tribeca Film Institute, also developed Reframe, a program of Tribeca Film Institute. The goal of Reframe is to help individual filmmakers, distributors, archives, libraries and other media owners to digitize and sell their work using the internet, and to become a one-stop location for anyone seeking these films. It was developed because substantial amounts of film, video and media arts remain “stuck on the shelf,” inaccessible to large segments of the public. Sometimes this is due to rights-clearance issues, but more often it is because of the high cost to convert to digital formats that would allow for broad circulation.  Even media that is available for distribution can be difficult to find because it is held and catalogued in many places, and in less than ideal databases. Reframe was conceived as a solution.

APRIL

CROWD (RE)SOURCING WORKSHOP/SEMINAR

with Morrie Warshawski

WHEN: Tuesday, April 21, 2009

WHERE: PIFVA, 4212 Chestnut St., 3rd Fl., Philadelphia, PA

5:30 – 6 pm Registration, Networking -  $20, non-members, $15 PIFVA, Scribe members

6 – 9 pm Workshop

Contact PIFVA at contactus@pifva.org or 215-382-2579

Are you at critical juncture and don’t know which step to take first? Are you in need of some sage advice? Want to get some feedback? THIS WORKSHOP IS FOR YOU!!!!

This highly interactive Workshop is designed to help independent filmmakers tune up their careers and their projects by getting help from experienced consultant and fundraising guru Morrie Warshawski, and from participants that evening. Come prepared with a 1-5 word “hook” and a 20 second pitch for your project, and a problem or set of questions that you want help with, or a brief trailer of your project (3 – 5 min max).  Activities will include “spotlights” of focused attention for selected indivdual filmmakers, small group work, and a one hour Q&A period facilitated by Warshawski. Don’t miss this unusual opportunity to learn from one of the nation’s most respected consultants, and from your network of peers.

MORRIE WARSHAWSKI, noted writer and media consultant, is the former Executive Director of Bay Area Video Coalition and The Media Project, Inc.  His clients over the last 30 years include the American Film Institute, National Endowment for the Arts, California Arts Council, MacArthur Foundation, WGBH-TV, President’s Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and many others.  Warshawski has served on numerous grant panels, has written over 500 proposals, and is the author of THE FUNDRAISING HOUSEPARTY, and SHAKING THE MONEY TREE: HOW TO GET GRANTS AND DONATIONS FOR FILM AND VIDEO- 2nd Edition.  You can find Warshawski and an audio clip on fundraising houseparties in cyberspace at: www.warshawski.com.

FINISHING FUNDS Grant Deadline Extended to April 20, 2009

The purpose of PIFVA Finishing Funds Program is to assist the Philadelphia-area independent media makers, who are members of PIFVA, in completing work and builds community through sharing of skills and resources.
Cash grants up to $1000 and in kind grants of donated services are awarded to filmmakers for specific post-production services not yet performed prior to the grant deadline.

For further information, click here.

To download an application, see below:

FINISHING FUNDS APPLICATION or send an email to contactus@pifva for an application.

MEET THE RED , a workshop in collaboration with Scribe

DATE: Tuesday, April 7 TIME: 7:00 – 9:00 PM
Instructor: Paul Hazlet
WHERE: Scribe Video Center, 4212 Chestnut Street, 3rd Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Fee: $20. $10 for Scribe & PIFVA members

Want to see what all the fuss is about? This session will give participants a chance to get up close and personal with The Red camera system, a high performance digital cine camera with the quality of 35mm film and the convenience of pure digital. Director/cinematographer Steven Soderbergh shot his latest film, Che, entirely on The Red calling it “the camera I’ve been waiting for my whole career.” The Red is not HD. Nor is it film. It might be best described as a SUPER HIGH Definition digital cinema. Get a general overview of how the camera works, its components, what it’s like to shoot with and then see what happens when RAW video shot with The Red gets transferred into Final Cut.
Paul Hazlett is a veteran of 20+ years of shooting and editing for Broadcast and corporate clients including Discovery, ESPN, HBO, FOX, Fox sports, CNN, BBC, PBS,as well as independent projects

PIFVA FINISHING FUNDS APPLICATION INFORMATION SESSION

Learn how to prepare your application and support material for the PIFVA Finishing Funds Grant.

WHEN: Monday, April 6, 6:30 -7:30pm

WHERE: PIFVA, 4212 Chestnut St., 3rd Floor, Philadelphia. Ring #004

Call Caroline at 215-382-2579 or send an email to contactus@pifva.org for further information.

CINEFEST FILMMAKER PANELS, presented in collaboration with DIVE and PIFVA

DIVE at Shooters in the Curtis Building, 601 Walnut St., Independence Square West,  Philadelphia

Join Festival of Independent’s Diane R. Thompson, director of Don’t Fall Down in the Hood. El Sawyer, director of Beirut Boys and Michael J. Dennis, PIFVA Board Member,  director of Ursula Rucker: Poet who will discuss with Moderator Joni Helton, WHYY Director of TV Programming and PIFVA board member, how their work and how they represent Philadelphia’s African American community through their film sensibilities. Read more…

Saturday, March 28, 10:30am@ Marvin Comisky Conference Center
Blank Rome, LLP, One Logan Square: “SIP” Day at The Philadelphia Film Festival/CineFest 2009, sponsored by the Greater Philadelphia Film Office

Saturday, March 28, 2:30 – 4:30, PhillyPitch! 2009, sponsored by the Greater Philadelphia Film Office

Monday, March 30, 8:30pm @ The Prince:  Jeff Daniels, In Person, Artistic Achievement Award.Followed by the screening of The Answerman

Friday, April 3, 5 – 8pm, Reception @ Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, UArts, with special guests Brothers Quay

Friday, April 3, 9:15pm @ The Prince. Screening : Institute Benjamenta,  Brothers Quay accepting the

Vision Award.

Saturday, April 4, 2pm @ The Prince. ScreeningA Quay Brother’s Sampler; Brothers Quay In Person.

Filmmaker and cast member guests add insight and interest to the Festival with introductions and Q&A sessions at screenings. Below are films and events that have guests scheduled to appear at the Philadelphia Film Festival / CineFest 09.

AND MORE…….

Scribe – PIFVA MEMBER’S Screening in March 2009

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PIFVA, Greater Philadelphia Film Office & the Sustainable Business Network present

Wednesday, February 18 from 6:30-8:30pm

HERE: Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia

How much does it cost?
CURRENT PIFVA members, SBN members
& GPFO Production Guide Listers:
$5 in Advance | $7 at the door*

General Public: $10 in Advance | $12 at the door*
*To purchase tickets at the door, look beneath the credit card icons at the bottom of the registration page and you’ll see “Other Payment Options” Click that!

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Super 8 Film Collective Meeting

When: Sunday, March 22, 10-2pm

Where: PIFVA, 4212 Chestnut st., 3rd Fl. Philadelphia, 19104

What: Let talk Super 8, discover resources,  so come and share. We will determine our direction.Contact PIVFA at contactus@pifva.org or call 215-382-2579 fro more info.

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ANNUAL PIFVA MEMBERS MEETING WAS FANTASTIC

WHEN: Thursday, February 12 from 6:30 – 8:00 pm
WHERE: PIFVA, 4212 Chestnut Street, 3rd Floor, Phila.

NEW BOARD MEMBERS elected on February 12, 2009:

Michael Dennis,

Joni Helton,

Ben Kalina,

Shannon Kane-Meddock.

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PIFVA presented Home Movie Mashup and

IT WAS GREAT!!!!!

Thanks to Johnny Brenda’s, Rich Wexler, PIFVA members, Staff, Board and the folks at Home Movie Day!

Philadelphia Independent Film and Video Association (PIFVA)  presents
MOVIE MASH UP HOLIDAY PARTY

Where:  Johnny Brenda’s 1201 N. Frankford Ave. (corner of Girard Ave) , Philadelphia
When:   Wednesday Dec. 17 from 6:30 – midnight, $5.00 admission (free with a home movie to share)
What:    Home movies, live performance, food and beverages, cinematic good times

PIFVA and Home Movie Day will host a Home Movie Mash Up featuring VJ Rich Wexler aka Large Marge !!!
(who will be using an AV Mixer 1.3 and a MacBook Pro to project remixed home movies developed from manipulated Super 8 film, oil projections, and more)

We invite you to bring your Super 8, 16mm or DVD home movies to share (we will waive the admission if you bring your “home” movie) You can add your own dialogue or music on the spot. Some filmmakers are performing live sound to accompany their films. We are encouraging spontaneity and improvisation. This is your chance to mix and mingle with Philadelphia’s independent filmmakers and PIFVA supporters. All ages welcome. Call 215-382-2579 for further information. Co-sponsored by Home Movie Day!

Politics As Usual!?

OPENING on Friday, October 10 from 6:00 -9:00 pm
Hosted by Big Tea Party’s Elizabeth Fiend, featuring poets and live performance

CLOSING on Saturday, November 11 from 3:00 -7:00 pm
Hosted by GreenCity Journal’s Caryn Hunt

PROGRAM:
Bush for Peace by Sarah Christman and Jen Simmons (1 min)
Choose to Choose by Christiane Badgley (12 min)
A Mural’s Message, a PSA by youth videomakers from The Beacon Program (1 min)
Copy This Tape by Skylight Films (17 min.)
Blockbuster Letter from the Editor by Ken Winikur & John Lumia (1 min)
Free the (Schuylkill) River Park Documentary by Rob Stuart (15 min)
Bean Scene by Deb Rudman with AQ Quintero (1 min)
Casino Free Philly by Ed Goppelt (15 min)
Model Minority Man by Anula Shetty, Daniel Kim & Mike Kuetemeyer (5 min)
The Taking of Bodine by Community Leadership Institute & Scribe Video Center (10 min)
Ending an Epidemic Act-Up Fight Back by Big Tea Party (6 min)
Dis Poem by Tania Isaac (3 min)
Iraq Veterans for Peace, Winter Soldiers by Amadee Braxton, Gail Lloyd &Serena Reed & (20 min)
Amiri Baraka’s Something in the Way of Things by Bryan Green (9 min)

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GPFO PRESENTS: THE “GREEN” SCREEN

So now that it’s “hot”, “in”, and “fabulous”, learn the practical, sustainable, and green tips for filmmaking from local experts

Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Admission: FREE
Prince Music Theater
The Black Box (2nd floor)
1412 Chestnut St.
Philadelphia, PA

EVENT PANELISTS:
James Callaham, Regional VP
Enterprise Rent-A-Car

Avi Golen, Founding Member
Construction Waste Management &
Revolution Recovery LLC

Richard Hoffman, Writer/ Director

Ben Kalina, Director/ Producer

Julie Lorch, Educational Coordinator
Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia

Hal Shaffer, Green Consultant
Norristown Studios

Please RSVP to Joan Bressler (< ! //<![CDATA[ var l=new Array(); l[0]=’>’;l[1]=’a';l[2]=’/';l[3]=’<’;l[4]=’ 103′;l[5]=’ 114′;l[6]=’ 111′;l[7]=’ 46′;l[8]=’ 109′;l[9]=’ 108′;l[10]=’ 105′;l[11]=’ 102′;l[12]=’ 64′;l[13]=’ 98′;l[14]=’ 110′;l[15]=’ 97′;l[16]=’ 111′;l[17]=’ 106′;l[18]=’>’;l[19]=’\”‘;l[20]=’ 103′;l[21]=’ 114′;l[22]=’ 111′;l[23]=’ 46′;l[24]=’ 109′;l[25]=’ 108′;l[26]=’ 105′;l[27]=’ 102′;l[28]=’ 64′;l[29]=’ 98′;l[30]=’ 110′;l[31]=’ 97′;l[32]=’ 111′;l[33]=’ 106′;l[34]=’:';l[35]=’o';l[36]=’t';l[37]=’l';l[38]=’i';l[39]=’a';l[40]=’m';l[41]=’\”‘;l[42]=’=';l[43]=’f';l[44]=’e';l[45]=’r';l[46]=’h';l[47]=’a ‘;l[48]=’<’; for (var i = l.length-1; i >= 0; i=i-1){ if (l[i].substring(0, 1) == ‘ ‘) document.write(“&#”+unescape(l[i].substring(1))+”;”); else document.write(unescape(l[i])); } //]]>JOJO // >joanb@film.org) by noon, September 9th

Contact:
Joan Bressler

215-686-2668

Free PIFVA member run of engagement passes to see

“The Fall” opening May 30 at Ritz Theatres

Roadside Attractions presents

THE FALL

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We have a limited number of passes to see this visually amazing epic “Shot piecemeal over the course of four years on locations in 18 countries, and paid for out of the pocket of its co-writer and director, Tarsem Singh…” (nytimes)

Passes are available on a first come basis. To request passes, please send us email with your first and last name in the body of your email with the words “FALL” in the subject line.

THE FALL

Los Angeles, circa 1920′s, a little immigrant girl (Catinca Untaru) finds herself in a hospital recovering from a fall. She strikes up a friendship with a bedridden man (Lee Pace) who captivates her with a whimsical story that removes her far from the hospital doldrums into the exotic landscapes of her imagination. Making sure he keeps the girl interested in the story he interweaves her family and people she likes from the hospital into his tale.

Produced and directed by Tarsem with a screenplay by Dan Gilroy, Nico Soultanakis and Tarsem.
Starring Lee Pace and Catina Untaru.

Opens: Friday May 30 Ritz Theatres

Rated R for some violent images

Website: www.thefallthemovie.com