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Via Soap Opera, Getting Information To Displaced Haitians
“First, Haitians received food and shelter; now the moving image has joined the humanitarian response. All over this rattled capital city, Port-au-Prince, outdoor screens are popping up, as a handful of organizations race to produce programming that entertains and informs the hundreds of thousands of displaced people living in camps without televisions or radios.”
The New York Times 06/10/10
Indianapolis Museum of Art: 100 Acres to Roam, No Restrictions
The Fairbanks Art & Nature Park, opening next weekend, “is one of the largest in the United States and rare in its focus on temporary, site-specific commission. ‘We’re resisting this tendency in the last few decades to collect giant sculptures and then try to keep them forever outside,’ [the park’s curator] said. ‘These things have lives to live and at a certain point will be retired’.”
New York Times 06/13/10
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Call for Films: Reel Sisters of the Diaspora
REEL SISTERS of the DIASPORA SEEKS ORIGINAL
WORKS For FILM FESTIVAL
Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival & Lecture Series is seeking films directed, written or produced by women of color. Reel Sisters is celebrating its 13th year anniversary and the festival has screened more than 350 films since its inception. Film shorts, animation, works-in-progress, narratives, features, documentaries and experimental works are eligible. Filmmakers will have their original works viewed at a public screening Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus from October 16-17, 2010 in New York City.
Submission forms are available at visit www.reelsisters.org and www.withoutabox.com. For information call (347) 534-3304 or (212) 865-2982.
Please include a short biography and film synopsis. Entries must be submitted on 1/2” NTSC VHS videotape or PAL DVD (Region free DVDs. Entry fee is $20.
THE DEADLINE IS NEXT WEEK – JUNE 16, 2010. All entries must be received or postmarked by this date.
Reel Sisters is presented by African Voices magazine. The festival committed to providing opportunities for women of color in the film industry. Reel Sisters provides professional workshops for emerging women filmmakers wishing to improve their craft and gain access to the resources they need to succeed in the film industry. The festival offers workshops and panels on financing film projects, documentary filmmaking, screenwriting and exploring new opportunities in film on the Internet.
African Voices Cultural Circle Conference: June 19, 2010
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African Voices annual Cultural Circle Conference will offer a special forum for busy parents and professionals to learn from successful authors and artists on how they carved the creative space to write and work as artists. The conference will include a writing workshop, panels and a booksigning for author Jacqueline Johnson. |
States Catch On: Representation Doesn't Equal Glorification
“Among the states that began underwriting film and television production with heavy subsidies over the past half-decade — 44 states had some sort of incentives by last year, 28 of them involving tax credits — at least a handful are giving new scrutiny to a question that was politely overlooked in the early excitement: What kind of films are taxpayers paying for?”
The New York Times 06/15/10
Tony Awards
Congratulations to Denzel Washington and Viola Davis, winning the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor and Actress in a Play. Fences, which Washington and Davis starred in, also won Best Revival of a Play.
There were also several winners for the musical Fela!, the true story of the legendary Nigerian musician Fela Kuti. Bill T. Jones won Best Choreography, Marina Draghici won Best Costume Design for a Musical, and Robert Kaplowitz won Best Sound Design for a Musical.
Congratulations to all the winners!
Cache Of Lost Silent Movies To Be Returned To US
“The 75 movies are a real rarity — in part because early film was volatile and degraded quickly. ‘Only about 20 percent of the films produced in America during the silent era — that is the era of motion pictures before 1929 — survive today in the United States in complete form,’ says Annette Melville, director of the nonprofit Film Preservation Foundation.”
NPR 06/07/10
Josephine Baker's Château Becomes A Memorial
La Baker “is a gilded banana skirt and a feathery hairpiece, a spit curl and a sculpted brow – not the rumpled woman in a bathrobe, dark glasses, and shower cap in the photo in the kitchen at the Château des Milandes,” which had just been repossessed. The estate’s current owner has made the house into a monument to the singer and the extraordinary activities she undertook there.
Obit Mag 06/08/10
Association of Moving Image Archivists: Video Contest
The Association of Moving Image Archivists’ first short film/video competition will highlight the importance of preserving our moving image heritage. Increasingly, our cultures are reflected through moving images – as news, entertainment, and historical artifact. This year, AMIA celebrates its 20th anniversary as an association of people dedicated to preserving those moving images. This competition will provide an opportunity to emphasize the importance of saving our moving images as important educational, historical, and cultural resources. It’s about originality, imagination and the ability to engage the audience in 180 seconds or less.
The competition is open to everyone — so share this information with friends, colleagues, students … anyone you know with an interest in preserving our moving image heritage.
Prizes
One Grand Prize: In addition to receiving $2,500(USD) prize, the winning submission will be announced on October 27 as part of the World Day of Audiovisual Heritage celebration, and will be screened at the AMIA 2010 Archival Screening Night, November 5, 2010 in Philadelphia, PA. It will also be featured on the AMIA website.
Runner-up & Finalists: The runner-up will receive $1,000(USD). The runner up and finalists’ productions will be included on the AMIA website.
Submissions will be accepted beginning June 15, 2010 and ending August 30, 2010. The winner and runner-up will be selected by vote of AMIA members from finalist entries posted on the AMIA Website.
For more information, rules and submission guidelines, go to:
www.AMIA2010.org