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The Eighth Annual SLFS will be held July 19-24, 2008. This event focuses exclusively on the work of local directors and filmmakers, as well as expatriates with strong local connections who have gone on to use their creative talents in other cities. Submissions will be accepted March 1 - May 31, 2008. Please [CLICK HERE] for rules, regulations and submission applications.
posted by Adam Hackbarth | 6:09 AM |
STLBEACON.ORG and CINEMA ST. LOUIS have joined forces to bring you THE LENS. Visit www.stlbeacon.org/lens to check it out!
posted by Adam Hackbarth | 6:02 AM |
Two films with Missouri ties will be screening over at that beautiful University City landmark. Check out this article: [CLICK HERE]
posted by Adam Hackbarth | 5:58 AM |
Joe Williams and The St. Louis Post-Dispatch continues to cover our beloved St. Louis Filmmaker Showcase. [CLICK HERE]
posted by Adam Hackbarth | 8:06 AM |
Calling All St. Louis Filmmakers!
Cinema St. Louis and the Animal Protective Association of Missouri
invite St. Louis-area filmmakers to create a short film that celebrates
the bond between people and their pets.
Finalists will be showcased on the APA website, the APA MySpace
Reopening Party.
Cinema St. Louis will then choose one of the films to screen as part of
its St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase in July.
Contest Details
St. Louis-area filmmakers interested in participating must choose a
theme from the APA website and create a short that runs a maximum of 5
minutes based on their chosen theme. Some examples of possible themes:
the APA as a St. Louis landmark, adopt a pet instead of buying from a
pet store, pets can add seven years to your life, etc.
Experimental, narrative, animated and documentary approaches are all
acceptable. The shorts can be shot in any film or video format, in
either color or black-and-white.
Filmmakers must live within a 120-mile radius of St. Louis
All films must be submitted on DVD.
There is no entry fee.
Deadline is April 1st, 2008 .
Submission of short does not guarantee its use at the APA.
For questions about the contest, please contact Becky Kreuger (314)
645-4610 ext. 124. or education@apamo.org
DVD and ENTRY FORM should be sent to:
Animal Protective Association of Missouri
Attn: Film Contest
1705 South Hanley Road
St. Louis, MO 63105
[CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO]
The African Film Festival comes this week, and the Italian Film Festival comes next month. Check out this article on stltoday.com: [CLICK HERE]
Labels: film St. Louis Wash U African stltoday Joe Williams
posted by Adam Hackbarth | 5:31 PM |
Cinema St. Louis, the presenters of the St. Louis International Film Festival, has announced the five finalists in its annual CinemaSpoke screenplay competition and workshop. The five screenplays will receive partial readings, one a month from April through August, with the winning script receiving a full reading on Monday, Sept. 15.
The finalists and the titles of their scripts, with the reading date:
April 7: Aaron Coffman's "The Drowning"
May 5: Vanessa Revard Roman's "The Importance of Doubting Tom"
June 2: Blair Dalton's "The Alien Dude"
July 7: Jean Whatley's "The Love You Need"
Aug. 4: Paddy Callahan's "The Valedictorian"
All readings will be held on a Monday at 7 p.m. in the Rialto Room on the fourth floor of the Centene Center for Arts & Education, 3547 Olive St. in Grand Center. The readings are free and open to the public.
On each evening, the first 30 pages of a script will be read by actors, with judges offering critiques and the author responding to questions from both the judges and audience members.
CinemaSpoke judges are TV writer/producer Paul Guyot ("Judging Amy," "Felicity"), screenwriter Richard Chapman ("Live From Baghdad"), producer Buzz Hirsch ("Silkwood"), St. Louis Post-Dispatch film critic Joe Williams and St. Louis writer/producer Bobbie Lautenschlager.
For more information, contact Cinema St. Louis at 314-289-4150 or visit its Web site at www.cinemastlouis.org.
Cinema St. Louis continues to carry on a wonderful tradition. If you are a film lover, be sure to check out the 2008 St. Louis Filmmaker Showcase. If you are a filmmaker, you might want to download an application. Either way, all of it points to this glorious link: [CLICK HERE]
posted by Adam Hackbarth | 8:30 AM |
I just received word that the Suburban Journal has done a terrific little article on the new Sockville DVD. Check it out! [CLICK HERE]
Labels: St. Louis Sockville Voss Missouri film
posted by Adam Hackbarth | 7:06 AM |
Nope. Not Jenna. [CLICK HERE]
posted by Adam Hackbarth | 2:15 AM |
CinemaSpoke screenplay competition now accepting submissions
Cinema St. Louis is now accepting submissions for the 2008 CinemaSpoke Screenwriting Competition and Workshop. CinemaSpoke is an opportunity for St. Louis-area screenwriters to have their work read aloud in a public forum by professional and amateur actors and to receive feedback from a panel of film-industry experts experienced in producing, screenwriting, filmmaking, development, and criticism. Deadline for submissions is Feb. 29, 2008.
A committee of three selection judges read the first 30 pages of each submitted screenplay. Based on these 30 pages, the judges will then select five scripts for the competition. The five 2008 CinemaSpoke finalists will be announced on Monday, April 3.
The first 30 pages of each selected script will be given a public reading. Readings will be held at 7 p.m. on the first Monday of every month - April 7, May 5, June 2, July 7, and Aug. 4 - at the Pulaski Performing Arts Atrium on the fourth floor of the Centene Center for Arts & Education, 3547 Olive St. in Grand Center. The winning screenplay will then receive a full reading on Sept. 15. All readings are free and open to the public.
Writers will be allowed to play a role in casting the actors who will do the live readings of the competition scripts. A panel of five film professionals will offer criticism and feedback based on these readings. The author will also respond to questions from both panelists and audience members and has the option to rewrite the script based on feedback from the panel. Once the panel has read the final versions of all five scripts in their entirety, a winning script will be selected from the five.
CinemaSpoke selection judges are St. Louis Post-Dispatch film critics Harper Barnes and Calvin Wilson, Professor Emeritus of Film at St. Louis Community College at Meramec Diane Carson, and Missouri Film Commission assistant director Andrea Sporcic. CinemaSpoke panelists are TV writer/producer Paul Guyot ("Judging Amy," "Felicity"), screenwriter Richard Chapman ("Live From Baghdad"), St. Louis Post-Dispatch film critic Joe Williams, film producer Buzz Hirsch ("Silkwood"), and St. Louis writer/producer Bobbie Lautenschlager.
For more information, contact Cinema St. Louis at 314-289-4150 or visit its Web site at www.cinemastlouis.org.
He may have been denied by the St. Louis Walk of Fame, however, the Hollywood Walk of Fame has honored Mickey Carroll, along with the rest of the Munchkins. Read on: [CLICK HERE]
posted by Adam Hackbarth | 1:56 PM |
Today, anyone with a video camera and movie-editing software can make a documentary. But can the aspiring filmmaker afford to make it legally? Just a few years ago the answer often was “no.” Now, thanks to a best practices fair use statement developed and disseminated by their peers, documentary filmmakers are dramatically lowering clearance costs -- the licensing fees paid to copyright holders for permission to use music, text, archival photos and film and news clips -- while also respecting copyright ownership.
These new developments will be explained during a seminar for filmmakers that will be offered by St. Louis Volunteer Lawyers and Accountants for the Arts (VLAA) on December 3. The program, which is entitled Best Practices in Fair Use, begins at 7:00 p.m. and will conclude at 9:30 p.m.
Award-winning filmmaker J.J. Hanley of in Kartemquin Films in Chicago (Hoop Dreams, Refrigerator Mothers, Vietnam Long Time Coming, 5 Girls) will show clips to present her “in the trenches” perspective on fair use. Mark P. McKenna, assistant professor at St. Louis University of Law, will address the legal issues.
The seminar will be held in the Regional Arts Commission’s building, which is located across the street from the Pageant. For more information, call 314/863-6930, or visit the VLAA Web site, www.vlaa.org.
The Paper
Aaron Matthews, USA, 2007, 78 min.
Thursday, Nov. 15, 7:30 p.m., Webster University
“The Paper” takes an inside look at the pressures and problems of modern journalism as faced by the staff of a university newspaper embroiled in controversy. Following a year in the life of Penn State’s Daily Collegian, the film features first-time journalists struggling with the greatest challenges to the field: plummeting circulation, barriers to investigative reporting, and criticism of coverage. “The Paper,” directed by SLIFF alum Aaron Matthews (“A Panther in Africa”), is both inspiring and astonishing in its exploration of tomorrow’s journalists wrestling with key questions facing today’s national media. Do you lure newspaper readers by entertaining them or offering them hard news? How do you deliver the news when you are obstructed by wary public officials and misleading public-relations campaigns? What is your responsibility to serve the public interest?
A panel on the issues raised by the film will follow the screening.
Participants include former St. Louis Post-Dispatch editor Richard Weiss and St. Louis University professor Avis Meyer.
Sponsored by Richard and Josephine Weil
Hear and Now
Irene Taylor Brodsky, USA, 2007, 85 min.
Saturday, Nov. 10, 4:30 p.m., Tivoli Theatre
Sunday, Nov. 11, 4:30 p.m., Tivoli Theatre (fully captioned for hearing impaired)
In this deeply personal memoir, filmmaker Irene Taylor Brodsky documents her deaf parents’ complex decision to leave the silent world they had known and undergo a dangerous surgery to get cochlear implants, the only mechanical item that can restore any of the senses. At the age of 65, Paul and Sally Taylor decided they wanted to hear their first symphonies, hear their children’s’ voices, and talk on the phone. How will this operation transform them, their relationship with each other, and the deaf world they might leave behind? This is a story of two people taking a profound journey from silence to sound. The question is, what will they make of it, and what might they gain – or lose – forever?
Director Taylor Brodsky and subjects Paul and Sally Taylor – both former students at St. Louis’ Central Institute for the Deaf – will attend.
[CLICK HERE] to see what The Post-Dispatch has to say about it.
Check out what is in store for Saturday:
St. Louis Directors Seminar
Saturday, Nov. 10, 11 a.m., Tivoli, Free
Local directors – including Jack Snyder (“Ghost Image”), Wyatt Weed (the upcoming “Shadowland”), Chris Grega (“Rhineland”), and Jeremy Corray (participant in “On the Lot” and co-creator of the exciting upcoming feature "Full-Time Ninjas") – discuss the current state of filmmaking in St. Louis.
When a Man Falls in the Forest
Ryan Eslinger, USA, 2007, 90 min.
Friday, Nov. 9, 7:30 p.m., Saint Louis Art Museum
This elliptical, quietly powerful drama follows four unlikely heroes – three men and one woman – as they struggle to make sense of their lives. Bill (Dylan Baker) has never been able to interact normally with others, living in self-imposed exile in a secret world where his dreams offer the only escape. Travis (Pruitt Taylor Vince) is able to reach out to others but bears the guilt for a terrible tragedy. Karen (Sharon Stone), frustrated with her marriage, finds salvation in forbidden thrills, finding empowerment in breaking taboos. Linking them all is Gary (Timothy Hutton), who’s desperate to make a connection, to bridge the gulfs between them. In one defining moment, he makes a startling and irreversible decision that transforms all their lives.
Director Eslinger, a St. Louis native, will attend.
Be sure to head down to the Tivoli tonight, where SLIFF will be honoring John Sayles. Visit www.cinemastlouis.org for more information. Here's an article: [CLICK HERE]
posted by Adam Hackbarth | 1:50 PM |
I would guess so. Read it: [CLICK HERE]
posted by Adam Hackbarth | 7:05 AM |
AICN has this interview up online, regarding his Kurt Cobain documentary. [CLICK HERE]
posted by Adam Hackbarth | 11:02 AM |
Check out this Post-Dispatch article: [CLICK HERE]
posted by Adam Hackbarth | 10:56 AM |
People will be coming from all over! Spread the word! The schedule is in! [CLICK HERE TO VIEW]
posted by Adam Hackbarth | 12:30 PM |
