Latin Alternative Music Conference, Anima Mundi 2008, Expo Comm Wireless Japan, Britdoc Festival 08, International Children’s Film Festival, Natpe Div
Latin Alternative Music Conference, Anima Mundi 2008, Expo Comm Wireless Japan, BritDoc Festival 08, International Children’s Film Festival, NATPE Diversity Fellowship Program, are Some Highlights in July’s Media and Entertainment Industry Career Networking Events
At this year’s AnimeExpo 2008, running through July 6 in Los Angeles, Anime Expo® has teamed with Bang Zoom!® Entertainment to offer free voice acting workshops that will give participants a taste of voice acting with insiders’ tips, general discussions and chances to dub with a professional audio engineer. The free summer film fest in St. Louis, Cinemania, shown outdoors on a grassy lot, starts up July 5 running through July 26, and features musicals like festival opener, An American in Paris, that have garnered 19 Oscars among them. CinemadaMare Film Festival travels across the five main regions of the south of Italy with about 150 filmmakers in tow traveling on the festival bus. At each stop which lasts a week the participants, who can be not just filmmakers but actors, set and costume designer, make-up artists, screenwriters and all cinema lovers, have the possibility of both shooting and screening movies and attend seminars. The Latin Alternative Music Conference in New York, July 8-12, is geared towards the marketing of Spanish-language alternative music. On July 9 will be LAMC Music & Film Night at Central Park Summerstage. ASCAP offers a “one-of-a-kind” experience for aspiring film and television composers during the 2008 ASCAP Television & Film Scoring Workshop with Richard Bellis in Los Angeles, July 8 to August 1, whereby 12 selected participants will have an opportunity to record their original composition with an “A list” of Hollywood professionals.
The 16th International Animation Festival, Anima Mundi 2008, will take place in Rio de Janeiro from July 11- 20, and in São Paulo from July 23-27. It will present Competition Screenings, Special Programs, Retrospectives, International Guests and professional workshops. The 2008 Ypulse National Mashup Conference that brings together youth media and marketing professionals from brands, agencies and the non-profit sector to share best practices for reaching today’s totally wired youth, is set to run July 14-15 this year in San Francisco. The Connective Panel Series presents “What You Need To Know To Succeed In The Music Business”, July 20 in Decatur, a series that serves to educate indie musicians on the music business, serve as a networking opportunity, and to raise awareness and funds for the Artist Against Hunger & Poverty Program of WHY (World Hunger Year), and music related charities. Expo Comm Wireless Japan, specialized in Wireless and Mobile networks, Personal Area Networks, Internet ITS, home networks, and other wireless technologies for Japan’s advanced mobile society, will be held in Tokyo, July 22-24. This year’s BritDoc Festival 08 in Oxford, July 23-25, features an International Pitching Forum, featuring a panel of Commissioning Editors and film funders, from the US, Europe and the Far East, poised to invest in ambitious British feature length Documentary.
Casual Games Association hosts this year’s Casual Connect Seattle, July 23-25, and is focused on the casual games industry for the general public and families, casual games are non-violent video games that are fun and easy to learn and play. At this year’s Action On Film International Film Festival – known to be a producer friendly festival – Xristos Productions and Sony Creative Software are offering a new ‘Guerilla Filmmaker Award’ that includes a complete Sony Vegas Editing System and Cinescore Composer Package, during festival events running July 25-31 in Old Pasadena. Yale School of Management is the setting for Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders, July 27 to August 1 in New Haven, at which creative leaders in tandem with Yale’s top business experts discover opportunities within the forces transforming the business social environments. The 2008 San Diego International Children’s Film Festival opens on Kids Day at Comic-Con International, july 27 to August 10, at the San Diego Convention Center, presented by Comic-Con International. The festival showcases films from around the world made for children and teens, including live-action, animation and documentaries. The Third Annual Diversity Fellowship Program @ LATV Fest, taking place July 30 to August 1 in Hollywood, is a NATPE Diversity Fellowship Program now in its third year to provide a small group of emerging television and video content creators of color with the next step in their career development.
In a special request for support from the indie filmmaking and film loving community, creators of ‘The Plague: Writers & Director’s Cut’, a socially relevant horror movie dealing with the subject of kids, violence and fear, are seeking public support to have their version of the film released at Sony Pictures Entertainment which published their version to DVD under the title Clive Barker’s The Plague. The effort led by Director/Writer Hal Masonberg has a petition up at: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/plague/signatures.html as well as names and email address of relevant Sony Pictures executives to contact on behalf of this effort at: http://www.spreadingtheplague.com/sony.html.
The above events are only a sample of what is fully listed. Complete details are on the “Media, Entertainment and Performing Arts Industry News and Events” page. Video and podcast versions of this news summary are also available at most popular video sites around the Web like MySpace, YouTube, Bit Torrent, as well as on The Actor’s Checklist video blog, a great place to get your iPhone, ipod or Apple TV download from. The Free Home Video Showcase serves as an archive for all past video presentations. This month on video you will see trailers and sample clips of A Natalie Paige Bentley Film, ‘City of Motherly Love’, the story of a mother’s spiral into anger and self-destruction after the shooting death of her son. Multi-media, make-up artist, performance artist Damon Zex, deriving much of his creative expressionism from German Expressionism and Surrealism. Dance music record company from Australia, Play Lab Records, featuring new single release, ‘Disco, Disco’. Kentucky born Country music recording artist on Aria records, Stephen Cochran.
The third feature by Cuban director Juan Padrón, Vampires in Havana (1985) is a silly, raunchy spoof of horror and gangster films. Wolfgang Amadeus von Dracula, the nephew of the famous count, invents a formula that allows vampires to endure sunlight–which he tests on his nephew Joseph “Pepe” Emmanuel. It works so well that Pepe is completely unaware of his true nature; he plays jazz trumpet in …
In this third installment of the final destination series a students premonition of a deadly rollercoaster ride saves her life and a lucky few but not from death itself which seeks out those who escaped their fate. Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 09/04/2007 Starring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead Kris Lemche Run time: 93 minutes Rating: R…
A group of college friends on a spring break camping trip are stalked and slashed by an unknown creature with the ability to make them hallucinate through sound waves. The survivors hold up refuge in an isolated farmhouse, cut off from all communication. Now, they have to come up with a plan to kill this unrelenting creature before it kills them. “Banshee!!!” takes the idea of the legendary Irish …
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Eight Films. Five Discs. No Mercy. They comprise the most successful and shocking tales of terror in cinema history. Now, for the first time, the first eight classic “Friday The 13th” movies are available together in this killer DVD collection. Beginning with the picture critics have called the original slasher flick, this collection spans nine years and includes seven additional blood-soaked, suspense-filled sagas starring one of the most horrifying characters ever to wear a hockey mask and wield a machete: Jason Voorhees. It’s a splatterfest of fan favorites that follow the unstoppable Jason as he cuts and hacks a swath of fear all the way from Crystal Lake to the mean streets of Manhattan. In addition, the collection includes a special disc filled with never-before-seen footage and fabulous extras that will slay even the most jaded horror film aficionado! Movie Includes: “Friday The 13th,” Friday The 13th, Part II,” “Friday The 13th, Part III,” “Friday The 13th, The Final Chapter,” “Friday The 13th, Part V: A New Beginning,” “Friday The 13th, Part VI: Jason Lives,” “Friday The 13th, Part VII: The New Blood,” “Friday The 13th, Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan”.<br><br> Featurettes, Audio Commentary, Trailers.<br><br> “The Friday The 13th Chronicles” Eight-Part Featurette; “Secrets Galore Behind the Gore” Three-Part Featurette; “Crystal Lake Victims Tell All!”; “Tales From the Cutting Room”; Subtitles: English, Spanish.
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A typical family burial ceremony turns into a life-or-death struggle with the living dead as the corpses of the recently deceased rise from their graves to feast on the flesh of the living in a three-dimensional remake of the George A. Romero classic. Barbara (Brianna Brown) and her brother Johnny (Ken Ward) have arrived at the cemetery to attend the burial of their beloved aunt, but their grieving is soon interrupted by the appearance of a menacing cannibalistic corpse with an exceptionally hearty appetite. After fleeing the cemetery in terror, Barbara is soon rescued by local college student Ben (Joshua DesRoches), and the pair quickly seeks refuge in Henry Cooper’s (Greg Travis) nearby farmhouse. Though the prospect of becoming lunch for the living dead immediately prompts the frightened country-dwellers to board up the remote farmhouse until they can formulate an effective plan for escape, Barbara soon finds that the zombies outside may be the least of her worries when she uncovers the sinister secret of malevolent mortician Gerald Tovar Jr. (Sid Haig). ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide.<br><br> Audio commentary with director Jeff Broadstreet, screenwriter Robert Valding and actor Sid Haig, Night of the Living Dead 3D behind-the-scenes featurette, Q & A with the filmmakers and actor Sid Haig at the new Beverly Cinema, Filming in 3-D: A behind-the-scenes special look, Theatrical trailer, TV spot and radio spot, 3-D still gallery, Blooper reel, 16×9 widescreen, 5.1 Dolby Digital audio, English and Spanish subtitles, English closed captions.<br><br> Audio commentary with director Jeff Broadstreet, screenwriter Robert Valding and actor Sid Haig Night of the Living Dead 3D behind-the-scenes featurette Q & A with the filmmakers and actor Sid Haig at the new Beverly Cinema Filming in 3-D: A behind-the-scenes special look Theatrical trailer, TV spot and radio spot 3-D still gallery Blooper reel 16×9 widescreen 5.
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A young film student has a one-night stand with an aspiring actress. The next morning, there is a video camera pointed at their bed. But rather than a sex tape, they find what appears to be a brutal snuff movie starring themselves as the killers. They have no memory of the murders and there is no evidence of the carnage. Do the answers to this waking terror wait in the student’s own work, or could the line between reality and illusion slice straight to the edge of madness? Jason Scott Campbell and Nicole Roderick star in this mind-bending shocker that Horror Talk calls “a thinking man’s horror film in the realm of ‘Donnie Darko’. Writer/director Dylan Bank makes a fearless, stylish debut, fusing psychosexual horror and indie auteur cinema!”.<br><br> Alternate Ending, Trailers, Interviews.<br><br> Subtitles: English, Spanish.
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Jacinto Molina’s gory horror film Panic Beats concerns a man who plans to murder his wealthy wife in order to keep himself living in the style to which he is accustomed. He enlists the help of a sexy young woman, but that woman convinces him to commit a whole string of murders. Soon she confronts a force of pure evil that may undo the both of them. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide.<br><br> Brand new anamorphic transfer from negative, Exclusive interview with Paul Naschy, Documentary on Spanish horror cinema, Optional subtitiles, Large still and poster gallery, Mondo Macabro previews.
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A young man who has flirted with death is forced to come to terms with mortality in this tale of terror based on a story by Stephen King. Alan Parker (Jonathan Jackson) is a college student studying art at the University of Maine in 1969. Cursed with an over-active imagination, Alan constantly obsesses over the worst outcome of any situation, and when he begins to suspect his girlfriend, Jessica (Erika Christensen), is thinking of leaving him, it drives him to the brink of suicide. Shortly after this brush with death, Alan receives word that his mother, Jean (Barbara Hershey), has suffered a severe stroke and may not pull through. Alan grabs his jacket and hits the road, hoping to hitchhike the one hundred miles to the hospital. As it happens, Alan is trying to catch a ride on Halloween night, and after he’s picked up by one George Staub (David Arquette), he realizes that he’s riding the highway with a creature not of this Earth. Riding the Bullet was directed by Mick Garris, marking the fourth time the filmmaker has brought one of King’s stories to the cinema or television screen. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide.<br><br> 16:9 widescreen, 5.1 Dolby Digital, Director, cast and crew commentary, Shooting the Bull minifeaturette gallery, The art of Riding the Bullet, Storyboard-to-film comparisons, Trailer, English and Spanish subtitles.<br><br> 16:9 widescreen 5.1 Dolby Digital Director, cast and crew commentary Shooting the Bull minifeaturette gallery The art of Riding the Bullet Storyboard-to-film comparisons Trailer English and Spanish subtitles.
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New – This is the first collection in English to focus exclusively on the various forms of popular film produced in Spain and to acknowledge the variety, range and depth of Spanish cinema. Contributors from across Hispanic, media and cultural studies explore a range of genres, from the musicals of the 1930s and 1940s to contemporary horror movies, historical epics of the 1940s and 1950s and contemporary representations of the Spanish Civil War. The book includes reappraisals of key popular direc
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Used – This is the first collection in English to focus exclusively on the various forms of popular film produced in Spain and to acknowledge the variety, range and depth of Spanish cinema. Contributors from across Hispanic, media and cultural studies explore a range of genres, from the musicals of the 1930s and 1940s to contemporary horror movies, historical epics of the 1940s and 1950s and contemporary representations of the Spanish Civil War. The book includes reappraisals of key popular dire
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New – This is the first collection in English to focus exclusively on the various forms of popular film produced in Spain and to acknowledge the variety, range and depth of Spanish cinema. Contributors from across Hispanic, media and cultural studies explore a range of genres, from the musicals of the 1930s and 1940s to contemporary horror movies, historical epics of the 1940s and 1950s and contemporary representations of the Spanish Civil War. The book includes reappraisals of key popular direc
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New – This is the first collection in English to focus exclusively on the various forms of popular film produced in Spain and to acknowledge the variety, range and depth of Spanish cinema. Contributors from across Hispanic, media and cultural studies explore a range of genres, from the musicals of the 1930s and 1940s to contemporary horror movies, historical epics of the 1940s and 1950s and contemporary representations of the Spanish Civil War. The book includes reappraisals of key popular direc
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New – This is the first collection in English to focus exclusively on the various forms of popular film produced in Spain and to acknowledge the variety, range and depth of Spanish cinema. Contributors from across Hispanic, media and cultural studies explore a range of genres, from the musicals of the 1930s and 1940s to contemporary horror movies, historical epics of the 1940s and 1950s and contemporary representations of the Spanish Civil War. The book includes reappraisals of key popular direc
