Indie Filmmaking Anyone?

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film making? the cameras you guys are using dont even use film as a medium... :P wehehehe... it should be something like... minidv making or something...

no sh1t?! o.O



I hear you don't even call Delata, "delata" now...



you call them KANGGUDS...


god bless the internet

[furecordx]

furecordx: sound recording or post prod sound?

both
wer doin a short film now

[diem]

CALL FOR ENTRIES: Environmental and Cultural Documentaries about the Philippines

As long as there are stories and issues that need to be told about our country, then the film industry has a significant role in brining attention to them. Filmmakers are in for another chance to highlight their documentaries in another film festival on Philippine environment and culture.

For its third year in 2007, the Moonrise Film Festival, the only film festival on Philippine environment and culture, is once again calling for entries for documentaries that reveal the country's rich and multi-faceted culture and environment on the brink of disappearance.

Many of these stories are abstract or have never been documented and what better way to translate and impart them, than to record and display the stories through film. With the success of films like An Inconvenient Truth, which alarmed viewers about climate change, documentaries that bring attention to environmental concerns are not far from box office acclaim.

Dedicated sponsor Ford Motor Environmental and Conservation Grants, will once again host the Best Documentary Award for the film festival with a One Hundred Thousand Pesos (Php 100,000) prize. Ford Motor is one of the world's largest environmental and conservation grant efforts and continues to support environmental education initiatives by the film fest organizer, the Center for Environmental Awareness and Education (CEAE).

The Best Documentary award goes to the film that has effectively revealed and conveyed issues about the country's environment and culture. The films are meant to fast-track environmental education. Subsequently, they extend and sustain this mission if filmmakers have the capacities to do so.

Last year's winner, Boyette Rimban, recalls how the award for his organic farming and fair trade film Wala Nang Tiempos Muertos (No More Dead Season) has gone a long way after the festival. "Awards like this help filmmakers continue and develop their craft and encourage the cause further," says Rimban who later invested his prize for a new film project, jumpstart new research, and invest on film equipment.

He is now planning on working on two more environmental and cultural documentaries. Indeed, by supporting documentary filmmakers, award hosts like Ford Motor extend their environmental advocacy to more opportunities.

More distinctions and prizes are at stake for better production and stories about the Philippines - a country of more than 170 spoken languages and different ethnic groups, the largest concentration of coral reefs and marine life in the world, and with various conservation and environmental initiatives from individuals, communities and organizations. This is our country. Tell our story.

For more information regarding the 2007 Moonrise Film Festival, visit www.moonrisefilmfes t.com , or contact CEAE at telephone number 721-7360, fax number 533-3712, and email email@ceae.org . Deadline for entries is on June 30, 2007. Non- documentary formats can be entered as an exhibiting film.

FOR PRESS RELEASE PLEASE
Sarah Queblatin

Center for Environmental Awareness and Education
7217360 / 09178579489/ 09272197282
sarah@ceae.org

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From ‘industry’ to ‘indiestry’

By Nestor Torre
Inquirer
Last updated 00:38am (Mla time) 01/22/2007

THE MOVIE TIMES HAVE CHANGED in many major ways in the past 10 years:

Local film production plummeted from 200 features a year down to 50. Digital filmmaking has both democratized and saved the Filipino film industry.

Action superstars have all but stopped making movies, and it’s new leads who are coming up with hit movies. Mall cineplexes have become the dominant movie circuit. Ticket prices have zoomed up from P30 to P100 and beyond.

Television has become stiff competition, offering “free� entertainment and most of the stars who used to be seen only on the big screen.

Faced with these challenges, most movie producers have folded up their tents, leaving hundreds of movie workers jobless. Some self-appointed doom-and-gloomers have even held wakes to mourn the “death� of Filipino films.

And yet, in the midst of all the ululation and caterwauling, movies continue to be made, so whose death are we talking about? The death of tired, old formats, maybe. The extinction of the fat-cat star system, perhaps. The demise of quickies and sleazies, definitely.

Encouraged by festivals and competitions like Cinemalaya, independent filmmakers have been coming up with one digital feature after another, boosting the industry’s annual production figures last year to over 100.

In the light of this digital upsurge, the industry’s downward spiral is now officially over.

And yet, the movie industry’s woes haven’t floated away on the proverbial pink cloud of the Happy Ending. Optimistic Furtherance is more like it, but new problems have presented themselves, and must be solved before the coast can truly be clear.

Bottom line

Bottom line: The salvation of local movies lies in economical digital filmmaking, with its fresh talents and formats. Unfortunately, all those plus factors haven’t translated into big enough audiences to support the new movement.

In addition, digital features have been criticized for looking technically inferior, speaking in too personal and recondite a language, and disinteresting the mainstream audience.

Some indie filmmakers tried to solve the situation by “going mainstream� in some ways, but the effect was half-baked and forced. The new “indie industry� has to find its niche by being itself, and finding solutions to its unique problems.

The technical deficiencies need to be compensated for without adding too much to digital movies’ necessarily modest budgets. New leads have to be carefully chosen and built up, not just for talent but also for charisma, so mainstream viewers can warm up to them.

More cinemas capable of screening digital features should be set up in key cities all over the country, so the indie movement can truly “go national.�

Above all, indie movies should offer characters and situations that people can readily identify with and warm up to. Let’s hope these and other changes can be put in place soonest, so the movie “industry� can truly become the “indiestry� as the film times apparently deem it most fortuitously to become.

Online Source: http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/...ticle_id=44744

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Cinema One digital movie competition, now open for submission!

WITH the merging of commercial, independent and digital films in the metro, anybody can demystify notions that the Philippine movie is dying. And for this year, the thriving industry becomes more promising as Cinema One opens its doors for the Third Annual Cinema One Originals Digital Movie Competition.

Spearheaded and produced by the ABS-CBN subsidiary Creative Programs Incorporated (CPI) in 2005, this year’s Cinema One Originals carries the theme Ang Kwento ng Pinoy sa Buong Mundo. It aims to create an anthology of stories of Filipinos from all over the world. Mothers who leave their kids to become nannies to somebody else’s children, men whose ultimate dream is to get a job at a construction site in the Middle East, expatriates who longs to be back home, Fil-ams who wish to know their roots – present-day Filipino talesThis year’s film festival will include entries from interested Filipino filmmakers living abroad, may they be Filipino-Americans or overseas-based Filipinos.

What will further excite them is the increased production incentive and grant for the chosen five screenplays to be filmed, which is now P1 million from last year’s P700,000. Ronald Arguelles, head of Cinema One, is just as ecstatic about this year’s Originals independent film selection. “We’ve adjusted the money grant for the chosen films’ production to augment and cover more filming expenses. We’re also opening the festival to Filipinos who are interested to venture into filmmaking even while their living or working abroad to cover a wider market this time.�

Every entry to be submitted must include a detailed synopsis of the movie’s title, character descriptions, and a full screenplay or script on or before the deadline on March 28, 2007. Entry forms can be downloaded at www.cinemaone.tv and at www.abs-cbn.com.

For more information, tune in to Cinema One, Channel 56 in Metro Manila. Available from SkyCable Platinum, SkyCable Gold, and other quality cable operators nationwide.


FEMINA - Festival International de Cinema Feminino CALL FOR ENTRIES

It's time to launch the call for entries for the FEMINA -International Women's Film Festival. The regulations and entry form are available at our website: www.feminafest. com.br

We'll be expecting all your entries!

best regards y saludos,

Paula Alves & Eduardo Cerveira
Diretores/Directors /Directores

Marcelle Darrieux
Programadora Assistente/Assistant Programmer

Festival Internacional de Cinema Feminino
International Women's Film Festival
FEMINA 2007
www.feminafest.com.br

HOLLYWOOD BOOT CAMP

"Hollywood Boot Camp" is a new reality TV show of Bigfoot Entertainment.

This is an 8-epsiode series which will be shown at a yet to be determined local network or a cable channel. The idea is to send 8 Filipinos in the US (18yrs old and above) to work on a Hollywood film called "Midnight Movie' and at the same time compete against each other in team challenges. One will be eliminated in every episode and the remaining winner will receive $10,000 or $20,000 towards the production of his/her own film and will be offered a contract for an opportunity to work for Bigfoot Entertainment for 2 years.

If you're interested, kindly send in your completed application form, 2 minute video profile, updated resume, CV photos 1 head shot and 1 body shot, proof of Philippine residency to the undersigned, John Paul Carandan, Associate Producer of BF-E. Deadline of submission is on FEB. 2, 2007. You can also check out the HBC website for other information... http://bigfootentertainment.com/hollywoodbootcamp/

We will have a video setup at the gym on Saturday, January 27, 2007,from 1:00pm to 4:00pm for applicants who have trouble in producing their own 2-minute video profile.

Don't miss this great opportunity to have your future in filmmaking with
Bigfoot Entertainment!

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From ?industry? to ?indiestry?

By Nestor Torre
Inquirer
Last updated 00:38am (Mla time) 01/22/2007

THE MOVIE TIMES HAVE CHANGED in many major ways in the past 10 years:

Local film production plummeted from 200 features a year down to 50. Digital filmmaking has both democratized and saved the Filipino film industry.

Action superstars have all but stopped making movies, and it?s new leads who are coming up with hit movies. Mall cineplexes have become the dominant movie circuit. Ticket prices have zoomed up from P30 to P100 and beyond.

Television has become stiff competition, offering ?free? entertainment and most of the stars who used to be seen only on the big screen.

Faced with these challenges, most movie producers have folded up their tents, leaving hundreds of movie workers jobless. Some self-appointed doom-and-gloomers have even held wakes to mourn the ?death? of Filipino films.

And yet, in the midst of all the ululation and caterwauling, movies continue to be made, so whose death are we talking about? The death of tired, old formats, maybe. The extinction of the fat-cat star system, perhaps. The demise of quickies and sleazies, definitely.

Encouraged by festivals and competitions like Cinemalaya, independent filmmakers have been coming up with one digital feature after another, boosting the industry?s annual production figures last year to over 100.

In the light of this digital upsurge, the industry?s downward spiral is now officially over.

And yet, the movie industry?s woes haven?t floated away on the proverbial pink cloud of the Happy Ending. Optimistic Furtherance is more like it, but new problems have presented themselves, and must be solved before the coast can truly be clear.

Bottom line

Bottom line: The salvation of local movies lies in economical digital filmmaking, with its fresh talents and formats. Unfortunately, all those plus factors haven?t translated into big enough audiences to support the new movement.

In addition, digital features have been criticized for looking technically inferior, speaking in too personal and recondite a language, and disinteresting the mainstream audience.

Some indie filmmakers tried to solve the situation by ?going mainstream? in some ways, but the effect was half-baked and forced. The new ?indie industry? has to find its niche by being itself, and finding solutions to its unique problems.

The technical deficiencies need to be compensated for without adding too much to digital movies? necessarily modest budgets. New leads have to be carefully chosen and built up, not just for talent but also for charisma, so mainstream viewers can warm up to them.

More cinemas capable of screening digital features should be set up in key cities all over the country, so the indie movement can truly ?go national.?

Above all, indie movies should offer characters and situations that people can readily identify with and warm up to. Let?s hope these and other changes can be put in place soonest, so the movie ?industry? can truly become the ?indiestry? as the film times apparently deem it most fortuitously to become.

Online Source: http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/...ticle_id=44744

taga filmschool ka bai

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same here bro, im also into indepent films and video editing.dont have formal training though, im new in this site.

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The DC Shorts Film Festival is happy to announce that we have opened the submission process for the 2007 competition -- September 13 - 20.

We have added two new competitions :

- a special HD category presented by Discovery HD network --and with a $500 cash prize and a chance at having your film air on their network!

- a short film screenwriting competition sponsored by Final Draft. Finalists will have their work performed in front of a live audience, and the winner will receive $3,000 to complete their film!

Of course, we still have the General Shorts category (all genres, all styles, all themes), and the Canadian Shorts program which screens at the Canadian Embassy.

This year, we also plan on expanding your parties, events (workshops on screenwriting, HD production), and have revamped the filmmaker lounge into a relaxing oasis inside the theater complex!

Submissions are being accepted through April 30 -- and discounts are available for early birds students and Withoutabox members.

More information about the categories, rules and our philosophy is online at http://dcshorts. com

Thanks, and we look forward to seeing what you have recently produced!

- Jon Gann, Festival Director

2007 San Diego Asian Film Festival Call for Entries

Got film? Then we want to see it! The SDAFF is looking for the best in Asian American cinema for the 8th Annual San Diego Asian Film Festival.

We exhibit films in the following categories:
experimental, animation, music video, short
documentary, feature documentary, narrative short, and
narrative feature.

Important Dates:
- Early Entry Deadline: April 13 ($25)
- Final Entry Deadline: June 15 ($35)
- Festival: October 11-18

Enter your film at www.sdaff.org.

Cinema One digital movie competition, now open for submission!

With the merging of commercial, independent and digital films in the metro, anybody can demystify notions that the Philippine movie is dying. And for this year, the thriving industry becomes more
promising as Cinema One opens its doors for the Third Annual Cinema One Originals Digital Movie Competition.

Spearheaded and produced by the ABS-CBN entertainment subsidiary Creative Programs Incorporated (CPI) in 2005, this year's Cinema One Originals carries the theme "Ang Kwento ng Pinoy sa Buong Mundo." It aims to create an anthology of original stories of Filipinos from
all over the world.

This year's film festival will include entries from interested Filipino filmmakers living abroad, may they be Filipino-Americans or overseas-based Filipinos.

What will further excite them is the increased total production budget for each the chosen five screenplays to be filmed, which is now P1 million from last year's P700,000.

Ronald Arguelles, Head of Cinema One, is just as ecstatic about this year's Originals independent film selection. We've adjusted the production money for each of the chosen films to augment and cover more filming expenses. We're also opening the festival to Filipinos who are interested to venture into filmmaking even while their living or working abroad to cover a wider market this time.

Every entry to be submitted must include a detailed synopsis of the movie's title, character descriptions, and a full screenplay or script on or before the deadline on March 28, 2007.

Entry forms can be downloaded at www.cinemaone. tv and at www.abs-cbn.com.

[dodie]

hhhm... pwede ba ma download ang mga sinecebuanos?

[diem]

Milano Film Festival 2007 - Call for entries

> International Competition

The call for entries for the international feature and short film competitions is open to works of any genre, language, format and
length, produced after January 1st 2006. Deadline May 31st, 2007.

> Out-of-competition season: Colpe di Stato - State (T)error

This side event features stories depicting crimes, injustice and massacres, committed under the banner of democracy, freedom,
security or religion. Terrorism as a strategy of so-called democratic governments. A deliberate, organized, thoroughly planned
terrorism consisting in warfare actions, ban on dissent and slanted news coverage. The call for entries for the State (T)error season is
open to works of any language, format and length, produced even before January 2006. Deadline May 31st, 2007.

> How to submit a film

The website www.milanofilmfesti val.it displays the regulations and the entry forms for feature and short films. For any kind of
information, please write to info@milanofilmfest ival.it.

> The festival

Since 1996 Milano Film Festival has been attracting films and filmmakers from all over the world. It is independent – from the
interests of major distributors, from institutional politics, from money, from fashion, from critics. But it is also dependent – on the
filmmakers' creativity and talent, on the expertise, the experience and the skills of the people that organize it, on the work and
commitment of hundreds of volunteers. This festival has proved that Milan can be a friendly and hospitable city. For ten days, this
festival transforms places and people that pass through them.

> The programme

Beside the international competitions, this year's programme will include again out-of-competition strands and special events; from
the Milano film festivalino (a festival for children only) to Incontri Italiani (Italian Get-Togethers) , from the Salon des
refusés to seasons or retrospectives that feature works by outstanding filmmakers or films produced during a particular period
of the film history. Furthermore, a number of meetings with directors and artists, open forums, workshops and live performances
will enrich the main event.

> Re-distribution project

The same enthusiasm that leads the discovery and selection of films also fuels their re-distribution: all the works in competition are
invited to take part in the film re-distribution project through which the films can reach thousands of viewers around the world – a
project that has involved 15,000 spectators, 100 films, 200 squares in Italy and Europe. Further information on www.ri-distribuzion e.it.

Milano Film Festival
Via Paladini 8
20133 Milano
tel/fax: +39 02 713 613
info@milanofilmfest ival.it
www.milanofilmfesti val.it

Wanted: New producers for MTV Philippines

Hi everyone,

The new MTV Philippines is looking for two producers to work on the new programs scheduled to launch within the next two months.

Applicants must meet the following criteria:
-minimum one (1) year experience in TV production (scriptwriting,
directing, basic editing)
- college graduate
- knowledgeable and interested in music and pop culture
- creative but with excellent administrative skills
- proficient in English and Filipino

Please forward this to friends who are qualified. All resumes should be e-mailed to miguel.santos@ mtv-phil. com or faxed to 8437274.
Looking to hire immediately.

Thank you.

Miguel Santos
Supervising Producer
MTV Philippines (All Youth Channels, Inc)
Phone: (632) 889-5579 loc 6225
Fax: (632) 8437274
E-mail: miguel.santos@ mtv-phil. com