Saturday, Jan. 27 -- Sierra Club Film Festival

From the film co-op e-mail. Cross-posting encouraged

Saturday, Jan. 27 -- Sierra Club Film Festival. The festival will
start at 4, with the last movie starting around 9. It will be broken up into
three parts: the 4 o'clock, the 7 o'clock, and the 9 o'clock.

The 4 o'clock showings: 'French Fries to Go'. An award winning film
by Howard Donner (Telluride Mountain Film Festival and Mountain
Film's "Best Environmental Film Award")
telling the story of Charris Ford, "The Granola Ayatolla of Canola."
This humorous yet educational film shows Ford as he travels and
educates folks about
biodiesel in his truck that runs on recycled french fry grease.
(grassolean.com)

'The Vineyard Energy Project'. Tells of one island community's (Martha's
Vineyard) use of solar power. (vineyardenergyproject.org)
'Storm in the Gulf'. When this episode of The Sierra Club Chronicles was
being filmed, Hurricane Katrina was days away from hitting the Gulf
Coast. The episode focuses on the folks who oppose drilling in Gulf
Islands National Seashore.
An eclectic group of people speak out to expose and shame the
Governor (Haley Barbour)
for paving the way for oil and natural gas companies. In addition to
these movies, the audience will also be treated to cartoons by Mark
Fiore. These cartoons will be shown between movies at the 4 o'clock
showing as well as the 7.

The 7 o'clock showings:
'Kilowatt Ours'. Opening with a speech by Dick Cheney, this film by Jeff
Barrie looks at the current energy problems and solutions. He
journeys from West
Virginia coal mines to solar panel fields in Florida and discusses
conservation at home and the use of clean renewable energy.
(kilowattours.org)

Narrated by Cameron Diaz, 'Powershift' discusses how energy affects
the lives of people across the world. Architect William McDonough
(who was named "Hero
for the Planet" by Time Magazine) discusses global warming and steps
that people
can take personally to help reduce it.

The 9 o'clock showing:
'Earth to America'. A star-studded comedy aired on TBS in 2005 as a telethon.
This special was part of The Comedy Festival in Las Vegas. It
features Steve Martin,
Robin Williams, Tom Hanks, Ben Stiller, and Jack Black, among others.
There are sketches, music, and even stand-up comedy. The special,
though humorous, covers
a very serious subject: global warming. Donations accepted.
Credits: Tina Leach
Flying Monkey Arts Center, 2211 Seminole Dr., Huntsville.

 

Film and Video Tutorials. Cross posting encouraged

Found this neat site

“Detonation Films is dedicated to putting the fun back in filmmaking
by establishing a new paradigm between digital media and online entertainment.

And also by blowing stuff up.”

http://detonationfilms.com/missionstatement.htm

Nifty tutorials

http://www.matthawkins.co.uk/index.php?module=pagesetter&tid=5&topic=3

“Movie Making Equipment you can make easily at home”
http://www.softweigh.com/video/diy.html

“The Skypod
A Camera Boom”

http://www.ee0r.com/proj/skypod.html

This is a good concise book

Film Directing Shot by Shot, Stephen Katz.

http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?work=100384&mode=card

This looks pretty cool.

http://www.arclightcinemas.com/(i5fw3zru43q1xhi43vocgkf0)/arclight/about.html



 

Film Co-op_Lost in Light and Dreamworks short film competition. Cross posting encouraged

This is a cool idea.

"Lost in Light is a project devoted to preserving, showcasing, and celebrating films created on the small-gauge 8mm film format.

To that end, we provide free Super 8 and 8mm to video transfers to anyone who asks, in exchange for posting their video to the Lost in Light site and on the Internet Archive with their choice of Creative Commons licenses. In addition, Lost in Light includes articles and features by members of the filmmaking and film preservation communities, video tutorials for making 8mm films, as well as creative work, all with the goal of preserving and championing this important film format."

http://lostinlight.org/about/

"Welcome to your chance to win a ONE MILLION DOLLAR DEVELOPMENT DEAL with DREAMWORKS. Anybody from anywhere around the world can enter (13 and older please), but you’ve got to do it no later than February 16th, 2007."

http://nalts.wordpress.com/2007/01/18/burnett-spielberg-offer-1-million-development-deal-to-undiscovered-fimmakers/

http://www.thelot.com/

Six word story opportunity

Recently a "youtuber" issued a challenge to create a "six word story", I've got two posted you may want to view. Check out some of the other folks stories too, some are very good. Search "Six Word". I found this gives a creative writing challenge as well as a short video production challenge.

I found some "free music" on OpSound.com (Thanks to Jim R. - I learned about the user license music site at a Alabama Filmmakers Co-op Workshop - the workshops are a valuable tool for learning techniques and sparking ideas - DON'T MISS THEM.)

Here's my two SIX WORD STORIES:

"The Too Close Encounter" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqnPUrijRUA

Video Truth With A Twist http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VppSqnfe0_E