Fornax

TXMPA is the acronym for the Texas Motion Picture Alliance which is the leading organization of Texas filmmakers.

One up and coming movie maker is Eric Spudic of such flicks as Aquanoids. He now has his own video store and is a regular wheeler dealer on the Internet.

Consider Yourself Warned.

From the folks at Rogue Cinema:

Hey folks, Sorry about having the new issue up late this month. As
many of you know, we had to put our dog Rocky down last week after he
began having seizures and they couldn’t pull him out of it. So it’s
been really tough for me to focus on anything. That combined with a
larger than usual issue made it really tough for me to get it out. But
here is is…

Interviews:
Mike Conway
Christopher R. Mihm
Rachel Grubb
Scott Goldberg
Paul Kratka
Will Clevinger
Jackeline Oliver

This Month’s Sleepover Girl:
Stunningly beautiful Erika Smith is our July Sleepover Girl.

Articles:
Philip Smolen brings us another fantastic article this month! We all
have movies that delight us even though they are not class A productions
- movies maybe we wouldn’t even admit to liking in social company
for fear of the reaction we’d get. Maybe there’s a cheesy air
about them. Maybe most of the performances are not particularly
memorable. Maybe the director was a famous hyper speed guy like Lee
“Roll em” Scholem or Eddie Cahn. Perhaps the special effects are
really chintzy with obvious wires supporting the monster. But, no matter
what, you like them. They’re part of you now. They’re the movies
you return to watch year after year, decade after decade. As Bill Warren
points out in Keep Watching the Skies, these films help us
“recapture the uncritical receptive reactions we had at that young
age.” You now laugh at the clunky dialogue, you can smile at the
obviousness, and you’re aware of the silliness, but it doesn’t
matter. You still like these movies.

Cary Conley is a first-time contributor to Rogue Cinema. For his first
article, he reminisces about the bootleg video scene of years gone by.
Remember the weeks and months spent tracking down an uncut, watchable
version of a cult genre film you were dying to see? With the advent of
the DVD format, just about everything that was ever committed to
celluloid can be cheaply transferred to DVD. That’s a good thing,
right? Well, maybe not…

Independent Filmmaker Jason Lockard is back! This month he’s taking a
look back at a film that has it all – comedy, drama, romance, action,
adventure, and the best part is, it stars AFI’s #1 Male and Female
actors of all time the Great Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn! So
read on to find out all about that great old classic, The African Queen.
Danny Runion’s mashing up more movies this month! This time around,
it’s Movie Mashups 11: Curse of the Toy Maker. Wanna know what movies
he mashed up this month? You’ll have to read it to find out.

Movie Reviews:
Blitzkrieg: Escape from Stallag 69
Caesar & Otto’s Summer Camp Massacre
Chainsaw Cheerleaders
Coverage
Dead Snow
Depeche Mode: The Dark Progression
Earth Day
Good Boy
Gothkill
Knuckle Draggers
Motor Home from Hell
Remote
Reprisal
Ricky’s Battle Shock
Sins of the Father
Stocking Stuffers
Stuntmen
The Bell Witch Legend
The Burrowers
The Commune
The Forgotten Ones
The Hopewell Haunting
The Plague (Writer & Director’s Cut)
The Three Stooges Colelction Vol. 6
Under the Influence

Book Reviews:
Comedy Horror Films
Silent Mystery and Detective Movies

So head on over to Rogue Cinema (http://www.roguecinema.com
) and check out all the goodness in this
month’s issue. Hope you all enjoy it!

From the Austin Film Forum Yahoo! News Group:

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1. Letter from Jeanette Scott, Outgoing Central Region TXMPA Rep

Hello to Central Region TXMPA members!

This is likely my last correspondence as the official representative for the
Central Region of the TXMPA. I want to tell all of you that I have been
honored to serve as your voice in this relatively new and important alliance
of film industry professionals. During the past year, the Central Region
has raised more money for our cause (largely from the Spaghetti Western)
than any other region in the state! Our membership has grown astronomically
as the word has gotten out. But, we must not become complacent. We must
build on our successes in preparation for future legislative battles!

On June 27, Paul Alvarado-Dykstra & Shelley Schriber will officially take
over as Central Region board representative & alternate, respectively. I
look forward to their input, energy and organizational capabilities as we
move forward in our mission – growing our membership, establishing firm
financial footing, lobbying the legislative body of Texas to bring work
home.

I have spent the last several months in Oklahoma, on a feature film set in
Texas. We are filming here for one reason. Legislative incentives. The
Oklahoma state legislature has just signed into law a bill granting a rebate
of 38% to film productions, and believe me, the studios are lining up and
salivating. Never mind that there is NO crew base, NO infrastructure, NO
soundstage, NO office facilities. We are based in an abandoned department
store. The toilets work intermittently. Next to my desk, the water flows
down the pipe each time someone flushes the toilet. But the people are
lovely, the locations are good, and the community is eager & ready to build
up the crew base and infrastructure to make this a truly competitive
destination.

This story is writ large across the country. Incentive legislation is the
MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR in drawing film production to any state today.
Witness Michigan! They are building one of the biggest sound stages in the
country. New Mexico, as we all know, is now firmly ensconced as a
production destination, growing from nothing to the powerhouse it is today
in a few short years. The main, the only, reason they have been able to
accomplish this is the incentive package offered by the state of New
Mexico. The single purpose of the TXMPA is to change this imbalance. The
biggest lure, the most important factor in bringing back our jobs, is
legislative action. That is our goal.

The TXMPA at large elections begin next week. I hope all central region
members will vote for our proposed slate:

Craig Berlin
Rick Olmos
Jeanette Scott

We want to have as big a voice as possible from the central region as we
move forward on our quest.

Thanks to all of you for letting me represent you. We have made great
strides. Now, we must take the next two years to build our membership,
raise money, establish a permanent office, and muster forces for the next
legislative session. Many people have been out of work. Frustration levels
are high. I have been forced to leave home and family for work. Nothing
does more to change the equation than legislative action. In 2011, the
battle begins all over again. Nothing is automatically renewed. Let¹s all
band together and come back bigger and stronger, with one voice, to insure
the future of the film industry in Texas.

I ask you for your vote, your support, and your time and effort to build
TXMPA into a force to be reckoned with.

Respectfully yours,

Jeanette Scott, outgoing Board rep for Central Region

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CLARIFICATION ON CITY COUNCIL¹S VOTE TO RENEW AUSTIN STUDIOS LEASE

The lease will contain a new clause:

From Rebecca Campbell: The Mayor-elect wanted a benchmarking process for
local hiring to be written in to the final document. We are fully in support
of incentivizing local hiring and look forward to crafting those provisions
with City staff and community leaders.

Subleasing of space at the studios where studio expenditures exceed $50,000
will each be examined by the city council on a case by case basis.
Previously those decisions were left to staff and Soundcheck Austin will
easily fall into that category.

Q&A Forum at Austin Studios next Thursday!

–
cb

³Forgiveness is a way of letting go of the past, of settling accounts, of
doing good, and of moving into the future with hope. This spiritual
practice is the first step on the path to wholeness where anger, resentment,
and guilt are not center stage.²

D. Patrick Miller

Craig Berlin
“Mr. Tapeguy”

Founding Board Member and At-Large Candidate 2009-2011
Legislative Committee 2008-2009
Texas Motion Picture Alliance
http://www.txmpa.org

Board of Directors
SaveAustinMusic.org

http://www.pro-tape.com

Here’s something of interest that came in the email last year:

Obama, the Media, and the Legacy of the Swift Boat Veterans

The puzzle pieces are falling into place, and a chilling picture is emerging:

* Barack Obama’s mentor and long-time minister Jeremiah Wright called upon God to “damn America.” Wright also preached that America deserved the 9/11 attacks, and claimed that the US government created AIDS in order to kill black people.

* Obama worked closely for several years with the former Weather Underground bomber Bill Ayers. Ayers hosted the fundraiser that launched Obama’s political career with his wife Bernardine Dohrn, also a communist and a former terrorist.

* As an attorney in Illinois, Obama represented ACORN, the radical community organizing group that set the stage for the 2008 financial crisis by pressuring banks to make high-risk mortgage loans. Obama later sent millions of dollars to ACORN while working with Bill Ayers at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. In 2007 Obama promised ACORN members that if elected, he would be “calling all of you in” during the post-election transition “to help us shape the agenda.” His presidential campaign paid the group more than $800,000 in 2008. ACORN is currently being investigated for election fraud in more than a dozen states.

* Obama’s primary financial backer in Chicago, political fixer Tony Rezko, was convicted of 16 felonies including fraud, money laundering and abetting bribery.

* Archived documents of the Marxist Chicago “New Party” show that Obama was a member in the 1990’s. His campaign had previously denied any connection.

* In 2006, Obama spent six days in Kenya campaigning for Marxist presidential candidate Raila Odinga. His Senate staff coordinated donations to Odinga’s campaign totaling nearly $1 million. Obama declared at numerous rallies that Kenyans “are now yearning for change.” Meanwhile, Odinga signed a declaration of understanding with Muslim leaders recognizing Islam as Kenya’s “only true religion.” After Odinga’s defeat, his thugs started riots that killed at least 1,000 people and destroyed or damaged 800 Christian churches. More than 50 people, mostly women and children, were burned to death in a single church while men with machetes attacked anyone who tried to escape. Kenya’s elected government was then forced to accept a “power-sharing” agreement with Odinga’s party.

* Obama has been praised by Fidel Castro, Daniel Ortega, and the terrorist group Hamas. Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan says Obama is “the Messiah.”

America’s “mainstream” media organizations have gone out of their way to ignore or dismiss these disturbing facts, protecting the flawed candidate they favor – a man who could not pass the background check required to obtain a basic security clearance.

Instead, they spend their time investigating the life of “Joe the Plumber,” to deflect attention away from Barack Obama’s revealing promise to “spread the wealth around.”

—

In 2004, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth showed how to beat the media’s rigged game.

They took their testimony about John Kerry’s past directly to the public, bypassing the outraged old media “gatekeepers.” And the public found their charges to be credible.

A key reason for their success was the rise of a new American media. A host of bloggers, talk radio hosts and cable network interviewers stepped up to investigate the Swift Vets’ remarkable array of charges against Kerry. They did the real journalism that old media organizations had largely abandoned in their zeal to support the Democratic candidate.

The political movement the Swift Vets spearheaded was the key factor in Kerry’s defeat.

After failing to silence or discredit the veterans, the old media adopted the smear phrase “swift boating” to discourage others from following the Swift Vets’ example. Barack Obama also uses the term, to attack anyone who criticizes his actions and associations.

—

It was my privilege to work closely with the Swift Vets in 2004. I managed their web site at SwiftVets.com and investigated Kerry’s anti-US propaganda during the Vietnam War. My research was used in the bestseller Unfit for Command and in the devastating TV ad campaign. Afterwards, former Marine Tim Ziegler and I spent two years writing the complete inside story of the effort. The result is our new book, To Set The Record Straight: How Swift Boat Veterans, POWs And The New Media Defeated John Kerry.

It tells how an ad hoc collection of veterans and their supporters were able to deliver the explosive truth about John Kerry’s past to the public – despite relentless efforts by the Democratic Party and its media affiliates to silence them. And it tells the story of the long struggle of America’s much-maligned Vietnam veterans to make their way home.

To Set The Record Straight also covers the first great battles in the ongoing war between the old and new media. A chapter available online, Rather’s Ruin and the Rise of the Pajamahadeen, describes how the now-infamous CBS News attack on President Bush’s military service using fake National Guard documents was exposed by ordinary citizens.

National Review writes that To Set The Record Straight is “convincing” and “scholarly.”
Power Line says it “documents the most dramatic story of the 2004 campaign.” However, major bookselling chains such as Barnes & Noble are unwilling to stock it in their stores.

The 400-page hardcover version of the book is only available online. We are reducing the price from $29.95 to just $19.95 – less than the cost of the paperback at Amazon.

Click here to purchase To Set The Record Straight

If you care about politics, the media or the military, you’ll want to learn the real story of how veterans created a political movement that turned the 2004 election upside down.

The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth have disbanded, but their legacy continues. It lives on in the form of increased public respect for the honorable service of Vietnam veterans, tarnished for so many years by the misrepresentations of the old media and Hollywood. That legacy includes an important lesson that was overlooked back in 1971: “war crimes” allegations made against American troops by radical leftist agitators cannot be trusted.

In a time when the right to speak out is increasingly under attack, the story of the Swift Vets is an inspiring example of what ordinary Americans can do – when they are free.

Scott Swett
October 2008

SwiftVets.com
WinterSoldier.com
ToSetTheRecordStraight.com

The Portobello Film Festival is an annual indie film event held at London.

Here is some
great advice for actors courtesy of Suite 101.

Planet Origo is a website covering both electronic music and science fiction cinema.

Here’s a pretty interesting movie review website.

Here is the single most comprehensive Charlie Chan fansite on the Internet.

From No Games Chicago :

No Games Chicago News
Sun-Times rips Olympic bid!
June 5, 2009

ON WHY CHICAGO SHOULD NOT HOST
THE GAMES
Open letter to the IOC [http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/theworks/090402/]:
“Why you don’t want to give the Olympics to Chicago”
Here are links to sites that have articles and research on the games…
Listen to one of the No Games organizers lay out the case against the games [http://www.evoca.com/everyone_recording.jsp?rid=184977]
Vancouver resistance [http://www.2010watch.com/]
London resistance [http://www.gamesmonitor.org.uk/]
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Sun-Times says “City doesn’t derserve 2016 Olympics”
Rick Telander blasts the city’s 2016 bid [http://www.suntimes.com/sports/telander/1608451,CST-SPT-rick05.article]:
There are times when you get sent to your room without
dessert.
Without dinner, even.
This is such a time.
The City of Chicago, led by Mayor Daley and a
vast and tumorous army of aldermen and bagmen and yesmen and opportunists and
spineless, parasitic political-machine halfwits of forms never seen outside the
roiling cesspool of governmental slop-trough greed, has proven itself unworthy
of something as potentially delicious and fulfilling as the 2016 Olympic Games.
There was an opportunity there. But the pitiful stuff just keeps on comin’,
warnings be damned.
Best ever was the city parking meter deal
that gave a private company the rights to all the quarters Chicago parkers can shove
into sidewalk
machines until 2084.
”Duh Mare,” who could still be in office in
2016, and his boys pushed that one through so fast it boggles the mind.
Forget the fact the city took an estimated
$974 million less than what the 75 years worth of revenue was worth. Or the
fact any fool can jack up meter rates and provide meters that don’t work.
The City Council rubber-stamped Daley’s idea
for gaining some upfront whip-out cash.
When the machines didn’t work, Daley said …
Hey, lay off. Does your own computer work all duh time?
The politics of pay-for-play and skimming and
old-fashioned, suspender-snapping, cigar-chomping, big-bellied ”Where’s
mine?” clout is so vibrant and alive and grotesquely arrogant here in Chicago that
it is very
nearly a breathing, slime-dripping creature worthy of a Star Wars-style nuclear
assault.
There there must be ramifications for being
blatantly corrupt and/or stupid.
There must be.
Put on a sporting display for the world in
2016?
No.
Read the full column [http://www.suntimes.com/sports/telander/1608451,CST-SPT-rick05.article]
and add your comment!
NOW DO YOUR PART – TELL PRESIDENT OBAMA NOT TO SUPPORT THE BID!
SIGN OUR ONLINE PETITION [http://www.gopetition.com/online/27838.html] AND GET EVERYONE
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CALL THE WHITE HOUSE – 202-456-1111.
EMAIL THE PRESIDENT [http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact].
Write…
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Hey folks,

This month Rogue Cinema turns five years old! That’s right, it’s our
fifth anniversary issue, and we have lots of great stuff for you this
month!

Interviews:
Hal Masonberg
Brooke Lewis
P.J. Starks and Rodney Newton
Jim Haggerty
Jessica De Rooij

This Month’s Sleepover Girl:
Queen of the Sleepover Girls Rachel Grubb is back with an absolutely
incredible new set of photos for our 5th anniversary issue!

Articles:
Josh Samford: This month marks Rogue Cinema’s fifth anniversary. It’s
been a long haul, and I don’t think any of us are really sure where the
time went. Josh Samford wrote up a nice piece this month with some of his remembrances of how we got started, how he’s developed both in writing skills and in confidence over the years, and how the magazine as a whole has turned into something I don’t think any of us ever realized it would. I would like to personally thank everyone who’s ever written for us, and I’d also like to thank the indie film community for inspiring us to keep going month after month. It’s a lot of work, but
despite the burnout, the turnover in writers over the years and all the
other problems we’ve encountered, we keep going, because we love what we do, and we’re contributing to a community that we’re proud to be a part of.

Philip Smolen: Has there ever been a more excoriated low budget film
maker than Bert I. Gordon? He’s probably had more movies ripped apart on Mystery Science Theatre 3000 than anyone else. And looking at his films with an adult’s sensibilities, it’s easy to see why. Although there were exceptions, the acting in his movies was generally rudimentary. The scripts certainly were perfunctory at best especially the ones that he wrote. Bert’s effects were always obvious. You knew where the hard matte and split screen lines were. Whenever he showed his monsters interact with his cast, they were always washed out and pale. And he showed no subtlety or nuance with his direction. It was all about getting the shot in the can and moving the story forward. He even stooped to cross promoting his films in some of his other films! In other words, he was the epitome of a 1950’s exploitation film maker. This month, Philip Smolen brings us another fabulous retrospective article, all about the films of a man who brought us a menagerie of giant creatures that have thrilled and delight people of all ages for decades.

Jason Lockard: Independent Filmmaker Jason Lockard is debuting a new
series of articles this month focusing on classic cinema. Each month
he’ll take you on a trip in his time machine for a look behind the
scenes of a film from yesteryear! This Month he’s bringing us the comedy genius of the unmatched Jerry Lewis, in the all time comedy classic, The Nutty Professor!

Danny Runion: Another movie masups article from Danny Runion this month.
He calls it, “Movie Mashups 10: Revenge of a New Beginning”. Don’t
ask…just read it. He’s always got some fun mashups for us. I don’t
know where the hell he comes up with them either. I’d struggle to come up with even one half way decent set of them. He’s done tons of these things and he keeps coming up with fun new stuff every month.

Keep upthe great work Danny!

Movie Reviews:
Bleed With Me
Desdemona: A Love Story
Exile
FIDO
From a Place of Darkness
Hell-ephone
J.R. Dada’s Excerpts
MelvinRifftrax: Night of the Living Dead
Rocks & Pebbles & Happiness
Sam’s Lake
Simon Says
Star Trek
Terror from Beneath the Earth
The Audit
The Baseline Killer
The Bloody Ape
The Ghosts of Goldfield
The Nut Stalker’s Revenge
The Ritual
Uptown

Book Reviews:
The Pleasure and Pain of Cult Horror Films

So head on over to Rogue Cinema (http://www.roguecinema.com
) and check out all the goodness in this
month’s issue.Hope you all enjoy it!

Ever wanted to be able to access classic Star Trek comic strips for free? Well now you can!

The 2009 Ohio Independent Film Festival

June 4-7, 2009

Cleveland Public Theatre

6405 Detroit Rd.

Join Independent Pictures for another year of great films by emerging filmmakers!

Some highlights include our special “arts stimulus package” for two spectacular feature films – FREE admission to the following films:

“Actually, Adieu My Love,” directed by Minji Kang (South Korea/USA) on Saturday, June 6 at 6PM

In “Actually, Adieu My Love,” the stories of three different women are told – but are the three women one in the same?

and

A witty and quirky narrative comedy, “The Business of Story,” directed by Rebecca Ormond (USA) on Sunday, June 7 at 6PM

In “The Business of Story” an anti-social professor, desperate for tenure, agrees to pen a book of memoires with her seemingly delusional mother.

“The Business of Story” is presented in conjunction with www.geniocity.com.

Additional festival information, including pricing and full film schedule, can be obtained by visiting our website at www.ohiofilms.com, by calling 216.651.7315 or by emailing t.grida@att.net.

John C. Wright’s review of V for Vendetta. Why does he find this particular flick so offensive? Here is one big reason:

In the mind of this reader, at least, the comic book version was not glorifying bloodshed and anarchy. It did not really take sides. Mr. Moore’s own thoughts and opinions on the issue raised did not intrude on the storyline. The anarchist, a terrorist murder named “V” is hardly a hero, but is, instead, by turns ghoulish, witty, bloodthirsty, kind, kooky and spooky. He does not really stand for anything, and his crimes are as much motivated by personal revenge as any abstract political goal. He is closer in spirit to the Abominable Dr. Phibes than to Robin Hood, a murderer who executes a series of daring and grotesques crimes, meant to terrify only the terrible. The comic was by turns exciting, thought-provoking, bittersweet, horrifying, sad, and tinged with gallows’ humor. Many fans of comics regard it as a classic. It certainly was different, even if not better than, your average funnybook effort. I have not much love for it, and found it memorable more for the crisp draftsmanship of the artist than the self-indulgent arabesques of the writer. It is not bad, but I would not recommend it. But no matter: Mr. Moore’s name is not in any way associated with the movie, and any comparisons between the two, as is typical for film adaptations, leave the movie wanting.

and:

Guy Fawkes, and the film makers, were insane. I do not mean cognitively insane, I mean morally insane. It was as if the conscience was plugged in backward, so that everything abnormal to them looked good, and everything normal to them looked bad. Evey’s discovery of her own inner strength due to her being tortured and reading about a gay person, in the mind of Codename V (and perhaps in the mind of the writers, who can say?) was presented as a type of therapy, harsh but necessary. Only in a modern film would the idea of torturing a girl in order to unlock her inner strength be presented in a sympathetic light, and only by a writer and to an audience that had lost all sense of right and wrong.

In America today, we are having a serious yet acrimonious debate about whether torture and cruel interrogation methods are justified when used against terrorists we hate to gain intelligence possibly to save the lives we love. In the film, the terrorist is using torture and cruel interrogation methods to give intelligence, or, at least, a viewpoint, to someone he allegedly loves, in order to steel her against those he hates. Torture and terror and fear are here merely a method of re-education: brain-washing to teach virtue. To put it in Marxist terms, Codename V was trying to erase her false consciousness, that set of ideas by which she supported the oppressive exploiter class.

Okay, so that revolted me. Not to worry, because Evey has no other plot function and darn little screen time until the boring climax, which I have in such detail described above. So nothing in particular comes of her epiphany.

If you think that this guy’s opinion of V for Vendetta is
off base, then you should read Debbie Schlussel’s take.

Blogger and Internet movie critic Debbie Schlussel recently posted her review of “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian” and liked it for the most part.

Although Schlussel found that this movie was “a little long, repetitive, and rambunctious,” and that the original flick was “far superior,” she found some choice words of praise for it.

For instance, she liked its promoting of American history:

On the contrary, the movie is charming and great for families with kids. It was cute and will give parents an opportunity to teach them about some of the characters that come to life in the movie, including Abraham Lincoln, General George Custer, and Einstein. Anything that can get your kids interested in historical figures is something I applaud.

Schlussel’s review was summed up thusly:

Overall, this is an ideal family and kids’ movie. Fun, great effects, lots of cool characters, and many historical figures about whom your kids can learn something after the movie is over.

Here’s the schedule for the Summer 2009 MMAC Film Program at the Multi Media Arts Center 562 Bloomfield Ave, Bloomfield, NJ 973-748-MMAC Info@TheMMAC.net

FILM @ TheMMAC

FILMMAKERS FORUM – EVERY WED @ 7PM
Q&A with Filmmakers, Fans & more,
Followed by featured screenings…

Wed, May 27 @ 8 pm
LIAR’S PENDULUM

Wed, Jun 3 @ 8 pm
OPEN REEL – FILMMAKERS ‘OPEN MIC’

Wed, June 10 @ 7 pm
NJ MOVIEMAKERS EVENT

Wed, Jun 17 @ 8 pm
THE TWO PERCENT

Wed, Jun 24 @ 8 pm
WHEN FRIED EGGS FLY

Wed, Jul 1 @ 8 pm
DISSONANCE

Wed, Jul 8 @ 8 pm
ALGENY – The Genetic Factor

Wed, Jul 22 @ 8 pm
JUGGLING LIFE

Wed, Aug 5 @ 8 pm
SCULPTURE

ATTENTION FILMMAKERS & FANS
Seeking feature films, shorts, docs, videos, etc. & Fans! all types for screenings
Submissions c/o Film@TheMMAC.net

TheMMAC
Multi Media Arts Center
562 Bloomfield Avenue
Bloomfield, NJ USA
Exit 148 GSP
973-748-MMAC
Info@TheMMAC.net

562 Bloomfield Ave, Bloomfield, NJ
973-748-MMAC
Info@TheMMAC.net

Complete 2009 Ohio Independent Film Festival Schedule :

2009 Ohio Independent Film Festival
Start: 06/03/2009 – 22:42
End: 06/07/2009 – 02:02
Film Production Internship Program

INDEPENDENT PICTURES
OHIO INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL 2009
ALL TICKETS AVAILABLE AT TICKETWEB.COM
OR AT THE DOOR ½ HOUR BEFORE EACH EVENT

WEDNESDAY JUNE 3, 2009 9PM – DOORS 8PM
MERCURY LOUNGE – SPECIAL EVENT ADMISSION $5

SHORTS 1

WALL OF FAME – a Cleveland teen learns that there’s more to his hometown than the famous people it produced.
10:00, USA
Bernadette Gillota & the Film Production Internship Class of 2008

GOKH-BI SYSTEM: “RAP TASSU” – The song is about the roots of Hip Hop, which supposedly started in Senegal in the form of ‘Tassu’.
4:00, Belgium
Ilse Rumes

STEP SEVEN – A man abandons his wife and children when he realizes that he was meant for something ‘greater.’
13:00, USA
Christopher Luccy

ONE WORD SONG – TIME STOOD STILL – music video from their latest album, I can’t be Trusted.
6:00, USA
Rodrigo Orozco

CRYSTAL – a music video and a short horror film. A boy is seduced by a beautiful girl named Crystal who leads him into a horror chamber of addiction and torture.
4:00, Canada
Jason Lapeyre

BATHTUB TO HAPPINESS – Victor and Marie have never met before tonight. But several chaotic coincidences later they both find themselves in the same bathtub. Without any clothes on.
26:00, Germany
Nadine Keil
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THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 2009 7PM
CPT’S GORDON SQUARE THEATRE
ADMISSION $10

WALKING THE RIVER – Journey along the Cuyahoga River in this lighthearted documentary. Join three filmmakers as they travel from Cleveland into NE Ohio’s industrial valley and walk into one of the most visited National Parks in the country.
56:00, USA
Jonathan Shick, Ryan Rodriguez
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THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 2009 8:30PM
ADMISSION $10

THE HIPSTERS – Two aging filmmakers vow to break into the movie industry by their 40th birthday,…or else.
86:00, USA
Mark Wade
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FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2009 7PM
ADMISSION $10

NOT ALONE – In order to save her job as a news reporter, a young woman’s next ‘big’ story is to travel to a small town to uncover the mystery of local legend Jack Prinze.
61:00, USA
Michael Smith
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FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2009 8:30PM
ADMISSION $10
SHORTS 2

SILENT TREATMENT – a comedy short in the style of a 1920’s silent film.
6:00, USA
Jonathan Rothell

SCION – A lonely being searches for companionship and the meaning of existence.
12:00, USA
Michael Rossetti

BIG MISTAKE – The terrible consequences of accidentally leaving your cell phone on.
5:00, UNITED KINGDOM
Daniel Turner

MALFUNCTION IN UNIT 10 – A high school student begins to suspect that her teacher is an alien, and not the kind from a foreign country.
11:00, USA
Sheldon Gleisser

INTERPRETATION – A romantic couple’s brief encounter with several philosophical thugs unfolds in an unusual way.
7:00, USA
Lin Oeding

BOHEMIBOT – A great cyborg harpist, forced to serve as a pilot in the last war on his planet, struggles to overcome a debilitating injury and the loss of his family.
26:00, USA
Brendan Bellomo

THE NEXT STEP – A guy and a girl are on a date in a coffee shop. He wants to take their relationship to the next step. How is she going to respond?
8:00, USA
Michael Allore

OLD GRACE – When Jeff Leland dies an untimely death, he leaves behind a father who, ashamed of the senseless loss, embarks on a road trip to get rid of a painful reminder.
10:00, USA
Nathan Chitayat

PURGATORY – When a man wakes with a bullet in his belly and in the trunk of an old car, the fact that he is already dead, is the last thing he would ever consider.
7:00, AUSTRALIA
Dael Oates

PORTUGUESE MAN O’WAR – a cautionary story for all artists. It is a story of failure, disillusionment, self-deception, egotism, obsession, fear and complacency.
10:00, FRANCE
Lauren Mekhael

THE CAVE: AN ADAPTATION OF PLATO’S ALLEGORY IN CLAY – An adaptation of Plato’s, ‘Allegory of the Cave’.
3:00, USA
Michael Ramsey

NO GOOD REASON – Natalie Merchant has less than three days to arrange and record a song using people who have never met and who are currently or recently homeless, The song was written by a 15-year girl who was homeless when she wrote it.
12:00, USA
Michael Mierendorf

SHADOW BOXING – a psychological roller coaster ride of a short film! How much does our past shadow how we live in the present?
8:00, USA
Dierdre Vertucci

THE CHEF’S LETTER – A successful, married chef is overwhelmed by the unrequited love he feels for one of his employees.
14:00, UNITED KINGDOM
Sybil Mair
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SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2009 12NOON
ADMISSION $10

GLASS CITY – a 30-year-old man’s coming-of-age story that is set in motion by his involvement with an excitable, quirky theatre company
110:00, USA
Cole Simon
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SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2009 2PM
ADMISSION $10

SHORTS 3

THE LONG GOODBYE – four old amusement parks come back to life one last time.
7:00, USA
Angelia Sciulli

BLIND SIGHT – a tale of an otherwise blind man that sees thru the eyes of a serial killer.
5:00, USA
Jeffrey A. Spicer

TAIPEI RUMBLE – In Taipei, three girls aim to avenge their boyfriends’ deaths.
12:00, USA
David Coscarelli

RED & BLUE – a short story about personality and perseverance.
4:00, USA
Tyler Ayres

DIGITAL UNDERPANTS – A manic collage of teenage love letters and exploding hearts.
2:00, USA
Matt Meindl

EVERYDAY – an experimental film completely shot on a camera phone that deals with relationships, loss, grieving, transition, love and life.
7:00, USA
Leigh Wetterau

THIRTY NOTHING – on his 30th birthday, a man realizes that life isn’t going the way he thought it would. He decides to make some changes – but first thing’s first.
32:00, USA
Brent Stowe

WAITING FOR THE SKY TO FALL – Tonight, Dan and Carla are just two lonely people in an even lonelier world, but when two ships *don’t* pass in the night, the impact can be deadly.
8:00, USA
Marc Wiskemann

THERE WILL BE LOVE – Comedy! Suspense! Romance! Shaving cream!
12:00, USA
Michael Haverkamp

RUN TO ME RUN FROM ME – Jacob is a track ‘phenom’ with one last shot to win state, but is lost in a world of anorexia and sexual fantasy he cannot come to terms with.
14:00, USA
Ben Garchar
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SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2009 4PM
ADMISSION $10

RITE – A young girl faces an unsettling ritual.
9:00, USA
Alicia Conway

ON THE LAM – Running from war with nowhere to hide.
96:00, USA
Corey Aumiller
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SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2009 6PM
ADMISSION $10 OR FREE WHEN YOU PRESENT YOUR STATE UNEMPLOYMENT BOOKLET

ACTUALLY, ADIEU MY LOVE – the stories of three young women from different backgrounds intersect. The depictions of the three women represent one unified being in different points of life.
107:00, SOUTH KOREA/USA
Minji Kang
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SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2009 8PM
ADMISSION $10

SHORTS 4

HOURGLASS – Is Time running out for Harold Blake? The elderly clockmaker must use all his skills as a mysterious client presents him with the ultimate challenge.
9:00, UNITED KINGDOM
Rory O’Donnell

A STILL LIFE – A portrait photographer is shaken from his still life when an old girl friend reappears by chance with her family and he is forced to confront his loneliness and his guilt.
7:00, UNITED KINGDOM
Claude Green

A THING OF THE PAST – Alex’s ex-boyfriend….is an ex-gay.
15:00, CANADA
Nick Butler

THE SLEUTH INCIDENT – the story of a forlorn teddy bear that decides to pick up stakes and venture out to experience the world beyond the one he knows.
12:00, USA
Jason Kupfer

HIDDEN HEARTS – Siblings from the Iowa countryside are out on a quest to find their father’s family and the old farmhouse of their memories.
15:00, USA
Caity Birmingham

MULTILEVEL RELATIONSHIP – Kenny will say almost anything to persuade his friends to get involved with his business.
15:00, USA
Andrew Rudd

DEATH IN CHARGE – The grim reaper is mistaken for a babysitter and learns a thing or two about life.
15:00, USA
Devi Snively

MURMUR – a contemplation on memory and landscape.
7:00, USA
Peter Byrne

GOLDILOCKS, REDIRECTED – a familiar tale told in a whole new way.
2:00, USA
Laura Beth Albright

GOING FOR BRONZE – a Las Vegas casino greeter works hard to help an over worked blackjack dealer find her smile.
10:00, USA
Ryan Nelson

SICK – As Brian’s story slides backward through 15 years of therapy, his daughter’s crashes forwards on one devastating night.
15:00, UNITED KINGDOM
Michael Rymer
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SUNDAY, JUNE 7, 2009 12NOON
ADMISSION $10

SHORTS 5

ANYTIME – Four friends are returning from a road trip as strange things begin to unfold.
31:00, USA
Mico Montes

PARKOUR IN AMERICA – follows the leaders of one of the premier parkour clubs in America, Parkour Horizons, as they travel the world to train with the masters of the discipline.
14:00, USA
Craig Pentak

631 – the exploration of 4 generations of a family that lived in a single house.
9:00, USA
D Jones

THE LEGEND OF MARTHA WASHINGTON – a woman gives in to her faults….and her strengths.
17:00, USA
Nikki Byrd

AREN’T WE ALL JUST MUGGER #1 – Sometimes it’s just hard to find happiness.
3:00, USA
Angelia Sciulli

BEAUTY AND THE BISTRO – Suz can eat whatever she wants and still look like a supermodel – not so for Monica.
10:00, USA
Sheldon Gleisser

IF BIRD OR DEVIL – stop motion animation exploration of nature.
9:00, USA
Jeff Bloomer

NEAR THE EGRESS – Over 800 tintypes, produced in stop-motion time, capture the sublimity and spectacle of the modern circus.
5:00, USA
Antonio Martinez

RENDEZVOUS – Two assassins, one of whom has just botched a hit, struggle to make sense of their existence over a brief phone conversation.
9:00, USA
Cole Simon
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SUNDAY, JUNE 7, 2009 2PM
ADMISSION $10

FOUR OF A KIND- Four different women, each with a well-hidden secret they are coaxed, tricked or forced into revealing… sometimes it’s better to omit the truth.
115:00, AUSTRALIA
Fiona Cochrane
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SUNDAY, JUNE 7, 2009 4PM
ADMSISSION $10

MISS WANAMAKER COUNTY – Three teenaged girls from rural Eastern Kentucky struggle to realize dreams of Ivy League ambitions, Nashville fame and of winning a local beauty pageant.
89:00, USA
Laura Marsan
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SUNDAY, JUNE 7, 2009 6PM / sponsored by Geniocity.com
ADMISSION $10 OR FREE WHEN YOU PRESENT YOUR STATE UNEMPLOYMENT BOOKLET

WALL OF FAME – a Cleveland teen learns that there’s more to his hometown than the famous people it produced.
10:00, USA
Bernadette Gillota & the Film Production Internship Class of 2008

THE BUSINESS OF STORY – An anti-social professor, desperate for tenure agrees to collaborate with her seemingly delusional mother on a book of childhood reminiscences.
87:00, USA
Rebecca Ormond

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Contact: Bernadette Gillota, Artistic Director, (216) 651-7315

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We are offering our own version of an arts stimulus package by offering free admission on Saturday, June 6 at 6PM or Sunday, June 7 at 6PM. Two spectacular feature films for free – just present your Ohio Unemployment Guide and get in free for those two screenings. Donations accepted!

In the Saturday night feature at 6PM, ACTUALLY, ADIEU MY LOVE, the stories of three young women from different backgrounds intersect but the depictions of the three women actually represent one unified being in different points of life. The Sunday night feature at 6PM is THE BUSINESS OF STORY – An anti-social professor, desperate for tenure agrees to collaborate with her seemingly delusional mother on a book of childhood reminiscences. This is presented with the support of Geniocity.com.

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Here’s an example of what happens when you make taxpayer’s money aka incentives available for wealthy filmmakers:

The following invitation was issued yesterday afternoon. PLEASE ATTEND THIS MEETING, if at all possible! We want and deserve answers!

If you are unfamiliar with the article, please visit www.statesman.com and view yesterday’s front page article entitled: “TAX INCENTIVES FOR ‘WACO’ FILM REJECTED”.

Dear Governor Perry, Senator Ogden and Representative Dukes:

On behalf of the Network Austin Mixer (Texas’ largest film industry
networking group), I would like to invite you to attend our next Mixer on Wednesday, May 27th, featuring Texas Film Commissioner Bob Hudgins as our speaker.

Commissioner Hudgins was booked for this engagement on April 23, 2009, with an eye toward de-mystifying the new Film Incentives and how they work.

In view of the article in this morning’s Austin American Statesman, the
subject matter will most assuredly deal with the decision to deny film
incentives for the $30M feature film “WACO”. This decision has ignited the entire film community especially since this has received international negative attention and is detrimental to all the hard work we have all put in to get decent incentives passed.

We have contacted members of the print media as well as all local
televisions stations to cover this meeting.

We would be honored to have you attend as well. The meeting will be held at Mother Egan’s Irish Pub, 715 West 6th Street beginning at 7PM. We look forward to seeing you there.

Thank you for your consideration of this invitation.

Donise L. Hardy
Member, Core Group
Network Austin Mixer
www.networkaustinmixer.com

So they want “incentives” for a 30 Mil. budget movie on a subject guaranteed to make the state look bad. Due to nonsense like this, states should not be in the film subsidy racket.