Principal Photography for A Beautiful Belly begins next month!

Candle Fish Pictures and UCF Film are pleased to announce that principal
photography for MFA student Andrew Kenneth Gay's A BEAUTIFUL BELLY will begin on June 23, 2009. You can follow all the behind the scenes
developments by following the production on Twitter
(http://www.twitter.com/abeautifulbelly), becoming a fan of the film on Facebook (http://tinyurl.com/BellyFacebook), or visiting the official
website, http://www.abeautifulbelly.com, where fans can make a Paypal
contribution to the film or navigate to the support tab to learn how to make
a tax deductible donation through the ENZIAN / UCF FILM Graduate Production Fund.

A BEAUTIFUL BELLY tells the story of an aspiring children's performer's
struggle with his own impending fatherhood, and his wife's journey to define
herself in the midst of the immense physical changes of pregnancy. Andrew
Kenneth Gay's past UCF short films have received more than 50 official
selections at film festivals in the U.S., Canada, and Australia, winning 8
awards.

Please join us in promoting and supporting this exciting project.

Behind The Scenes 1: Location Scouting from A Beautiful Belly on Vimeo.

Festival Update

Nick Briz's web based piece animate (an-uh-mit) data was selected for the FILE 2009- Electronic Art International Festival in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Here's what Nick had to say about this piece:

"animate (an-uh-mit) data is a collection of nine sets of data, each a finite number of ones and zeroes, arranged to function a certain way and yet irrationally misbehaving. These sets of ones and zeroes are interpreted by a multimedia framework (in this case quicktime) becoming palpable to the viewer as video files. As such, each is simply a single frame set to loop, which theoretically should present a static image. These nine loops, however, are a different case. When paused we see the frame, but when the frame is looped the image comes to life and the pixels begin to spill over the screen."

Congrats Nick!

Links:
FILE 2009 Festival http://www.file.org.br/

Nick's website http://www.nickbriz.com/anuhmitdata.htm