Creator of NBA Jam Speaking at UCF's Center For Emerging Media

Creator of NBA Jam Speaking at UCF's Center For Emerging Media Sept. 30

Veteran game-developer Mark Turmell will be doing a presentation at 1:30p.m. on Sept. 30 at UCF's Center For Emerging Media. Turmell, now senior creative director at Electronic Arts' Tiburon Studio in Maitland, is revered for developing many iconic games including Smash TV, NFL Blitz, NBA Jam and NBA Ballers. The topic of his presentation is "Free Your Mind - How are we going to monetize video games in the future?"

UCF Film Presents the First Annual Fall Showcase: A Retrospective of UCF Film Shorts

Join us for a look at short films from UCF’s past and present. These undergrad films will open you to the world of micro-budget and short filmmaking. Many of these films have enjoyed success at Film Festivals around the world. Free.

Home Movie Day is Back!

Home Movie Day is back! UCF Film, in partnership with the UCF Library, the UCF History Department, the Cultural Heritage Alliance, and RICHES of Central Florida, is hosting the nationally recognized celebration of 8mm, Super 8mm, and 16mm home movies for its third year in a row. Come screen your old home movies with us, or enjoy watching those of others from the community. Bring your films to be cleaned, repaired and screened. Free DVD transfers will be offered to those who donate their films to the UCF Home Movie Archive. Don’t have any films? Join us for the fun and free popcorn at this unique and special event. All ages welcome. Free.

Congratulations Professor Jones!

Associate Professor Bob Jones' film "No Expectations", is being screened Oct. 15 at the Marabella Int. Film Festival in Spain. Also, another Jones' film, "Unknown Soldier" is being screened Oct. 29th at Kerry International Film Festival, Ireland. It was also screened at New Filmmakers in NYC last month.

UCF MFA Student Sam Torres Recently Interviewed

Recently Sam Torres, UCF MFA student, was interviewed for a feature article for West Orlando News Online.

Read the Full Interview here.

Capstone Productions Are Looking For Crew

These Capstone films are looking for crew. Contact the producer (or director, if no producer listed) to get details:

Director: Brent Buffington

(813) 598-7200

brentbuff@gmail.com

Producer: Meg Wechter

(201) 452-3183

mwechter0289@aol.com

Co-Producer: Lauren Stockner

(941) 704-6521

lestockner@yahoo.com

Title: "Cross Reference"

Description: What happens after hours at the public library? An all out nerf war between the librarians. New employee Zach breaks into the madness while trying to dodge darts.

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Director: Lindsay Garvin

(321) 279-2165

filmfreak82@gmail.com

Producer: Meg Wechter

(201) 452-3183

mwechter0289@aol.com

Title: "Bubblegum Smackers"

Description: A child's imagination depicted in a film noir representing a struggle with growing up and leaving behind one's childhood fears.

Website: http://bubblegumsmackers.webs.com/

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Director: Gabbii McIntyre

(305) 753-0609

gabrielle_mcintyre@yahoo.com

Producer: still searching for one

Title: "Abject Love"

Description: When two people are destined to be together, much more than fate must keep them together.

Barry Sandler and "Making Love" to be Honored at Fest

The Florida Queer Arts Collective presents a cross-generational retrospective of

Gay Films of the 80's, a collection of groundbreaking movies that made a cultural impact on society. For its opening night film on Saturday, October 2, at 7:00, QUACK presents

one of the great landmark films in gay history, the first mainstream Hollywood film to depict homosexuality in a positive light, MAKING LOVE. Following the screening will be a conversation with the film's screenwriter, UCF Film Professor Barry Sandler.

The event will take place at 7:00 on Saturday, October 2, at:

The Center

946 N. Mills Avenue

Orlando, Fl. 32803

Capstone Grant Winners!

Alex Boyle took the top prize and has been awarded a 35mm camera package from Panavision, a Grip Truck stocked with both grip and lighting gear from Hollywood Rentals, dolly support from Chapman/Leonard, 4000ft of 35mm film from Kodak, location support from the Metro Orlando Film & Entertainment Commission, processing and transfer from Cineworks, and additional post support from Digitec.

First runner-up Tyson Lindo was also awarded a 16mm camera package from Panavision and 2000ft of 16mm film.

Edgar Jorge has been awarded $500 of production support from the department and has been offered additional support from Kodak and Cineworks.

The entire panel of judges were in agreement that all three finalists, Alex, Tyson, and Edgar, pitched the best presentations they'd seen in the history of the Capstone Grant, so a big congratulations and thanks goes out to all three for competing so well and offering such a strong representation of UCF Film. All the faculty and staff observers present were very proud of each these directors and their projects.

A huge thanks goes out to our panel of judges for attending the pitches and of course donating their resources to our students:

Mike Brown - Kodak

Mindy Bee - Panavision

Steve Radley - Digitec

Suzy Spang - Orlando Film Commission

Jay Robbins - Cineworks

Additional thanks to Hollywood Rentals and Chapman/Leonard, whose representatives were not able to attend, but who've also generously donated their resources to this grant.

Love Your Shorts Fest

Now Accepting Submissions! Regular Deadline Approaching. The Inaugural Love Your Shorts Film Festival wants your short films!

Love Your Shorts Film Festival will debut Feb. 11-13, 2011, in Sanford, Florida, a community that embraces the arts – and is now ready to add a movie festival to its art scene. We aren’t like the big film festivals, which we think is a good thing. We aim to treat our filmmakers more lavishly (and with more respect) than your more well-known fests. Our smaller and more intimate feel will make it easier to connect with your audience and fellow filmmakers. You’ll get more face time with the festival staff and meet our judging panel. And your odds at winning an award are increased.

We truly value the time, effort, and resources ($$) you put into your film and your film submission. We realize it’s time consuming and costly for you to put your film out to the world and because we know that we treat each submission we receive with the utmost respect and appreciation.

Yes, this is our first year. Yes, we are a smaller festival. But yes, Sanford LOVES your shorts!

Our goal is to encourage, promote, and recognize you. We want to be a starting point for a lot of up and coming filmmakers – show off your film to the masses and be honored for your artwork!

Love Your Shorts is also looking for volunteers for some fun things we have coming up so check out our website.

Visit http://www.LoveYourShorts.com/?p=1422 for more information on our festival.

And visit http://www.LoveYourShorts.com/?page_id=23 to submit your film.

Or email contact@LoveYourShorts.com if you have any questions.

Art, Cars, & DSLRs

An English mixed media artist is asking for DSLR video contributions for a show he is preparing in London. He's looking for unique footage of anything related to the automobile industry and has turned to the vast pool of internet filmmakers for inspiration. Below [past the break] is the request letter he distributed to members of the Canon 5D Mk II Group on Vimeo.

$20,000 video contest!

=AT&T IS LAUNCHING A VIDEO CAMPAIGN=

Coming Soon

Break out your video cameras and compete for a $20,000 Grand Prize!

Simple changes can make huge differences in our everyday lives -- AT&T's

online services allow you to easily manage your account, pay your AT&T

bill automatically and get answers about your account at anytime without

picking up a phone.

Create a video up to 60 seconds showing how AT&T's online services can

simplify life. The contest starts on September 20th and runs until

December 1st.

To find out more go to: www.att.com/simplify

2010 Global Peace Film Festival selects three UCF Film students!

Three UCF Cinema Studies students — Abdullah Sabawi, Aleksey Siman, and Benjamin Michel — have been selected to participate in Orlando’s 2010 Global Peace Film Festival, and our feature in a new article in the Central Florida Future.

Read more here.

SAG Get-together

Central Florida Member Get-together

The Central Florida SAG office invites you and a guest to our next Member Get-together. Come join SAG members and invited industry guests for an evening of socializing and networking. 

Transformers 3 is seeking Production Assistants!

Transformers 3 will be filming on the Space Coast in late September. Dates can change but the dates planned are September 29-October 5, 2010. The production office is seeking the following positions:

• PAs
• Extras

Send your production resume or information requests to be an extra to: tf3fla@gmail.com. Good Luck!

2010 FIVE STORIES NOMINEES!

After much deliberation and discussion, the nominees for the 7th edition of UCF Film's Five Stories compilation DVD have been chosen:

• "Opus" by Max Rousseau
• "Are You My Mother?" by Jennifer Campbell
• "A Coincidence Of Sorts" by Edgar Jorge
• "Children" by Jonathan Strong
• "Nite Boy/Day Girl" by Christopher Carullo

It was a very strong year for films and many other films just missed the final cut in making this sampling of UCF Films. We congratulate the nominees and all the filmmakers who made such a wonderful array of personal films. We look forward to seeing and being part of your future work.

The Department of Sustainability and Energy Management Needs Your Help

The Department of Sustainability and Energy Management is looking for film students who would be interested in making videos covering various environmental/sustainable topics in exchange for course credit.

Please contact Dave Norvell | 407-823-0970 or 407-823-4039 | Sustainable UCF

Capstone Pitches

Congratulations to Tyson Lindo, Edgar Jorge and Alex Boyle, our 2010 capstone grant finalists.

A big thank you to our panelists for attending and hearing the pitches: Steve Schlow, Tony Major, Lisa Cook, Andrew Gay, Jon Bowen, Jesse Wolfe, Ula Stoeckl, Jeff Lehman, and Randy Finch. All of whom commented on the very high quality of the pitches this year.

Bravo to all of you who participated in the pitches. Good Luck!

Global Peace Film Festival Announces 2010 Line-Up

Program includes 42 films from six continents, K-12 student art exhibit, panel discussions, a street fair and the International Pet Parade for Peace

Orlando, FL – August 26, 2010 – The 8th Annual Global Peace Film Festival (GPFF) is proud to announce the films and events for the 2010 season, set for September 21st through September 26th in locations in downtown Orlando and Winter Park. The GPFF is a celebratory event and a place to honor those who promote global and community awareness of peace and environmental sustainability through the most powerful form of communication in the world today. It draws together filmmakers and filmgoers from all walks of life into a community of people inspired to take action in their daily lives to leave the world a more peaceful place than they found it.

FILM CLUB Presents:

This Thursday, Sept. 9 at 7:30 in the Screening Room | NSC-145 (Comm), Film Club presents a special screening of Mike Nichols' bold, daring study of sex and sexuality - CARNAL KNOWLEDGE - starring Jack Nicholson, Art Garfunkel, Ann-Margret and Candice Bergen written by Jules Feiffer produced and directed by Mike Nichols.

One of the most provocative, controversial films in movie history, this comedy-drama is a funny, powerful, disturbing exploration of male/female relationships as seen through the eyes of two friends over a 20-year period, from college to middle-age.

Brilliantly shot by Giuseppe Rotunno in a spare, experimentalist style, written by Feiffer in stark, minimalist strokes, acted by Nicholson & co. with savage force, Nichols' film shocked audiences when it came out, and remains today one of the most profound, perceptive studies of sexual dysfunction ever put on screen.

Don't miss this legendary classic.

Work With Comic Greg Johnson

Comic Greg Johnson is seeking students who wish to volunteer to produce videos for his Orlando comedy workshop - see below:

We want students to watch the improv workshops, pick characters and scenarios that they want to help write sketches for, and then help get it into standard film script format. Then, we would like to film a few sketches. Ultimately we want a DVD of it, and or put it on YouTube. The student will get experience working with professional actors and improv artists, and a copy of their work for their demo reel. If the finished sketch is sold to Izon Orlando they will get local exposure. If Izon sells advertising in it, they will pay us, and any money made will be divided evenly among the writer's and film crew. 

Student must have own gear or access to gear. Course credit can be arranged if student is eligible.

Contact Greg Johnson if interested at: comicgregjohnson@yahoo.com

See more info about the workshop at the Facebook event page.

Looking to volunteer on a UCF Student film shoot? Here's your chance to get the details!

The FALL 2010 MEET AND GREET brings together the student directors and producers with students who want to volunteer to work on their shoots.

Directors and producers will have information on their productions for prospective crew. There will be contact sheets for potential crew to sign up with the projects, directors and producers for whom they wish to work. You can mingle, learn about the shoots and meet the filmmakers!

It will be set up like a "job fair" rather than individual pitches due to the number of projects.

Meet and Greet Crew Up Event Friday, Sept 10 at 4pm to 530pm in the UCF Film Sound Stage, Nicholson School of Communication building on the main campus.


RSVP on the Facebook event page.

See you there!

UCF Film Goes Mobile

UCF Film is going mobile. After a summer of technological advancements for its nationally recognized film programs, UCF Film is breaking ground once again by becoming one of the first film schools in the nation to offer a mobile web app.

The web-app, developed in partnership with Mobo-Computing, will give UCF Film faculty, staff, students, and community partners streamlined access to news and information surrounding the department in real time. In addition, members of the Orlando community will be able to access the application to find out about special events, screenings, and opportunities sponsored by UCF Film.Through Mobo-Computing’s distinctive technologies, the application will work with any mobile device with a web browser, not just smart phones.

Presage Networks LLC has put out a crew call for its new project La Fleur de Mai

Interested in getting your feet wet in the pool of film and television? Here's your chance! Presage Networks LLC is looking for anything from PA's to PR's! If you're looking for a position to build your resume and get your name out there, Presage Networks LLC is looking for you for its ambitious new project, La Fleur de Mai.

La Fleur de Mai (LFDM) is a web-series focusing on the personal lives of several members of a rising fashion house. Mystery, romance, conspiracy and beauty are all running themes on the show; LFDM is aiming to be a genre-mixing series aimed at varying demographics. You can check out the official LFDM website at http://www.lafleurdemai.net/ for more information. You can even create an account and start talking to some of the cast and crew who are already on-board for the project.