Terrence Malick Retrospective

Terrence Malick is one of the great enigmas of contemporary filmmaking, a shadowy figure whose towering reputation rests almost entirely on a pair of near-perfect features released a generation ago. A visual stylist beyond compare, Malick emerged during the golden era of 1970s American movie-making, bringing to the screen a dreamlike, ethereal beauty countered by elliptical, ironic storytelling; resonant and mythic, his films illuminated themes of love and death with rare mastery, their indelible images distinguished by economy and precision. - Mubi.com


Location:

UCF Film Department
Screening Room | NSC-145
4000 Central Florida Blvd, Communications Building, Room 145
Orlando, FL 32819

Screening:

	Tuesday, May 24 · 7:00pm - 10:30pm "Badlands" (1973) | HD Video | 94mins Written & Directed By Terrence Malick RSVP on Facebook Thursday, May 26 · 7:00pm - 10:30pm  "Days of Heaven" (1978) | HD Video | 94mins Written & Directed By Terrence Malick  RSVP on Facebook Tuesday, May 31 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm "The Thin Red Line" (1998) | HD Video | 170mins Written & Directed By Terrence Malick RSVP on Facebook Thursday, June 2 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm "The New World" | HD Video | 172mins (The Extended Cut Edition) Written & Directed By Terrence Malick RSVP on Facebook All of this leads up to a group outing to watch the release of Malick's newest film "The Tree of Life." Location: Enzian Theater 1300 South Orlando Avenue Maitland, FL 32751 Screening: Friday, June 17 · TBD (Most likely 7:00pm - 10:00pm) "The Tree of Life" (2011) Written & Directed By Terrence Malick
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Teaneck International Film Festival: Call for Submissions

The Teaneck International Film Festival, a project of the Puffin Foundation has announced it is accepting submissions for this year's festival, scheduled for November 11 to 13 in Teaneck, NJ.

Please visit this link for more information.  http://www.teaneckfilmfestival.org/

Blog About Filmmaking in Hollywood

Reality TV Winner Launches Video Blog About Filmmaking in Hollywood

Los Angeles, CA – May 13, 2011 - Will Bigham, reality TV star and graduate of the FSU film program, is participating in the launch of a new platform for smart phones.   VMS, which stands for “Video Messaging Service”, is a free app available through the App Store and Android Market.  It allows consumers to share video through a simple application that works in the same way as a text message. 

Will Bigham won “On the Lot”, a Dreamworks Television/Mark Burnett reality TV competition for film directors, in 2007.  Since then he has had a development deal at both Dreamworks and Paramount.  But opportunities to direct have been elusive.  “It’s an interesting business,” says Bigham.  “But if I want Hollywood to take me seriously as a director, then I’m just going to have to make it happen.”  Through his production company, Shamrock Motion Pictures, Bigham has written an independent feature film called “Stories”, for which he is currently seeking funding.

The VMS video blogs are a way for the general public to get a peak into Will’s world.  Once someone subscribes to the Will Bigham video blog, they can expect to receive a video a week sent directly to their phone.  The theme of these videos is, “Making an Independent Film in Hollywood” in which Bigham plans to show the trials and tribulations of getting his independent film made from start to finish.   

You can download the free VMS app from either the App Store or Android Market.  Unfortunately these blogs are exclusive to the VMS platform, so if you don’t have a smart phone, you are out of the loop – for now.  “I hope to put these videos on my production company webpage eventually,” says Bigham.  But for now they remain a part of the rapidly increasing smart phone technology. 

To learn more about Will Bigham and view the films he made as part of “On the Lot”, visit his company website at ShamrockMotionPictures.com.

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If you’d like more information about this topic or to schedule an interview with Will Bigham, please contact Catherine Gray at email catgray@shamrockmotionpictures.com.

BFA Films Hit Fests

BFA student Jon Perez will see two of his films screened at Festivals this summer!


Cherry Kino Super 8 Film Festival- Leeds, West Yorkshire United Kingdom

You Can Never Hurt Me – dir. Jon Perez / USA / 2011 / 3 mins 30 secs
Like film, the canopies of trees are surfaces ravaged by light breaking through the cracks. Shot while continuously spinning on a single piece of Ektachrome, the film relieves the viewer from the representational aspect of photographing a forest. The trees persist in attracting our imaginations, creating a new vision for new eyes.



13TH ANNUAL ARTSFEST FILM FESTIVAL, MAY 27-30th, 2011

"When My Eyes are Closed" by Jon Perez (7m, U S A, 2011)
-A handmade pinhole lens and a digital camera capture a series of vignettes of an unlikely love triangle that takes place over the course of a Florida summer.

Schlow All TIE'D up in Russia

Attention MFAs! Micro-Budget Film Festival

The Garden Theater is pleased to announce the inaugural Micro-Budget Film Festival, February 2-5, 2012.  This niche film festival will showcase dramatic feature length films on the cutting edge of creative filmmaking, all of which will have been produced for $100,000 or less.

 

Film submissions will be accepted beginning June 1 through October 31, 2011.  In this inaugural year the festival will only be accepting narrative feature length films (between 70-110 minutes) and will not be accepting documentaries or short films.  Filmmakers can find more information on submission requirements at microbudgetfilmfest.org, and starting June 1, will be able to submit their films through withoutabox.com. 

 

For more information on the Micro-Budget Film Festival, please contact Festival Producer Chris Blanc at chris@gardentheatre.org.

Nils Interview on MFA Project

Nils Taranger did a radio interview with the Stonewall Archive about his MFA project this week and has already started receiving donations via Kickstarter. Listen here.Hide all

Grips/Production Assistants, Studio Crew and ENG/Field Camera Operators needed at UCFTV

LOCAL ONLY:

UCFTV, the University of Central Florida's PBS-Affiliated TV station, is looking for Production Crew for its upcoming season of shows.

Starting in August 2011 UCFTV will need:

- Studio Camera Operators

- Studio Sound Operators

- Multi-Camera Field Operators

- ENG Camera Operators/Editor

- Production Assistants/Grips

- Studio Set-up/Breakdown Crew

Local students who have qualifying experience may apply for the positions of PA/Grip, Studio setup/Breakdown and Studio Cam Operator.

Highly experienced students who have professional experience may apply for Multi-Camera Field Operator.

Professionals who have qualifying experience may apply for any position.

Compensation will be based on position, experience and project. Positions are for occasional employment and are on an as needed basis. 

Local applicants please apply with resume, cover letter and demo reel, if available, to Benjamin Jaffe, UCFTV Production/Operations Manager, at bjaffe@ucf.edu

Applicants beyond 75 miles will not be considered.

Internships are also available to college student looking to get more experience in the broadcast television industry. Students must receive college credit and work 12 hours per week. For more info about UCFTV internships, go to www.ucf.tv/about/internships.asp

UCFTV is a full-service video communications unit of UCF Strategy, Marketing, Communications, and Admissions. The UCFTV staff is comprised of video producers, writers, graphic designers, on-camera talent and programming distribution professionals.  To learn more about UCFTV, visit www.ucf.tv or check us out on Brighthouse Network Channel 1, Comcast Channel 205 and over the air at 68-2.

--Benjamin Jaffe--

Broadcast Production Coordinator 

Production/Operations Manager

Editor/Videographer/Producer

UCF TV, University of Central Florida 

Email: bjaffe@ucf.edu

Office: (407) 823-1706

Cell: (954) 347-0685

Website: www.ucf.tv

Support Less Lost on Kickstarter!

Less Lost, an independent feature film from Daytona Beach, Florida is in its final stages of pre-production.


Writing a script and assembling a worthy crew is only half the battle of the independent filmmaker. The other half is the financial struggle of funding the film to ensure it gets made. The crew from the independent Daytona Beach based film Less Lost knows this struggle all too well.

In order to gain the project more funding and recognition, the film’s producers have utilized a core group of social networking sites. A donation page was established through Kickstarter.com – a fundraising site for creative projects – and has been promoted it through the film’s Facebook and Twitter pages over the last 50 days. Less Lost’s fundraising goal is to raise $2,500, all of which would go directly into the film’s production budget.

The Less Lost Kickstarter page has found $1,665 pledged thus far with little over 65 hours left. If the entire goal of $2,500 is not met, none of the pledged money will be sent to the film.
Less Lost is a film about is the story of a young man in his late 20’s who was critically injured while serving in the U.S. Special Forces, and is medically retired. Although his physical injuries are healing with time, the physiological effects associated with combat related post-traumatic stress only worsen. When his condition becomes a threat to his wife and child, he is faced with an ultimatum; get better or lose them.

To find out more information or to make a donation to Less Lost, please visit the film’s website lesslostmovie.com.

Unique Scholarships!

Nathaniel James at Mozilla is running the first of a series of great contests for unique scholarships, interesting to anyone (including but not limited to students!) who wants to stretch their minds around the problem of using video to do news better. They'll get to spend a year embedded with major news media working on the problem with brilliant people. Below are the specifics.

The Knight-Mozilla News Technology PartnershipPartnership has launched the first in a series
of open innovation challenges intended to help us find talented people who care about the future of journalism. By entering the challenge, students will become eligible for an online Learning Lab, where they will encounter leaders in journalism innovation and cutting edge web technology and for a free trip to Berlin for a 3 day hackfest, where they will work together to develop their ideas into prototypes. Simply entering will gain students the attention of our great review panel, a mix of leading journalism and tech minds.


5 participants will become Knight-Mozilla News Technology Fellows, a paid opportunity to work with the tech teams and journalists at the Al Jazeera, BBC, Boston.com, the Guardian and Zeit Online to bring their news tech ideas to market.


This is a great opportunity for students to test their ideas in the real world and earn a great job. For more information please contact:

Pat Aufderheide, University Professor and Director
Center for Social Media, School of Communication
American University
3201 New Mexico Av. NW, #330
Washington, DC 20016-8080
www.centerforsocialmedia.org
paufder@american.edu
202-643-5356