WELCOME TO THE OFFICIAL TAKE OF THE FILM COMMISSION!
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TAKE ONE Wilkommen! Berlin comes to Memphis!
April
1st, come enjoy a
little German with On Location: MEMPHIS International Film Festival, the
Memphis & Shelby Co.
Film and Television Commission, MemphisED, and the Memphis Council for
International Visitors!
It's the one-time-only screening in Memphis of
ALLE
ANDEREN (EVERYONE ELSE)...a story of troubled love which won the Silver
Bear
Award at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival. And there's more: Memphis
filmmakers Eric Swartz and Sarah Bolton will introduce their "Memphis in
Berlin"
webisode series. An evening of film and gemutlichkeit (good feelings).
It's all
part of the Memphis-Berlin Alliance for Film, sponsored by the Film
Commission
and MemphisED. Admission: $8 At The Door -- All proceeds to to Memphis
International Film Festival.
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TAKE TWO
Free Film Crew Workshops!
Learn from the real pros: The Memphis & Shelby County Film and
Television Commission/MemphisED and Malco Theatres, Inc. present "FILM
CREW BOOT CAMP: HOW TO SURVIVE IN THE CHANGING WORLD OF FILM."
The
informational seminar is produced by Sundance Grand Jury Prize-Winning
Producer Michael (Mike) S. Ryan, and the seminar is free and open to
film crew of Greater Memphis.
Topics Include: · "How to
Protect Yourself on a Low-Budget Film" · "The Union Perspective
vs. The Non-Union Perspective" (with Mike Ryan, Teamster Local 984
President/Business Manager Terry Lovan, and I.A.T.S.E.-Studio Mechanics
Tennessee President, Two-time Academy Award-Nominee Peter Kurland) ·
"Making Films in Memphis" (A Panel of Memphis Producers)
The
event is Sunday, March 7th, from 12:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. at Malco's
Studio on the Square in Midtown Memphis.
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TAKE THREE
It's a wrap!
 At "base camp" for the movie, A FINE STEP:
left to right, Teamsters Woodsa Tyler and Arthur B. Crutcher, Jr.;
Costume Designer
Meriwether Nichols; Memphis/Shelby Co. Film Commissioner Linn Sitler;
Deputy
Film Commissioner Sharon Fox O'Guin; and Film Commission Intern LaTish
Jenkins
(U of M)
Big
congratulations to all
the local crew and cast who worked on "A Fine Step" (formerly
"Fandango") in February. Hollywood
favorites such as Luke Perry and Armand Assante starred with local
actors Amy
LaVere and Hutchison student Anna Claire Sneed in the small budget
feature film
about the big budget Paso Fino horse breed.
Almost
half the crew were
local on the production that was scripted by Mid-Southerners Dennis
Sonnenschein and 'Doc' Suggs.
The shoot
ran more than two
weeks and it was often arduous with some long and cold days, but crew
and cast
persevered throughout. Most of the shooting was done at "Magnolia
Manor," a picturesque horse farm in Germantown
owned by Dr. Mitch and Nancy Steiner. Some scenes were also shot at the
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TAKE FOUR
New Film Commission website and FilmMemphis TV up and running!
Check out the latest news on the production scene in Memphis and see our
new web series: FILM MEMPHIS.TV at our new website www.filmmemphis.org
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TAKE FIVE
Memphis clients take honors in Streamy Awards!
Congratulations to Commission client "$5 Cover" now nominated for Best
New Web Series and Best Editing in a Web Series for the Streamy Awards.
The
second annual Streamy Awards ceremony is scheduled for April 11, 2010
at The Music Box at Fonda Theater in Hollywood.
To learn more
click here: www.streamys.org/awards/
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TAKE SIX Beat Beifuss as the Oscars enters its final week!
You want to be as cool as Jack, and claim a victory of your own? Then
get cracking: You have one week left to enter The Commercial Appeal's
annual "Beat Beifuss at the Oscars Contest," which gives you, the
reader, the opportunity to win twenty -- yes, that's twenty -- free
movie tickets to Malco theaters.
Participation requires only
seconds of your time: Just go to this link, and make
your predictions for the Academy Awards. And please don't tell me that
you're not going to play because you don't know jack about the nominated
movies, because actually watching the movies might be more of a
hindrance than a help. In fact, seeing all the movies is just the sort
of activity that might cause you to pick Carey Mulligan, star of "An
Education," over Sandra Bullock, for example.
The Oscar ceremony
takes place Sunday, March 7, so contest entries are due by 5 p.m.
Friday, March 5. Good luck!
-- John Beifuss
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TAKE SEVEN Join the Commission for the Sivads of March
Coming to Memphis March 25th-28th. Check out more here!
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TAKE EIGHT 'Fraternity Massacre at Hell Island" on DVD in April
Fraternity Massacre at Hell Island -- in which Mud Island plays a key role -- is coming
to video.
The locally made film - a client of the Memphis &
Shelby County Film and Television Commission - will be released on DVD
April 20.
Here's the trailer for the 2007 film written and directed by Mark Jones.
Click here for the film's Website.
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TAKE NINE 'Losers Take All' shooting this summer
"We were just gonna set it in any town. In fact, the town wasn't going
to be a 'character' at all. But man, I came down here, I had never been
here before, and after the first meal at the Cozy Corner, I was like,
'This is my kind of town.' We realized this is the perfect place to set
it." - Producer-screenwriter Alexander Pope
Read John Beifuss' story in the CA about "Losers Take All," a movie
about a fictional 1980s indie punk-pop band to be shot over 25 days this
summer on a budget of about $1.5 million.
Another of the film's
producers who was key to getting the film shot in Memphis is Mike S.
Ryan, who worked here on "21 Grams" and "Forty Shades of Blue."
Beifuss
quotes deputy Memphis & Shelby County Film commissioner Sharon Fox
O'Guin as saying, "Mike is a real booster of Memphis, and he worked to
help us bring this movie here."
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AND THAT'S A WRAP! for this month's issue of The Official Take! To sign up for your copy, just clink the link below or email sharon@memphisfilmcomm.org.
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Check out Linn's column, "The Movie Lady," in this month's issue of VIP Memphis magazine!
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