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LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
Greetings Everyone!
We had a fantastic meeting at Shock City Studios last month where we learned a lot about acoustics and design, music and sound effects and how to get the best sound for our projects. Tim Wagner explained how to get the best sound on set and Adam gave us a real post production examples of how sound mixing changes your film and brings it to life. Chris Loesch really tied the whole evening together by telling us how they designed Shock City to be acoustically unique in many ways, giving us professional sound quality.
Thanks so much to our hosts and guest speakers, Tim Wagner, Adam Frick and Chris Loesch for a really wonderful evening.
I hope everyone enjoyed the warm, beautiful weather in the middle of March. I missed most of it for the opportunity to go to Toronto, Ontario to attend the Female Eye Film Festival where my film was screening. For those of you that aren't familiar, this is a film festival dedicated to female directors from all over the world. It ran March 16-20th and was a most extraordinary experience of high quality films with workshops, seminars and an intimate sense of community.
As an invited director at this festival, I attended the many panels and discussions, where the issues facing female directors and producers were openly discussed and examined. Five directors are chosen every year to attend CAM (Career Advancement Module) in which these women are given the opportunity to be mentored personally by industry professionals.
Canada partners with many different countries in funding film, features, shorts and documentaries and many organizations take an active role in developing scripts, and documentaries for production. There was a wealth of information to be learned and I took advantage of every opportunity. Canada is well known for nurturing talent and supporting it by way of development grants through government and private organizations. Some of our US directors also gave information about Arts Funds that provide resources to filmmakers around the world.
There were many opportunities to ask questions and the directors round table event involved the industry mentors sitting with the directors and personally discussing their projects and needs, as well as answering pertinent questions about advancing in your career.
It was educational and eye opening looking at the challenges and opportunities available from an international perspective.
Upcoming very soon- please don't forget to mark your calendars for Tuesday April 19th, our re-scheduled Legislative Day, we need you all there. A bus will be leaving from St. Louis in the morning going to Jefferson City. Get there if you can, this is a very important day for us and we need all the numbers and individual voices to be heard!
Happy Spring!
Vanessa Roman
MCA-i President, St. Louis Chapter |
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NEXT MCA MEETING - April 13
Have you got a project that you have been working on that doesn't quite fit in with the rest of the world? Something that will have a niche following and you aren't sure what to do with it next?
Well, surprisingly, you aren't alone.
Our April Meeting will focus on Niche Programming, from documentaries and reality shows to web series and podcasts, we'll have a panel of filmmakers speaking about their projects and how they created them and what they were able to do with them once they were complete.
Bill Streeter will share with us the secrets of how the web series - LoFi St. Louis - he started as a hobby has become a success (http://lofistl.com). Bill has been producing media for nearly 20 years, as a fimmaker, a photographer, a graphic designer, and a web designer. "Being creative means much more than just being able to make things look nice. It's having the vision to see if something will work."
Dan Parris is a documentary filmmaker who survived a plane crash in Africa during the filming of "Give a Damn?" (http://www.giveadamndoc.com). Dan is the filmmaker/activist/goofball whose lingering questions about how to help the poor served as the fuel for the film "Give A Damn?" He returned to Saint Louis after graduating from Biola University in Los Angeles with a B.A. in Film Production. He has made over a hundred short films and is currently pursuing the dream he has had for nearly a decade - to make feature films that will have ground-breaking impact in the world.
Our hosts for the evening will be First Punch Film Production (http://www.firstpunchfilm.com/) in South St. Louis. This is an innovative film and animation studio located in the heart of the Cherokee district in St. Louis, MO. We are focused on producing high-end independent narrative and commercial work.
DATE: Wednesday, April 13, 2011
TIME: 6:30pm Networking, 7pm Meeting begins
PLACE:
First Punch Film Studio
3407 South Jefferson Avenue
Saint Louis, MO 63118
(314) 884-8004
COST:
MCA members - FREE (how to become a member)
Non-members - $10
Students with valid ID - $5
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PRODUCTION NOTES
News from the MO Film Commission... The 2011 True/False Film Festival takes over Columbia this weekend and the Missouri Motion Media Legislative Day is re-scheduled for April 19... All this and more in this month's Show-Me Show-biz Bulletin.
More News from the MO Film Commission... The feature-length thrillerYou're Next is gearing up for production in Columbia and there are a number of upcoming film production seminars around the state... All this and more in this month's Show-Me Show-biz Bulletin. |
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MOMMA LEGISLATIVE DAY APRIL 19!!
THE FEBRUARY 1 LEGISLATIVE EVENT WAS SNOWED OUT. But the event has now been rescheduled for April 19th, 2011.
All MOMMA members and anyone who works in the Missouri motion media production community are invited to attend this event. We need production community members from all regions in Missouri to attend. See the Missouri Motion Media Association website for more information and the most recent legislative updates regarding our industry, with details on how to sign up for the MOMMA Legislative day on April 19th. (http://www.MOMMAonline.com)
NOTE: Pirate Media Group is offering "St. Louis Film Industry" t-shirts to any media professionals who would like them. Go to http://www.Pirate-Media.net/store to purchase your shirt -- order now and get your Film Industry T-Shirt in time for the upcoming Legislative Day. (If you are interested in being a sponsor on the t-shirt, please contact gayle@pirate-media.net.) |
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LOCAL DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER ORGANIZING CONFERENCE & SCREENING OF FILM THIS MONTH
by Ann Morrison, director & producer of "The Forgotten Genocide"
Millions cried ... no one listened ... that's what happened to 15 million Germans living behind the iron curtain after World War II.
The Second World War ended in May of 1945 for Germany, but not for the millions of Germans who lived in Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Slovakia, East Prussia and the surrounding areas. The German people who had lived in these countries for no less than three hundred years were to be expelled for their homes and taken out of these countries according to the Postdam conference. This conference was held directly after Germany surrendered with The Big Three, Truman, Atlee and Stalin. The decision was made to eliminate the Germans from these areas and send them back to their "Home Land." The problem was Germany was not their home land and had not been for 7 generations at least. The decision was made and the document signed with one very misleading word. ELIMINATE!
Truman and Atlee thought they were giving persmission for the German population to be moved from one country to another, but Stalin had a different definition for the word. Eliminate gave him the permission to destroy a population, and he had a couple of men who would help him do it.
Edvard Benes, the President of Hungary and Marshell Joseph Tito were right there to lend a hand. They took on the job of sending as many Germans as they could to Russia and Ukraine to rebuild what was destroyed during the second world war.
They chased others across surrounding boarders, put them in camps that were once used for the Jewish people, turned villages into camps, tortured, starved and executed millions -- and it was all done with a handshake and a smile from our country's leaders.
The survivors of this horror have told me of their pain which I made into my first documentary, called The Forgotten Genocide, but there was so much more to tell. I've spent the past year traveling to Europe, Canada and throughout the United States interviewing and researching to put a six-film series together that will give the facts of what happened and how it affects us today.
There are so many topics involved in what happened over 65 years ago, and have been hidden all these years, that I've put together a two-day conference entitled the same as my first film, "The Forgotten Genocide." It will take place April 28 & 29, 2011 at the Viking Holiday Inn in Crestwood Missouri. The topics covered will include Humanities, Nationality, Culture, and Genocide, but encompasses many more aspects of what happened and what has come from it.
There will be an art display from survivors as well as descendants showing what they've lived through. Books that range from biographies to genealogies to historical and political publications will be sold, along with DVD's covering some of the same topics. Two fashion shows will take place showing the traditional clothing of the Eastern European Germans and a new line of clothing that shows how strongly the people have held onto their traditions. A dance performance from a traditional German folk dance group will take place before ending the conference with a dance lead by The Polka Band.
The cost is $75.00 for the two days of everything listed above, including lunch of both days and dinner on the 29th. One day tickets are available for $15.00 each day, but does not include meals or dance. Students and teachers are welcome with no charge with a valid I.D.
You can go to www.annsfilms.com to register and find more information about who I am and what I'm working on now.
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Television Professionals: Join NATAS for a workshop on moving towards a regional standard in high definition TV
"High Definition: Developing a Standard"
Thursday, April 21, 2011
11:30am - 2pm
Clayton Crown Plaza Hotel
Lunch Included
Join Moderator Joe "Mamma" Mason and a panel of local HD experts for this informative seminar.
HD Commercials are broadcast daily, but their journeys are long and twisted: footage is acquired, edited, mastered, compressed, transcoded for delivery, and re-transcoded for playback. At each stop decisions must be made concerning HD formats... frame sizes, rates, compression, CODECs and more. Don't miss this HD workshop for Ad Agencies, Production Houses, Broadcast/Cablecast Companies, Independents and all TV Station Sales and Engineering.
Topics Include: What format is best for: production? mastering? delivery to stations? How should I handle audio? How best to send finished files to stations: Electronic, Blu-Ray, Data discs, hard drives, etc. 3rd Party Encoding/Delivery Solutions? How are HD spots handled when passed through to cable and satellite local SD channels?
REGISTER NOW! Space is Limited
$25 NATAS/AD Club Members
$30 Non-Members (discount if you are a MCA member) RSVP by 4/18 to maggie@emmymid-america.org
314-533-2993 |
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