Community Media - "Sights and Sounds"

A weekly newsletter from your friends at
Access Sacramento 
 
Sunday July 26th is National Parents Day!

We Celebrate Families in all their Forms! 
July 21, 2015 
In This Issue
Orientation Tomorrow at Access
Sound Design at CFAA
Sign Up for a Film Class!
Social Media & Access
Access Engineer Retires
Behind the Scenes Photos
Joe Kye on Listen Up Sac
HS Extras Need for Feature Film
Fire Dance & Banana Festival
VIDEO: Celebate Access

July Orientation Sessions 

RSVP Tomorrow    

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Access Sacramento's next free orientation session is tomorrow  Wednesday July 22 at 6 pm. 

 

RSVP by calling 916-456-8600 ext. 0.

 

Access Sacramento's regularly  scheduled Orientation Sessions are on the 2nd Tuesday and 3rd Wednesday of every month.  

 

Orientation classes are free and open to the public. They last a little more than an hour. The orientation class is also a required step in becoming an Access Sacramento member and should be taken at your earliest convenience.   

 

The Orientation Class gives you a chance to ask questions and to learn about our services and what we provide to the community and our members. We also describe the standard classes, member benefits, and provide a tour of the radio and TV studios and digital media lab.   

 

All classes are on a first come, first serve basis. We hope to see you there!

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Access Sacramento

(Inside the Coloma Community Center)

4623 T Street, Suite A

Sacramento, Ca. 95819

 

Regular office hours are Monday through Friday 9-6. Memberships must be done in person between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.


Capital Film Arts Alliance
Meets Tonight 

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CFAA Meets on the Third Tuesday of the Month at the Art Institute

 

Next CFAA Film Meeting

Tonight July 21 at 7pm!

 

'All About Sound'

with Rob Neely & Stanley Chan

 

Two of the area's best audio specialists

for film and video production.

 

 
For more information visit: 
 

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Community reports from our

Neighborhood News Bureaus   

Click here

 
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  Click  to listen to Access Sacramento's own locally produced radio station.  
 

Summer 2015 Workshop Schedule

 

Click on the image above to view the Access Sacramento workshop schedule


Info for All Things Film
 
  
Website that gathers together resources for Actors, Crew, Festivals and Tips for all as a one-stop shop for everything film in Sacramento.


SacCasting.com
Resource Registry for Actors, Directors & Casting Agents

 
DemocracyNOW
Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman - Progressive news stories from around the world!!

 

Monday thru Thursday @ 6pm & 12am

Friday @ 5:30 pm and 11:30 pm 

 

 http://democracynow.org/  


Donations to
Access Sacramento Help Youth, Health, Community Media

   

 

Access Sacramento is a 501(c)3 non-profit foundation providing low-cost or free radio, television and internet services for Sacramento County residents.

 

Your tax deductible donations support youth and adult training for job skills and work force development, promote health and community news through our channels and AccessLocal.tv, and promote Free Speech and the community voice: Making a Difference, One Voice at a Time.

Push HERE to donate today.

Sacramento Video Industry Professionals (VIPs)
Video Industry Professionals

Meetings are the last Tuesday of every month at the Coloma Community Center, 4623 T Street, Sacramento


The Northern California Filmmakers Coalition  

 

The Northern California Filmmakers Coalition (NCFC) invites you to be a studio audience guest in the television production of  "Sacramento Film Works". RSVP by phone at 916-502-7068 or 916-384-5796 or

by email at [email protected]



Sacramento Adobe Users Group   

 

 

Sacramento Adobe Users Group.

Meets monthly.

 

http://sacramentoadobeusers.org/  


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DW-TV (Watch Deutsche-Welle TV in English) Daily News from the heart of Europe. Plus Arts, Travel, and Entertainment features. Weeknights 5:30 pm & 11:30 pm on Channel 17 and on Channel 18 every other hour.

 

 

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Next time you are in the office, ask to to join the Access Sacramento - SaveMart SHARES program. We will give you a plastic SHARES card. Hand the SHARES card to the checker each time you check-out at SaveMart and they will donate 3% of your total grocery bill to Access Sacramento.

 

This costs you nothing - the 3% comes from SaveMart as a supporter of our nonprofit organization. Once you get into the habit of remembering your SHARES card, the rest is simple. Thanks to you and SaveMart for supporting Access Sacramento.   

California Film Foundation

 

Meetings are always the 1st Friday of each month.  

 

 
 

Stay Connected with 

Access Sacaramento!

You can get information about Access Sacramento in many ways. If you're away from home or cable TV, then watch us live from our main website!

 

 

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Follow us on Twitter

 

@accesssac

General Information

Get the latest on programming, upcoming classes or services, and news about Access Sacramento in the community.

 

@SacGOTW

Hometown TV Game of the Week 

Learn what's coming up on the schedule, the latest about this week's game, and get in-game updates.  Plus, if you send us a tweet during the game, your comment may appear on the air LIVE, Fridays at 7pm on Comcast & CCI Cable Ch. 17, and AT&T U-verse Ch. 14. Replays on Saturdays at 11 a.m. and Tuesdays and 7 p.m.

  

Like us on Facebook

 

Access Sacramento

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Learn about Access Sacramento in the community, information about upcoming classes, and current news and information affecting public access cable.

 

A Place Called Sacramento Film Festival

https://www.facebook.com/ 

groups/343414605740324/ 

  

Find details about the current festival, production news , and the crews, directors and stars.  16th World Premiere Sunday Oct. 4 at 1pm at The Crest Theatre in Sacramento.

 

LiveWire

https://www.facebook.com/g

roups/133349386715657/

LiveWire is Sacramento's longest running LIVE weekly talk show and it can be seen every Wednesday at 5pm on Comcast/CCI Cable Ch. 17 and AT&T U-Verse Ch. 14.  Find out about current guests, topics and see highlights from shows.

 

Facebook Fan Sites

 

"Listen Up Sacramento!"

https://www.facebook.com/g

roups/108782482477651/ 

Fans of Access Sacramento's twice monthly music performance show "Listen Up Sacramento!" offer info about performers, singers, and bands that have appeared on the show including new performance announcements and news from the groups.    

 
  
  Thank you for your support.

    

  Gary Martin, Executive Director 

  Access Sacramento
  4623 T Street
  Sacramento, CA. 95819
  (916) 456-8600 #100 

Kamrouz Nadimi Retires
After 21 Years of Service as Access Sacramento Engineer
   

Our highly respected, knowledgeable, and patient broadcast engineer, Kamrouz Nadimi, has retired from Access Sacramento after 21 years of dedicated service. Highly skilled in television and electronic equipment repair and maintenance, Mr. Nadimi has kept the organization operational for the past two decades. His skill and ongoing training helped our non-profit move from the early days of � inch videotape, transitioning to � U-Matic, and now into the digital age and HD high definition video.

Access Sacramento staff last week in the Production Office (from left) Bhim Kumar-Reyes, T.D. Trice, Elizabeth Harrison, Shane Carpenter, Kamrouz Nadimi, Gary Martin and Carlos Hernandez

Quietly working behind the scenes, Kamrouz not only managed all routine maintenance and installation, he also worked closely with other staff to develop new configurations including the "Studio-in-a-Box" and "Studio-in-a-Suitcase" designs of former Director of Operations and Training Dev Singh. Also noteworthy was the conversion of a used recreational vehicle into a mobile television studio seen around the community for the past 10 years on "Game-of-the-Week" and "Hometown TV" productions.

Kamrouz Nadimi
In addition to his part-time duties each week at Access Sacramento, Mr. Nadimi has been a full time television engineer for KCRA NewsChannel 3. A dedicated family man, he used the extra money to put his children through school. His own schooling included ongoing special training in repair and engineering design from international SONY Electronics Labs. His high level of expertise and problem solving skills have kept the technology humming even during times when funds were scarce and maintenance challenges became more difficult.

As an immigrant from the Middle East, Mr. Nadimi was extremely supportive of the mission of Access Sacramento - to empower voices neglected or oppressed by the privileged and powerful. He is a kind and gentle soul and will be missed for both his technical expertise and for his warm personality.

On behalf of the Board of Directors, the staff, and all of his friends, Access Sacramento wishes Kamrouz and his family the very best. We thank him for his years of dedicated service marked by his many kindnesses to all he encountered.

Tribute written by Ron Cooper, retired Access Sacramento Executive Director.


Making Movies in Sacramento

16th Annual "A Place Called Sacramento" Films Keep Busy
   

It's exciting to see how the winning scripts for the "A Place Called Sacramento" Film Festival are starting to shape up. Here's a sample of pictures from recent production dates.
In Director Kathryn DaSilva's "Focused" extra BillyJean Vollman captures this image of a video monitor during production during production.  DaSilva is a beginning filmmaker who took an entry level video class at Access Sacramento and now has jumped in with a winning "A Pace Called Sacramento" script.

In "Win, Lose or Draw," from Donna Preston, here Trey Van Dyke is on set with Robert Gore, who portrays a lone shark. It's the story of two strangers who inherit more than they bargained for when opportunity and tragedy collide.

One of the more technically challenging films for the 2015 "A Place Called Sacramento Film Festival is "River of Fear."
Here, the crew is setting up to do some test footage in anticipation of needing to do some underwater shots.  Director Axel Ahrens presents a story of two brothers whose river trip may turn deadly when a secret is revealed.

Director of Photography Ian Wynton and mom, screenwriter-director Cheryl Bealer-Wynton have been shooting in and around Sacramento for her story "61 Candles." 

Two other movies, both "Losing Kevin" and "Death of Del Paso" have been shooting in Old Sacramento during July.  Josh Mihal's "Losing Kevin" is a fictionalized story of a Sacramento homeless man who has choices to make, while Phil D'Asaro's documentary "Death of Del Paso" tracks the history of a community.

Losing Kevin
Death of Del Paso








"Losing Kevin" is also soliciting a local band to create an original song that features "Losing Kevin" in the lyrics. Email the producer if interested at [email protected]

For a complete listing of all the film and their stories, visit Access Sacramento's  "A Place Called Sacramento" webpage.

The movies will complete shooting and editing by early September, and the festival is Sunday, Oct. 4 at 1pm at the historic "Crest" theatre in downtown Sacramento.


"Joe Kye"

Tonight, July 21 at 11pm on Channel 17


By Listen Up! Producer, Erika Kjelstrom

"Listen Up! Sacramento" is thrilled to present 2015 Sammies Winner & American Violinist Looper, Joe Kye.  Joe Kye of Joseph in the Well fame, is a multi-talented singer/songwriter & violinist who has managed to take his classical background & turn it into something new & very cool! If you enjoy layered tones & rhythms ranging from such artists like Andrew Bird and Thomas Dolby, to the deeply complex style of Shostakovich, then get in the loop with Joe Kye!

 

Press Contact:  [email protected]

 

Web:  http://www.josephinthewell.com

 

Booking:  [email protected] 

 

 Tune in to "Listen Up! Sacramento" at 11pm tonight, July 21, on Access Sacramento channel 17 on Comcast/Consolidated Communications and AT&T U-Verse Channel 14. You can also watch with our web simulcast at the same time it airs at AccessSacramento.org 

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Local Feature Film Casting Call

Filmmaker Seeks Extras For HS-Looking Garage Band

Producers for a local film production have a unique opportunity for some featured extras with a production schedule in October. 
High School-looking garage band members are needed for a teen comedy feature film to be shot locally.  Applicants who will be 18 or older by October 1, and who have access to or have their own acoustic guitar, electric/bass guitar, drums or keyboard, are needed for a featured extra role in a "super funny" film scene.

The Casting Director notes you do NOT have to be a musician, since there is an official sound track, but says, "if you are, that is great." If you're already part of a local band, this could be great publicity for you or your whole group!)

Anyone interested should send an email to:
[email protected]


Sacramento's Local Summer Fun
on LiveWire Tomorrow 5pm 
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Sacred Fire Dance Company

and

Sacramento Banana Festival

 

LiveWire is bringing the heat! This Wednesday, we've invited the Sacred Fire Dance Company who will have a performance at the State Fair right after our show. Also coming is the Sacramento Banana Festival who is promoting their sixth year of their annual festival.

 

Obsidian Butterfly and Sacred Fire Dance Company is a fire dance and performing arts group that has been providing entertainment for events, parties, festivals, and corporate gatherings since 2003.  Based in Sacramento, California, their shows include multiple styles of dance and music, infused with myth and fantasy to create a unique story told through movement.

 

Specializing in fire dance and light shows; they offer a variety of entertaining options by networking with talented performers and dancers throughout Northern California. With themes ranging from Hawaiian Fire Shows with traditional Hula dancers, live music, to cirque themed events with fire eaters, hoop dancers, aerialists, stilt walkers, jugglers, to belly dance entertainment with colorful silk fabrics, and an Egyptian Snake handler. Their shows are a radiant, exciting, energetic, display of masterful choreography, along with a talented line up of performers skilled at expressing their art forms. 

 

Available for performances of all sizes and types as well as lessons.    

 

  

 

   

Click for more information: Sacred Fire Dance Company 

 

Sacramento Banana Festival is a two-day family-friendly multicultural celebration of the diverse cultures that use the banana as food, held each August at William Land Park in Sacramento, California. The Banana Festival features live entertainment on three stages, a chefs' challenge, line dancing, pageants, a youth art exhibit, exhibits by dozens of local businesses and community organizations, arts and crafts activities, kiddie carnival rides, and lots of banana cuisine.

 

The 2015 Sacramento Banana Festival will be held on Saturday, August 8, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Sunday, August 9, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Festival is located on the Village Green at William Land Park, at the corner of Freeport Boulevard and Sutterville Road.

 

Now celebrating its sixth year, the Sacramento Banana Festival was established in 2009 as a community celebration of arts and culture and as a fundraiser for the National Academic Youth Corp., which serves some 15,000 Sacramento-area youth and adults annually with arts education and cultural awareness programming. In addition they want Banana Festival to be a catalyst to support other local non-profits and their efforts to benefit our communities.

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Join us and tune in to LiveWire! at 5 p.m.  Wednesday, July 15th on Access Sacramento channel 17. You can also watch on AccessSacramento.org The encore presentation airs the following Thursday at 7:30 p.m.

 


Access Sacramento TV Premiere
Speaker Calls for Global Nuclear Weapons Ban

Marilee Kelly, Tri-Valley CAREs, addresses Sacramento about nuclear weapons
Marilee Kelley, Executive Director of Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) spkes in Sacramento at the Sierra 2 Community Center having just returned from a Washington DC trip to learn about the Department of Energy's $1 Trillion spending plan to modernize and maintain 7,000 American nuclear warheads.

The broadcast of the United Nations Association Hometown TV event premiere's tonight at 7pm on Access Sacramento.

Additional replays are scheduled for:
 
Saturday, July 25th @ 6:00pm
Sunday, July 26th @ 10:00am
Monday, July 27th @ 2:00am
 
Watch on Access Sacramento, Comcast and Consolidated Communications Channel 17, AT&T U-Verse Channel 14 and live streamed at the times listed above from AccessSacramento.org


VIDEO  HIGHLIGHT REEL
Sample Access Sacramento's Programming

The variety of cultural arts and  events programming seen on Access Sacramento throughout the year is a celebration of the broad diversity found in Sacramento County.

  

Take two minutes and see what you've been missing:

 

Click to Watch the Video

 

Many of these programs come from our Hometown TV or Game of the Week programs, but LiveWire! and Listen Up! Sacramento. 

Your non-profit organization's event can also be covered by Access Sacramento by simply putting in an application.