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Sacramento Video
Industry Professionals
(VIPs)
Meetings are the last Tuesday of every month in the Coloma Community Center
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Film Resource
One of the area's most comprehensive websites and resource guides for local information for filmmakers, crew, actors and outside-the-area producers to get to know our film community better.
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SacCasting.com
Resource Registry for Actors, Directors & Casting Agents
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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
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17th "A Place Called Sacramento"
Film Festival Announces
Winning Scripts Tomorrow
Volunteers Invited to Cast & Crew Call
If you've ever wanted to be part of making a film, be sure to show up tomorrow, May 11 for Access Sacramento's annual "Cast and Crew Call" with our all-local Film Festival "A Place Called Sacramento," now in its 17th year.
Wednesday, May 11
6:00-8:30pm
Coloma Community Center Courtyard
4623 T Street, Sacramento
 This year's winning filmmakers will be announced at 6pm and then volunteer actors and technical crew are invited to volunteer for the movies they'd most like to join.
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Crowd attending the 2014 Cast & Crew Call
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The "A Place Called Sacramento" film festival is the first all-local script competition where the winners automatically get to place their 10-minute films on cable TV, on the big screen at The Crest Theatre with movie credits added to the prestigious IMDB.com on-line movie database.
Actors of all ages are encouraged to meet the filmmakers, do an instant video audition, and leave a photo and resume.
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Director Matt Gilliam, Audio Scott Slotterback and camera operator Dwight Taylor working on 2015's "A River Runs, Shoe it."
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Technical crew of all types are needed. Producers, Directors, camera operators, sound engineers, prop makers, costume and make up specialists, location scouts and even craft services (which movie watchers call catering.)
A flier will be available with descriptions of the 10 films and providing a follow-up e-mail address for attendees to contact each of the individual filmmakers.
After a summer of film making, the 10 films will make their world premiere at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 8, 2016 at The Crest Theatre. Tickets are $12 each.
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Stepping Up to High Definition
Access Sacramento Welcomes
Its New HDTV Production Vehicle
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Access Sacramento crew being introduced to the HDTV Truck Sunday
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Recognizing it was time to upgrade and improve the equipment used to televise local Hometown TV and Game of the Week broadcasts, Access Sacramento received special one-time funding this year from the Sacramento Metropolitan Cable Television Commission to design and purchase an upgrades remote production vehicle .
Access Sacramento staff began learning the new equipment during the weekend, and it will be available to inspection tomorrow during the "A Place Called Sacramento." Cast & Crew Call.|
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An engineer from TV Pro Gear (left), the builder of the vehicle, talks with Access Sacramento staff about the wireless intercom system
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The vehicle itself has a camera platform on top, an auto-leveling system to keep the working space safe, and a generator to power all of the television equipment and air-conditioning when power isn't available.
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Access Sacramento assistant engineer Danny Mondonsa attaches a Fujinon lens for the first time to the Panasonic HD camera being held by Camera operator Bruce Riggs.
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There are two rooms in the vehicle, one for audio and one for video and engineering. The control room features a For-A model video switcher and special effects generators, a NewTek 3-Play instant replay device, a Chyron Character generator and sufficient intercom capacity for both cabled and wireless communication. To see a short VIDEO with Executive Director Gary Martin talking about the Truck click HERE.
The recording system is entirely digital with Black Magic hyperdecks available for both recording and playback of video. The equipment eventually will be mimicked in the Access Sacramento main TV studio and digital media lab for seamless movement of High Definition video from recording to playback on the channels.
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HD broadcast truck and Urban Forestry on LiveWire!
A new HD television broadcast truck and the urban forestry on this week's LiveWire!
Executive Director Gary Martin unveils the Access Sacramento's newly constructed digital high-definition television broadcast truck and gives us a tour of this cutting-edge mobile production vehicle.
For more information about Access Sacramento
Next, Matthew Van Donsel from the Sacramento Tree Foundation will join us to discuss urban forestry and keeping your trees alive during a drought.
For More Information About The Sacramento Tree Foundation
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Access Sacramento Thanks
Donors for helping #SaveQuentin
in the Big Day of Giving
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Access Sacramento crew televises the Big Day of Giving Halftime event LIVE from Cesar Chavez Park
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Access Sacramento used a blitz of announcements on its television channels, its radio service KUBU 96.5 FM "The Voice of Sacramento," and in social media to help raise awareness of its free speech and democratic mission under a campaign to #SaveQuentin, its longtime mascot for the "A Place Called Sacramento" Film Festival, Quentin Sacrmaento.  Under the design of Board of Director's member Ed Fletcher, poor Quentin was surprisingly abducted the night before the Big Day of Giving... setting in motion an awareness campaign including the discovery of a champion to perform Amazing Race style challenges to help bring Quentin back. |
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Over the day, Access Sacramento slowly revealed the true villain, a fictional character named Arnold Wegman, who encouraged champion Hans Everbach (real-life Sacramento musician) to climb rock walls, |
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Champion Hans Everback with Halftime Event Interviewer Verna Sulpizio LIVE during the noon hour
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perform hand stands and race about town in order to #SaveQuentin. In the concluding moments of a LIVE Big Day of Giving TV broadcast from Cesar Chavez Park, Quentin Sacramento was delivered by yellow cab to the waiting flash-mob of dancers (mostly from the downtown Merryhill
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Dancers welcome Quentin Sacramento in a LIVE TV welcome back
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school) whose "Big Fish, Little Fish" dance welcomed Quentin back to safety. We thank our special sponsors for our Big Day of Giving event, including the Placer SPCA, Downtown Railyard Venture, Cook Realty, Skip's Music, The Academy, Hot Italian, Distinctive Recognition, "I Wanna Be" Costumes, Dress Me Well, the Dive Bar, Fish Face Poke Bar, the Sacramento Kings, Stems Flowers, and Sacramento Pipeworks Climbing and Fitness. Thank you to all of the volunteers, social media gurus, and Access Sacramento staff who helped make this such a fun and amazing 24-hour event.
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Michael Ray on Listen Up! Sacramento Next Tuesday
Listen Up! Sacramento is the only locally produced television program designed to provide Sacramento County's undiscovered musicians with a chance to be on TV.  Next Tuesday, Listen Up! Sacramento is ready to entice you with the musical stylings of Sacramento Blues guitarist & singer, Michael Ray! With rasp & grit in his soulful vocals, paired with intense & emotional blues guitar, Michael draws his fans in & doesn't let go. If you enjoy such legendary artist as Robert Johnson, Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker, & Stevie Ray Vaughan, then Michael Ray is the Blues-man for you!
Booking: sacblues@hotmail.com
Web: https://soundcloud.com/michaelray916
Tune in to "Listen Up! Sacramento" at 11pm on Tuesday, May 17th, 2016 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. Watch replays of the episode on Wednesday at 3:00pm, & Thursday at 7:00am.
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Hometown TV Presents "Uncharted"
Cablecast schedule
"Uncharted" is a Contemporary dance concert choreographed by award-winning choreographer Jacob Montoya and performed by the Hawkins Contemporary Jazz Company in Folsom.  "Uncharted" was created to take the audience on a journey down many paths and helps them to look beyond the boundaries they create for themselves.
It shines a light on the unlimited dreams of the future and also relives the moments that define the bonds viewers share as humans when it comes to love and storytelling.
"Uncharted" will air:
Friday, May 13th @ 7:00pm Saturday, May 14th @ 11:00am Sunday, May 15th @ 3:00am
Tuesday, May 17th @ 7:00pm
Wednesday, May 18th @ 11:00am
Thursday, May 19th @ 3:00am
Sunday, May 29th @ 5:00pm
Monday, May, 30th @ 9:00am
Tuesday, May 31st @ 1:00am
All cablecasts will be on Comcast and Consolidated Communications Channel 17 and AT&T U-Verse Channel 14. If you don't have those services, the show can also be viewed on our website at www.accesssacramento.org, at the time listed above
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"Media Edge" special documentary
Cablecast schedule
"Media Edge" will air the first segment of the episode "We Are Not Strangers To This Land: Untold Stories of DREAMERS".
The documentary wass filmed and produced by immigrant rights activists who are part of Alianza, a coalition at Sacramento City College. This impactful documentary shares the stories of local Dreamers in order to humanize the ongoing struggle of navigating their lives in the United States while undocumented.
Sunday, May 15th @ 8:00pm
Monday, May 16th @ 12:00 pm
Tuesday, May 17th @ 4:00am
All cablecasts will be on Comcast & Consolidated Communications Channel 17 and AT&T U-Verse Channel 14. If you don't have those services, the show can also be viewed on our website at www.AccessSacramento.org, at the times listed above
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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.
