In Spring 2006, Anthology Film Archives honored Bill Brand for 30 years of work as an experimental filmmaker and outstanding film technician. He had a series of screenings and a book describing it. For the book, Bill Brand asked Toni Treadway, editor of this website, to collaborate on a paper to help independent film makers begin their own archiving process. A Self Preservation Guide for Film/Video Makers gives a step by step outline of things to do and think about to insure the longevity of your work.
Go visit the great new website from Sanjiban , our solid gold, solo, existential filmmaker friend in the Berkshires. He is streaming clips of his many early Super 8 films for your inspiration.
TO REGISTER OR FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL: (718) 886-8674 or e-mail us at: cine@3eyemedia.com
ESSENTIALS OF FILM PRODUCTION
Everything you need to know to write, produce, and direct your own movies!
A classroom workshop covering: screenplay format, storyboards, directing actors and crew, camera, lighting, sound, editing, and an introduction to Final Cut Pro. The class will examine film esthetics and techniques through examples from the great master directors in order to stimulate your creative vision and to help you to see the world through the eye of the camera.
Saturdays: 4-7 PM
(class meets once a week for 7 weeks)
Workshop fee: $160 Includes production forms such as shot lists, storyboards, script breakdown sheets, etc.
Instructor: Mario Pinzon
GUERRILLA FILMMAKING 1
Write it, shoot it, edit it, and show it!
An intensive hands-on workshop: Learn how to put together a small crew and create a high-production value, low-budget movie. You will be using a Super-8mm film camera and REAL film - not videotape! You will write, plan, shoot and edit an original group-produced short film to be screened at TERRAZA Cafe.
Saturdays: 1-4 PM
(class meets once a week for 8 weeks)
Workshop fee: $320 Includes use of camera, sound and lighting equipment, film stock, processing, cine-video transfer, editing on Final Cut Pro, and a DVD copy of the final film.
Instructor: Mario Pinzon
Prerequisite: Essentials Of Film Production
WORKSHOP LOCATION: TERRAZA 40-19 Gleane St, Elmhurst, New York | www.terrazacafe.com
TERRAZA is unique Internet cafe bar offering an eclectic array of live music, film screenings, art exhibitions and creative workshops - 7 days a week!
Dateline March 23, 2003 Michael Moore has won an Academy Award for his film "Bowling for Columbine."
"Bowling..." was characterized as Best Documentary by many critics. By playing many months and continuing to gross well in theatres, its success will act as a trailblazer that proves independent documentary can have an audience. Even before this latest award, Michael's website was getting several million hits a day and has a lot of interesting things on it that make it an entertaining civic lesson, just like the film. Why do we mention it here, it has 8mm films in it! See www.michaelmoore.com
HOME MOVIE DAY, AUGUST 16, 2003
From Boston, Liz Coffey wrote about her part in the upcoming intentional event called "HOME MOVIE DAY" to be held on 8/16/2003:
Liz wrote" Hello all, Save the date, 8/16/03. I will be hosting Home Movie Day in Boston with my friend Andrea.
Basically, it will be a screening open to the public of home movies, on 16mm and 8/super 8. We will probably have several viewing stations set up, so we can show/watch several films at once. We hope to have some performances, and have people talk about their movies as they are shown. We are going to make some snacks.
I am soliciting films, so if you or anyone you know has some home movies to show, let me know. They can be movies they made, star in, or found. We want to show just traditional home movies (not commercially produced or art films), which means birthdays, trips, holidays, parades, xmas, etc. Sound, silent, 16mm and super/8mm are welcome. I'm working on a press release and flier and so forth. I hope it can be an all-ages event. It will probably be at the Berwick Research Institute in Dudley Square, Boston." Liz can be reached directly at filmsaver@wongfaye.com
Dateline, New Jersey, February, 2003 The United States Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festival, in its 15th year! "and the winners..."
The Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center, the Rutgers University Program In Cinema Studies, AIVF, and Eastman Kodak presents the 15th Annual
2003 United States Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festival Award Winners
Grand Prize Winners
Best Animation=$300 of Film Processing Services from and sponsored by PAC Lab
The Loneliest Number --Adam Fisher; El Cerrito, CA; 5 min; 2002; DV+1/2 V)
Best Documentary=Tie=$300 of film from and sponsored by Eastman Kodak
Welcome to CB-Land--Cheryl Hess( Philadelphia, PA; 17 min; 2002; DV+1/2 V)
Super 8 Mom (David Ellsworth(Hills, IA; 5 min; 2002; S8+1/2 V)
An Appointment with Mr. Robert (Bert Shapiro(Pipersville, PA; 5 min; 2002; S8+1/2 V)
Contested Territory (Carolyn McGrath( Princeton, NJ; 51 min; 2002; DV+1/2 V)
Best Experimental=Tie=$300 of film from and sponsored by Eastman Kodak
Windchimes (Rich Fedorchak(Thetford Center, VT; 4 min; 2000; S8+1/2 V)
Pipes (Gregg Biermann( Hackensack, NJ; 8 min; 2002; Hi8+1/2 V)
10,082 (Daniel Maldonado(Weehawken, NJ; 5 min; 2001; S8+1/2 V)
Best Short=$500 in blow-up services from and sponsored by Cineric, Inc.
Da Kiekste, Wa (Daniel Adams, Antonia Baehr, Stacy Goldate, and Isabel
Spengler(Chicago, Il; 8 min; 2002; S8+1/2 V)
Best Comedy=$500 in blow-up services from and sponsored by Cineric, Inc.
eRATicate (Ross Williams(Seattle, WA; 9 min; 2002; S8+1/2 V)
Audience Choice Prize=$100 of film from and sponsored by Eastman Kodak
eRATicate (Ross Williams(Seattle, WA; 9 min; 2002; S8+1/2 V)
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Honorable Mention Winners
Just Like Golf (E.S. Wochensky; Springville, NY; 26 min; 2002; DV+1/2 V)
The Alphabet Song (Alessandro Machi, West Hills, CA; 3 min; 2002; S8+1/2 V)
The Crossing (Richard P. Alvarez; Houston, TX; 14 min; 2002; S8+1/2 V)
Beauty Nature and Sorrow (Sanjiban Sellew; New Marlborough, MA; 4 min; 2002; DV+1/2 V)
Dukkha (Diptych) (Cindi Kim; NY, NY; 4 min; 2001; S8+1/2 V)
Michelle and Tony s Wedding Video-Director s Cut (Susan Brunig; Oakland, CA; 20 min; 2002; DV+1/2 V)
Finalists
Teacher Comforts (Micah Kahn Feiring; Princeton, NJ; 11min; 2002; DV+1/2 V)
ZZYXCIONSXZZZ (Nyq Bonaventura; Richland, MI; 5 min; 2002; D8+1/2 V)
Night Attacks (Matthew Drenik; Austin, TX; 7 min; 2002; DV+1/2 V)
A Short Film for Lida (Miso Suchy; Syracuse, NY; 5 min; 2003; DV+1/2 V)
The Last Day of November (Bill Basquin; San Francisco, CA; 4 min; 2001; S8+16mm+V)
The Crucifixion (Robert Mermet; Pennington, NJ; 8 min; 2002; D8+1/2 V)
Santa Lucia (Richard Lawrence+ Rachel Grantham; Whitehorse, Yukon,
Canada; 7 min; 2002; S8+1/2 V)
49 Days--In Motion (Liss Platt; Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; 16 min; 2002; S8+1/2 V)
My Life Between Beer and Music (Min Kuen Choi; Brooklyn, NY; 5 min; 2002; DV+1/2 V)
These finalists were selected from over 120 works submitted by film and videomakers from around the world. In addition, the judges chose the grand prize winners (prizes include approximately $4000 in service awards) in conjunction with the Festival Director. The award winners were publicly announced after the screenings on Sunday, February 23, 2003.
For More Information Call The Rutgers Film Co-op/NJMAC at 732-932-8482
or go to our website at www.njfilmfest.com
KODACHROME WITH PROCESSING INCLUDED AT A GREAT PRICE
Dateline May 2002
Kodak announced a new listing of this product: Kodachrome 40 Movie Film- Super 8 Film in silent cartridge with processing mailer, CAT No. 505 3335, Minimum order unit 1, Net per unit US$ 13.31. Filmmakers can get it from the Kodak order line, 800-621-FILM.
This is a major breakthrough for people who love this film, both in price and in ease of getting it to the lab. Thank you whoever made this happen inside the Motion Picture Division at Kodak.
USE OLD B&W Reversal Film NOW: chemistry change Dateline NOVEMBER 2001
While at the AMIA conference in Portland Oregon, Kodak's Marian Herz said to tell all the filmmakers we know to use their current Black and White reversal motion picture film soon. Kodak will be changing the bleach in the processing of this film and the new environmentally friendly bleach will not work with the old stocks.
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