• 48Hour Film Project – Things to Do this Week

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      1st Dec 09
      Rodney

    DC Filmmakers and Film Enthusiasts—

    Special 48 Hour Film Project screenings heading your way.

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    Best of DC 48HFP at the GV Expo—Wednesday and Thursday

    Special Baltimore 48HFP films about Edgar Allan Poe at the Baltimore Museum of Art

    1) Don’t miss the annual GVExpo at the Washington Convention Center.  This trade show has all of the top manufacturers demonstrating their latest equipment.  In addition, you can join or renew your membership with TIVA, the local television and video professional association, at a discounted rate.

    A selection of the Best of DC 2009 48 Hour Films will be screening:

    Wednesday, December 2    11:30 am – 12:30 pm

    Thursday, December 3         11:30 am – 12:30 pm

    2) If you are someone who loves Edgar Allan Poe, we’ve got something for you.

    Our Baltimore 48HFP Producer, Rob Hatch, and a number of Baltimore 48 Hour filmmakers have collaborated with the world renowned Baltimore Museum of Art to bring you 48 Hours of Madness: A Cinematic Celebration of Edgar Allan Poe.

    17 filmmakers from around the greater Baltimore area chose a Poe character and line, and were assigned one of three themes from the BMA’s exhibit, Edgar Allan Poe; A Baltimore Icon.  As you may know, 2009 is the bicentennial of Poe’s birth, and he died and is buried here in Baltimore.

    Come see how different filmmakers and filmmaking teams took the themes of Fear and Terror, Love and Loss, and Madness and Obsession and turned these into dark, macabre, humorous, and surreal cinematic visions.

    The screenings are free and open to the public.

    December 4 and December 11th,

    8PM

    Baltimore Museum of Art.

    Different films will be shown at each screening, and the museum opens at 6 PM for this special event.

    You can find out more at http://www.artbma.org/calendar/films.html#Film or   www.48hourfilm.com/baltimore

    Hope to see you there, and don’t be afraid of the dark!

    Enjoy!

    Rodney

    DCFCPUG

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  • National Black Theatre Festival @NBTF.ORG THIS WEEK

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      3rd Aug 09
      Rodney
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    North Carolina Local newspaper short video on the events this week.

    This bi-annual festival is a great way to see stars of stage and cinema focus on the contributions of what African Americans and other ethnicities are bringing to this creative craft. This year brings back John Amos, Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Maya Angelou among other great personalities…

    Dr. May Angelou is giving the keynote this year. It starts today and I’m heading down to the event this week. The founder, late Larry Leon Hamlin was the founder (and my uncle) of this great event and his legacy lives on!

    The festival officially opens today, and runs through Saturday at venues throughout the city. There will be plays, musical theater, workshops, a film festival and other events.

    With a $1.1 million budget, the festival is known for bringing in celebrities and for bringing Winston-Salem to life. In 2007 the festival generated $13.7 million in spending on hotels and meals by visitors as well as what the festival spends on performance spaces, food and beverages, according to figures provided by Visit Winston-Salem.

    Yesterday afternoon, vans, cars and limos were pulling up to the Winston-Salem Marriott and the festival was looking more and more like the family reunion it is known among theater people.

    Malaiki Scott and her mother, Mona Scott, the executive director of The Black Repertory Group in Berkeley, Calif., were attending the festival for the first time. Mona Scott’s mother, Norma Vaughn, founded the theater group in 1964.

    The two women said they were attracted to the festival by all the good things they had heard from others.

    The women have family in Louisiana and Mississippi, they said, but they were not sure they were prepared for August in North Carolina.

    “When we were getting off the plane in Charlotte, I noticed the humidity,“ Malaiki Scott said.

    In the hotel lobby, Ella Joyce, an actress who is perhaps best known for playing Eleanor on the television show Roc, was performing a longtime role as an unofficial ambassador for the festival. She greeted old friends and said friendly hellos to arriving visitors, some of whom recognized her from her past roles. She is a wonderful lady… take from me, as I got a chance to talk and photograph her at a previous festival!

    Joyce said that she remembered sitting with the late Larry Leon Hamlin in New York City over 20 years ago, and listening to him talk about his dream of creating a theater festival in his hometown of Winston-Salem.

    This year she will be performing “A Rose Among Thorns,“ a one-person show that highlights the life of Rosa Parks. The show is part of the Larry Leon Hamlin Solo Performance Series, which will present the lives of black people who played pivotal roles in shaping the world.

    Such shows are important, Joyce said, in nurturing the young talents and young theater-goers who will help the festival continue on after she and others have gone.

    Though many people come to the festival to see the stars and enjoy good theater, she said, the audience sometimes fails to realize what their attendance and adulation means to black performers, who sometimes feel marginalized in the predominantly white theater world.

    “The people show you so much love,“ she said. “We don’t get love in Hollywood. We have to come down here and get filled up.“

    If you get a chance, stop by and “show some love”…

    Rodney Mitchell
    DCFCPUG

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  • LAFCPUG invites DCFCPUG to Las Vegas NAB SuperMeet 2009

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      24th Mar 09
      Rodney

    Celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Final Cut Pro!

    SUPERMEET RAFFLE is now at $68,000 dollars and counting!!

    Anyone going to NAB and want to represent the DCFCPUG?

    If so, email Mike Horton at LAFCPUG and tell him I sent you for a special deal.
    Typically, members pay for such access, but we’ve arranged for a selected few who respond quickly to get FREE tickets/access to the events in Las Vegas!!

    Represent our PUG and join the FCPUG Network at NAB for the largest gathering of FCP Gurus and users on the Planet!!

    • Where? Rio Hotel
    • Amazon Ballroom
    • 3700 W. Flamingo Road
    • Las Vegas, NV 89103
    • When? – Tuesday, April 21, 5:00PM – 11:00PM (Doors open 4:30PM)
    • How Much? – $10.99 per person (EarlyBird) Includes 2 raffle tickets per person. $15.00 after April 1, 2009. (tickets on sale NOW) See Mike for FREE access!
    • Any raffle prizes? – Of course. $2.00 per raffle ticket
    • or 3 for $5.00
    • Who should attend? – Everyone who wants to learn more about Final Cut Studio, digital filmmaking and meet others who know more than you do.
    • Food and Drink? – Food (free) and Cash Bar will be available.
    • What’s on the agenda? – It’s super secret!

    ***FREE NAB Show Floor Pass***
    Use Free Exhibits Passport Code: TP01 or SG09
    Book your Hotel NOW. It’s CHEAP. But who knows how long that will last.
    Click HERE for NAB Hotel deals

    Vegas.com also has great Hotel deals

    Visit us in our SuperBooth #SL10129 in the South Hall

    You gotta click on the RED USER 09 link below to see the cool RED USER ’09 NAB PARTY INTRO POSTER !!!

    Reserve your seat for the RedUser 2009 Event at the Rio Hotel, Wednesday, April 22 – 3-11PM

    Enjoy NAB and get back here for the Big DC event on 24 April !!!

    Rodney

    DCFCPUG

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  • National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show

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      31st Jan 09
      Rodney

    2009 NAB show

    If any of our DCFCPUG members are heading to NAB this spring, send us a report with photos and we will publish….

    Unfortunately, I’ll be in New Mexico for another activity so I will have to miss NAB this year.

    DCFCPUG

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  • 2008 Insomnia Film Festival

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      23rd Oct 08
      Rodney

    (Photo: Apple site)

    On November 15 at 9:00 a.m. EST, the clock starts ticking.

    Turn 24 hours into 3 minute masterpiece…

    Got any budding filmmakers willing to take the challenge?

    Go here for more details:

    http://www.apple.com/education/insomnia/

    Rodney – DCFCPUG

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