Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Fox Publicity Internship

The Publicity department at FOX Broadcasting Company in Los Angeles, CA is currently in the process of hiring our Fall 2008 Internship Program. We are looking for enthusiastic, outgoing, incredibly motivated students who are interested in all facets of publicity, public relations, journalism, entertainment and communications.

We know school keeps you busy, so we are willing to work around your schedules. We do ask that our interns work at least two days per week, preferably between the hours of 9:00am and 6:00pm. Your duties will consist of assembling and distributing clip packets, assisting show publicists and other staff with various daily functions such as media research, writing press releases and loglines, as well as aiding in special events such as press junkets, premiere parties, and photo shoots. Interns will be involved with FOX productions such as “American Idol," “Prison Break,” “24,” “HOUSE,” “The Simpsons,” “Fringe,” “Family Guy,” “American Dad” and several others.

We would truly appreciate the opportunity to meet with you to discuss our program in further detail. We are a dynamic company with innovative ideas and high energy. Please send your resume and a cover letter via e-mail:

E-mail: Hayley.Stphilip@fox.com

*** SUBJECT LINE OF EMAIL: Please note what school you are from, what term (Summer, Spring, or Fall) you are applying for and your name in the subject line of the email.

Ex. – University name - Fall 2008 – Your Name

Should you have any questions or need any further assistance, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Look forward to hearing from you!

Best regards,

Hayley St. Philip
FOX Publicity
10201 W. Pico Blvd. | Los Angeles, CA 90035
310.369.8187 | Email: Hayley.stphilip@fox.com

Monday, July 28, 2008

The Screenwriter's Boot Camp

The Course
Expand your knowledge, comprehension and technique of the screenplay and the art and craft of screenwriting U.K.based screenwriting Ron Aberdeen will be guiding a tour of screenwriting techniques, updating classic storytelling conventions with a focus on new marketing tools of the craft. This course will help writers create, prepare, write, rewrite and approach their screenplay with more control and creativity. Ron Aberdeen's analysis and practical approaches to the craft are poignant, simple, fresh and inspiring.This event is ideal for aspiring and intermediate screenwriters. It is also an excellent refresher course for professional writers who wish to sharpen their screenwriting tools.

The Schedule
The course will include an overview of the screenwriting process, the nature of dramatic structure in films, setting up the story, the tools and elements that create good characters, the nature of conflict, as well as hint on how to market your screenplay.

Who is Ron Aberdeen
Ron is a U.K. based screenwriter. Ron began writing late in life. Ron received his first commission to pen a feature script, ‘Bloody Wicked’, for the established Canadian 'Horror' Director/Producer, David DeCoteau of Rapid Heart Films. Simon Foster of Covent Garden Films, commissioned Ron to write a Sci-Fi Horror feature, ‘The Darkness’, after he also read his work on InkTip. Ron had the honor of having Triggerstreet's Screenplay of the Month

Ron was also was employed by LA director Andy Lauer, to be the story editor on developing his prize winning short, ‘Little Cuba’ into a feature.In Ron has 12 other screenplays under active option.He is 63, well travelled and was previously a CEO for an international machine manufacturing company and a marketing executive for the Sony Corporation

Why, When and Where
This seminar is being offered by The Indy Film Co-op as part of The B Movie Celebration being held in Franklin Indiana September 26th-28th

www.bmoviecelebration.com

for further information please email info@indyfilmco-op.org

Friday, July 25, 2008

400 Level CMCL Courses Still Open

If you would like to add an upper-level CMCL course to your schedule for the fall, please consider C435 Documentary Filmmaking and/or C432 Visual Rhetoric.

C435 has just a few seats left, while there are still many seats available in C432. If more students do not enroll in C432, we may be forced to cancel the class due to low enrollment. This would be a terrible thing, because the class is great!

C435 has a prerequisite: you must have already completed a production course of some kind. Courses that qualify include CMCL-C 360 Motion Picture Production, C335 Production as Criticism, or TEL-T 283 Introduction to Production Techniques and Practices. C435 also requires special permission, so let me know if you are interested in enrolling and I will give you the required permission.

See below for course descriptions for both of these courses. Specific questions about the courses should be directed to the course instructors, whose names and e-mail addresses are listed below.


C432 Visual Rhetoric (3 cr, #16012)
MW 2:30pm-3:45pm (lecture)
M 7:15pm-10:15pm (required film screening)

Instructor: Michael Kaplan
E-Mail: mikaplan@indiana.edu

What does it mean to be a citizen of a democracy? How do we know
what makes a (good) citizen? And what kinds of activities count as
citizenship? What happens when the conception of citizenship we rely
upon begins to appear unjust or unworkable? Most importantly, what
are the consequences for democracy of defining citizenship one way
as opposed to another? Such questions have been debated at length by
scholars, but we have all given them much more thought than we may
even realize. Both the meaning of citizenship and the problems that
beset it have long been important themes of the most familiar forms
of entertainment, such as fiction film. In fact, we learn the most
consequential lessons of good citizenship from movies that feel
nothing like civics class and seem not to be about politics at all.
This course examines the ways we collectively imagine democratic
citizenship by taking a comparative approach: we will read samples
of major debates about citizenship (rights vs. obligations; personal
virtue vs. good institutions; abstraction vs. particularity; the
challenge of multiculturalism; the promise of cosmopolitanism; etc.)
and watch films in which these issues are addressed and/or
imaginatively resolved. The point is to see how watching such films
is in fact our most common way of “doing” our own
citizenship “theory,” and to think about the political implications
of this fact. So, students will analyze the rhetorical strategies of
films in relation to theoretical readings about citizenship—think
High Plains Drifter as a thesis about civic virtue, Die Hard with a
Vengeance as a defense of liberal multiculturalism, Thelma & Louise
as a critique of abstract universalism, or Bulletproof Monk as a
model of hybrid cosmopolitanism.



C435 Documentary Filmmaking: Theory and Practice (4 cr, 8110)
TuTh 3:00pm-5:00pm

Instructor: Robert Clift
E-Mail: raclift@indiana.edu

What makes a documentary a documentary? Its subject matter?
Stylistic or technical features? The fact that it uses real people
and not actors (most of the time, that is)? This course will
explore these and other questions as it traces the history of
documentary film practice. We will study the major American and
European documentary movements through film screenings and readings,
and we will engage the styles discussed in a series of hands-on
exercises. Aside from these exercises, there will be several
quizzes, a midterm, and three short papers/journals.

This will be an intense seminar, involving plenty of reading, film
viewing, writing, and creative work. The goal of the class is to
gain a critical understanding of some fundamental concepts involved
in documentary filmmaking, such as realism, evidence, voice, ethics,
etc. The production exercises will be completed in the miniDV
format, which has become the medium of choice for many documentary
filmmakers.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

ATTENTION MAY/AUGUST 2008 GRADUATES: Habitat for Humanity Positions Open in September

Two full time AmeriCorps positions with stipend (Volunteer Coordinator and ReStore Volunteer Coordinator). Strong interpersonal and organizational skills a must. Educational benefits available. Email cover letter and resume to office@monroecountyhabitat.org.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Filmaka Launches Red Bull Competition

Today Filmaka launched its Red Bull competition looking for creative and stimulating shorts around the theme “Vibrations” for Red Bull’s x13 series! Let your imagination run wild as this competition is all about creating a short that inspires you - make a film that's narrative, documentary, non-linear, experimental, or any combination of the above. Use any visual style - animated, grainy film, crisp video, drawn, photographed, painted-onto-the-celluloid - we don't care! Just make sure it's a roller-coaster ride of a movie.

Winners will have a chance to win up to $3000. 18 cutting-edge clips will be chosen for the first cut and those filmmakers will receive $1000 each. The final films will be narrowed to 13, and will receive another $2000.

Submission Guidelines

- Red Bull is starting another round in its x13 series of provocative shorts! This round's theme is VIBRATIONS.

- Three important things - when you submit your film to us, it must be less than 2 and a half minutes long, in 16:9 aspect ratio (wide screen) and in High Definition Video. This is because your film may be played on Red Bull TV or distributed in other ways.

- 18 cutting-edge clips will be chosen for the first cut. Those 18 filmmakers will receive $1000 each. The final films will be narrowed to 13, and will receive another $2000.

- Submissions are due by August 17.

For more information, see www.filmaka.com .

Monday, July 7, 2008

The 2nd Annual B Movie Celebration

We need your help. Franklin Indiana will be hosting the Second Annual B Movie Celebration September 26th thru 28th, 2008. We are asking for your help to get the word out. The Celebration will feature screenings of over 50 classic B movies, 20 Educational seminars and the World's Largest Beach Party, featuring the music of The Moon-Rays. And we really need your help getting the word out.

The Celebration will feature screenings of over 50 classic B movies, Many in glorious 35mm. Our Line Up, which has been curated by B Movie Legend Jim Wynorski. The films includes:

SHOGUN ASSASSIN
FORBIDDEN WORLD
DEATH RACE 2000
HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD
THIS ISLAND EARTH
TARANTULA
CARNIVAL OF SOULS
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
NIGHT OF THE COMET
BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS
THE GIANT BEHEMOTH
QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE
WORLD WITHOUT END
RUSS MEYER'S UP
FROM HELL IT CAME
ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS
NOT OF THIS EARTH(the black and white original)
THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS
THE 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD
EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS
WITHOUT WARNING
SCREWBALLS
GALAXY OF TERROR
HOUSE
THE CRAWLING EYE
ATTACK OF THE 50FOOT WOMAN
PSYCHO
JOURNEY TO THE SEVENTH PLANET
INVISIBLE INVADERS
ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES
TERMINAL ISLAND
NIGHTHAWKS
MYSTERIOUS ISLAND(61)
ONE MILLION B.C.
INVADERS FROM MARS(53)
TO TRAP A SPY
HOLD THAT GHOST
ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN
TWINS OF EVIL
THE VAMPIRE LOVERS
LUST FOR A VAMPIRE
THE TIME MACHINE
WAR OF THE WORLDS

Plus The First Edition of Summer TromaDance

A Lifetime Achievement Award to Stuart Gordon
From his 1985 debut as a cult director with Re-Animator to his 2002 H.P. Lovecraft film "Dagon" Stuart Gordon has consistently delivered quality horror to the masses, and is now considered by many of us to be one of the most important exploitation film-makers of the past 30 years.

Other great guests
Tom Savini, Jim Wynorski (of course), Conrad Brooks from Plan Nine From Outer Space , Tom Holland Director of Fright Night, Andrew Stevens Producer, Independent Horror Director Jim O'Rear and many many more.

The Best Hosts, Mister Lobo, Queen of Trash, Will The Thrill, Monic Tiki Goddess

The World's Largest Beach Party With the Moon-rays
The planets greatest B- Movie surf band will turn this small Mid Western City into a rockin Hepcat beach party. The Moon Rays were born of a concept brought on by the recording of the theme from WGN's Creature Features TV show andf the rest is legend. Join them in Franklin Indiana September 27th as we see summer out with a bang,

For more information
For further information please go to www.bmoviecelebration.com or please email us at info@indyfilmco-op.org/

Hope to see you in Franklin Indiana September 26th thru 28th, 2008

Submit Your Film To Summer TromaDance

TromaDance Expands Into The MidWest
Submit Your Films

Partnering With The B Movie Celebration/ The Indy Film Co-op

New Expanded Version of the Tromadance Film Festival

Tromadance Founder Lloyd Kaufman and The B Movie Celebration announced the creation of a new expanded summer version of the Tromadance Film Festival in Franklin, Indiana, at this year’s American Film Market last November. This announcement included details on the transformation of the Tromadance Film Festival into a fully immersive film experience that now includes a larger screening schedule as well as more panel discussions and in-depth workshops covering a variety of topics pertinent to young filmmakers. Summer TromaDance takes place during the B Movie Celebration September 26th-28th in Franklin Indiana.

About TromaDance
TromaDance is the first film festival wholeheartedly devoted to filmmakers and fans. Unlike every other film festival, TromaDance does not charge filmmakers to submit their films. Entrance to all screenings is free and open to the public. Also, there are no VIP reservations or preferential treatment regarding films, panels, or parties of any kind given. The organizers of TromaDance believe films are meant to be seen, especially when it comes to new filmmakers. Art — in all its forms — is for the people!

TromaDance features a range of films made independently, usually without big stars, big money and far removed from the Hollywood studio system. The official selections of TromaDance have been made with nothing more than passion, courage, integrity, and raw talent.

For The People and By The People
Everyone at TromaDance is treated as an equal. The elite and the celebrated are treated no better or worse than the experimental filmmaker or the random moviegoer off the street. Admittance to all screenings, panels, parties, and events is strictly on a first come, first served basis. If there are any VIPs at TromaDance, they are the filmmakers whose blood, sweat, and hard work are on the screen.
TromaDance is an opportunity for everyone who’s ever picked up a camera to have their work seen without the compromises required by elitist cartel interference. TromaDance is proud to be the first and only film festival of the people, for the people, and by the people.

www.tromadance.com

Submit Your Films Now

You may send your film (along with the official entry form, available at
http://www.indyfilmco-op.org/2008tromadancesummer.pdf to the following address:

TROMADANCE ENTRIES
c/o The Indy Film Co-op
99 East Monroe Street
Franklin, Indiana 46131

Entries will not be returned.

About The B Movie Celebration
Part film festival, part educational symposium and part circus, the B Movie Celebration is an event unlike any other. Scores of classic B feature film films have been shown at the 2007 B Celebration, including Forbidden Planet, Night of The Living Dead and Death Race 2000. Guests at this year’s B Movie Celebration included Troma Studio founder Lloyd Kaufman, B Film Legend Jim Wynorski, Special Effects Guru Tom Savini and numerous other practitioners of the B Movie art form.

www.bmoviecelebration.com

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

UNESCO Laura W. Bush Traveling Fellowship

We are pleased to announce the call for applications for the Fall/Winter 2008 cycle of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO Laura W. Bush Traveling Fellowship. As you may recall, this fellowship will help fund a proposal designed by the applicant--a U.S. undergraduate or graduate student between the ages of 18-25--to conduct brief work in a foreign country related to the mandate of UNESCO – using education, natural sciences, social and human sciences, culture, and/or communication and information to build strong ties among nations.

For more information, see http://www.state.gov/p/io/unesco/103476.htm.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Summer Shorts 2008

We Invite You to Enter Your Films, Videos, and Animations this Summer.

Exhibit and share your work. Show the world your stories. The Annual Summer Shorts Film and Video 2008 is for all filmmakers, videomakers, animators, and storytellers around the world. Come participate online by uploading your films, videos, and animations for a chance to place (1st, 2nd, or 3rd), and to share your works and your stories.

Multiple submissions are welcome and increase your chances of placing, as well as receiving exposure for your films, videos, and animations. All genres are accepted. You can upload your narratives, documentaries, music videos, PSAs, experimental films, thesis films, and more.

For more information, see http://www.studentfilmmakers.com/summershorts08/.

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Philosophy: The goal of the Summer Shorts 2008 Awards is to help facilitate the sharing of ideas and techniques within the independent and student filmmaker community and to showcase the talents of filmmakers by providing them with a platform in the public to advance their careers.

EALC Language Testing for Fall 2008

If you need to take an East Asian Languages and Cultures placement/proficiency test for fall, please see the schedule below. All testing is free; students just need to bring a picture ID and pencil.

Chinese
Thursday, August 28
2:00 pm
Ballantine 148

Japanese
Thursday, August 28
2:00 pm
Ballantine 214

*No prior registration is required for Chinese and Japanese testing.

Korean
Thursday, August 28
2:00 pm
Goodbody 229

*The above test is a placement test only. To register, please visit http://www.indiana.edu/~korean/, and fill out the on-line form for the placement test. If you would like your proficiency in Korean certified, visit the same link, but fill out the on-line form for the proficiency test, which will be scheduled after the semester begins.