CONTENTS
1. IFP MN NEWS: First Annual Midwest Sci-Fi Short Film Festival and Revolution Reels
2. UPCOMING IFP CLASSES: Beginning Digital Photography, Intermediate Editing with Final Cut Pro, Art of Photography I & II, Beginning Adobe Dreamweaver, Creating Illusions Through Digital Photography, Documenting the Age of Aquarius
3. INDEPENDENT THEATER SCREENINGS: The Trylon Opens with Buster Keaton, Oak Street Cinema and the Parkway Theater
4. CLASSIFIEDS: Music video help needed, NECHAMA seeks video intern
5. CALLS FOR ENTRIES: Austin Film Festival and In/Stability Photo Contest
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1. IFP MN NEWS
The selections for the First Annual Midwest Sci-Fi Short Film Festival (co-sponsored by IFP MN) have been announced. The Festival will screen as part of CONvergence, the upper-midwest’s largest Science Fiction/Fantasy convetion.Admission to the Convention is required. See website for more details. The Festival will screen from 8:30pm to 11:30pm, Friday, July 3rd in Atrium 6 at the Sheraton Bloomington Hotel. In addition to the short film festival, CONvergence's Cinema Rex willpresenting projects from three local film makers, start at 1:00pm, including films by IFP MN members Bill Stiteler (THACO) and Jon Springer (The Hagstone Demon).
IFP MN co-sponsors Cinema Revolution Society's Revolution Reel series at Intermedia Arts
The Cinema Revolution Society announces a new screening program - Revolution Reel - five evenings of local filmmaking talent on the screen at the Intermedia Arts Theater, Tuesday evenings June 9 to July 7 at 7:30 PM. This new program, curated by Cinema Revolution founder John Koch and presented by the Cinema Revolution Society and Intermedia Arts, screens local films by emerging and mid-career filmmakers in a social setting. Dramatic, sarcastic, ecstatic, hilarious, beautiful, informative, shocking or just plain bizarre, the series exhibits the breadth of filmmaking talent that this community has to offer. Beer and wine will be available at the events on a donation basis. The next screening: Tues. July 7, 7:30 PM: "Trickery Mimicry" written and directed by Garrett D. Tiedemann.
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2. UPCOMING CLASSES AT IFP MN
Beginning Digital Photography, July 7–28: In this beginning digital photography course you’ll learn to take better digital photographs by understanding the technology behind it. The class is geared towards SLR digital camera users. Some of the digital topics to be taught will include white balance, digital histograms, file formats, and many other topics to help make you a better digital photographer.
Intermediate Editing with Final Cut Pro 6, July 11–12: In this two-day workshop you'll continue to explore digital editing and learn some of the more advanced features of Final Cut Pro 6. Topics include animating stills by setting keyframes and creating motion paths, troubleshooting your audio mix, and color correcting footage. Basic Final Cut Pro experience is required to attend this workshop. There will be a lunch break each session. Space is limited – register early!
Documenting the Age of Aquarius—Create Films for Festival Submission! July 13-17 (Ages 13-17): Create your own independent documentary film and see it screened at a festival! In this workshop you’ll learn the entire process of creating a short form documentary, from pre-production to distribution. Projects will need to focus on the year 1968 and have a Minnesota connection to qualify for the MN Historical Society’s 2009 Moving Pictures Competition. Know someone with a good story related to that year? Bring your ideas to the workshop or choose from a list of possible subjects.
Creating Illusions Through Digital Photography, July 13-17 (Ages 13-17): Express yourself! Learn the principles of shooting good digital pictures and how to create cool photographic illusions with them! Using Photoshop, you’ll learn about making panoramas and compositing, the combining of visual elements from separate sources into single images, often to create the illusion that all those elements are parts of the same scene.
The Art of Photography I, July 13-August 24: Learn the basics of the art. Using film-based photography as the medium, this course teaches the understanding of how camera controls function together to create photographic images. Hands-on class meetings include assignments that address image making effects, basic metering, hand processing film, and darkroom printing techniques in black and white.
Beginning Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, July 13-August 10: Adobe Dreamweaver is the established tool of choice for the professional Web design community. Version CS3 (for Macintosh) provides a powerful combination of visual layout tools, application development features, and code editing support, enabling developers and designers at any skill level to create visually appealing, standards-based sites and applications quickly.
The Art of Photography II, July 14-August 25: Develop your visual sensibilities. Through the medium of film-based photography, assignments in this course are focused on learning how to compose images. Utilizing key elements of composition, emphasis is placed on training the eye to crop using the camera lens as the guide. Class meetings include viewing and discussing both art and journalistic photography, reference to art history, and hands-on film processing and darkroom printing in black and white.
Registration deadlines are approaching! Call 651-644-1912 to Register. More Classes and Workshops>
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3. INDEPENDENT THEATER SCREENINGS
Trylon Microcinema: Sherlock Jr.
Friday 7/17 and Saturday 7/18 at 7 and 9, Sherlock Jr. (1924) 45min, preceded by The Electric House (1922) 22min. On July 17th Take-Up Productions will open their "microcinema", The Trylon, located at 3258 Minnehaha Ave S and seats 60. The theater will operate dual 35mm film projectors (a necessity for archival film screenings), and will be the first independent cinema in the Twin Cities with the capacity to project true 1080p video on our 20 foot screen. The Trylon launches with a three week Buster Keaton series. All 12 screenings will be accompanied by the spellbinding live music of Dreamland Faces, featuring Karen Majewicz on accordion and Andy McCormick on musical saw.
Oak Street Cinema: New York
New York: June 26 - July 01, Fri June 26 at 7:30 pm Sat June 27 at 4:30 & 7:30 pm Sun June 28 at 3 & 6 pm Mon thru Wed at 7:30. Director: Kabir Khan. Produced in India by Yashraj, one of the leading Hindi companies, with daring New York City locations, the film is a contemporary story of scholarship-winner Omar, his first time abroad from India to visit Sam and Maya, his friends at a New York university, when their lives are turned upside down. As the trio begin to discover a new world in Big Apple America the film becomes a thrilling roller coaster ride with undercover agents and top headlines in an American-style thriller.
Parkway Theater: The Brothers Bloom
Jun 26 - Jul 2, Fri: 9:20 Sat and Sun: 1:50, 9:20 Mon-Thus: 5:00, 7:10, Starring: Adrian Brody, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel Weisz, Maximiliam Schell. The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they've decided to take on one last job - showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world.
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4. CLASSIFIEDS
IFP MN member Dwayne P. Cannady is looking for some help to shoot some clips for a music video on July 7th at the profile building. Please call if interested or have any questions: 612-384-2638
NECHAMA - Jewish Response to Disaster is a non-profit disaster recovery organization that helps flood and tornado victims clean up after a disaster. We are looking for a special person who will create a video to help preserve and tell the story of what NECHAMA is all about. This person will work with another intern (already hired) who will be organizing the interviews and conducting them. The videographer will then take the footage, add pictures and make a promotional video that NECHAMA can use in many different mediums. We will do the interviews over the summer, with completion of the project by 30 September, 2009. For more information, contact Amy Cytron (acytron@nechama.org).763-732-0610
Classifieds on IFP MN Web Site>
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5. CALLS FOR ENTRIES
Austin Film Festival
Late Deadline: July 3, Very Late Deadline: July 15
The Festival is among the select events accredited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, so all award winning narrative short and narrative student short films are also eligible for an Academy Award.
Each year the Austin Film Festival holds film competitions in 6 categories: including Narrative Feature, Narrative Short, Narrative Student Short, Documentary Feature, Documentary Short. More info
In/Stability Photo Contest
Deadline: July 22, 2009
In honor of our 15th anniversary, the Alliance for Metropolitan Stability wants to see the Twin Cities region through your eyes. As a community, what progress have we made toward resisting deterioration and displacement? And what work do we have left to do? We are looking for original images that display your ideas about what metropolitan stability and instability look like. Images should reflect how you perceive metropolitan stability and instability in the Twin Cities. Read more>
Calls for Entries for Photographers, Screenwriters and Filmmakers
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