The 2010 International Experimental Media Congress, the first
Congress of its kind since the 1989 Toronto Experimental Film Congress,
will assemble film, video, new media artists, theorists, archivists, and
curators from around the world, who will be in Toronto through April 11
for panels and discussions related to experimental media production,
exhibition, dissemination, criticism, pedagogy and reception. The
International Film Festival Summit (IFFS) is an annual conference and
trade show for professionals from the film festival industry who will be
in Amsterdam through April 9 to participate in presentations,
interactive panel discussions and networking events, and to look forward
to the Dinner With Strangers event that allows attendees a unique and
fun opportunity to meet and dine with festival colleagues from all over
the world. The 2010 French Quarter Festival, opening April 9-11,
highlights New Orleans' signature music, food, and culture in the
historic neighborhood,
mostly by a musical smorgasbord of jazz, r&b, funk, folk, opera,
gospel, blues, and brass bands, but also with over 105 food and beverage
booths located in Jackson Square, Woldenberg Riverfront Park, and the
Louisiana State Museum's Old U.S. Mint, forming the "World's Largest
Jazz Brunch" with local cuisines from the area's finest restaurants
including such festival favorites as Jambalaya, Crawfish Bread, Gumbo,
Red Beans and Rice, Muffaletta, Crawfish, and more.
The annual
National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference and expo for
professionals who create filmed entertainment, and the development,
management and delivery of content across all mediums and platforms,
happens this year from April 10-15 in Las Vegas. Comic strip icon, Stan
Lee (co-creator of Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, X-Men, The Fantastic
Four, Iron Man, Daredevil, Silver Surfer), will be at this year's
event, and the NAB Education Foundation (NABEF) in partnership with the
Broadca
st Education Association (BEA) and Radio-Television Digital News
Association (RTDNA) will host its annual spring Career Fair at the NAB
Show. Nailing Jello Productions conducts a short film screening,
fundraiser and panel discussion on how independent filmmakers are using
social and emerging media to fundraise, market and distribute their
films at an event conducted in New York City on April 14. Tours and
activities in Wine Country sets the theme for the Sonoma International
Film Festival as activities interwoven into the festival's daily
screenings, happening April 14-18. Leading off the Sonoma Festival will
be the world premiere of the documentary, "Coals to Newcastle", about
one of Britain's cutting-edge funk bands, the New Mastersounds, who will
be in town for the festival and perform live after the screening.
The
Beverly Hills Film Festival, a competition festival dedicated to
showcasing non-studio films and screenplays of emerging filmmakers in
the city gene
rally recognized as the headquarters for VIPs to the motion picture
industry, is now in its tenth year, opening for a run from April 14-18,
while treating festival goers to nightly theme parties, seminars, and a
charity benefit. Nashville Film Festival, an Academy qualifier for short
films, opens April 15 this year, through April 22, and because it takes
place in "Music City" it is only natural that part of the focus be on
music in films. So in addition to the many films about music and the
Music Films in Music City awards, NaFF presents showcases, workshops,
and other events where songwriters and artists come together with film
professionals from Hollywood and around the world to promote
collaboration. The 45th Academy of Country Music Awards will broadcast
live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas on CBS television
network Sunday, April 18 at 8 pm (EST), hosted by Reba McEntire. For
those fortunate to attend the Awards live in Las Vegas, the ACM All-Star
Jam follows
the award ceremony featuring impromptu performances from artists who
participated in the Awards show. Mediabistro hosts an April 20 L.A.
Cocktail Party for professionals in the media industry. Conversation
will be geared toward the latest media industry developments as party
hosts, Write On! Online freelance writer, Debra Eckerling, and Kaiser
Permanente senior web editor, Michelle Thatcher, help you enjoy yourself
and make some great connections.
The mission of the Rincn International Film Festival is to support
and promote culture and the arts in Puerto Rico through the medium of
film. Rincn, Puerto Rico is also a Surfer's paradise, so the festival is
also looking to screen great surfing films, particularly at the
beachfront resorts that will be used as screening venues during the
festival run, April 20-25. The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles
(IFFLA) is a nonprofit organization devoted to a greater appreciation of
Indian cinema and culture by showcasing films, honoring entertainment
industry performers and business executives, and promoting the diverse
perspectives of the Indian diaspora. Awards will be presented on April
22 (the festival itself runs April 20-25) at the IFFLA Industry
Leadership Award Luncheon held at the House of Blues in Los Angeles. The
show will include performances by TAAL Dance Collective. Championing
the short film format, Filmfest Dresden promotes a film category which
is mostly dis
regarded by cinemas and television. This year, Filmfest Dresden is
supplementing its film programmes with an extensive range of special
events discussions, receptions and get-togethers such as on April 22
when the Saxony Film Association, the German Short Film Association,
Filmfest Dresden, the School-goers Cinema Dresden, the Dresden Narrow
Gauge Festival and other institutes are holding a reception where people
will have an opportunity to get together for mutual exchanges.
As
it usually does, the Tribeca Film Festival in New York will host many
free events during its run from April 21 to May 5, for film fans and
families, including: Tribeca Drive-In, an outdoor screening series that
takes place at the World Financial Center Plaza, where you can watch
professional salsa dancers, listen to live salsa music, enter dancing
contests, and even take salsa lessons, following the screening of the
HBO documentary The Spirit of Salsa. Then there will be the Tribeca
Talks:
Industry panels touching on all aspects of the filmmaking trade, and
The Tribeca/ESPN Sports Day. Opening on April 22 until April 26, Palm
Beach International Film Festival, started in 1996 to give the area a
foothold in the film industry as well as to benefit the area's community
schools through grant and scholarship awards, will emphasize its newly
formed Friends of the PBIFF, which offers an array of fun-filled events
to raise funds and awareness on a year-round basis for the PBIFF.
Founded in 1957, the San Francisco International Film Festival, running
April 22 to May 6, is thought to be one of the longest-running film
festival in the Americas. This year, SFIFF has an line-up of narrative
feature films, live action and animated shorts, television and
theatrical documentaries, experimental work, digital media, and industry
panels, seminars, awards events, onstage tributes, retrospectives, and
the well regarded Schools at the Festival program, which brings an
estimated 4,
200 grade school students into the festival.
ShowBiz Expo Los
Angeles is the west coast counterpart to the show held in New York City
in March but runs for two days, April 24-25. Like New York the Los
Angeles Expo includes a wide range of networking opportunities including
the Exhibit Hall, Workshops/Seminars, Round Table Discussions, Headshot
Displays, etc., and most importantly, live audition opportunities for
which there is limited enrollment on a first come basis. MUSEEXPO 2010
will be in Los Angeles from April 25-28, and will incorporate the
intimate format that marked its beginnings as organic networking dinners
organized by A&R Network and A&R Worldwide architect Sat Bisla,
aimed at bringing together friends and like-minded relationships from
the global radio, A&R, film/TV music supervision, publishing, new
media and artist management communities. In London on April 27, noted
film director and FOCAL International's Chair of Patrons, Lord David
Putnam, opens the FOCAL International Awards festivities with a
champagne reception sponsored by AP Archive, followed by a three-course
dinner. FOCAL was formed in 1985 as an international, non-profit
professional trade association representing commercial film/audiovisual,
stills and sound libraries. The black tie and evening cocktail attire
affair ends late with an after party also sponsored by AP Archive.
The
above events are only a sample of what is fully listed. Complete
details are on the "Media, Entertainment and Performing Arts Industry
News and Events" page. Video and podcast versions of this news summary
are also available at popular video sites around the Web like MySpace,
YouTube, Daily Motion, as well as on The Actor's Checklist podcast blog.
Follow the posting of the news summary on Twitter. Last month on the
video news summary you saw new video from newly released single on
iTunes - Make Your Move - from UK's soulful, R&B songstress, Bukola.
Musi
c producing Padded Cell Productions of Toronto with a newly released
art film, Jane Doe. And there was the "spiritual fusion of acoustic
sitar experimental chanting spoken word improvisation" of Scot Aaron and
Govinda Schlegel who form Shaman Strings. These videos are now
available on the Free Home Video Showcase which now serves as an archive
for all past video presentations but without the audio news narration.
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