Premiere "Under The Sidewalk
Moon"
SIDEWALK MOON FILMS ANNOUNCES ITS ALABAMA PREMIERE OF THE
INDEPENDENT FILM "UNDER THE SIDEWALK MOON" AT TUSCALOOSA'S BAMA THEATRE MAY
22nd, 2003
Sidewalk Moon Films announces its Alabama Premiere of
the independent film, entitled "Under the Sidewalk Moon" at the
Bama Theatre in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on May 22nd, 2003, with doors opening
at 7:00 pm. For ticket information, please contact Steve Moon at 205-567-8518 or
via email at
swmoon1@hotmail.com.
"The movie is quite an accomplishment. I was writer, director, editor,
producer, and everything else you can imagine. It was quite challenging working
with schedules and scouting locations on top of a full time job", says Steve
Moon, the film's producer. "I have written everything from music video
treatments to screenplays, and after having been burned in Hollywood when a
major film was produced and released based on my work, well I decided to go into
indies. I worked with "Boys Don't Cry" director Kimberly Pierce as I began
production of Sidewalk Moon."
The Tuscaloosa premiere is one of many screenings throughout
the Southeast, including Franklin, TN; Atlanta, GA; and Chattanooga,
TN. Sidewalk Moon Films is currently in pre-production for another
feature film being shot in the Birmingham area.
Sidewalk Moon Films is a full scale production company specializing in
script supervision, casting and production of documentaries, shorts, and feature
films. For more information on Sidewalk Moon Films, please contact Steve Moon at
205-567-8518 or email at
swmoon1@hotmail.com.
-submitted by Steve Moon
Premiere "Birds Of A
Feather"
"Birds Of A Feather" a short film by Orin
Portnoy was shot on Double 8mm and then
transferred using a 16mm projector loaded on a Mac G3 computer and cut on Final
Cut Pro. The final product is on Mini DV and runs 2 and 1/2 minutes. Music was
produced with a MOOG Theremin and reordered on the
same Mac using DIGI 001 Protools. Shot in the Arizona desert at
one of the largest ostrich petting farms in the world.
Starring 50 ostrich the film is set to premiere in Phoenix, Arizona Sunday May
4th and show in New York City, Sunday, May 25th and be in Flicker Film
Festival in Chapel Hill, NC, August 2003.
From AIVF
Huntsville
Subject: FW: SATURDAY~FlickerFilmFestival
LoweMill~8pm
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 5:32 PM
Subject:
SATURDAY~FlickerFilmFestival LoweMill~8pm
Hi everybody ... hope this finds all doing well
...
Here are a few items of interest that I know about for
SATURDAY NIGHT
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www.filmcoop.org
FLICKER UNDERGROUND FILM
FESTIVAL
starts @ 8
byoc (bring your own chair)
check out the Film
CoOps website for more info. The
last one was a HUGE success.
Saturday May 3, 2003 at 8 p.m.
Lowe Mill, 2211 Seminole Drive,
Huntsville
General Admission $5, members $3
Rated R
We will be using a larger screening area, but we have a
limited number of seats so be sure to bring a folding chair for your own
comfort.
From AIVF
Rochester
A reference to a short film, click on the link
below
Script Development
Workshop
The next Script Development Workshop will be
Thursday, May 15th at Books & Co. in Brookwood Village. The meeting
will be from 7:00 p.m. to about 9:00p.m. although you are welcome to stay and
talk till store closing. Come to the lower level area. for more information
contact Angela at angela@boang.com
Filmmakers Resource
The Prelinger Archives located at the web
site Internet Archive has now set up mirror sites for a lot of
their material. With a collection of ephemeral films available in several
file formats the download times should be a lot faster, and it's free for
research and study. The main site address is www.archive.org and follow the links to the
Prelinger Archives from there.
The Art Renewal Center has a huge
collection of online neoclassical and classical art from the Middle Ages to the
late 19th and early 20th Century. Included is a series of articles
concerning the decline of the art education system of the 20th Century and
what needs to be done to remedy the situation. Although the focus is for fine
artist it is a good resource for art directors, set designers and builders,
costumers, lighting directors, photographers and cinematographers. The
address is www.artrenewal.org
Upcoming
films
An era of filmmaking will be ending in a few more months.
With the release of the next two animated films, Disney Pictures will no
longer produced traditional hand drawn 2D movies at it's Anaheim
studio. After decades of waxing and waning the sun will set on, not
just an era but an epoch of animation that Walt Disney started. The films after
these next two releases will 3D computer generated. This has been a slow end in
coming as since before "Treasure Planet" artists have been let
go as their work on that project ended. The last two films are "Home On
The Range" which had been retitled from "Sweating
Bullets" and the upcoming release "Brother
Bear"
There will be more animated films coming out within the
next six to eight months.
"Les Triplettes de Belleville" is a
French production that is getting a lot of buzz on the industry
boards.
"Nocturna" is a story about a child
exploring a world of night time fears and comes from Filmax in
Spain.
"El Cid, The Legend" is another Filmax
production due to be release this summer. You can view the trailers at www.elcidthelegend.com
"My Little World" is by a small
California outfit July Films. This small group of animators are working on
a childhood tale and you can see a very charming trailer at www.julyfilms.com/trailer.htm
"Wonderful Days" is noteworthy because it
is really big budget $50 million movie from Korea. Set in a post-apocalyptic
world, the film has some incredible art design and combines 2D art with 3D
computer imagery with special miniature sets that use a stop-motion HD
digital camera. There is an English language web site with trailers at http://wonderfuldays.co.kr/english/
and some of the behind the scene downloads are in Korean at http://wonderfuldays.co.kr/download/new_multimedia.php
"Sinbad, Legend of the Seven Seas" is
being produced by DreamWorks. With the voices of Brad Pitt, Catherine Zeta-Jones
and Michelle Pfeiffer (notice they never tell who the animators are) it is due
out this summer. You can view an international version of the trailer, in
German, at http://trailer.uip.de/sinbad/trailer.html
or go to the official site www.sinbad-themovie.com and click
through until you get to the trailer page.
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