AIVF Jefferson County
Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers
Ezine Number 66, March 8, 2004
 
News of the website
 
There was a server problem with the website last Wednesday and Thursday if any one tried to view any pages. Everything is back up now with a few improvements on the 'back end'.
 
The Script Development Workshop page has a changed address to http://reelscene.com/script/scriptdevelop.html , please reset your bookmarks. 
 
AIVF Jefferson County Salon   http://reelscene.com/jeffcosalon.html
 
The next meeting of the AIVF Jefferson County Salon will be 7:00 p.m. Tuesday March 9, 2004 at the Irondale Public Library. Details at the Salon web page  http://www.reelscene.com/jeffcosalon.html . The meeting is free to the public. 
 
Script Development Workshop     http://www.reelscene.com/script/scriptdevelop.html
 
The next meeting of the Script Development Workshop will be 7:00 p.m. Thursday Feb.19th at  Books & Co. in Brookwood village. For details and store location got to the Script Development web page listed above. Also, new on the page is some reference links for script formatting.  
 
Film Incentive Legislation    http://reelscene.com/law/lawindex.html
Some film incentive legislation from Montgomery. SB 366  http://reelscene.com/law/sb366prop1.html  would give additional tax credits for film production. Read about it at the above links and contact the elected representive for your area.
 
Movie studio for the Shoals area
 
From a Times Daily article dated Feb. 27 2004, a movie studio may be located in an old, unused TVA building in the Muscle Shoals area. The effort is being spearheaded by Jimmy Johnson, Ron Maxwell and Michael Anthony Curtis of Plumbline Entertainment. If successful this would make for one of the world's largest studios to be located in Alabama. Read more at
http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?SearchID=73164278929396&Avis=FT&Dato=20040229&Kategori=NEWS&Lopenr=402290360&Ref=AR
 
Editor's note: Here's where SB 150 http://reelscene.com/law/sb150prop1.html  would be helpful.
 
Summerfest Youth Musical Workshop
 
Auditions for the Sumerfest Youth Musical Workshop will be held Saturday, March 13 and Sunday, March 14 at the Children's Dance Foundation in Homewood, 2828 19th Street South. The workshop will be for children ages 7-18. For more information go to www.summerfest.org
 
Giant, flying robots 
Giant, flying robots swoop down to terrorize a large metropolitan city, the police point and fire Thompson sub-machine guns to no avail. Public panic ensues. Swooping down from the sky, look, it's a bird, no it's a plane.. no really a plane, a P-40 with blazing .50 calibers in the wings. It's SKY CAPTAIN.

Borrowing heavily from 1930's Fleischer Studios Superman episode "The Mechanical Monsters" , "Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow" is due for release this summer.

To view a supercool trailer go to

 
Low-carb diet ?
Not quite. "The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra" will be released shortly. Done in the style of late '50s, B sci-fi, horror film it has plenty of aliens from outer space, ray beams, and a large vegetable monster for spine tingling suspense. Web site at www.lostskeleton.com and a cool trailer at
 
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Ezine Editor, aivfbham@bellsouth.net