Wednesday, June 16, 2010

IMMEDIATE POSITION OPEN

IMMEDIATE POSITION OPEN


Camera Operator needed this Saturday June 19, in Massachusetts & Film Festival in Vermont



Woody Bavota June 16 at 1:13pm Reply
Hello Filmmakers Unite,

A NYC production company that I am affiliated with is looking for a camera operator, with video camera, a very good on camera microphone and a second microphone.

The job is in Westfield, MA this Saturday June 19th.

Please respond with the exact information below:

1. Your Phone number
2. Your resume
3. Your equipment list
4. Links to video of your work
5. Your email address

Thank you.
Woody Bavota
Writer/Director

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PRESS RELEASE: from The Kopkind Colony, 158 Kopkind Rd, Guilford, VT
Contact: John Scagliotti, stonewal@sover.net
CineSlam Website www.cineslam.com tel:, 802-254-4859

CineSlam, Vermont's 5th Annual Gay Film Festival is part of June Pride
Opening Night at Brattleboro's Hooker Dunham, 7pm, June 18th
Next Day Films at Guilford's Organ Barn June 19th (12:30pm to 6pm )

The Gay Film Festival in southern Vermont, CineSlam, will be celebrating its 5th annual screening of glbt shorts from around the globe. Opening Night films will be shown at 7pm in the theater at the Hooker-Dunham (139 Main Street) with a Pride Dance party following at the Brattleboro American Legion Hall. The next day Saturday, June 19th, the whole event moves out to Guilford's Organ Barn for a full afternoon of short films followed by a community barbeque. The grounds open at 12:30pm.

This film festival of shorts which takes place during June Pride celebrates
the 40th anniversary of the first Pride Events in world, when the first gay
march took place in New York City to commemorate the Stonewall Riots.
Those riots in Greenwich Village, New York, are considered the beginnings of the modern day gay civil rights movement. 1970 Christopher Street Liberation Day March started the idea of June Pride events which now occur in hundreds of cities and towns across the world including here in southern Vermont.

CineSlam is programmed by Guilford resident and Emmy-Award winning
filmmaker, John Scagliotti, who created the first glbt television show, In
the Life, on PBS, which is now in its 19th season.

Scagliotti said, "Each year we seem to get more and more quality shorts
applying to our festival. Some of the shorts we are showing are brilliant.
Some are just fun to watch like cartoons and music videos. The diversity of glbt filmmaking is amazing. And CineSlam will be in a celebratory mood this year. The choices we make are for a mixed crowd, be they gay, heterosexual, women or men and everyone is welcome over the age of eighteen."

Since this is the fifth anniversary of CineSlam, the film programs at the
Hooker Dunham Friday and Organ Barn Saturday will emphasize entertainment and fun. Leading off in the area of pure enjoyment will be West Hollywood's Mark Payne's bio short documentary film called "Get Happy." This remarkable film features 12-year-old Mark who would dress up as Judy Garland, Barbara Streisand and others to entertain the neighborhood kids. By the age of 14 he was Bob Hope's opening act in Las Vegas. It includes interviews with several notable people including Heather Mills and features clips from his work including a drag makeover of Regis & Kelly. Mark is now a two-time Emmy-Award winning makeup artist for celebrities like Beyonce, Paris Hilton
and Jane Seymour.

Included in the fun will be Brooklyn's Laura Terruso's short film "Dyke
Dollar" where suburban teenage boys run into Evelyn, the Dyke Dollar.
Terruso says her film pokes fun at "American economic angst and gay panic exploding in suburban New Jersey."

The festival includes some works of local filmmakers too with CineSLAM
presenting the hilarious winner of the Vermont Bear Film Festival's Paw
Award (best Bear short film) called "Wide 'n' Furry." This music video by
local New England filmmakers Rob Sherman and Dan Dowling takes a
bear-centric look at the classic struggle between "Bears" and "Twinks" seen through the lens of Weird Al Yankovic's parody "White and Nerdy," which is itself a takeoff of "Chamillionaire's Ridin'."

This year CineSlam will continue its collaboration with the Connecticut Gay
and Lesbian Film Festival and their director, Shane Engstrom, who will be
presenting some of his favorite shorts which recently screened in Hartford in the Organ Barn on Saturday. Engstrom will also be getting into the humorous side of gay filmmaking with the presentation of Los Angeles's Veronique Cortois animations of "Queer Pets Adventures" which explores butch kitties to accessory-obsessed doggies. This series of delightful animated shorts shines a spotlight on some adorably gay pets and their gay owners." Scagliotti added "while we'll be emphasizing the celebratory aspects of pride, we will still remember that for many gays and lesbians life can be a difficult here in America, especially for immigrants who are gay. That's why we also including "Beyond Boundaries" in our session in the Organ Barn on Saturday. This film takes a look into the lives of immigrants in the United States with diverse sexualities and explores their challenges, triumphs and dreams."

This year many of the CineSlam filmmakers will have the opportunity to win the Chessie Award which will be announced at the BBQ. The winner of the Best Short, named after the Chessie Foundation, which is financially supporting the festival, will receive a cash prize of $750 and an invitation (expenses paid) to present their winning film on Pride of the Ocean Film Festival (sailing out of Boston to Bermuda on May 27, 2011)
www.prideoftheocean.com for seven days of films screenings and ocean
cruising) .

There is limited seating at both the Hooker Dunham and the Organ Barn in
Guilford, so it is advised to make reservations. For Opening Night (June
18th, 7pm) at the Hooker-Dunham ($6 donation tkt) and the full afternoon of shorts (Sat. June 19th 1pm to 6pm -- three film sessions plus a BBQ ($12 donation tkt) one should go the website (www.cineslam.com) or by contacting John Scagliotti at stonewal@sover.net Once a reservation is made directions
to the Organ Barn in Guilford will be sent via the email or call John
Scagliotti at 802-254-4859. Please note that for those who can't afford the full suggested donation, any donation will be accepted if you call or email John Scagliotti to make a reservation.

The Kopkind Colony, a nonprofit project based in Guilford, VT, which brings together political journalists and activists, was launched twelve years ago as a living memorial to the late Guilford resident and journalist Andrew Kopkind. The Kopkind Colony organizes seminars for its resident
participants and hosts a number of free public events. Next month on Sunday, July 18th, at 7:30pm, Kopkind will present in the Organ Barn a sneak preview of Brett Story's Land of Destiny, a portrait of a working-class Ontario city that is a microcosm of the 21st century, caught between the prospect of mass joblessness or death from the job, between fear of industrial toxins and the terrible beauty of the industrial landscape. This event is free to the public.

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