2005 CALENDAR OF EVENTS & NEWS
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
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JANUARY
CURRENT STATE HIGHWAY CONDITIONS ALONG THE CENTRAL COAST :
Due to the storm and changing traffic conditions added below is a link to find all traffic conditions from Santa Cruz, Monterey, San Luis Obispo, and Santa Barbara Counties. For updated, around-the-clock information statewide.
call 1-800-427-7623 (800-GAS-ROAD) or http://www.santabarbaraca.com/visitor/storm_resources.php
FILM PRODUCTION GUIDE : NEW APPLICANTS
This is a self-service directory, so you must register to be listed. Apply at: http://www.filmsantabarbara.com/index.php?cat=122&subcat=173
WIF - WOMEN IN FILM - SANTA BARBARA NETWORKING BREAKFAST Saturday, January 15th, 2005
9-11am (check-in 8:45am) at Café Del Sol Restaurant. Full Buffet Breakfast: $10 members/students, $15 non-members. RSVP by January 14th, to Laurel Walsh, chair 805/967-8881 or Leslie Gangl Howe, co-chair, 805/962-1754. Guest Speaker: Perry Lang Director/Actor/Writer. Partial Credits: Director: TV; Tarzan, Las Vegas, ER, NYPD Blue, Fantasty Island, Alias, Dawson's Creek, Gilmore Girls, Charmed, Twilight Zone. Actor: Sunshine State, dir by John Sayles. Writer: Little Vegas
ROY DISNEY : AT SB MARITIME MUSEUM Friday, Jan 21 5:30pm
Experience stories of daring and skill, survival, and loss when Roy Disney presents highlights of his film "Transpac: A Century Across the Pacific." Disney and Ms. Leslie DeMeuse, a former ESPN producer who will also be on hand, produced the film. The Transpac is a 2,225-mile sailing race from Los Angeles to Hawaii that originated in 1886. Disney, himself, holds more than one record for winning the prestigious race. In 1999, his 72-foot racing sloop Pyewacket blasted across the Diamond Head finish line to set a new Transpacific Yacht Race elapsed time
record of 7 days, 11 hours, 41 minutes and 27 seconds.
DIGITAL DAYS : PROD MEETING Sunday, Jan 23 1:00-3:00pm
SB Tech Center, 402 E. Gutierrez, across from Home Improvement Center (same spot as last year).
We are finishing up the PSA that you will see running at various locations. Next week we install the Kiosks, plasma screens and computers preping content, getting ADs loaded. If you have HD content that you would like to show on the Kiosks please call me. TEEN FILMMAKER NEEDED: We need a Teen Filmmaker Producer to receive the entries, catalog them and we will have a judging committee in Feb. Any interest please come to the meeting or contact us. MARKETING CREW: for marketing, Advertising Sales for Kiosks, Production crew and support.
Richard Corwin, Producer: 805-730-1551 or email: rcore@aol.com or visit: http://www.digitaldaysfest.com/
AMBER KALEI PARESA : PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT AT SOHO Thru Thursday, Jan 27
Scenes from Down Stage Center, The Rock and Roll Photography of Amber Kalei Paresa. Live at Soho in Santa Barbara. www.amberparesa.com or www.sohosb.com
20TH SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL opens Friday, January 28th.
Festival Passes NOW on sale through TIXSTAR.com or call 1 800 504 TKTS or walk up to the TIXSTAR outlet in Paseo Nuevo Mall Wednesday -Sunday afternoons. The 20th FF runs January 28 thru February 6. 805-963-0023 www.sbfilmfestival.org
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FRIDAY 1/28
OPENING NIGHT: Woody Allen's "Melinda and Melinda" Friday, Jan 28, 7:30pm Arlington.
Screening only (gala sold out),
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SAT 1/29
CONVERSATIONS WITH LAURA DERN Saturday, Jan 29th 5:30pm, Victoria Hall. - CANCELLED-
MONTECITO AWARD : Annette Bening Saturday, Jan 29th 7:30pm, Lobero Theatre
FILMMAKER PANELS: (please note panelists are subject to change due to availability)
MOVERS & SHAKERS PANEL Saturday, Jan 29 11AM, Lobero Theatre.
Producers include Michael London ("Sideways"), Stuart Benjamin ("Ray"), Lee Daniels ("The Woodsman"), Richard Gladstein ("Finding Neverland"), Graham King ("The Aviator"), Michael Nozik ("Motorcycle Diaries"), and John Walker ("The Incredibles").
IT STARTS WITH THE SCRIPT PANEL Saturday, Jan 29, 2PM, Lobero Theatre.
Screenwriters include: Jim Taylor ("Sideways"), Brad Bird ("The Incredibles"), Zach Braff ("Garden State"), Bill Condon ("Kinsey"), Julie Delpy ("Before Sunset"), Paul Haggis ("Million Dollar Baby"), Charlie Kauffman ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"), John Logan ("Aviator"), Jose Rivera ("Motorcycle Diaries").
STUDENT FILMMAKERS SHOOT LIVE AT SBIFF: Sat, Jan 29 2-9PM, SB County Cthouse.
Public Invited to Set. Brooks film students are shooting the Kodak-sponsored 35mm project. Mentors include producer Steve Traxler, (Windtalkers, Tryst, Waterworld), and Time-Lapse Photographer Wayne Goldwyn, (Natural Born Killers, Serendipity, and U-Turn). Currently Brooks is one of three film schools nationwide to be awarded the Kodak 35mm Grant for 2005. The public is invited to experience a real "film set" in action. Free guided tours 2 - 9pm
FLYING A STUDIO SPECIAL PRESENTATION AT SBIFF: Sat 29th, 3:30PM, Victoria Hall
Documentary filmmaker Dana Driskel will be doing a presentation and showing a couple of silent films at the SBIFF. It's a retrospective on Frank Borzage's earliest work. Frank Borzage was the very first recipient of an Academy award for direction, and he learned how to direct while here in Santa Barbara working for the Flying A. Driskel be showing his very first film and one other he did, both with local scenery and flavor. Michael Mortilla will do live accompaniment and Driskel will fill in the historical details.
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SUN 1/30
CREATIVE FORCES: WOMEN IN THE BIZ PANEL. Sunday, Jan 30th, 11AM, Victoria Hall.
Includes Colleen Atwood, costume designer - Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events," Karen Baldwin, producer - Ray", Virginia Katz, film editor – "Kinsey," and Virginia Madsen, actress – "Sideways."
SB LOCAL: HASKELL WEXLER : "Tell Them Who You Are" Sunday, Feb 30, 1:30PM, Metro.
Mark Wexler's documentary about his dad, legendary cinematographer Haskell Wexler(Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, American Graffitti, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), and at 1:45PM, Tue, Feb 1, Metro.
CONVERSATIONS WITH PAUL GIAMATTI Sunday, Jan 30th, 5:30 PM, Victoria Hall
PLATINUM AWARD: LEONARDO DI CAPRIO Sunday, Jan 30th, 7PM, Arlington Theatre
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MON 1/31
REEL OCEAN: TRIBUTE TO SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Monday, Jan. 31, 7:00 PM SB Museum of Nat History Will run Jan 31–Feb 5. This Natural World Film Series hosted by Mike deGruy. (Attenborough & John Cleese will attend).
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DIGITAL DAYS PROD MTG : Sunday, Jan 30, 2005 1pm-3pm SB Tech Center, 402 E. Gutierrez
across from Home Improvement Center (same spot as last year). This week we will install the Kiosks, plasma screens and computers preping content, getting ADs loaded. Computers and plasmas arrive tomorrow and we can use help putting it all together and installing. TEEN PRODUCER NEEDED - to receive the entries, catalog them and we will have a judging committee in Feb. Opportunities also available in marketing, Advertising Sales for Kiosks, Production crew and support. Richard Corwin, Producer 805-730-1551m 818-398-4593 cell email: rcore@aol.com www.digitaldaysfest.com
YOUTH MEDIA ARTS ALLIANCE FORMING NOW!
The Alliance)'s Youth Activities and Education committee has formed a Youth (Media Arts) Alliance, which we call YA. The mission is to connect and offer mentorship and opportunity to local teens. The idea is to form a movie club so teen members can work together on each other's media projects, and to provide these teens an opportunity to shadow on local productions where they can learn from the pros. For example, The Digital Days Teen Filmmaker winners Brady Crane "Dracula" and Spencer McCall "The Hobbit" met at the ceremony and are now collaborating on a feature film script working from Truckee, CA. and Baton Rouge, LA. Watch for their latest film by the end of the year. Last Friday they signed up 17 students and 3 more teachers for YA. If you'd like to offer your professional support and mentorship, contact Kimberly Ford via email: ksueford@aol.com Ph: 805-967-4004 or cell: 689-8975.
AKWA CREATIVE MIXER: NEW MEMBERS WELCOME! Monday, Jan 31 7pm - 10pm
AKWA, 1413 5th St., Santa Monica (no host bar, drink specials, valet parking) This is a great chance to meet our 2005 Directors, as well as our collaborators and talented troublemakers. We're always on the lookout for great scripts. If you've got ideas you'd like to see produced, check out http://www.group101spots.com
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY CLASSES: Starting Feb. in Pasadena (Los Angeles)
Two 4-week class: one, focuses on building a digital workflow for shooting downloading and managing your didital photos; the second, designed to help you analyze and use available light. http://www.markberndt.com
LOS ANGELES ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL (LAIFF) 2005 : CALL FOR ENTRIES Deadline Sunday, Jan 31
Late deadline February 15, 2005 Entries are needed for LAIFAFEST 2005, an annual film festival dedicated to Italian & Italian-American filmmakers, held in Hollywood on April 2005. To enter our Year 2005 event, please go to: http://www.italfilmfest.com
TRAINING : SCRIPT SUPERVISOR & LINE PRODUCER Deadline Thursday, Feb 3
Cinema Arts Vocational Film School courses last four months, monday - thursday 7-10pm. They are taught by Production Managers, Producers, and Industry Executives in a form not available at any other film school at a modest price! The School also conducts the Script Supervision Program, a Digital FX Program, and Location Managing Program to name a few. Many Studio industry executives have takes this program to enhance their career. Call: 818-787-8886 or email: martingmat@yahoo.com or visit: http://www.cinemaartstech.com/
NICARAGUA PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT BY DIBBLEE HOYT: Thru February 14, 2005.
Specialty Photo Lab at 132, Garden Street in Santa Barbara. The lessons gleaned from the people in Nicaragua have a lot to say about people facing recovery from recent Mudslides and Tsunamis. Hoyt is a photography professor at Alan Hancock College, and an active member of Aeromedicos of SB (flies regularly to Baja Calif to do documentary work at the Aeromedicos clinic)
GEORGE GREENOUGH "BEYOND SURFING" : PHOTO EXHIBIT AT MARITIME MUSEUM Thru March 2005
10-5 daily. This popular exhibit is about surfing icon and innovator George Greenough. Greenough grew up in Montecito, and much of his pioneering in film, and wave-riding surfboard and boat design, was developed and tested in local waters. Greenough's lifelong passion for capturing wave-riding on film, his revolutionary designs and eccentric lifestyle have made him a living surf legend. See the original wooden model of the modern hi-aspect ratio fin, with its ability to change direction while maintaining high speeds. There are also several of Greenough's negative buoyancy spoon kneeboards that have incredible flex capabilities and allow him to ride deeper and longer in the "pocket" than most anyone else. These developments were the primary reason the longboard fell out of favor in the late 1960s. Rare carbon-fiber surfboards and sailboards built by Greenough will be on display, as well as the first carbon-fiber windsurfing mast ever created and rarer still surfboard templates hand-cut by Greenough, and water camera housings used while filming such movies as Big Wednesday and Crystal Voyager.
EXHIBIT CONTRIBUTORS: The list is a virtual "who's who" of surfing culture: Dennis Aaberg, Chuck Ames, Bernie Baker, Steve Bissell, Ian Cairns, Spencer Croul, Albert Falzon, Skip Frye, LeRoy Grannis, Greg Huglin, Bob McTavish, Dan Merkel, Steve Pezman, Peter Townend, Renny Yater, and Nat Young, as well as George Greenough himself, and many others. $6 for Adults; $3 for seniors, students, and youth; $1 for children aged 1-5. Tel: 805-962-4055
"IT'S ALL ABOUT COLOR": PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT Thru Friday, April 15 Mon - Fri 8am - 5pm
presented by SB Visual Arts Alliance and Land America Lawyers Title at 1435 Anacapa St. Features local artists: Sylvia Abulay, Gerry Aspen, Jim Denny, Marlene Denny, David Holt, Bonnie Muench, Edee Olson, and Durt Van Wagner. Info 965-7091. Info about SB Visual Arts http://www.sbva.org
CASTING CALL : A MAJOR NETWORK IS GRANTING WISHES!
Do you know of anyone extraordinary in your community or family that stands above the rest...? If you or your organization would like to nominate someone that needs to be the focus of a network television show, please e-mail Cory Lyons and include a personal biography of your nominee and tell us in detail why they deserve their dreams to come true. Include your contact info. email: CACasting@gmail.com or call: 818- 566-7819
ANIMATIONWERKS : LEAVES SB Late January
A fond goodbye to Gretchen and Jim Clark!!! Gretchen and I are moving to Portland Oregon to work with Bent Image Lab and will no longer be SB residents as of late January. We've both been working up here on freelance jobs for some time, but decided to buy a home and relocate here full time.
"ALL THAT I NEED" : IN POST AT SOLEIL FILMS INC. Completion Date Friday, March 18
Sound Designer Hans ten Broeke and Visual Effects Artist Jonah Tobias, the members of the post-production team of the int'l hit documentary "Supersize Me" have joined the post production team of "All That I Need." This is a reality movie in the genre of "The Blair Witch Project," directed by James Hergott, & produced by Hergott Prods, Exec Producer Tarquin Gotch ("Home Alone", "Curly Sue")
BIG SKY DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL:
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS at http://highplainsfilms.org/festival/selections.html
ALAN HANCOCK COLLEGE : NEW COURSES http://hancockcollege.edu/news.asp?ID=258&subject=1012
INT'L LOCATION GUIDE 2005 http://www.thelocationguide.com
Over 3,000 Production service companies, location finders and fixers, studios and film commissions in over 135 countries worldwide.
UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM : UCSB GREAT ART SHOW Thru Summer 2005 www.uam.ucsb.edu
POETRY EVENT WKLY NEWSLETTER: To subscribe please email careyberkus@earthlink.net
SANTA BARBARA CHANNELS: For local cultural arts on Cox ch.17 www.sbchannels.tv
"SIDEWAYS" IN SANTA BARBARA
The new Fox Searchlight Pictures film Sideways, directed by Alexander Payne (Election, About Schmidt, Citizen Ruth) and co-starring Santa Barbara's Wine Country, is generating great buzz in film and consumer markets; six reviewers named it their favorite movie of the year, with rumors of an OSCAR nomination. Opens 11/8 in SB.
MEDIA COVERAGE SO FAR: "A-list" consumer publications such as Conde Nast Traveler, Los Angeles Times, Food+Wine, Hollywood Reporter, New York Daily News, Town & Country, Travel+Leisure, Wine Spectator, Wall Street Journal (3), People, USA Today, Hollywood Reporter, Rolling Stone, Premiere, Christian Science Monitor, NPR Morning Edition, NYT Oscar noms, Travel & Leisure, GQ, Daily Variety, Hollywood Reporter online (very long article), Ventura County Star (fab), Roger Ebert (2 Thumbs Up), Time, Life, USA Today, NY Times
SB MOVIE MAP: check out the (NEW) SB Conference & Visitors Bureau's self-guided "SIDEWAYS IN SANTA BARBARA" movie location map. It spotlights 19 locations (ALSO AVAILABLE AT www.filmsantabarbara.com ). The Bureau is promoting the FREE map-brochure via our national media campaign, www.SantaBarbaraCA.com and at FOX's special screening events in 23 major markets.
*SB FILM LOCATIONS - GUIDED MOVIE TOURS - NEW! - will tour scene locations from feature films such as Sideways, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Of Mice & Men, & Seabiscuit. Tours on Sundays 9-4, $85 (price includes a gourmet catered picnic lunch and a wine tasting event). Call Personal Tours, 685-0552. and Shawn & Mary Beth Farrell, American International Touring Services (805-643-5466)for new MOVIE TOURS around S.B. County.
UK PROMOTION: The CVB also secured Sideways as the designated showcase film for California Tourism's 16th annual invitation-only VIP film premiere in London, Nov. 7, for top tour operators and media at World Travel Market, the world's largest and most important English-speaking travel tradeshow. YIHAA!
TRAILER "Sideways" was filmed on location in Santa Barbara County (47 days)and many locals appeared in scenes at wineries, restaurants, hotels and parks. See the trailer at: Http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/sideways/large.html
OSCAR NOMS: Best: Screenplay, Picture, Director, Supporting Actress(Madsen) & Supporting Actor (Church).
Recent Stories Assisted By SBCVB&FC: Lompoc Record; New York Daily News [we coordinated with SYVVA/ Laura Kath; Wine Valley Inn hosting upcomoing visit]; New York Post; KFBK Radio [Sacramento, Kathy gave interview]; Daily Express UK [hosted writer last week, running this week]; Los Angeles Daily News; Essentially America (UK)
SIDEWAYS PRODUCTIONS STILLS, GUIDE TO WINE & LIFE, SCRIPT AND MORE: 2/5-3/5
900 Borders Bookstore, State St., SB. Photos curtesy of Unit Still Photographer, Merie Weismiller Wallace.
INTRONETWORKS: ONLINE DATABASE SEEKING SUBSCRIBERS Santa Barbara County Residents Only
Register for this innovative, high-tech, countywide database. It is designed to help other businesses find you more easily - especially outside companies looking for high quality production services. This project is sponsored by the County of Santa Barbara. Basic listings are FREE. Note: you must have a Santa Barbara zip code to register. http://www.intronetworks.com/introNetworks.html
TIXSTAR : THE PLACE TO GET YOUR TICKETS 6 B De La Guerra St., Wed - Sun 12:00am - 5:00pm
1/2 price tickets to all major venues (including the Arilngton, Lobero, Music Academy, Marjorie Luke etc.) in Santa Barbara. http://www.ticketmaestro.org/ticketmaestro/commPartner.asp 1-800-504-8587
I.V. MOVIE SCREENINGS http://www.magiclanternfilms.org/magic.htm
Hot Friday nites - Great offbeat movies.
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FEBRUARY
FILM PRODUCTION GUIDE : NEW APPLICANTS
This is a self-service directory, so you must register to be listed. To apply, go to http://www.filmsantabarbara.com/index.php?cat=122&subcat=173
ROAD CONDITIONS
TRAFFIC INFO. STATEWIDE: 1-800-427-7623 (800-GAS-ROAD)
Hwy 154 IS OPEN - thank you Cal Trans & county road personnel for making this happen so fast!!!
ROAD CLOSURES: For current information & alternative transportation in Santa Barbara County go to: http://www.santabarbaraca.com/visitor/storm_resources.php
AMTRAK: May be closed due to mudslides. Surfliner service starts up Sat 2/26. Service to SLO and Seattle back 2/28. Check status with Amtrak 1-800-USA-RAIL, or www.amtrak.com
THE STARS SPOKE OUT: BOOK SIGNING Thursday, Feb 3 10:30am-12N Borders.
Book-signing with dialogue coach, location manager & author Frawley Becker at Borders,
20TH SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Thru Feb 6th.
Festival Passes NOW on sale through TIXSTAR.com or call 1 800 504 TKTS or walk up to the TIXSTAR outlet in Paseo Nuevo Mall Wednesday -Sunday afternoons. The 20th FF runs January 28 thru February 6. 805-963-0023 www.sbfilmfestival.org
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TUE 2/1
SB LOCAL: ROBIN BISIO'S DANCE FILMS Dancer/choreographer Robin Bisio's dance films:
Victoria Theatre, Tuesday, Feb 1 at 6:30 p.m & SB Museum of Art Thursday, Feb. 3 at 4:00p.m.
SBIFF SAPPHIRE AWARD Tuesday, Feb 1, 7:30 PM, Lobero Theatre.
Academy Award nominee, Kate Winslet honored ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" & "Finding Neverland")
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WED 2/2
SBIFF CENTERPIECE SCREENING: Dave Barry's Complete Guide To Guys, premieres Wednesday, Feb 2, 7:30PM, Arlington. This picture was produced by Jeff Arch (Sleepless In Seattle) and Exec Producer David Shor, both Santa Barbara locals, as is their company, Labrador Pictures. The film was partially shot in Santa Barbara and features John Cleese.
REEL OCEAN: Blue Planet: The Deep with filmmaker Mike deGruy Wednesday, Feb 2, 7:30 PM
SB Museum of Natural History
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THURS 2/3
REEL OCEAN: Strange Days on Planet Earth: Troubled Waters Thursday, Feb 3, 7:30 PM
SB Museum of Nat History. With filmmakers Tierney Thies & Mark Shelley
CELEBRATION OF LATIN AMERICAN & SPANISH CINEMA: Thursday, Feb 3rd, 7:30PM, SB Museum of Modern Art Film, Art, Tango, Tequila & Tapas. In partnership with Cinemedia Media Arts Center (CIMAC).
MARIA FULL OF GRACE Thursday, Feb 3rd, 6PM Lobero Theatre,
Q&A w/actress Catalina Santino Moreno (Oscar nominee)
SIDEWAYS WITH THOMAS HADEN CHURCH Q&A Thursday, Feb 5 9pm Lobero Theatre
A special screening with special Q & A before screening by Academy Award Nominee Thomas Haden Church
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FRI 2/4
RIVIERA AWARD: Kevin Bacon tribute Friday, Feb 4, 7:30PM Lobero Theatre
ALIENS OF THE DEEP: James Cameron Documentary Friday, Feb 4 Bacara Resort and Spa
Three researchers from UCSB Marine Science Institute are featured in a new 3-D IMAX film by James Cameron the Academy Award winning direcgtor of "Titanic".Chronicles extraordinary two and a half mile journeys to the depths of the ocean floor to the explore the otherwordly habitats created by hydrothemal vents in the Atlantic and Pacaific Oceans and the unique creatures who inhibit them.
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SAT 2/5
DIRECTORS ON DIRECTING PANEL Saturday, Feb 5 11:00AM Lobero Theatre.
Includes Peter Guber, Alejandro Amenebar ("Out to Sea"), Kevin Bacon ("Loverboy"), Terry George ("Hotel Rwanda"), Nicole Kassel ("The Woodsman"), Walter Salles ("Motorcycle Diaries"), and Joel Schumacher ("Phantom of the Opera").
REEL OCEAN - Shark Mountain Saturday, Feb 5 1:30 PM SB Museum of Nat History
with filmmakers Howard and Michelle Hall
SCORING THE FILM PANEL Saturday, Feb 5 2PM Lobero Theatre.
Composers include: John Debney ("The Passion of the Christ"), Michael Giacchino ("The Incredibles"), Jan Kaczmarek ("Finding Neverland"), Rolfe Kent ("Sideways) and Mark Mothersbaugh ("The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou") and Aaron Zigman ("The Notebook").
EMMANUEL'S GIFT: Narrated by Oprah Winfrey Friday, Feb 5 3:30pm
This is a very moving story of a disabled athlete. Catch them in action with the Challenged Athletes Foundation this week.
REEL OCEAN PANEL - The Future of Nature Filmmaking: Classic or New Wave Saturday, Feb 5 4PM
Museum of Natural History. Mike deGruy, Thom Beers, Howard & Michelle Hall, Michael Hanrahan, Bruce Reitherman.
SCREENING OF ALL STUDENT FILMS : Saturday, Feb 5 6:30pm Victoria Hall Theatre
Screening student films by SBHS, SMHS, UCSB, SBCC and Brooks Institute.
TO THE MAXXX - Dust to Glory (World Premiere) Saturday, Feb 5 7PM.
Dana Brown's (Step into Liquid) new film about the Baja 1000. Dana grew up in SB and is the son of filmmaker Bruce Brown (Endless Summer), who still lives in Gaviota.
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SUN 2/6
SBIFF SOCIAL JUSTICE AWARD : Sunday, Feb 6th 1:00PM SB Museum of Modern Art.
To a film that makes a valuable contribution to advancing social justice. The winning film will receive $1,000
SBIFF CLOSING NITE : "The Moguls" (screening only), Sunday, Feb 6th 7:30PM Arlington
10-10-10 STUDENT FILMMAKER AWARDS - 10 days, 10 films, 10 minutes. Winning 10-10-10 films will be screened prior to "The Moguls." Local student filmmakers were invited to participate. Awards presented in both High School and College categories.
SBIFF - EXTREME FILMS and SB FILMMAKERS:
Santa Barbara filmmaker and Alliance member Russ Spencer has been named as one of three "guest directors" at the 2005 SBIFF.Spencer, principal of Bison Films, will oversee the programming of two festival sidebars:
TO THE MAXXX: http://www.edhat.com/sbfilm/movies.cfm?Category=to%20the%20Maxxx.
SB filmmakers: http://www.edhat.com/sbfilm/movies.cfm?Category=Santa%20Barbara%20Filmmaker
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DIGITAL DAYS PROD MEETING: Sunday, Feb 6 1-3:30pm SB Tech Center
402 E. Gutierrez, across from Home Improvment Center. Digital Days has launched Digital Billboards in the windows at Metropolitan, Fiesta 5 Theatre, PJ Milligan, Sammy's Camera, Alias Wavefront, and there is a 3-D demo playing nightly in the Performing Arts Center at the Granada Theater. Opportunities available in marketing, advertising, sales for kiosks, production crew and support. If you want to join Digital Days crew please show up at Sundays meeting to hear latest developments. Richard Corwin, Producer: 805-730-1551
WINTER FILM SHOWCASE: Multimedia Academy Friday Feb 11 6-8pm Ridley Tree Education Center
McCormick House on corner of SB st. and Arrellaga st.. Features animation, film and graphic art.
DIGITAL DAYS PRODUCTION MTG - SUNDAY, Feb 13, 2005 from 1:00-5:30pm
At SB Tech Center, 402 E. Gutierrez, across from Home Improvement Center.
The first half of the meeting will address production and webcast issues and the last 2 hours we will Judge Teen Filmmakers. Hope you can hang
7TH ANNUAL DIGITAL DAYS FILM FESTIVAL : Experience the future of entertainment Sat, Feb 26-27
Marjorie Luke Theater 721 E. Cota St., Santa Barbara
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2/26
HD PRODUCTION PANELS: Process of bringing an HD video project from Pre thru Post-Production
Including pre-visualization into production and through post to the big screen. On hand will be Dana Brown ("Step Into Liquid") who screens his latest film "Dust to Glory". Entirely post-produced using the Adobe HD Video Collection. Supervising Editor of TV's "Scrubs" will demonstrate a similar setup using Apple Software.
EMERGING MEDIA OPPORTUNITIES: For creative, business,and technology professionals
Will address all platforms: Boradband and the internet, digital television and cinema, computer games, DVD and mobile communications. Topics include: emerging media industries, content strategies, technologies, platforms, business models, and markets. Panelists include: David Jensen, CEO Zetools; Richard Titus, President Schematic; Frank Casanova, of AppleQuickTime; Ken Neville, Interactive producer to several major studios; Duncan Campbell, Goldpocket; and Brian Claypool, Christie Digital. http://www.digitaldaysfest.com/ or rcore@aol.com
HANDS ON: 3 1/2 hour Canon XL2 Camera Workshop & additional software classes
To run concurrently with the panels. Saturday's events will be on the web in a 9 hr. quicktime live webcast.
SATURDAY NITE SCREENINGS: LEADING SB FILMMAKERS PREVIEW THEIR LATEST PROJECTS
Spectacular natural history films that explore to the far reaches of Planet Earth. SB has become an HD "natural history" base for some of the world's leading filmmakers. Tonight we celebrate local explorers who take us to their unique worlds, thanks to the magic of High Definition.
Tom Reiderer's 3-D HD mountain climbing expedition "UP DENALI 3-D"
Bruce Reitherman's The Living Edens (HD - Thailand), wildlife, natural history & incredible landscapes.
Tom Piozet - an HD look at life in Greece, Tibet, India and Papua New Guinea.
David Pu'u, one of Santa Barbara's favorite surf filmmakers
Tom Campbell - deep water exploration and his Award Winning HD film South Africa's White Sharks
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2/27
TEEN FILMMAKER AWARDS 12 - 5:30pm
Winning films of local and statewide students will be awarded high-end software awards and screened at Santa Barbara Junior High and on local Channel 21. Lat year's entries totaled 125. http://www.digitaldaysfest.com/
DIGITAL BILLBOARDS - Digital Days has launched Digital Billboards
CHECK OUT the windows at Metropolitan Fiesta 5 Theatre, PJ Milligan, Samys Camera, former home of Digital Days' birthplace, Alias/Wavefront. And the 3-D demo playing nightly in the Performing Arts Center at the Granada Theater. Please check them out they look really cool.
CREW Opportunities available for Production crew and supporT - Please show up at Sundays meeting.
Richard Corwin, Producer, Digital Days, 805-730-1551, 818-398-4593 cell, email: rcore@aol.com
KUDOS TO DIGITAL DAYS PRODUCER: Richard Corwin Emmy-award winning Supervising Sound Editor received a 2004 Motion Picture Sound Editors, Golden Reel, for "LAX The Longest Day" This is Richards 12th nom, winning 3 Golden Reels.
http://www.mpse.org/goldenreels/nominations/10FSFT-10TelevisionShortFormSoundEffectsandFoley.pdf
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AFTER EFFECTS TEACHER NEEDED: SBHS MULTIMEDIA ACADEMY start immediately
The minimum qualifications are a bachelor's degree and two years of related experience with the program, industry, or teaching. Classes are Mon - Fri 9 - 11am at the Academy. Course description: FILMPRO 177 - Introduction to Motion Graphics, compositing and 2D animation using Adobe "After Effects" for film and video applications, including technical and aesthetic issues. Contact Dan Williams director@sbmultimedia.com
JOB OPENING : MULTIMEDIA ACADEMY, SBHS, in partnership with SBCC Start Immediately
Web Design teacher needed immediately, with Bachelor's degree and experience in the field. The class uses Macromedia Dreamweaver as the primary web design tool. The classes run Mon-Fri, 9-11 am at the Academy. Course Description: Covers the process of designing, publishing and publicizing websites. Students learn how to communicate with clients, create detailed storyboards, negotiate a contract, set production schedules, design interfaces, develop content, and understand the job market in web design. Significant emphasis on designing attractive yet highly functional sites. Course is project-driven where students learn by redesigning a pre-existing website, or creating a new one.
WINTER FILM SHOWCASE : MULTIMEDIA ACADEMY Free Reception, Friday, Feb 11, 6-8PM
Ridley Tree Education Center, McCormick House, Features animation, film and graphic art. Ridley Tree is at the corner of Santa Barbara and Arrellaga Streets.
SBIFF 10-10-10 WINNERS - See them on Cox Channel 8 Thur. 10th, Sun. 13th, Tues. 15th, Thur. 17th
These are the winners of Sotheby's International Realty 10-10-10 Student Filmmaker Competition, where 10 students from the high school and college level were selected to make a 10-minute digital film during the 10 days of the festival. The winners received a $3,000 equipment scholarship from Sotheby's.
High School – Nico Constantinides from San Marcos HS, "The Meaning," an endearing story of self-exploration and discovery. College – Mark Legaspi from Santa Barbara City College, "The Unfortunate End of Six-Gun Bill Sutton," a tall-tale about a gunfighter who thinks he's invincible.
CINEMATOGRAPHER ONLINE CHAT: The American Society of Cinematographers Saturday, Feb 12 11-4pm
(ASC) will host their annual open house and live Internet chat with many of the world's most talented filmmakers prior to the 19th Annual Outstanding Achievement Awards. The ASC Clubhouse will be open for visitors from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. (PST) on Sat. Feb. 12. The Internet chat will originate from the same site noon to 3 p.m. (PST).http://www.theasc.com
NICARAGUA PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT BY DIBBLEE HOYT: Thru February 14, 2005.
Specialty Photo Lab at 132, Garden Street in Santa Barbara. The lessons gleaned from the people in Nicaragua have a lot to say about people facing recovery from recent Mudslides and Tsunamis. Hoyt is a photography professor at Alan Hancock College, and an active member of Aeromedicos of SB (flies regularly to Baja Calif to do documentary work at the Aeromedicos clinic) www.specialtyphotolab.com
JAG, PARAMOUNT: The episode is "Bridging the Gulf" (shot Jan 2005) and airs on CBS, 2/18, 9PM
ALLIANCE MIXER: The Alliance for Creative Commerce Tues. Feb 22 5-7pm
Resaturant Nu, 1129 State St. Santa Barbara. Memebers free Non-members $10.
LOCATIONS EXPO: April 15-17 Santa Monica Convention Center http://www.afci.org
This is a great place to network with location managers and producers, and a lovely spot for a tradeshow!
WRITER GRANT Deadline Monday, Feb 28
The Roy W. Dean writer/researcher grant takes a writer who lives anywhere to New Zealand for 30 days to write your play, screenplay, documentary or your book. This grant puts you in the Wye Cottage, created for filmmakers and writers; you have a car to see the south island and funds for gas and groceries. Full information at: www.fromtheheartproductions.com for this and 4 other grants or email: Caroleedean@att.net
10TH ANNUAL MONTEREY SCREENPLAY COMPETITION : CALL FOR ENTRIES Deadline Mon, Feb 28
Entry fee is $35 per script if postmarked by Feb. 28, and then $45 until the March 31 deadline.
Screenplays of all genres and settings are welcomed, but a bonus $1,000 "Monterey County On Location" award will be givin for an outstanding screenplay that includes at least 75 percent Monterey County settings.The top three scripts will be read by leading film industry professionals who have already agreed to meet with the winning screenwriters in Los Angeles. Submissions must be full-length film or television movie scripts between 90 and 120 pages, and must not have been optioned or sold at the time of submission. Entry rules, applications, and informaiton are available at www.filmmonterey.org or email info@filmmonterey.org or call 831-646-0910
BLUE CAT SCREENPLAY COMPETITION : Deadline Tuesday, March 1
Top prize $5,000 & every screenwriter receives written feedback on their script. Women who are named BlueCat finalists receive live staged reading at The High Falls FIlm Festival in NY. http://www.bluecatscreenplay.com/submit.html
TELLY AWARDS: ( for work done 1/03-3/05 ) Deadline Friday Mar. 4
Commercials ( local cable, regional & multi-market cable) Film & video (non-broadcast programs, TV programs, segments and promos) www.tellyawards.com
GEORGE GREENOUGH "BEYOND SURFING" : PHOTO EXHIBIT AT MARITIME MUSEUM Thru March 2005
10-5 daily. This popular exhibit is about surfing icon and innovator George Greenough. Greenough grew up in Montecito, and much of his pioneering in film, and wave-riding surfboard and boat design, was developed and tested in local waters. Greenough's lifelong passion for capturing wave-riding on film, his revolutionary designs and eccentric lifestyle have made him a living surf legend.
See the original wooden model of the modern hi-aspect ratio fin, with its ability to change direction while maintaining high speeds. There are also several of Greenough's negative buoyancy spoon kneeboards that have incredible flex capabilities and allow him to ride deeper and longer in the "pocket" than most anyone else. These developments were the primary reason the longboard fell out of favor in the late 1960s. Rare carbon-fiber surfboards and sailboards built by Greenough will be on display, as well as the first carbon-fiber windsurfing mast ever created and rarer still surfboard templates hand-cut by Greenough, and water camera housings used while filming such movies as Big Wednesday and Crystal Voyager.
EXHIBIT CONTRIBUTORS: The list is a virtual "who's who" of surfing culture: Dennis Aaberg, Chuck Ames, Bernie Baker, Steve Bissell, Ian Cairns, Spencer Croul, Albert Falzon, Skip Frye, LeRoy Grannis, Greg Huglin, Bob McTavish, Dan Merkel, Steve Pezman, Peter Townend, Renny Yater, and Nat Young, as well as George Greenough himself, and many others. $6 for Adults; $3 for seniors, students, and youth; $1 for children aged 1-5. Tel: 805-962-4055
"IT'S ALL ABOUT COLOR": PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT Thru Friday, April 15 Mon - Fri 8am - 5pm
Presented by SB Visual Arts Alliance and Land America Lawyers Title at 1435 Anacapa St. Features local artists: Sylvia Abulay, Gerry Aspen, Jim Denny, Marlene Denny, David Holt, Bonnie Muench, Edee Olson, and Durt Van Wagner. Info 965-7091. Info about SB Visual Arts http://www.sbva.org
MOVIE STILL PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT : Thru April
See the work of Unit Still Photographer Merie Weismiller Wallace (Sideways) and many others at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences on Wilshire Blvd. in Beverly Hills. Closed Mondays
CINEMA ARTS - SCRIPT SUPERVISOR CLASSES BEGINS IN LA: With instructor D. Scott Easton's
Credits include associate producer/ UPM on "Gods And Generals," " The adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle," and Steven Spielberg's" Deep Impact." His Unit Production Manager credits include "Stuart Little," " Lost World," " Up Close and Personal," and "Adams Family Values." The school also commences the Script Supervising program. Spiderman 1, 2, and 3 script supervisors staffed have been trained by our prominent instructor, Jim Kelly Durgin. Space is limited call 818-787-8886 email: martingmat@yahoo.com http://www.cinemaartstech.com/
YOUTH MEDIA ARTS ALLIANCE FORMING NOW!
The Alliance)'s Youth Activities and Education committee has formed a Youth (Media Arts) Alliance, which we call YA. The mission is to connect and offer mentorship and opportunity to local teens. The idea is to form a movie club so teen members can work together on each other's media projects, and to provide these teens an opportunity to shadow on local productions where they can learn from the pros. For example, The Digital Days Teen Filmmaker winners Brady Crane "Dracula" and Spencer McCall "The Hobbit" met at the ceremony and are now collaborating on a feature film script working from Truckee, CA. and Baton Rouge, LA. Watch for their latest film by the end of the year. Last Friday they signed up 17 students and 3 more teachers for YA. If you'd like to offer your professional support and mentorship, contact Kimberly Ford via email: ksueford@aol.com Ph: 805-967-4004 or cell: 689-8975.
UCSB GRAD STUDENT STARS IN JAMES CAMERON'S DOCUMENTARY : ALIENS OF THE DEEP
UCSB grad student Dijanna Figueroa's classroom is under the sea. She went to the ocean floor with James Cameron for his new IMAX production, "Aliens of the Deep." The film does not have a release date in Los Angeles or SB, but opens in San Diego, Las Vegas and San Francisco on Friday. In the movie, Cameron explores the idea that the bizarre creatures living in the extreme environments of hydrothermal vents found on the ocean floor might provide a blueprint for what life is like elsewhere in the universe.
FLYING A STUDIOS: NEW WEBSITE http://www.filmstudies.ucsb.edu/flyinga/
In 2004 documentary filmmaker, Dana Driskel, made a documentary about Flying A Studios; SB's first movie studio, and the first major studio in California during the 1920's. The American Film Company database is growing and the website is now "live". Driskel plans a membership group called "Friends of the Flying A." Members will receive a complimentary VHS copy of "An American Film Company", receive a quarterly e-news letter highlighting developments in ongoing research and the satisfaction of helping to retrieve this important silent film company.
SB FILM PROD COMPANY: SOLEIL FILMS STARTS NEW MOVIE "Say it in Russian"
Jeff Celentano directs company's feature film.
WIF - WOMEN IN FILM - SANTA BARBARA NETWORKING BREAKFAST T.B.A.
UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM: UCSB GREAT ART SHOW Thru Summer 2005 www.uam.ucsb.edu
FILM RESOURCES: Lots of great links to production resources at http://www.screensite.org/links.html
SANTA BARBARA CHANNELS: For local cultural arts on Cox cable ch.17 www.sbchannels.tv
POETRY EVENT WKLY NEWSLETTER : To subscribe please email careyberkus@earthlink.net
ALAN HANCOCK COLLEGE : NEW COURSES http://hancockcollege.edu/news.asp?ID=258&subject=1012
FREE DICTIONARY / ENCYCLOPEDIA AT YOUR FINGERTIPS: Become an instant expert on any topic
Download answers.com (takes up very little space and links to their website) http://www.answers.com
"SIDEWAYS" IN SANTA BARBARA
The new Fox Searchlight Pictures film Sideways, directed by Alexander Payne (Election, About Schmidt, Citizen Ruth) and co-starring Santa Barbara's Wine Country, is generating great buzz in film and consumer markets; six reviewers named it their favorite movie of the year, with rumors of an OSCAR nomination. Opens 11/8 in SB.
MEDIA COVERAGE SO FAR: "A-list" consumer publications such as Conde Nast Traveler, Los Angeles Times, Food+Wine, Hollywood Reporter, New York Daily News, Town & Country, Travel+Leisure, Wine Spectator, Wall Street Journal (3), People, USA Today, Hollywood Reporter, Rolling Stone, Premiere, Christian Science Monitor, NPR Morning Edition, NYT Oscar noms, Travel & Leisure, GQ, Daily Variety, Hollywood Reporter online (very long article), Ventura County Star (fab), Roger Ebert (2 Thumbs Up) Time, Life, USA Today, NY Times, Home & Garden, Ventura County Star, KABC Los Angeles, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, LA Times, CNN, CBS, USA Today, NY Daily News, Washington Post, Westways Magazine, Sunset Magazine, Independent Spirit Award
SB MOVIE MAP: check out the (NEW) SB Conference & Visitors Bureau's self-guided "SIDEWAYS IN SANTA BARBARA" movie location map. It spotlights 19 locations (ALSO AVAILABLE AT www.filmsantabarbara.com ). The Bureau is promoting the FREE map-brochure via our national media campaign, www.SantaBarbaraCA.com and at FOX's special screening events in 23 major markets.
*SB FILM LOCATIONS - GUIDED MOVIE TOURS - NEW! - will tour scene locations from feature films such as Sideways, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Of Mice & Men, & Seabiscuit. Tours on Sundays 9-4, $85 (price includes a gourmet catered picnic lunch and a wine tasting event). Call Personal Tours, 685-0552. and Shawn & Mary Beth Farrell, American International Touring Services (805-643-5466)for new MOVIE TOURS around S.B. County.
UK PROMOTION: The CVB also secured Sideways as the designated showcase film for California Tourism's 16th annual invitation-only VIP film premiere in London, Nov. 7, for top tour operators and media at World Travel Market, the world's largest and most important English-speaking travel tradeshow. YIHAA!
TRAILER "Sideways" was filmed on location in Santa Barbara County (47 days)and many locals appeared in scenes at wineries, restaurants, hotels and parks. See the trailer at: Http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/sideways/large.html
OSCAR NOMS: Best: Screenplay, Picture, Director, Supporting Actress(Madsen) & Supporting Actor (Church).
Recent Stories Assisted By SBCVB&FC: Lompoc Record; New York Daily News [we coordinated with SYVVA/ Laura Kath; Wine Valley Inn hosting upcomoing visit]; New York Post; KFBK Radio [Sacramento, Kathy gave interview]; Daily Express UK [hosted writer last week, running this week]; Los Angeles Daily News; Essentially America (UK)
SIDEWAYS PRODUCTIONS STILLS, GUIDE TO WINE & LIFE, SCRIPT AND MORE: 2/5-3/5
900 Borders Bookstore, State St., SB. Photos curtesy of Unit Still Photographer, Merie Weismiller Wallace.
INTRONETWORKS: ONLINE DATABASE SEEKING SUBSCRIBERS Santa Barbara County Residents Only
Register for this innovative, high-tech, countywide database. It is designed to help other businesses find you more easily - especially outside companies looking for high quality production services. This project is sponsored by the County of Santa Barbara. Basic listings are FREE. Note: you must have a Santa Barbara zip code to register. http://www.intronetworks.com
TIXSTAR : THE PLACE TO GET YOUR TICKETS 6 B De La Guerra St., Wed - Sun 12:00am - 5:00pm
1/2 price tickets to all major venues (including the Arilngton, Lobero, Music Academy, Marjorie Luke etc.) in Santa Barbara. http://www.ticketmaestro.org/ticketmaestro/commPartner.asp 1-800-504-8587
I.V. MOVIE SCREENINGS Hot Friday nites - Great offbeat films. http://www.magiclanternfilms.org/magic.htm
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MARCH
FILM PRODUCTION GUIDE : NEW APPLICANTS
This is a self-service directory, so you must register to be listed. To apply, go to http://www.filmsantabarbara.com/index.php?cat=122&subcat=173
CURRENT STATE HIGHWAY CONDITIONS ALONG THE CENTRAL COAST:
call 1-800-427-7623 (800-GAS-ROAD) or http://www.santabarbaraca.com/visitor/storm_resources.php
AMTRAK IS OPEN: Amtrak train service has resumed between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara/SLO.
TRACY LANE FARHAD - NEW EXEC DIRECTOR
Solvang Conference & Visitors Bureau (formerly with the SBCVB&FC) KUDOS!!! BEST WISHES my wonderful friend and colleague... We'll miss you A LOT... but look forward to partnering with you for North County. :)
JACKIE TRAYLOR RETIRES
After 14 yrs as Executive Director with the Solvang Conference & Visitors Bureau. A big thank you to our cherished friend an colleague who partnered with us on Seabiscuit, Hidalgo, Sideways and many other projects. If she was available, she was on board for every film and CVB venture we threw at her ... and she did it with Solvang cookies, charm and laughter... and lots of pictures too!!! We'll miss you Jackie - please call us often. :)
CASTING CALL: I am looking for a spanish speaking mother and daughter Friday March 4
Must be able to act and read spanish for radio spot. I am auditioning folks . They don't have to be related, just a good fit. Can record/read separate or together. Elizabeth 805-570-4080 or 805-569-0688
FIRE SAFETY & SPECIAL FX TRAINING SEMINAR - Monday March 14 - 17
State Fire Marshal's Motion Picture Fire Safety Training Seminar $250/week or $70/day. Anyone may participate. Call Penny Murphy at the Fire prevention Institute 909-386-8427 or visit www.firepreventionsafety.org
REMIX : 4th ANNUAL O'REILLY EMERGING TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE - Monday, March 14 - 17
Held in San Diego, CA. Information: 800-998-9938 or 707-827-7000 http://conferences.oreillynet.com/etech/
BLUE CAT SCREENPLAY COMPETITION : Deadline Tuesday, March 1
Top prize $5,000 & every screenwriter receives written feedback on their script. Women who are named BlueCat finalists receive live staged reading at The High Falls Film Festival in NY. http://www.bluecatscreenplay.com/submit.html
TELLY AWARDS: Deadline Friday, March 4
Commercials ( local cable, regional & multi-market cable) Film & video (non-broadcast programs, TV programs, segments and promos) www.tellyawards.com ( for work done 1/03-3/05)
OCEAN FILM FESTIVAL: Submission deadline Thursday, March 31st
A partnership between two local groups: new-media company, The Ocean Channel, and non-profit org, SB Channel keeper, will produce an evening of stunning films from around the world, highlighting the ocean's natural beauty, adrenaline sports on the water, marine conservation. Submissions DEADLINE March 31st. Send submissions to: Attn: SBOFF 4692 Carpinteria Ave. #1, Carpinteria CA, 93103. Email: michael@ocean.com. May 22, UCSB Campbell Hall 6pm http://www.ocean.com/FilmFestival/
AURORA AWARDS: Deadline Thursday, March 31st www.auroraawards.com
Eligibility: all English, Spanish and French programs produced during the past 10 years that have NOT been broadcast thru a nat'l feed on a major commercial network (check these qualifications.)
GEORGE GREENOUGH "BEYOND SURFING" : PHOTO EXHIBIT AT MARITIME MUSEUM Thru March 2005
10-5 daily. This popular exhibit is about surfing icon and innovator George Greenough. Greenough grew up in Montecito, and much of his pioneering in film, and wave-riding surfboard and boat design, was developed and tested in local waters. Greenough's lifelong passion for capturing wave-riding on film, his revolutionary designs, and eccentric lifestyle have made him a living surf legend. See the original wooden model of the modern hi-aspect ratio fin, with its ability to change direction while maintaining high speeds. There are also several of Greenough's negative buoyancy spoon kneeboards that have incredible flex capabilities and allow him to ride deeper and longer in the "pocket" than most anyone else. These developments were the primary reason the longboard fell out of favor in the late 1960s. Rare carbon-fiber surfboards and sailboards built by Greenough will be on display, as well as the first carbon-fiber windsurfing mast ever created and rarer still surfboard templates hand-cut by Greenough, and water camera housings used while filming such movies as Big Wednesday and Crystal Voyager.
EXHIBIT CONTRIBUTORS: The list is a virtual "who's who" of surfing culture: Dennis Aaberg, Chuck Ames, Bernie Baker, Steve Bissell, Ian Cairns, Spencer Croul, Albert Falzon, Skip Frye, LeRoy Grannis, Greg Huglin, Bob McTavish, Dan Merkel, Steve Pezman, Peter Townend, Renny Yater, and Nat Young, as well as George Greenough himself, and many others. $6 for Adults; $3 for seniors, students, and youth; $1 for children aged 1-5. Tel: 805-962-4055
NAB: World's largest electronics media show - April 15-21.
Las Vegas Convention Center, NV. www.nabshow.com
IT'S ALL ABOUT COLOR: PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT Thru Friday, April 15 Mon - Fri 8am - 5pm
presented by SB Visual Arts Alliance and Land America Lawyers Title at 1435 Anacapa St. Features local artists like Sylvia Abulay, Gerry Aspen, Jim Denny, Marlene Denny, David Holt, Bonnie Muench, Edee Olson, and Durt Van Wagner. Info 965-7091. Info about SB Visual Arts http://www.sbva.org
MOVIE STILL PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT : Thru April
See the work of unit Still Photographer Merie Weismiller Wallace (Sideways) and many others at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences on Wilshire Blvd. in Beverly Hills. Closed Mondays
FLYING A STUDIOS: NEW WEBSITE http://www.filmstudies.ucsb.edu/flyinga/
In 2004 documentary filmmaker, Dana Driskel, made a documentary about Flying A Studios; SB's first movie studio, and the first major studios in California during the 1920's. The American Film Company database is growing and the website is now "live". Driskel plans a membership group called "Friends of the Flying A." Members will receive a complimentary VHS copy of "An American Film Company", receive a quarterly e-news letter highlighting developments in ongoing research and the satisfaction of helping to retrieve this important silent film company.
LIFE CHRONICLES ELDERLY DOCUMENTARIES: (805) 966-3411 or lifechronicles@cox.net
LifeChronicles, a non-profit organization in Santa Barbara, California, that was founded in 1998 by CEO Kate Carter does just that that. Carter and her volunteer student crew make videos about people who are dying or involved in other forms of health crises (referrals from doctors, hospices, and most medical support agencies). The completed videos incorporate family photographs and music interspersed with life stories, personal messages, and poignant life memories. LifeChronicles does not charge for its services - it relies on grants, donations, and fundraising. Carter utilizes the talent of media and production students from local high schools, community colleges, and universities to do the filming and editing(including UCSB & SBCC). To date, more than 200 videos have been made (thanks to 80+ student volunteers). In 2004, Carter received the NFL Community Quarterback Award and grant. Carter has also appeared on "Oprah."
JEAN-MICHEL COUSTEAU AND SPONGEBOB: Ocean Futures Society
Learning about the ocean and its many mysterious creatures is the goal of a new partnership between Jean-Michel Cousteau's Ocean Futures Society (OFS,) SpongeBob SquarePants creator Stephen Hillenburg, Paramount Pictures and Nick.com, and the DVD release of "SpongeBob Squarepants: The Movie." OFS created the "The Case of the Sponge Bob," a bonus feature on the DVD. Related interactive education material is at www.oceanfutures.org and on Nickelodeon's SpongeBob website: http://www.nick.com/all_nick/movies/spongebob/
LOBO MEDIA PRODUCTION: 2 NEW IMAX FILMS: Mal Wolfe, directing & producing
1) NEW GUINEA: Island of a Thousand Voices, (spring 06 release) is the first of the Expeditions for Knowledge series. The film is based on a unique anthropological characteristic -- the fact that, through 50,000 years of isolation, almost a thousand village societies, existing in close proximity to one another developed distinct cultures and individual languages. As a result, over one-third of the World's languages are spoken within an area of 342,000 sq. miles.The world's second largest island, New Guinea, is also one of the most mysterious places on Earth. This film will take the viewer into some of the deepest and most inaccessible regions of the island and explore some their unusual cultures, while documenting tribal interaction, and the effects of 20th century development on these indigenous cultures.
2) GHOSTS OF THE GRAND CIRCLE: in pre-production and completely funded, this film will focus on the beauty, the history, the people and the cultures of the "Grand Circle," a 1400-mile loop (starting in the Southwest corner of Utah and spilling over its borders into Colorado and Arizona) connecting seven of the United States' most magnificent National Parks; Bryce Canyon, Zion, Capital Reef, Arches, Canyonlands, Grand Canyon North Rim, and Mesa Verde. This film will also include the history of the people and cultures that made this region remarkable.
NEW DOC: Soleil Film finishes documentary, "All That I Need."
Director Jeff Celentano starts production on the company's feature film, "Say it in Russian."
WIF: WOMEN IN FILM: SANTA BARBARA NETWORKING BREAKFAST T.B.A.
SANTA BARBARA CHANNELS: For local cultural arts on Cox ch.17 www.sbchannels.tv
PALM BEACH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: now taking entries - http://www.pbifilmfest.org
10th annual Palm Beach International Film Festival will take place April 14 - 21 in Palm Beach, Florida.
UCSB'S UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM: GREAT ART SHOW Thru Summer www.uam.ucsb.edu
BIG SKY WINNERS ANNOUNCED: www.bigskyfilmfest.org
I.V. MOVIE SCREENING: Hot Friday nites. Great films http://www.magiclanternfilms.org/magic.htm
POETRY EVENT WKLY NEWSLETTER: To subscribe please email careyberkus@earthlink.net
YOUTH MEDIA ARTS ALLIANCE FORMING NOW!
The Alliance)'s Youth Activities and Education committee has formed a Youth (Media Arts) Alliance, which we call YA. The mission is to connect and offer mentorship and opportunity to local teens. The idea is to form a movie club so teen members can work together on each other's media projects, and to provide these teens an opportunity to shadow on local productions where they can learn from the pros. For example, The Digital Days Teen Filmmaker winners Brady Crane "Dracula" and Spencer McCall "The Hobbit" met at the ceremony and are now collaborating on a feature film script working from Truckee, CA. and Baton Rouge, LA. Watch for their latest film by the end of the year. Last Friday they signed up 17 students and 3 more teachers for YA. If you'd like to offer your professional support and mentorship, contact Kimberly Ford via email: ksueford@aol.com Ph: 805-967-4004 or cell: 689-8975.
"SIDEWAYS" IN SANTA BARBARA
The new Fox Searchlight Pictures film Sideways, directed by Alexander Payne (Election, About Schmidt, Citizen Ruth) and co-starring Santa Barbara's Wine Country, is generating great buzz in film and consumer markets; six reviewers named it their favorite movie of the year.
AWARDS: OSCAR for Best Screenplay Adaptation, 6 Independant Spirit Awards, and numerous Golden Globes, SAG, Producers Guild and Directors Guild awards, not to mention the int'l awards.
MEDIA COVERAGE SO FAR: "A-list" consumer publications such as Conde Nast Traveler, Los Angeles Times, Food+Wine, Hollywood Reporter, New York Daily News, Town & Country, Travel+Leisure, Wine Spectator, Wall Street Journal (3), People, USA Today, Hollywood Reporter, Rolling Stone, Premiere, Christian Science Monitor, NPR Morning Edition, NYT Oscar noms, Travel & Leisure, GQ, Daily Variety, Hollywood Reporter online (very long article), Ventura County Star (fab), Roger Ebert (2 Thumbs Up) Time, Life, USA Today, NY Times, Home & Garden, Ventura County Star, KABC Los Angeles, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, LA Times, CNN, CBS, USA Today, NY Daily News, Washington Post, Westways Magazine, Sunset Magazine, Independent Spirit Award
SB MOVIE MAP: check out the (NEW) SB Conference & Visitors Bureau's self-guided "SIDEWAYS IN SANTA BARBARA" movie location map. It spotlights 19 locations (ALSO AVAILABLE AT www.filmsantabarbara.com ). The Bureau is promoting the FREE map-brochure via our national media campaign, www.SantaBarbaraCA.com and at FOX's special screening events in 23 major markets.
*SB FILM LOCATIONS - GUIDED MOVIE TOURS - NEW! - will tour scene locations from feature films such as Sideways, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Of Mice & Men, & Seabiscuit. Tours on Sundays 9-4, $85 (price includes a gourmet catered picnic lunch and a wine tasting event). Call Personal Tours, 685-0552. and Shawn & Mary Beth Farrell, American International Touring Services (805-643-5466)for new MOVIE TOURS around S.B. County.
UK PROMOTION: The CVB also secured Sideways as the designated showcase film for California Tourism's 16th annual invitation-only VIP film premiere in London, Nov. 7, for top tour operators and media at World Travel Market, the world's largest and most important English-speaking travel tradeshow. YIHAA!
TRAILER "Sideways" was filmed on location in Santa Barbara County (47 days)and many locals appeared in scenes at wineries, restaurants, hotels and parks. See the trailer at: Http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/sideways/large.html
OSCAR Win: Best: Screenplay Adaptation.
Recent Stories Assisted By SBCVB&FC: Lompoc Record; New York Daily News [we coordinated with SYVVA/ Laura Kath; Wine Valley Inn hosting upcomoing visit]; New York Post; KFBK Radio [Sacramento, Kathy gave interview]; Daily Express UK [hosted writer last week, running this week]; Los Angeles Daily News; Essentially America (UK)
SIDEWAYS PRODUCTIONS STILLS, GUIDE TO WINE & LIFE, SCRIPT AND MORE: 2/5-3/5
900 Borders Bookstore, State St., SB. Photos curtesy of Unit Still Photographer, Merie Weismiller Wallace.
INTRONETWORKS: ONLINE DATABASE SEEKING SUBSCRIBERS Santa Barbara County Residents Only
Register for this innovative, high-tech, countywide database. It is designed to help other businesses find you more easily - especially outside companies looking for high quality production services. This project is sponsored by the County of Santa Barbara. Basic listings are FREE. Note: you must have a Santa Barbara zip code to register. http://www.intronetworks.com/introNetworks.html
TIXSTAR : THE PLACE TO GET YOUR TICKETS 6 B De La Guerra St., Wed - Sun 12:00am - 5:00pm
1/2 price tickets to all major venues (including the Arilngton, Lobero, Music Academy, Marjorie Luke etc.) in Santa Barbara. http://www.ticketmaestro.org/ticketmaestro/commPartner.asp 1-800-504-8587
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APRIL
FILM PRODUCTION GUIDE : NEW APPLICANTS
This is a self-service directory, so you must register to be listed. To apply, go to http://www.filmsantabarbara.com/index.php?cat=122&subcat=173
PALM BEACH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: http://www.pbifilmfest.org April 14 - 21
10th annual Palm Beach International FIlm Festival will take place April 14 - 21 in Palm Beach, Florida.
"IT'S ALL ABOUT COLOR": PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT Thru Friday, April 15 Mon - Fri 8am - 5pm
presented by SB Visual Arts Alliance and Land America Lawyers Title at 1435 Anacapa St. Features local artists like Sylvia Abulay, Gerry Aspen, Jim Denny, Marlene Denny, David Holt, Bonnie Muench, Edee Olson, and Durt Van Wagner. Info 965-7091. Info about SB Visual Arts http://www.sbva.org
LOCATIONS EXPO: April 15-17 Santa Monica Convention Center http://www.afci.org
This is a great place to network with location managers and producers, and a lovely spot for a tradeshow!
NAB: World's largest electronics media show April 15-21 www.nabshow.com
Las Vegas Convention Center, NV
MOVIE STILL PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT : Thru April
See the work of unit Still Photographer Merie Weismiller Wallace (Sideways) and many others at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences on Wilshire Blvd. in Beverly Hills. Closed Mondays
DUKE CITY SHOOTOUT DIGITAL FILM FESTIVAL: Submission deadline June 1
Renowned independent filmmaker Christopher Coppola and New Mexico's Digital Filmmaking Institute (DFI) have joined forces to launch the Duke City Shootout, the only film festival in the world that focuses on digital production. Participants must produce, shoot, edit and premiere their film in only seven days. Coppola and the DFI, co-founded by Jim Graebner and Tony Dellaflorra, will host this groundbreaking film festival taking place July 22 - 30, 2005 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The festival is currently accepting short script submissions (no longer than 12 minutes) from independent filmmakers and screenwriters around the world. EARSXXI, Coppola's New Media Studio, will select the seven best scripts to be produced and ultimately compete for the "Palm de Grease," the festival's most prestigious filmmaking award. The Shootout will fly the screenwriter to Albuquerque, where they will be given a budget, a cast, camea and lighting equipment, a production crew, post-production facilities, transportation, and even a professional mentor to help bring their pages to life . www.EARSXXI.com.
UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM: UCSB ART SHOW Thru Summer www.uam.ucsb.edu
FREE WI-FI : IN CITY OF LOMPOC
In April, Lompoc will begin free Wi-Fi Internet access for all via an outdoor high speed wireless program.
WIF - WOMEN IN FILM - SANTA BARBARA NETWORKING BREAKFAST T.B.A.
SANTA BARBARA CHANNELS: For local cultural arts on Cox ch.17 www.sbchannels.tv
I.V. MOVIE SCREENING: Hot Friday nites. Great films http://www.magiclanternfilms.org/magic.htm
POETRY EVENT WKLY NEWSLETTER: To subscribe please email careyberkus@earthlink.net
FLYING A STUDIOS: NEW WEBSITE http://www.filmstudies.ucsb.edu/flyinga/
In 2004 documentary filmmaker, Dana Driskel, made a documentary about Flying A Studios; SB's first movie studio, and the first major studios in California during the 1920's. The American Film Company database is growing and the website is now "live". Driskel plans a membership group called "Friends of the Flying A." Members will receive a complimentary VHS copy of "An American Film Company", receive a quarterly e-newsletter highlighting developments in ongoing research and the satisfaction of hleping to retrieve this important silent film company.
"SIDEWAYS" IN SANTA BARBARA
The new Fox Searchlight Pictures film Sideways, directed by Alexander Payne (Election, About Schmidt, Citizen Ruth) and co-starring Santa Barbara's Wine Country, is generating great buzz in film and consumer markets; six reviewers named it their favorite movie of the year, with rumors of an OSCAR nomination. Opens 11/8 in SB.
MEDIA COVERAGE SO FAR: "A-list" consumer publications such as Conde Nast Traveler, Los Angeles Times, Food+Wine, Hollywood Reporter, New York Daily News, Town & Country, Travel+Leisure, Wine Spectator, Wall Street Journal (3), People, USA Today, Hollywood Reporter, Rolling Stone, Premiere, Christian Science Monitor, NPR Morning Edition, NYT Oscar noms, Travel & Leisure, GQ, Daily Variety, Hollywood Reporter online (very long article), Ventura County Star (fab), Roger Ebert (2 Thumbs Up) Time, Life, USA Today, NY Times, Home & Garden, Ventura County Star, KABC Los Angeles, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, LA Times, CNN, CBS, USA Today, NY Daily News, Washington Post, Westways Magazine, Sunset Magazine, Independent Spirit Award
SB MOVIE MAP: check out the (NEW) SB Conference & Visitors Bureau's self-guided "SIDEWAYS IN SANTA BARBARA" movie location map. It spotlights 19 locations (ALSO AVAILABLE AT www.filmsantabarbara.com ). The Bureau is promoting the FREE map-brochure via our national media campaign, www.SantaBarbaraCA.com and at FOX's special screening events in 23 major markets.
*SB FILM LOCATIONS - GUIDED MOVIE TOURS - NEW! - will tour scene locations from feature films such as Sideways, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Of Mice & Men, & Seabiscuit. Tours on Sundays 9-4, $85 (price includes a gourmet catered picnic lunch and a wine tasting event). Call Personal Tours, 685-0552. and Shawn & Mary Beth Farrell, American International Touring Services (805-643-5466)for new MOVIE TOURS around S.B. County.
UK PROMOTION: The CVB also secured Sideways as the designated showcase film for California Tourism's 16th annual invitation-only VIP film premiere in London, Nov. 7, for top tour operators and media at World Travel Market, the world's largest and most important English-speaking travel tradeshow. YIHAA!
TRAILER "Sideways" was filmed on location in Santa Barbara County (47 days)and many locals appeared in scenes at wineries, restaurants, hotels and parks. See the trailer at: Http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/sideways/large.html
OSCAR WIN: Best Screenplay Adaptation... and 6 Independent Spirit Awards, including Best Picture.
Recent Stories Assisted By SBCVB&FC: Lompoc Record; New York Daily News [we coordinated with SYVVA/ Laura Kath; Wine Valley Inn hosting upcomoing visit]; New York Post; KFBK Radio [Sacramento, Kathy gave interview]; Daily Express UK [hosted writer last week, running this week]; Los Angeles Daily News; Essentially America (UK)
SIDEWAYS PRODUCTIONS STILLS, GUIDE TO WINE & LIFE, SCRIPT AND MORE: 2/5-3/5
900 Borders Bookstore, State St., SB. Photos curtesy of Unit Still Photographer, Merie Weismiller Wallace.
INTRONETWORKS: ONLINE DATABASE SEEKING SUBSCRIBERS Santa Barbara County Residents Only
Register for this innovative, high-tech, countywide database. It is designed to help other businesses find you more easily - especially outside companies looking for high quality production services. This project is sponsored by the County of Santa Barbara. Basic listings are FREE. Note: you must have a Santa Barbara zip code to register. http://www.intronetworks.com/introNetworks.html
TIXSTAR : THE PLACE TO GET YOUR TICKETS 6 B De La Guerra St., Wed - Sun 12:00am - 5:00pm
1/2 price tickets to all major venues (including the Arilngton, Lobero, Music Academy, Marjorie Luke etc.) in Santa Barbara. http://www.ticketmaestro.org/ticketmaestro/commPartner.asp 1-800-504-8587
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MAY
FILM PRODUCTION GUIDE : NEW APPLICANTS
This is a self-service directory, so you must register to be listed. To apply, go to http://www.filmsantabarbara.com/index.php?cat=122&subcat=173
Women in Film – Saturday, May 14, 9 - 11 am, Café Del Sol, 30 Los Patos Way
Speaker Michael Jaffe, partner of Jaffe/Braunstein Films Ltd., began his career with his father, Henry Jaffe, in 1971. Together, they produced fifteen television movies and mini-series. He founded Michael Jaffe Films, Ltd. in the early 1980's and developed, produced or executive produced five feature films over the next several years. Now partnered in JBFL with Howard Braunstein and, together, they have produced over 70 MOWs and mini-series. Currently in production are Elvis Presley mini-series for CBS and the John McCain Story from a book entitled Faith of My Fathers by Senator John McCain and Mark Salter. Includes full buffet breakfast: $10 members/students, $15 nonmembers. Contact and RSVP by May 13: (805) 962-1754, (805) 967-8881, grnskiespr@msn.com.
International Student Film Festival Awards – May 21, 10 am-12 noon, Riviera Theatre. Come see the winners at the screening and awards program. Contact: Larry Nimmer, info@studentfilmfestival.org, (805) 566-0198. www.studentfilmfestival.org
Animal Planet "Best in Town" Pageant - Saturday, May 21, 2-5 pm,
Ballard School, 2425 School St, Ballard
Best in Town, a new pilot for the Animal Planet Network is coming to the Santa Ynez Valley to showcase the region's interesting places, people and, of course, their animals. The Program will track a host and production team as they arrive in Santa Ynez, meet the town's most interesting characters and find contestants to compete in the "Ultimate Dog Dance-off," a televised pageant with the entire town as audience. Everyone in the Santa Ynez Valley is invited to attend the pageant, and bring their pet.
Contact: Scott_Michnick-CW@discovery.com.
OCEAN FILM FESTIVAL: May 22 UCSB Campbell Hall 6pm http://www.ocean.com/FilmFestival/
A partnership between two local groups: new-media company, The Ocean Channel, and non-profit org, SB Channel keeper, will produce an evening of stunning films from around the world, highlighting the ocean's natural beauty, adrenaline sports on the water, marine conservation. michael@ocean.com
The Alliance for Creative Commerce - May 23, 6 pm, Center Stage Theater
"MP3, Napster, and Internet Distribution: Bane or Bounty for Independent Artists?"
The growth of Internet distribution has been blamed for a fall in overall music industry revenues. "Internet piracy is costing us millions!" say the major labels. But what about the independent artists? Can Internet downloads provide more value in promotion than might be lost in potential sales? Internet distribution is changing the music industry. You'll hear from local working musical artists including Madelena, the voice of Jade Redd, whose debut album Rivers of Stone has reached Number Three at independent online music retailer CDBaby. Members are free and nonmembers are $10. Refreshments will be served. Contact and RSVP: mashek@sbcc.edu. www.thealliance.us
DUKE CITY SHOOTOUT DIGITAL FILM FESTIVAL: Submission deadline June 1
Renowned independent filmmaker Christopher Coppola and New Mexico's Digital Filmmaking Institute (DFI) have joined forces to launch the Duke City Shootout, the only film festival in the world that focuses on digital production. Participants must produce, shoot, edit and premiere their film in only seven days. Coppola and the DFI, co-founded by Jim Graebner and Tony Dellaflorra, will host this groundbreaking film festival taking place July 22 - 30, 2005 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The festival is currently accepting short script submissions (no longer than 12 minutes) from independent filmmakers and screenwriters around the world. EARSXXI, Coppola's New Media Studio, will select the seven best scripts to be produced and ultimately compete for the "Palm de Grease," the festival's most prestigious filmmaking award. The Shootout will fly the screenwriter to Albuquerque, where they will be given a budget, a cast, camea and lighting equipment, a production crew, post-production facilities, transportation, and even a professional mentor to help bring their pages to life . www.EARSXXI.com.
UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM: UCSB GREAT ART SHOW Thru Summer www.uam.ucsb.edu
SANTA BARBARA CHANNELS: For local cultural arts on Cox ch.17 www.sbchannels.tv
I.V. MOVIE SCREENINGS: Hot Friday Nites. Great films http://www.magiclanternfilms.org/magic.htm
POETRY EVENT WKLY NEWSLETTER: To subscribe please email careyberkus@earthlink.net
FLYING A STUDIOS: NEW WEBSITE http://www.filmstudies.ucsb.edu/flyinga/
In 2004 documentary filmmaker, Dana Driskel, made a documentary about Flying A Studios; SB's first movie studio, and the first major studios in California during the 1920's. The American Film Company database is growing and the website is now "live". Driskel plans a membership group called "Friends of the Flying A." Members will receive a complimentary VHS copy of "An American Film Company", receive a quarterly e-newsletter highlighting developments in ongoing research and the satisfaction of hleping to retrieve this important silent film company.
"SIDEWAYS" IN SANTA BARBARA
The new Fox Searchlight Pictures film Sideways, directed by Alexander Payne (Election, About Schmidt, Citizen Ruth) and co-starring Santa Barbara's Wine Country, is generating great buzz in film and consumer markets; six reviewers named it their favorite movie of the year, with rumors of an OSCAR nomination. Opens 11/8 in SB.
MEDIA COVERAGE SO FAR: "A-list" consumer publications such as Conde Nast Traveler, Los Angeles Times, Food+Wine, Hollywood Reporter, New York Daily News, Town & Country, Travel+Leisure, Wine Spectator, Wall Street Journal (3), People, USA Today, Hollywood Reporter, Rolling Stone, Premiere, Christian Science Monitor, NPR Morning Edition, NYT Oscar noms, Travel & Leisure, GQ, Daily Variety, Hollywood Reporter online (very long article), Ventura County Star (fab), Roger Ebert (2 Thumbs Up) Time, Life, USA Today, NY Times, Home & Garden, Ventura County Star, KABC Los Angeles, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, LA Times, CNN, CBS, USA Today, NY Daily News, Washington Post, Westways Magazine, Sunset Magazine, Independent Spirit Award
SB MOVIE MAP: check out the (NEW) SB Conference & Visitors Bureau's self-guided "SIDEWAYS IN SANTA BARBARA" movie location map. It spotlights 19 locations (ALSO AVAILABLE AT www.filmsantabarbara.com ). The Bureau is promoting the FREE map-brochure via our national media campaign, www.SantaBarbaraCA.com and at FOX's special screening events in 23 major markets.
*SB FILM LOCATIONS - GUIDED MOVIE TOURS - NEW! - will tour scene locations from feature films such as Sideways, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Of Mice & Men, & Seabiscuit. Tours on Sundays 9-4, $85 (price includes a gourmet catered picnic lunch and a wine tasting event). Call Personal Tours, 685-0552. and Shawn & Mary Beth Farrell, American International Touring Services (805-643-5466)for new MOVIE TOURS around S.B. County.
UK PROMOTION: The CVB also secured Sideways as the designated showcase film for California Tourism's 16th annual invitation-only VIP film premiere in London, Nov. 7, for top tour operators and media at World Travel Market, the world's largest and most important English-speaking travel tradeshow. YIHAA!
TRAILER "Sideways" was filmed on location in Santa Barbara County (47 days)and many locals appeared in scenes at wineries, restaurants, hotels and parks. See the trailer at: Http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/sideways/large.html
OSCAR NOMS: Best: Screenplay, Picture, Director, Supporting Actress(Madsen) & Supporting Actor (Church).
Recent Stories Assisted By SBCVB&FC: Lompoc Record; New York Daily News [we coordinated with SYVVA/ Laura Kath; Wine Valley Inn hosting upcomoing visit]; New York Post; KFBK Radio [Sacramento, Kathy gave interview]; Daily Express UK [hosted writer last week, running this week]; Los Angeles Daily News; Essentially America (UK)
SIDEWAYS PRODUCTIONS STILLS, GUIDE TO WINE & LIFE, SCRIPT AND MORE: 2/5-3/5
900 Borders Bookstore, State St., SB. Photos curtesy of Unit Still Photographer, Merie Weismiller Wallace.
INTRONETWORKS: ONLINE DATABASE SEEKING SUBSCRIBERS Santa Barbara County Residents Only
Register for this innovative, high-tech, countywide database. It is designed to help other businesses find you more easily - especially outside companies looking for high quality production services. This project is sponsored by the County of Santa Barbara. Basic listings are FREE. Note: you must have a Santa Barbara zip code to register. http://www.intronetworks.com/introNetworks.html
TIXSTAR : THE PLACE TO GET YOUR TICKETS 6 B De La Guerra St., Wed - Sun 12:00am - 5:00pm
1/2 price tickets to all major venues (including the Arilngton, Lobero, Music Academy, Marjorie Luke etc.) in Santa Barbara. http://www.ticketmaestro.org/ticketmaestro/commPartner.asp 1-800-504-8587
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JUNE
FILM PRODUCTION GUIDE : NEW APPLICANTS
This is a self-service directory, so you must register to be listed. To apply, go to http://www.filmsantabarbara.com/index.php?cat=122&subcat=173
DUKE CITY SHOOTOUT DIGITAL FILM FESTIVAL: Submission deadline June 1,2005
Renowned independent filmmaker Christopher Coppola and New Mexico's Digital Filmmaking Institute (DFI) have joined forces to launch the Duke City Shootout, the only film festival in the world that focuses on digital production. Participants must produce, shoot, edit and premiere their film in only seven days. Coppola and the DFI, co-founded by Jim Graebner and Tony Dellaflorra, will host this groundbreaking film festival taking place July 22 - 30, 2005 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The festival is currently accepting short script submissions (no longer than 12 minutes) from independent filmmakers and screenwriters around the world. EARSXXI, Coppola's New Media Studio, will select the seven best scripts to be produced and ultimately compete for the "Palm de Grease," the festival's most prestigious filmmaking award. The Shootout will fly the screenwriter to Albuquerque, where they will be given a budget, a cast, camea and lighting equipment, a production crew, post-production facilities, transportation, and even a professional mentor to help bring their pages to life . www.EARSXXI.com.
Cine Gear Expo - June 3-5, Warner Bros. Studios, Burbank
The Film Commission will exhibit at the California FLICs booth again this year, so drop by and say "hello". This Equipment show is well attended by Producers, Directors, DP's and Cinematographers. It features all of the latest gear, much of which you may test yourself. www.cinegearexpo.com
Drawing out the Muse - Beginning June 7, Tuesdays, 8-9:30 pm, West Mission in Santa Barbara
A group where artists of all kinds come together to access their muse and nurture their creativity. Are you a writer, dancer, actor, painter, musician, director, lion tamer, sword swallower, or waiter? This group is about using art, music, drama, movement, sound, writing, and other processes as you unlock the block, move beyond fear, rekindle the flame, or just plain squawk about the creative stuff that you do. Space is limited. Contact: Genie Kahn (805) 452-9958, Kristine Schwarz (805) 455-4955, genieksb@aol.com. www.drawingoutthemuse.com
Santa Barbara Screenwriters Association - Thursday, June 9, 7:30 pm, Borders Books
Ernie Witham will delight you with humorous anecdotes about his life as a columnist and writer. www.erniesworld.com
Women in Film – Saturday, June 11, 9 - 11 am, Café Del Sol, 30 Los Patos Way
Page Ostrow has arranged financing and negotiated distribution for eighty-plus movies. Page began her career in features as a 2nd AD on major Hollywood productions with companies such as Orion, Viacom, Alliance and HBO. She worked within a LA based arm of Alliance Entertainment, Canada's largest distributioncompany. Then she became a "gun for hire' for some of the largest international film companies, including Trident and Initial Entertainment. Her reputation developed as a top negotiator in the film markets and festival circuit closing deals worldwide. Now she consults for and represents producers, filmmakers and writers on a consultation and retainer basis. Her topics will include the marketplace's new appetite, new sources of funding, and finishing funds for films in postproduction. Includes full buffet breakfast: $10 members/students, $15 nonmembers. Contact and RSVP by June 10: (805) 962-1754, (805) 967-8881, grnskiespr@msn.com.
Modeling and Acting Classes with Academy West Talent – 8 week sessions start June 21
Modeling for kids: Tuesdays, 5-7 pm, $300
Modeling for Adults: Tuesdays, 7-9 pm, $300
Scene Study/Voiceover (tentative): Saturdays, 5-7 pm, $200
Comedy Improv (tentative): Saturdays, 7-9 pm, $200
www.academywesttalent.com
Santa Barbara Script Competition – Deadline: June 30
The goal of The Santa Barbara Script Competition is to identify great film and TV scripts that can be produced in the South Coast region of California. More information is available at www.santabarbarascript.com
UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM: UCSB GREAT ART SHOW Thru Summer 2005 www.uam.ucsb.edu
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR & PRODUCERS TRAINING PROGRAM Apply for August 2005 Program
Directors Guild-Producer Training Plan was established in 1965 by the Directors Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. Directors Guild - Producer Training Plan, & the Assistant Directors Training Program For more info call: 818.386.2545 email: mail@trainingplan.org or http://www.trainingplan.org/
SANTA BARBARA CHANNELS: For local cultural arts on Cox ch.17 www.sbchannels.tv
I.V. MOVIE SCREENINGS: Hot Friday Nites. Great films http://www.magiclanternfilms.org/magic.htm
FLYING A STUDIOS: NEW WEBSITE http://www.filmstudies.ucsb.edu/flyinga/
In 2004 documentary filmmaker, Dana Driskel, made a documentary about Flying A Studios; SB's first movie studio, and the first major studios in California during the 1920's. The American Film Company database is growing and the website is now "live". Driskel plans a membership group called "Friends of the Flying A." Members will receive a complimentary VHS copy of "An American Film Company", receive a quarterly e-newsletter highlighting developments in ongoing research and the satisfaction of hleping to retrieve this important silent film company.
INTRONETWORKS: ONLINE DATABASE SEEKING SUBSCRIBERS Santa Barbara County Residents Only
Register for this innovative, high-tech, countywide database. It is designed to help other businesses find you more easily - especially outside companies looking for high quality production services. This project is sponsored by the County of Santa Barbara. Basic listings are FREE. Note: you must have a Santa Barbara zip code to register. http://www.intronetworks.com/introNetworks.html
TIXSTAR : THE PLACE TO GET YOUR TICKETS 6 B De La Guerra St., Wed - Sun 12:00am - 5:00pm
1/2 price tickets to all major venues (including the Arilngton, Lobero, Music Academy, Marjorie Luke etc.) in Santa Barbara. http://www.ticketmaestro.org/ticketmaestro/commPartner.asp 1-800-504-8587
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JULY
FILM PRODUCTION GUIDE : NEW APPLICANTS
This is a self-service directory, so you must register to be listed. To apply, go to http://www.filmsantabarbara.com/index.php?cat=122&subcat=173
Teens Learn to be Hollywood Pros – Five one week sessions, through July 22
Digital Days of Summer, Santa Barbara's digital summer camp for teens is now in session. The program provides a unique opportunity to learn new skills from experienced professionals while using the latest Adobe software and hardware tools for digital moviemaking and new media.. Contact: (805) 730-1551, digitaldayscamp@aol.com. www.digitaldaysfest.com
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR & PRODUCERS TRAINING PROGRAM Apply for August 2005 Program
Directors Guild-Producer Training Plan was established in 1965 by the Directors Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. Directors Guild - Producer Training Plan, & the Assistant Directors Training ProgramFor more info call: 818.386.2545 email: mail@trainingplan.org or www.trainingplan.org/
Santa Barbara Screenwriters Association - Thursday, July 14, 7:30 pm, Borders Books
Television screenwriter, playwright, and novelist Seth Greenland will discuss these very different writing disciplines and the sale of film rights to his novel The Bones to Sony Films--for which famed director David Mamet is involved.
Tech Brew - Monday, July 18, 5-8 pm, Stow House, 304 N. Los Carneros Road
The Santa Barbara Tech Brew is a fun way to make friends and establish business contacts at Santa Barbara's most well attended networking event for business and technology professionals. Attendance is FREE and light appetizers will be served and there's a no host bar. Dress is business casual. Please log on to www.sbtechnology.com/sbtechbrew and send in your RSVP by noon July 14 to receive a preprinted nametag.
The Next Communications Revolution is Social - July 25, 6:30 pm, Santa Barbara City College Fe Bland Auditorium
The Alliance for Creative Commerce "Industry Insider Series" presents this conversation with Doc Searls. He will discuss Blogs, Wikis, Podcasting and RSS, and what they have to do with your future. Online Journalism Review calls Doc "one of the deep thinkers of the blog movement." He is also Senior Editor of Linux Journal and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto—a New York Times and BusinessWeek nonfiction bestseller that many credit with establishing a new canon for online markets and marketing. Doc's best-known maxim is "markets are conversations." He and his family have lived in Santa Barbara since 2001. Join Doc and other neighbors in this conversation and at the reception afterward. This event will be televised, blogged and podcasted. See http://doc.weblogs.com for more information. Also you may win an IPOD—winner must be present. www.thealliance.us
Santa Barbara Script Competition – Late Entry Deadline: July 31
The goal of The Santa Barbara Script Competition is to identify great film and TV scripts that can be produced in the South Coast region of California. More information is available at www.santabarbarascript.com
WIF - WOMEN IN FILM - SANTA BARBARA NETWORKING BREAKFAST – On hiatus for the summer
UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM: UCSB GREAT ART SHOW Thru summer 2005 www.uam.ucsb.edu
SANTA BARBARA CHANNELS: For local cultural arts on Cox ch.17 www.sbchannels.tv
I.V. MOVIE SCREENINGS Hot Friday Nites. Great films http://www.magiclanternfilms.org/magic.htm
FLYING A STUDIOS: NEW WEBSITE http://www.filmstudies.ucsb.edu/flyinga/
In 2004 documentary filmmaker, Dana Driskel, made a documentary about Flying A Studios; SB's first movie studio, and the first major studios in California during the 1920's. The American Film Company database is growing and the website is now "live". Driskel plans a membership group called "Friends of the Flying A." Members will receive a complimentary VHS copy of "An American Film Company", receive a quarterly e-news letter highlighting developments in ongoing research and the satisfaction of hleping to retrieve this important silent film company.
INTRONETWORKS: ONLINE DATABASE SEEKING SUBSCRIBERS Santa Barbara County Residents Only
Register for this innovative, high-tech, countywide database. It is designed to help other businesses find you more easily - especially outside companies looking for high quality production services. This project is sponsored by the County of Santa Barbara. Basic listings are FREE. Note: you must have a Santa Barbara zip code to register. http://www.intronetworks.com/introNetworks.html
TIXSTAR : THE PLACE TO GET YOUR TICKETS 6 B De La Guerra St., Wed - Sun 12:00am - 5:00pm
1/2 price tickets to all major venues (including the Arilngton, Lobero, Music Academy, Marjorie Luke etc.) in Santa Barbara. http://www.ticketmaestro.org/ticketmaestro/commPartner.asp 1-800-504-8587
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AUGUST
FILM PRODUCTION GUIDE : NEW APPLICANTS
This is a self-service directory, so you must register to be listed. To apply, go to http://www.filmsantabarbara.com/index.php?cat=122&subcat=173
Seeking Talent for Actors' Registry - Wednesday, August 3, 6 pm: 17 and younger, 7:30 pm: adults, Media Makers, 3640 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez
Casting director Lee Sonja Kissik, owner of Magic Casting in Buellton, will collaborate with longtime Santa Ynez Valley resident Chrystine Urban to establish a local registry of actors, both young and old, who are interested in being considered for roles in projects shot in the county. Workshops are also being planned. Contact: (805) 453-2450.
Santa Barbara Screenwriters Association - Thursday, August 11, 7:30 pm, Borders, 900 State Street
Stephen Cannell, the megawatt television writer, producer, actor, and novelist will share his secrets of success. Contact: chuck.kent@verizon.net
Ghoulies Needed – Saturday, August 27
A local cable comedy TV show is casting extra, and they need all types and ages. Pays a flat $50 for about four hours. Contact: Elizabeth, EMG Models and Talent, 209 W. Figueroa St., (805)-570-4080, ecminnis@cox.net.
WIF - WOMEN IN FILM - SANTA BARBARA NETWORKING BREAKFAST – On hiatus for the summer
The Santa Barbara Film Weekly - a wonderful resource for all film and media professionals. It contains news, events, jobs, and spotlights on local talent. http://www.thealliance.us/filmweekly
The Creative Community
This series which showcases local talent airs on Santa Barbara Channels, Channel 21 daily for an hour at these set times: Monday, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 6:30 pm, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10 pm, Saturday & Sunday at 7 pm. www.sbchannels.tv
SANTA BARBARA CHANNELS: For local cultural arts on Cox ch.17 www.sbchannels.tv
UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM: UCSB GREAT ART SHOW Thru summer 2005 www.uam.ucsb.edu
I.V. MOVIE SCREENINGS: Hot Friday Nites. Great films http://www.magiclanternfilms.org/magic.htm
Santa Barbara International Film Festival Blog: http://sbfilmfestival.blogspot.com
FLYING A STUDIOS: NEW WEBSITE http://www.filmstudies.ucsb.edu/flyinga/
In 2004 documentary filmmaker, Dana Driskel, made a documentary about Flying A Studios; SB's first movie studio, and the first major studios in California during the 1920's. The American Film Comapny database is growing and the website is now "live". Driskel plans a membership group called "Friends of the Flying A." Members will receive a complimentary VHS copy of "An American Film Company", receive a quarterly e-news letter highlighting developments in ongoing research and the satisfaction of hleping to retrieve this important silent film company.
INTRONETWORKS: ONLINE DATABASE SEEKING SUBSCRIBERS Santa Barbara County Residents Only
Register for this innovative, high-tech, countywide database. It is designed to help other businesses find you more easily - especially outside companies looking for high quality production services. This project is sponsored by the County of Santa Barbara. Basic listings are FREE. Note: you must have a Santa Barbara zip code to register. http://www.intronetworks.com/introNetworks.html
TIXSTAR : THE PLACE TO GET YOUR TICKETS 6 B De La Guerra St., Wed - Sun 12:00am - 5:00pm
1/2 price tickets to all major venues (including the Arilngton, Lobero, Music Academy, Marjorie Luke etc.) in Santa Barbara. http://www.ticketmaestro.org/ticketmaestro/commPartner.asp 1-800-504-8587
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SEPTEMBER
FILM PRODUCTION GUIDE : NEW APPLICANTS
This is a self-service directory, so you must register to be listed. To apply, go to http://www.filmsantabarbara.com/index.php?cat=122&subcat=173
Photojournalism Class – Thursdays Starting September 1, 5-10 pm, SBCC
Mike Eliason, News Press shooter extraordinaire and overall gentleman-scholar type, will be moonlighting this fall teaching his first photojournalism class. No, that's not a camera shutter you hear rattling, it's the owners of Brooks Institute assuming the knee-knocking, nail-biting position. Thirty seats will fill fast once the word gets out so, we'll see you at the admissions office. www.sbcc.edu
WIF - WOMEN IN FILM - SANTA BARBARA NETWORKING BREAKFAST T.B.A. Contact: greenskiesproductions@cox.net
The Santa Barbara Film Weekly - a wonderful resource for all film and media professionals. It contains news, events, jobs, and spotlights on local talent. http://www.thealliance.us/filmweekly
SANTA BARBARA CHANNELS: For local cultural arts on Cox ch.17 www.sbchannels.tv
The Creative Community
This series which showcases local talent airs on Santa Barbara Channels, Channel 21 daily for an hour at these set times: Monday, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 6:30 pm, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10 pm, Saturday & Sunday at 7 pm. www.sbchannels.tv
I.V. MOVIE SCREENINGS: Hot Friday Nites. Great films http://www.magiclanternfilms.org/magic.htm
INTRONETWORKS: ONLINE DATABASE SEEKING SUBSCRIBERS Santa Barbara County Residents Only
Register for this innovative, high-tech, countywide database. It is designed to help other businesses find you more easily - especially outside companies looking for high quality production services. This project is sponsored by the County of Santa Barbara. Basic listings are FREE. Note: you must have a Santa Barbara zip code to register. http://www.intronetworks.com/introNetworks.html
TIXSTAR : THE PLACE TO GET YOUR TICKETS has closed their Paseo Nuevo location and is moving into Morning Glory Music on State Street. 1/2 price tickets to all major venues (including the Arilngton, Lobero, Music Academy, Marjorie Luke etc.) in Santa Barbara. http://www.ticketmaestro.org/ticketmaestro/commPartner.asp 1-800-504-8587
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OCTOBER
FILM PRODUCTION GUIDE : NEW APPLICANTS
This is a self-service directory, so you must register to be listed. To apply, go to http://www.filmsantabarbara.com/index.php?cat=122&subcat=173
Santa Barbara Screenwriters Association - Thursday, October 13, 7:30 pm, Borders, 900 State Street
Tom Schlesinger worked as Caroline Link's story consultant on Nowhere in Africa, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2003. He is currently co-producing a feature length film, Playground, with four directors including Caroline Link and Majid Majidi. He resides in Munich, Germany and teaches his "Screenwriter as Storyteller" seminars internationally. Contact: chuck.kent@verizon.net
Screenwriter as Storyteller - Saturday & Sunday, October 15 & 16, 10 am-5 pm, 814 Santa Barbara St.
Tom Schlesinger worked as Caroline Link's story consultant on Nowhere in Africa, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2003. He is currently co-producing a feature length film, Playground, with four directors including Caroline Link and Majid Majidi. He resides in Munich, Germany and teaches seminars internationally. Cost: $250. Contact: (805) 637-8426, storylandscape@yahoo.com.
WIF - WOMEN IN FILM - SANTA BARBARA NETWORKING BREAKFAST T.B.A. Contact: greenskiesproductions@cox.net
The Rise of Citizen Media - October 26, 6 pm, McCune Room IHC, UCSB
The Alliance for Creative Commerce is co-sponsoring this conversation with J.D. Lasica and Doc Searls.2005 has seen an explosion of participatory media, as users bypass the traditional media to create and share their own works at outlets like Ourmedia.org, Current.tv and NowPublic.com. What's behind this phenomenon? Are we seeing a fundamental shift in our relationship with the media? How does grassroots media differ from traditional media? What happens when we all become part of the personal broadcasting revolution, and how do we know whom to trust anymore when everyone is a publisher? www.cits.ucsb.edu/dss_calendar_04-05.htm, www.thealliance.us
The Santa Barbara Film Weekly - a wonderful resource for all film and media professionals. It contains news, events, jobs, and spotlights on local talent. http://www.thealliance.us/filmweekly
SANTA BARBARA CHANNELS: For local cultural arts on Cox ch.17 www.sbchannels.tv
I.V. MOVIE SCREENINGS: Hot Friday Nites - great films http://www.magiclanternfilms.org/magic.htm
Santa Barbara International Film Festival Blog: http://sbfilmfestival.blogspot.com
INTRONETWORKS: ONLINE DATABASE SEEKING SUBSCRIBERS Santa Barbara County Residents Only
Register for this innovative, high-tech, countywide database. It is designed to help other businesses find you more easily - especially outside companies looking for high quality production services. This project is sponsored by the County of Santa Barbara. Basic listings are FREE. Note: you must have a Santa Barbara zip code to register. http://www.intronetworks.com/introNetworks.html
TIXSTAR : THE PLACE TO GET YOUR TICKETS has closed their Paseo Nuevo location and is moving into Morning Glory Music on State Street. 1/2 price tickets to all major venues (including the Arilngton, Lobero, Music Academy, Marjorie Luke etc.) in Santa Barbara. http://www.ticketmaestro.org/ticketmaestro/commPartner.asp 1-800-504-8587
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NOVEMBER
FILM PRODUCTION GUIDE : NEW APPLICANTS
This is a self-service directory, so you must register to be listed. To apply, go to http://www.filmsantabarbara.com/index.php?cat=122&subcat=173
Santa Barbara Screenwriters Association - Thursday, November 10, 7:30 pm, Borders, 900 State Street
Lynn Isenberg has credits from Tri-star's I Love You To Death, MGM's Youngblood, Showtime Network's Bordello, and Mistral Picture's family film True Vinyl. She's also written, produced and marketed programming for cable TV networks, live events and the Internet. She now presents her first Harlequin novel The Funeral Planner. She'll discuss all these forms of writing experiences and answer questions. Contact: chuck.kent@verizon.net
Women in Film – Saturday, November 12, 9 - 11 am, Café Del Sol, 30 Los Patos Way
It's time to showcase YOU! Screenwriters bring your synopses! Actors bring headshots/resumes and reels. Writers bring your books. Musical artists bring your CDs. If you're a filmmaker with wants and needs for your production, come to this meeting. Everyone will have the chance to stand and pitch themselves and their involvement in the Industry. Includes full buffet breakfast: $10 members/students, $15 nonmembers. Contact and RSVP by November 11: (805) 962-1754, (805) 967-8881, grnskiespr@msn.com.
The Santa Barbara Film Weekly - a wonderful resource for all film and media professionals. It contains news, events, jobs, and spotlights on local talent. http://www.thealliance.us/filmweekly
SANTA BARBARA CHANNELS: For local cultural arts on Cox ch.17 www.sbchannels.tv
I.V. MOVIE SCREENINGS: Hot Friday Nites. Great films http://www.magiclanternfilms.org/magic.htm
INTRONETWORKS: ONLINE DATABASE SEEKING SUBSCRIBERS Santa Barbara County Residents Only
Register for this innovative, high-tech, countywide database. It is designed to help other businesses find you more easily - especially outside companies looking for high quality production services. This project is sponsored by the County of Santa Barbara. Basic listings are FREE. Note: you must have a Santa Barbara zip code to register. http://www.intronetworks.com/introNetworks.html
TIXSTAR : THE PLACE TO GET YOUR TICKETS has closed their Paseo Nuevo location and is moving into Morning Glory Music on State Street. 1/2 price tickets to all major venues (including the Arilngton, Lobero, Music Academy, Marjorie Luke etc.) in Santa Barbara. http://www.ticketmaestro.org/ticketmaestro/commPartner.asp 1-800-504-8587
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DECEMBER
FILM PRODUCTION GUIDE : NEW APPLICANTS
This is a self-service directory, so you must register to be listed. To apply, go to http://www.filmsantabarbara.com/index.php?cat=122&subcat=173
SB Channels Holiday Party - Friday, December 9, 4-8 pm, 414 E. Carrillo St.
Enjoy great company and food, and a chance to relax without the pressure of getting "on the air." Adding to the festivities will be an Awards Ceremony, initial airing of member-produced PSAs, and surprise announcements. www.sbchannels.tv
Women in Film – Saturday, December 10, 9 - 11 am, Café Del Sol, 30 Los Patos Way
Marc and Elaine Zicree (www.zicree.com) return to give the do's and don'ts of pilots. From creating the pilot to timing the pilot Season, and they will teach about preparing the project "bible". Writing individually and as a team, the Zicrees possess over 100 credits, and they have written for virtually every major studio and network. Includes full buffet breakfast: $10 members/students, $15 nonmembers. Contact and RSVP by December 9: (805) 962-1754, (805) 967-8881, greenskiesproductions@cox.net.
The Alliance for Creative Commerce Holiday Party - Tuesday, December 13, 5:30-7:30 pm, Nu Restaurant, 1129 State St Come and bring a friend . . . it's free! www.thealliance.us
Film Encyclopedia Signing - Tuesday, December 13, 7:30 pm, Borders, 900 State St.
Meet co-author Fred Klein for a book-signing, discussion, and free popcorn. "The best movie reference book, hands down." – Newsweek. Contact: (805) 962-9500, filmcyc@yahoo.com.
Competition for Plays About Science and Technology – Deadline: December 15
The Professional Artists Lab and the California NanoSystems Institute at UCSB announce a collaborative effort, the first International Stage Script Competition, open to plays about science and technology. The winner will receive $10,000, a staged reading with a cast of professional actors, and the opportunity to go through the Professional Artists Lab's development process (www.proartslab.ucsb.edu). Submitted plays must explore scientific and/or technological stories, themes, issues or events. But the competition is not open to plays written in the genre of science fiction. www.cnsi.ucsb.edu/stage
The Santa Barbara Film Weekly - a wonderful resource for all film and media professionals. It contains news, events, jobs, and spotlights on local talent. http://www.thealliance.us/filmweekly
The Creative Community - This series which showcases local talent airs on Santa Barbara Channels, Channel 21 daily for an hour at these set times: Monday, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 6:30 pm, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10 pm, Saturday & Sunday at 7 pm. www.sbchannels.tv
I.V. MOVIE SCREENINGS: Hot Friday Nites. Great films http://www.magiclanternfilms.org/magic.htm
Santa Barbara International Film Festival Blog: http://sbfilmfestival.blogspot.com
INTRONETWORKS: ONLINE DATABASE SEEKING SUBSCRIBERS Santa Barbara County Residents Only
Register for this innovative, high-tech, countywide database. It is designed to help other businesses find you more easily - especially outside companies looking for high quality production services. This project is sponsored by the County of Santa Barbara. Basic listings are FREE. Note: you must have a Santa Barbara zip code to register. http://www.intronetworks.com/introNetworks.html
TIXSTAR : THE PLACE TO GET YOUR TICKETS has closed their Paseo Nuevo location and is moving into Morning Glory Music on State Street. 1/2 price tickets to all major venues (including the Arilngton, Lobero, Music Academy, Marjorie Luke etc.) in Santa Barbara. http://www.ticketmaestro.org/ticketmaestro/commPartner.asp 1-800-504-8587
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