RHODE ISLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL LAUNCES STUDENT FILM JURY

CONTACT: Timothy Mendonca
RIIFF OfficeTel. 401.861.4445
E-mail: timothy.mendonca@film-festival.org

Attention Student Film Buffs! The Rhode Island International Film Festival, as part of this years festival marks the beginning of an exciting new program; not only for us, but for the entire state of Rhode Island and its communities.

This year, we are very pleased to announce that we are launching a new Student Film Jury program. This new program will offer local high school students the unique opportunity to participate directly in an internationally recognized, film festival, as well as aid in the festival’s long-standing commitment to community outreach and
education.

The student jury will be made up of a selected group of Rhode Island high school students who are entering their junior or senior year; though students who have graduated this year are also encouraged to apply. Accepted applicants will become student jurors in the only OSCAR qualifying film festival in New England. The
students will screen a selection of films (narrative, documentary, shorts), deliberate, and present the Student Jury Award, at the festival’s award ceremony. Students will also have the opportunity to meet with the various filmmakers, actors, and industry professionals from around the world, as well.

This program offers a terrific opportunity for high school students. It will not only make a great addition on the student's resumes and college applications, but it will also expose students to the very large entertainment industry, where they will have the chance to network and make contacts for their future.

The program will be accepting applications through July 19th, 2010. All applications will then be immediately reviewed and acceptance notifications will go out. The application and additional information will soon be up on our website. Though anyone interested is encourage to e-mail us now. This years festival runs August 10th - 15th.

We are truly excited to be launching not only the next generation of filmmakers, but also the next generation of film enthusiasts.

For information on how to apply please e-mail: Student Jury Coordinator, Tim Mendonca
timothy.mendonca@film-festival.org.
Or for more information on this program or the Rhode Island International Film Festival please visit:
www.rifilmfest.org.
(This is not an RIFC Event)

Sign Up for the 48 Hour Film Project 2010

From Jay Walker:
We are already about half-full at the Providence 48 Hour Film Project 2010! Teams are signing up lightning-quick: the list hasn't even been open a full month & we're already up to 32 teams; our limit is 66, so get your spot today! If you register your team by Monday, June 21, you'll get a $20 early-bird discount on registration fees! Be sure to sign up at http://www.48hourfilm.com/providence & visit our FB page or our website, http://www.RIFCFilms.com/, for more info. Thanks for the support!

RIFC Casting Call for Actors

Hey Actors,

Just a heads up that we're having that casting call Monday night. A list of characters is at the bottom of this email. Shooting happens this coming weekend, June 19th and 20th.

It's for a class funded by a grant from RIDOT to help reduce DUI - so it's for a good cause

It's for students learning filmmaking - so it's for another good cause too

The grant guarantees project completion (the previous session's is already done), showing at the 2011 SENE festival, and screening at an event on September 24. Plus you get a copy.

If you're interested, come to KLR at 8 o'clock. (Monday June 14)

KLR Building
951 North Main St.
Providence

Thanks!

Roles:

DUI GUY

Wife

OLD LADY

GANGSTA

DRUGGY BOy

DRUGGY GIRL

WORKING MAN

SECRETARY GIRL

SALES CLERK GIRL

BANK TELLER MAN

NEWBIE

An Article From the Providence Business News:

Jim Karpeichik, founder and president of Ocean State Video based in Cranston, recently won two Emmy awards for the photography and editing he did on two documentary films: "Navy Heroes of Normandy" and "When the Reds Ruled the Roost." The former chief cameraman for WJAR-TV NBC 10, he started his own video-production company in 1999.

The 2010 Creative Spirit Awards

Celebrating the Creative Spirit in Books, Film, and Music!

The July 1st Final Deadline is approaching fast!
This is the last chance to submit to the 2010 Creative Spirit Awards!
http://www.creativespiritawards.com


The 2010 Competition is coming to a close! This year has so far been an exciting and rigorous competition with submissions from large and small Music groups, Independent and Student Films, and all genres of books. The judging process is taking place right now!

Did you know that at the end of the competition, all Platinum Winners will be re-judged and only one will be honored with:

* Best Picture
* Album of the Year
* Song of the Year
* Book of the Year

Special Press Releases detailing this prestigious news with information about the winning artists will be sent to key buyers, magazines, entertainment news providers, distributors, etc. following the close of the competition.
The Creative Spirit Awards™ celebrate the individual artist as well as their work through a panel of judges who have excelled in their respective fields. As such, awards are only presented to those filmmakers, musicians and authors who create fresh, standout, and exemplary creations in their field. Each work is ! judged solely on its own merits and not in competition with other submissions.

Being a Creative Spirit Award™ winner will inspire confidence in buyers, distributors, readers and prospective clients that Creative Spirit Award™ winning productions are of high quality and worthy of their attention.

The competition is open to Independent Films, Studio Films, Corporate Films, Independent/Local Musicians, Musicians signed with large or small record labels, Self-Published Authors, Authors signed with a large or small publishing company, or any artist who has created a film, music or book project.
(This is not an RIFC Production)

Call to Playwrights!

Artists’ Exchange seeks submissions of one act comedies for its 2010 One Act Play Festival. The deadline is July 2, 2010. Plays can be mailed to Rich Morra, Black Box Theatre Director, 50 Rolfe Square, Cranston, RI 02910 or emailed to rich_morra@artists-exchange.org. Selections will be announced by July 9, 2009. The Artists’ Exchange One Act Play Festival will take place in the Black Box Theatre at Artists’ Exchange August 12th–15th and 19th-22nd. For additional information, please contact Rich Morra at 401.490.9475.

NEW TV SERIES TO FILM ENTIRELY IN RI

The Rhode Island Film & TV Office is pleased to announce that a new television series, BODY OF PROOF (formerly BODY OF EVIDENCE), has been picked up for ABC’s fall primetime schedule and will start filming episodes for its first season throughout the Ocean State in July 2010. Pre-production will commence immediately in the Warwick offices. The ABC Studios original television pilot was filmed in Rhode Island earlier this year.

BODY OF PROOF is a procedural drama that centers on a brilliant and tenacious female medical examiner whose background as a neurosurgeon gives her a unique and refreshing crime-solving perspective at the ME’s office, one that often puts her at odds with just about everyone who crosses her path.

Dana Delany stars as Dr. Megan Hunt, Jeri Ryan as Dr. Kate Murphy, Geoffrey Arend as Dr. Elliot Gross, John Carroll Lynch as Detective Bud Morris, Windell Middlebrooks as Dr. Curtis Brumfield, Nic Bishop as Peter Dunlap and Sonja Sohn as Detective Samantha Baker. Christopher Murphey wrote the pilot, which was directed by Nelson McCormick. Murphey will serve as Executive Producer along with Matt Gross. Richard Heus is co-Executive producer.

Steven Feinberg, Executive Director of the Film & TV Office said, "We are extremely proud to announce this great news. ABC Studios has chosen our beautiful state as the base of operations to film their new network television series, which will premiere on Friday nights at 9PM. As a result, more jobs will be immediately available to our local crew and talent pool. The production will quickly feed new money into our state’s small businesses and help pump up Rhode Island’s economy. This is further proof that our Ocean State has the heart, resources and foresight to compete in even the most challenging of climates…and win."

Call to Playwrights!

Artists’ Exchange seeks submissions of one act comedies for its 2010 One Act Play Festival. The deadline is July 2, 2010. Plays can be mailed to Rich Morra, Black Box Theatre Director, 50 Rolfe Square, Cranston, RI 02910 or emailed to rich.morra@artists-exchange.org. Selections will be announced by July 9, 2010. The Artists’ Exchange One Act Play Festival will take place in the Black Box Theatre at Artists’ Exchange August 12th–15th and 19th-22nd. For additional information, please contact Rich Morra at 401.490.9475.
This is not an RIFC Production