04/04/2012 IFC MEMBERSHIP MEETING ? Independent ...

04/04/12 IFC MEMBERSHIP MEETING

TONIGHT!

Welcome to Outpost Studio Complex!

FESTIVAL NEWS

AMC Theatres Kansas City FilmFest
4/11-15-2012
Schedule now on the web site includes workshops?

http://kcfilmfest.org/

Downtown AMC theatre & AMC Ward Parkway

Films by Dave Berry, Cameron Haines, Chris Bylsma and Jim Schweers were accepted.
NO IFC MEETING ON 4/11?GO SEE FILMS!

NOTE: Robert Hubbard is looking for help covering shooting some of the different aspects of the film fest including potential Q&A with filmmakers. Contact him on FB if you are interested!

Kansas International Film Festival
Late deadline for submission is 4/16
12 Annual October 05, 2012 to October 11, 2012
The IFC them this year will be Satire?PSAs, Infomercials, Mockumentaries?.5-6 minutes.
Need 90 minutes worth of material.
Proposed schedule due dates:
Submission date to IFC: 9/7/2012
Turn material over to KIFF: 9/21/2012

Cavalier Film Festival

http://www.jccc.edu/journalism/film-festival.html

Festival is 4/26/2012
The Cavalier Film Festival was founded in 2003. Each year our Film Festival serves as an outlet for creative minds to show others their hard work and dedication to their passions. Filmmakers are invited not only from Johnson County Community College but high schools as well. This event is open to all those who love to create and view fresh and new creative forms of art and entertainment.

The DC Shorts Film Festival (September 6-16, 2012)

April 30th film and script entry deadline!
www.dcshorts.com
DC Shorts Screenplay Competition
www.dcshorts.com/the-films

The Lawrence Arts Center will host The Free State Film Festival, a brand-new film festival scheduled for May 11-13.
The festival will be composed of several curated feature films, experimental films, networking opportunities and a short film program, which is now open for submissions. The goal of the Free State Film Festival is to celebrate of film, music and visual art.
For more information visit http://www.lawrenceartscenter.org/free-state-film-fest.html.
Schedule announced 4/16/2012.

Indianapolis International Film Festival
http://indyfilmfest.org | http://twitter.com/IndyFilmFest
Submissions closed, festival is 7/19-7/29.

Fright Night Film Festival

http://www.frightnightfilmfest.com/

6/29-7/1
Submission deadline date of May 30th.
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL Fright Night Film Fest is the Largest Genre Film Festival in America. Our festival strives to provide one of the largest outlets for independent films in the world. With over 120 + films screened every year in 5 large screening halls, our desire is for the filmmaker to present his/her film to the masses and engage in new networking opportunities.

Sign up for festival notifications and manage your submissions at www.withoutabox.com.

IFC EVENTS

Symposium on Advanced Editing with Philip Neel
Now an IFC Sponsored event
Saturday April 21st

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0624168/

Editor on TV series (for example) Harry?s Law, Boston Legal, Ally McBeal
11am, go for 90 minutes, 15-20 break for food, then go from 12:45 to 2pm.
$20 for IFC members. Location in the media room in Royal Hall media room on the UMKC Campus. Seats 50.

ONE NIGHT STAND WILL BE HELD ON SATURDAY 6/2/2012

One Night Stand issues one challenge, to write, shoot, and edit a short film in 10 hours. Teams will meet in the morning, and three items are drawn: a theme, an object, and a line of dialogue. All three elements must be used in the project.

IFC AT THE 2012 FRINGE FESTIVAL
7/19-7/29/2012
Best of the IFC-90 minute program

If you have something you want to be considered for entry, please hand off to Tim Harvey. Not all submissions will be accepted.

BOARD MEMBERS REPORTS:

MATT CONNOLLY PRESIDENT:

48 Hour Film Project in July or August
If a team can get together a minimum of 10 people, and cover half of the entry fee ($70), IFC will cover the other half and up to three teams. Must be early bird admission fee and team must provide list to Board along with $70.

PROPS
The IFC is now taking prop donations!

VICKIE ROCCO ? VICE ? PRESIDENT
Looking for help with PR and press releases. See her at the break or anytime, really?

BOARD TREASURER ? TED SMITH
$2600 and counting. We made about $300 on the FFD

TIM HARVEY- MEMBERSHIP COORDINATOR

Sign up now via credit card!

Updated equipment pricing/rental sheets on website ifckc.com.

Many benefits for being a member including discounts at local venues. If you know of any other businesses to add to the list please let us know. Independent theatre discounts too! Rental equipment discounts! The list of all equipment online. Only $30 a year! Support Westport Coffee House because they support us

CLAUDIA COPPING-
The next Actors Showcase will be May 23rd. Before we get to planning, we need directors and writers to step up by May 1st. This will come just before the ONS, great way to find actors.

MAIA ADES-

May 9th is another script reading, if you have a script, get with her. Hoping to have a rehearsal before. If you have a script to submit contact Maia.
maianimages@att.net
Still working on ordering t-shirts. You would not believe how long this process is

SHANNON WALSH-

She schedules 2nd half of meetings so give her ideas of screenings, seminars etc. events@ifckc.com Schedule posted on ifc website on right side.

JENNIFER SEWARD-

Heather Laird ? wrightlairdcasting.com
Adult On-Camera Audition Workshop

This workshop offers an opportunity for actors to craft their on-camera skills. Students will work with REAL feature film, TV commercial, PLUS web and corporate scripts. Everyone will appear on-camera in every class and each student will have access on line to all on-camera performances.

Class meets Tuesday, 6 ? 8 PM, for 6 weeks
Starts 4/10, runs 6 weeks
$25 off for IFC members- Only a few spots left!

Business of Acting seminar will be one hour of Q&A, if you have questions, submit them to Jennifer or Shannon. Let?s make this informative! jennifer.lauren.seward@gmail.com

April 7th seminars:

Staged Combat: Hand to Hand Fight for Stage and Screen ? 4/7/12

LA Stunt Man/Fight Choreographer in town to teach a 1 day Workshop! This 1 day workshop will be modified for both stage and film.

Actors with Moxie presents A Professional series workshop:

Staged Combat: Hand to Hand Fight for Stage and Screen with Cameron DeVictor

WHEN: April 7, 2012 at 1pm-4pm
WHERE: TBD
COST: $50

Cameron will teach students the basics of unarmed combat for stage including: punches, slaps, hair pulls, kicks, tumbling, knaps for stage, angles for camera, and will tackle basic choreography in a 3 hour session.

Cameron DeVictor has studied with the Society of AmericanFight Directors since 1999 when he first certified at their annual summer workshop. Since then Cameron has choreographed fights for stage and screen as well as choreographed fights for productions at University of Kansas, Pomona College and Whittier College.

Along with Stunt Training with United Stuntman Association in Seattle,
he is certified in 6 weapons with SAFD and most recently taught at fight workshop at the Tides Theater, in San Francisco, and last fall as stunt coordinator on a film, The Terrain. Cameron is a graduate of KU Theater & Film 1998. See imdb via www.camdevictor.com

*Experience level: Any
**Space is limited**

Please see the attached Registration Form and please mail in with a money order or check. Please make sure the check is made out Actors with Moxie. You may bring cash to workshop but we need a reg form to hold your place in the workshop.

Actors with Moxie
913-219-3079
www.actorswithmoxie.com
Or follow our blog at http://actorswithmoxie.blogspot.com/

Moving to LA ? The in?s and out?s of an actor?s journey to Hollywood!

WHEN: Saturday April 7, 2012 10am-12pm
WHERE: TBA
COST: $30

Cameron DeVictor, actor, has been in Los Angeles for 8 years. Come learn his wisdom from his personal successes and failures.

The do?s and don?t of LA for you in a 2 hour seminar.
Topics that will be discussed:

-Moving to LA
-Agents/Managers
-Union(s)
-commercial classes
-commercial casting directors
-pilots
-TV and Film auditioning
-commercial auditioning

AWM ? Spring Teleprompter Workshop!!! ? 4/28/12

Actors with Moxie presents:

How an Actor uses a Teleprompter, a professional series workshop

Stacey Siegert, Exposure Model & Talent Inc.

Stephane Suetoes-Scupham, COO at Corkscrew Agency and TV Personality

Val Anderson, Managing Producer at Outpost Worldwide

WHEN: Saturday April 28, 2012 ? Beginner session 9am-12pm & Intermediate/Advanced 1pm-4pm
WHERE: Outpost Worldwide Studio
7833 Barton Lenexa, KS 66215

http://www.outpostworldwide.com

COST: $125

The Beginner class will be aimed towards actors that have had some to no experience with a prompter. The class will cover the basic skills needed to use a prompter, the ABC?s of acting with a Teleprompter and actors will get the chance to work on Commercial copy as well as Non Broadcast Spokesperson copy. The actors will also receive playback time to review their work.

The Intermediate/Advanced workshop will cover more of the acting and technique to working with a Teleprompter. This workshop will cover lengthier Non Broadcast scripts and go over Spokesperson types of scripts. Actors will also have the opportunity to do some cold and some change ups with the material. Actors will also receive playback time to review their work.

For questions and to enroll please contact:
Stacey Siegert actorswithmoxie@gmail.com

Heather Laird is putting on a workshop, 6 weeks long, on Tuesdays. Adult on camera audition class. Starting April 10th. if interested in this more info. at heather@wrightlairdcasting.com

Also working on makeup and special effects makeup seminar(s)

DUSTIN ADAIR- Volunteer Coordinator/Fundraising Chair
Need more volunteers for our FFD screening at MOD

1001+1 Movies You Need to View Before You Die!
?The Three Amigos? May 5th at Stage Port $5 to enter, come for the nachos! 6-9:30pm

NEW PEOPLE:

Rob- In a band, here to mingle. Going to shoot a music video soon. rob@psychostick.com

Paul and Alex- Music publishers with a start up company. Would like to provide music for films. punchface publishing on facebook
ART RELATED SHAMELESS SELF ? PROMOTIONS (ARSSP)

Maia Looking for a car with front end damage esp. to the driver side for a shoot on April 14th.

Pat- KC Film Fest Predaturs will be screening Thursday night in the horror section.

Jerry- Everyone should come to the festival next week. Let?s support everyone?s hard work and efforts!
Also, Saturday 14th at Artopia 7:15-9 will be a screening of art films.
Starting Thursday and Friday will be a forum for Middle of the Map

Brian D.- Jerry Vest at Have Guns Will Rent is awesome, IFC discount is also awesome

Don- 14th evening and 15th afternoon of April looking for sound person-some pay involved

Jennifer- 15th around noon at the Nelson staged reading for KC Women in TV and Film

Chris- Has film equipment for sale before his move to Florida.

Curtis Smith ? is going to Scotland to shoot his sister?s wedding. Looking for pointers on shooting weddings

Alden Miller ? working on a TV pilot sort of like the 48 Hr project but you only get 24 hours. Looking crews to shoot in shifts as many as 6 crews
paid gig, 4/ 13, and 14 15 and then 20, 21,22
aldenmiller@gmail.com davidskaggsproductions@gmail.com

David ? props. Would like to do this for your production needs pics of his past work
davidfroeschner@yahoo.com

Dustin Adair- script doctor ? if you have a script and need someone to read it get a hold of him

Jrapp@cinemakc.com is looking for weird, experimental, and music videos for The Pitch?s Artopia on 4/14?contact him if you have this.

Jefferson ? celtx is giving away $2000 per filmmaker in a contest: celtx.com
there is request for qualifications for muralists to commemorate Brown in Topeka.
go to ifckc facebook page for more info.

Joe Concha, has studio will audio.

Andy Garrison gives a discount for the Actor?s Showcase actors. Discount located on website. actortrainingstudio.com to view videos recently shot ats -actortrainingstudio on fb
Looking for women to join his Monday night acting class. Interested? contact at andy@actortrainingstudio.com

Elfa W.- Make-up/hair/wine and spirits guru. Makes mardi gras masks. elfawachter@gmail.com 816 394 1639 you can call/text/send nasty pics

Pat Lamb ? doing a film in may and needs help with costumes

Emerson Rapp- Sketch comedy writer email 2 pieces to bottomsupcomedy@gmail.com Please send 2 dynamic variations. ESPECIALLY WOMEN!!!!!!! always looking for more writers. shows on april 26th-28th at the uptown arts bar and a show here in June and they?re in the Fringe Festival. Also looking for actors.

Micah wants to use his camera! Also a D.P. (does an awesome job) Now has a Mac to edit on!

Vickie ? if interested in doing docs for non-profits talk to her.

Brian Boye shot another interview for ?Famous Last Words? is doing another one in April.

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