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ILMS, FESTIVALS SUBMISSIONS and EVENTS

FESTIVALS REQUESTING SUBMISSIONS

The Sixth Annual Science Fiction + Fantasy Short Film Festival , a partnership with Experience Music Project|Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame (EMP|SFM) and the Seattle International Film Festival Group (SIFF). Now accepting submissions to the 2011 Science Fiction + Fantasy Short Film Festival! The 6th annual festival will screen 20 films at the Cinerama Theatre in early 2011. EMP|SFM, in partnership with the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), is encouraging original and creative science fiction film submissions 15 minutes or shorter in length for the festival. The festival will accept original entries created no earlier than January 2006. The final submission deadline is September 15.
Details are below and more information is available at empsfm.org/filmfestival

Want to get a better feel for the kinds of exceptional films that screen at this festival? Check out the Science Fiction + Fantasy Short Film Festival call for entries preview
This preview features clips from some of last year's films plus information on submitting your film to the 2011 festival.

The 2011 Science Fiction + Fantasy Short Film Festival will be judged by a national jury of esteemed film industry professionals to be announced soon. Stay tuned!
Please don't hesitate to get in touch with any questions. Looking forward to experiencing the amazing filmmaking and fantastic stories of this year's submissions!

CLASSES, WORKSHOPS, AND SCHOOLS

Register for the RED class on Women in Film's Upcoming Events Page http://www.womeninfilm-seattle.org/upcomingEvents.htm Payment can be made using PayPal on our website.

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Address and Directions:
Koerner Camera 101 Nickerson St. Suite B-500 Seattle, WA 98109 206-285-7334
Koerner is located on the corner of Nickerson St and Dravus St. under the Tully's Coffee and 123 Thai. Street parking only. We apologize the lot is reserved for the nearby businesses and medical clinic.
Bring lunch or eat at food spots nearby!

REGISTRATION IS OPEN FOR NORTHWEST FILM FORUM'S SUMMER CAMPS FOR KIDS AND TEENS
Northwest Film Forum is hosting two two-week long summer camp sessions for 11-17 year olds. The second session for 14-17 year olds will be August 2 - 13 and will be a Mixed Animation Camp where students will learn traditional animation techniques by working with drawings, collage, clay, puppets or objects as each student creates his or her own short film. Full and partial scholarships are available for both classes.
For more information or to register, click here.

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Headlines

WIF First Tuesday's August venue change: The Living Room 1355 E Olive Way (cap hill)

Mark your Calendar in RED! Women in Film/Seattle presents a One-Day RED Camera Seminar (see left hand column for info)
Register http://www.womeninfilmseattle.org/upcomingEvents.htm

WIF/Seattle launches new mentorship program -
details at http://www.womeninfilmseattle.org/scholarships.htm

Lulu Gargiulo wins Women in Film Seattle “Get Her Done” Grant (see below)

WIF Filmmakers WIN Regional Emmy (see below)
Congratulations, Shannon Hart-Reed and Ilona Rossman Ho

EVENTS

FIRST Tuesday in August
August 3rd, 7pm - change of venue
Summer fun at:
The Living Room
Private Room upstairs – light and airy, hip and cool!
1355 E Olive Way (cap hill)
Seattle, WA 98122
http://www.thelivingroombar.com/

1st Tuesday in September
September 7, 7pm
Back at Spitfire It's Screening Night! (bring your work)
2219 4th Avenue Seattle (belltown)
Private room in the back – a 21 and over venue

Missed the party?
Check out the Annual Summer BBQ barby party pix on our facebook page

NEWS

HATS OFF TO LULU GARGIULO
Winner of the Women in Film Seattle “Get Her Done” Grant
Seattle WA. May 22, 2010 Women in Film Seattle announces the recipient of the 2010 “Get Her Done” Grant: Lulu Gargiulo, for her “Howdy Pardner: Tales of the Cowboy Hat,” a feature length documentary about cowboy hat culture.
 
Grant facilitator Staci Bernstein says, “The grant is WIF's way of supporting the excellence of women filmmakers in the Pacific Northwest. It validates their project and lets them know they're on the right track.”   
 
The grant awards $1,000 in cash and over $10,000 in in-kind donations from prominent members of the Northwest film industry. Donations include camera rentals, post production space, editing, and help with PR and marketing.
 
Bernstein states, “We're grateful for the contributions from our sponsors. These donations add tremendously to the value of this grant, and to the professionalism of the finished project.”

“I am stunned, happy and grateful to WIF for choosing Howdy Pardner as its first, “Get Her Done” grant recipient,” said Gargiulo. “My partner and director David Wild, and producer, Sally Schaffer and I, have all been working on this documentary for the past three years and winning this grant definitely helps take the bite out of our extensive travel expense budget”.  Since applying for the grant, filming for the movie has taken the crew to Montana and Japan, with upcoming shoots in Germany, Scotland, and Hollywood.

Gargiulo claims the project started out as a quick film shoot in Texas.  “We were initially intrigued about the craftsmanship of the making of the cowboy hat; but in Texas we met several “hatters” and realized the cowboy hat is really the icon of a phenomenal culture. The Hollywood ideal of the cowboy caught on fire and spread world-wide. The cowboy was how the rest of the world viewed America. That symbolized a certain innocent time when it was easy to tell the good guy from the bad with the cut and color of the cowboy hat he wore.”

Gargiulo claims there is also a hat “etiquette” that also stands out.  “You tip it as a courtesy gesture, you take it off inside to show respect, you cover it over your heart to show reverence. In filming the documentary she learned that some wear hats to “fit in,” but if you wear it in New York, you may be wearing it to try and stand out. Some wear it for protection from the elements, others because they want to emulate a culture. Some wear it as it represents a simpler time of honesty, strength, and integrity.

The strangest place the crew shot footage was in cowboy bars in Japan. “They know all the classic country western songs. Many of them can't speak English yet they know the words to the songs. They are all dressed to the hilt in their cowboy gear…it's truly remarkable to see.”

Lulu has been in the business for quite a while. As a Women in Film Professional Member, she won the 1997 Nell Shipman Women in Film Production Excellence Award for Cinematography. She has worked on feature films and TV series and her work on music videos include groups like Sound Garden and Mud Honey.

Staci Bernstein says, “We expect this project will set the bar high with its excellent production value, fast paced editing, and smart sense of humor. I can't wait to see it on the big screen in a theater packed with cowboy hats and people cheering Lulu on.”

Lulu Gargiulo invites you to her new DP website! http://www.luluwild.com/Director_of_Photography/Home.html

Kites Over Washington won an Emmy for Special Event Coverage (Other than News or Sports)! Congratulations and job well done to Director Shannon Hart-Reed!
And also a big congratulations and thank you to our wonderful crew:
Exec Producer - Big Bang Electrical
Producer - Ilona Rossman Ho
Written, Directed & Art Directed by Shannon Hart-Reed
Edited by Valerie Vozza and Jeremy Mackie
Cinematographers: TJ Williams, Jr, Valerie Vozza, Staci Berstein
Aerial Photography by Michael D. Reed
Vocals by Sean Fairchild
Music written by Chris Darrow
Lyrics written by Stephen Hindley and Shannon Hart-Reed
PA's: Nicole Morrison and Erin Viraldo
Heartfelt thanks to Virginia Bogert, Sue Corcoran, Lenny O'Donnell, Chris Swenson, and Wendi Wills for help and support.
 
View Kites Over Washington at:
http://www.discovercreditunions.com/kites/
Link to interview with Shannon and Ilona:
http://tiny.cc/zvls5

REMINDERS

Take advantage of Women in Film/Seattle's partnership with Fractured Atlas. As a WIF/S member you will receive automatic membership.
Fractured Atlas is a non-profit organization that serves a national community of artists and arts organizations. Our programs and services facilitate the creation of art by offering vital support to the artists who produce it. We help artists and arts organizations function more effectively as businesses by providing access to funding, low-cost insurance, education, and more, all in a context that honors their individuality and independent spirit. By nurturing today's talented but underrepresented voices, we hope to foster a dynamic and diverse cultural landscape of tomorrow.
http://fracturedatlas.org

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INDUSTRY NEWS

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WIF Seattle

Message from
the president

Hello Members,
I hope you are enjoying a beautiful and prosperous summer and not letting the economic news front get you down. Lots of us are freelancers and/or own our own business, and as such have learned how to weather the storm. We of WIF are robust and talented and keep on truckin' - together. I'm proud to be a member with y'all.

Get sun-rinsed, work at what you love, and be creative.

- Virginia

Member updates

Laura Jean Cronin's short film, One Night , will be screening at Dragoncon Film Festival ( http://www.dragoncon.org/index.php ) in Atlanta, Georgia in September. She is currently on board the TV pilot Big Half Hour produced by Block My Eye Productions as First AD.

Shannon Hart-Reed has accepted a position with Oxfam in Boston. Congratulations, Shannon.

Elayne Wylie-Weichers is producing Shawn Telford's The Suitcase Challenge for What a Dream INK Productions, and just wrapped her own wedding on July 18th, where she appeared as “the Bride,” on Alki Beach. What a spot for a wedding!
Elayne says,No yellow jumpsuits or katanas in the production, sorry.
Congratulations Elayne and Brent!

Make-up maven Melanie Melanie has been working in LA, training students, and worked with a new model, Rachel Cook, who is 14 (!) and already signed with Elite in NY. 

Take a look at Melanie's new blog:
http://illusionsbymelanie.wordpress.com/

Emotion Literacy Advocates (ELA), Pamela Sackett has had many exciting developments since producing The Ducks & Us Songbook Movie: a sequence of bookings on ten cinema screens for two months, an award from The Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, and an in-kind from Deluxe in LA so ELA will be able to provide 35mm prints to each movie house. Highlights of press release:
Project info, tour schedule, 96-second trailer:
http://www.emolit.org/ducks+us-movie.html
Extended release and background news
http://www.emolit.org/news.html
Web page for movie's musical source, endorsements from folks in the know and a link to the recording: http://www.emolit.org/ducks+us.html

Kris Keppeler is playing Ruth in the Chad Ruin film, A Perfect Life. It's currently filming in the Tacoma area. She also recently sang off key for a game app, for MuscleCrow Studios and voiced a Powerpoint presentation for Grocer Tools. 
www.kriskeppeler.com

Congratulations WIF filmmakers in SIFF
Heather Ayres , director “Betty”
Ruth Gregory , producer “I Saw U”
Lindy Boustedt , director “Perfect 10” d
Morgan Elizabeth as Libby in “Perfect 10”

Ashika Chand is directing Broken , a documentary about her cousin and his Hell's Angels affiliation. The documentary is an emotional journey striving to understand how someone can end up possibly broken beyond repair. From his childhood, the transition from street gangs to being the first brown-skinned member of the Hell's Angels and his best friend's death, now at the age of 36, he's never lived outside his parents home and wants to find a way to make amends with those he loves.

Ashika Chand is also editor of Greece Fires of 2007, a documentary about the fires of Greece in 2007. It covers the affects the fires had on the people and the economic state of Greece two years after the fires.
Ashika is also co-editor of Tiny Professor, a satire based education program created by Staci Bernstein.

Nan Avant, Seattle composer wins a prestigious Award of Merit from The Accolade Competition July 2010 which underscores her talent and her original score for the feature award-winning film, Unremembered , a complex thriller told in non-linearly about a man who has no past. Congratulations Nan!
www.nanavant.com

MEMBERSHIP

AUGUST 1 St TUESDAY
TAKE NOTE, it's at The Living Room 1355 E Olive Way (cap hill)

SEPTEMBER 1 St TUESDAY
It's back at:
SPITFIRE
A PLACE FOR SPECTATOR SPORTS AND POLITICS
2219 4TH AVE SEATTLE, WA 98121
tel: (206) 441-7966
fax: (206) 441-7936
spitfireseattle.com
email Spitfire for info
Members, please join us downtown and invite your creative friends.
No host bar and small eats.
This is a 21 and over venue.