Yes, it's been a while since the last newsletter. I apologize to all of you for
not
keeping up with the info. I have been working on projects. So far I've done
about 35 for the year and a lot in the last few months so that's why I haven't
been able to do this. Some have been features and some have been things
that I wished I stayed in bed (just kiddin') but I've learned something from all
of them (see member updates below). Well, until next time, keep chuggin'
along.

-Anup

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1. CALL FOR ENTRIES
2. JOBS AT MTV
3. MEMBER UPDATES
4. VOTE OR DIE - IMDB Polls
5. ARTICLES
Calling-card shorts now mostly a long shot
Woody Allen enters modern world for movie promo
U.S. adds 'Baby Face,' 'Rocky Horror' to registry
LOOKING BACK AT '05: The Year of the (Film) Blogs, With More To Come

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1. CALL FOR ENTRIES

CELL PHONE FEST
How to enter: The competition begins as 8 a.m. ET on November 1, 2005 and
ends at 8 a.m. ET on January 10, 2006. To enter, use your cellular phone or
smartphone to shoot video footage that can be edited using any digital editing
software. The video may fit in any genre, including documentary, action,
comedy, drama, or experimental. The edited video must be no longer than :30
seconds in length, and must include audio, including music, dialogue, and/or
voiceover. Instructions for uploading submissions are included in the
competition instructions on the official CellFlixFestival site (http://
www.cellflixfestival.org).

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DESI VISION – desivision is looking for people with Short Films, Music
Videos, Music, Parodies or anything else you feel should be on desivision.
Please contact us at artists@ [no space] desivision.tv for more information.
Please forward this to anyone you know that may be interested.

(Courtesy of group member Rajeev Chibber)

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2. JOBS AT MTV
https://jobhuntweb.viacom.com/jobhunt/main/jobhome.asp

I VANT MY MTV – mtvdesi.com – looking for content, possibly vjs etc

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3. MEMBER UPDATES

NICK AT NITE (AND DAY)

Congrats to Sameer Asad Gardezi who got selected to Nickelodean

"I haven't heard back from Nickelodeon yet for the Diversity Writing Program
(have I told you? sorry I forget). I made the semi-finals and will hear about
making the finals this week. Four people out of the 12 selected will get to be
fellows and work on shows for a year."
-Sameer

I got an email from Sameer after this one stating that he got in! But I can't
find
it now, so you'll just have to take my word for it.
-Anup

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DA SLUDGSTER

Rahul Chatterjee's writing debut is now a film with it's own trailer:
http://www.obsidianproduction.com/sludge.html

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UNSTOPPABLE

Sharat Raju's AMERICAN MADE (http://www.americanmadethemovie.com)
will be on the show Independent Lens on PBS
(http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/index.html)
If you hurry you can too can submit for their call for entries for 2008 season:
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/submissions.html

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UNCLE G

Rajeev Chhibber's was in a short film which is completely viewable online
called Aunty G's.
Synopsis: they drink beer and push guys on basketball court - careful with
Auntie G's.
http://www.shetanifilms.com/films.html

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LOOKING FOR ANUP IN A MUSLIM COMEDY TRAILER

Well, I finally made it to the big screen, well sort of, I did make it to the
trailer of
the Albert Brooks movie `Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World' I worked
on back in January '05 (see blog-type info titled "Lessons I Learned This
Week" in newsletter #119 -
http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/AnupSugunan/message/119).
The movie will release on January 20, 2006 distributed by WB Independent. Of
course, this is to illustrate that an peon extra role can actually turn out to
be something way more (for me, SAG eligibility and a featured role).

http://www.apple.com/trailers/warner_independent_pictures/
lookingforcomedyinthemuslimworld/trailer1

I worked on Passions, no not the one with Christ, but the Soap that has aliens
and in this episode a Bollywood dream wedding in which I played one a
groomsman. The pacing of TV is so much faster paced than movies. They
didn't seem as anal as film in setting up the shots and doing take after take,
but then again, this is no 24 or CSI. But I keep hearing over and over that
working in tv makes you very disciplined (as a writer, actor, etc) because of
the tight deadlines. But me, I'm a movie person way more than a tv person –
well, I'm sure that's because I don't have a tv.

I also worked on a reality show (please don't throw rocks at me!) as a hip-hop
dancer – yeah boyeee! There was no pay and I signed an NDA so I can't
disclose the show til after it airs in a few months.

I finally took the plunge and joined MYSPACE.COM
(http://myspace.com/anups) because this is supposed to be the most entertainment
oriented network compared to Friendster etc. I'll keep you posted…

-Anup

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Send me your update or upcoming shows and I'll put it on (within a few
months : )
-Anup

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4. VOTE OR DIE

Some interesting polls from imdb:
http://imdb.com/poll/questions

What type of commentary do you prefer on your DVDs?

Votes (percentage)

Cast members
3277 (39.4%)

Director
3110 (37.4%)

Commentaries put me to sleep
1269 (15.2%)

Film historians/critics
328 (3.9%)

Writers
274 (3.3%)

Special effects crew
67 (0.8%)

A total of 8325 votes were collected.

Formatting becomes a little less pleasing here on out and in the file : (

At what point does a movie officially become too long for you?
Votes(percentage)
I have no problem with movies being too long!
5185(51.8%)
After 2 hours and 30 minutes
2057(20.6%)
After 3 hours
1875(18.7%)
After 2 hours
816(8.2%)
After 90 minutes
75(0.7%)

A total of 10008 votes were collected.

Which current actor do you think most consistently plays himself?
Votes
Adam Sandler
1580(27.7%)
Hugh Grant
772(13.5%)
Ashton Kutcher
616(10.8%)
Other
471(8.3%)
Owen Wilson
389(6.8%)
Ben Stiller
325(5.7%)
Tom Cruise
308(5.4%)
Keanu Reeves
300(5.3%)
Will Smith
285(5.0%)
Vin Diesel
217(3.8%)
Ben Affleck
210(3.7%)
Harrison Ford
144(2.5%)
Paul Walker
90(1.6%)

A total of 5707 votes were collected.

What critically acclaimed movie of the past couple years did you just not
"get"?
Votes
I "got" them all, thank you very much!
1687(22.8%)
Mulholland Drive
999(13.5%)
Lost in Translation
804(10.9%)
Other
719(9.7%)
Punch-Drunk Love
571(7.7%)
Donnie Darko
467(6.3%)
The Hours
459(6.2%)
Adaptation
313(4.2%)
Ghost World
230(3.1%)
Waking Life
185(2.5%)
Memento
185(2.5%)
Igby Goes Down
156(2.1%)
21 Grams
138(1.9%)
American Splendor
114(1.5%)
Far From Heaven
110(1.5%)
Talk to Her
85(1.2%)
Elephant
73(1.0%)
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
69(0.9%)
The Station Agent
19(0.3%)

A total of 7383 votes were collected.

I put some (about 118 pages in word) interesting film marketing/acting/etc
type polls that Harvey Weinstein would kill for on the yahoo group:
http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/AnupSugunan/files/
If you can't access it, email me and I'll send you a copy of it.
-Anup

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5. ARTICLES

Calling-card shorts now mostly a long shot

By Borys Kit
Wed Dec 21, 3:16 PM ET

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - George Lucas might not want to make
any more "Star Wars" movies now that "Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of
the Sith" is secure in its crown as the top-grossing domestic movie of the year.
ADVERTISEMENT

But that didn't discourage West Virginia-based filmmaker Shane Felux, who
this year created a sequel of his own: "Star Wars: Revelations," a 47-minute
opus with genuine production value, impressive special effects and -- true to
the "Star Wars" template -- wooden dialogue and stilted acting.

All Felux needed was about $20,000 to complete his film, which drew quick
notice on the Internet when it debuted in April. On iFilm, the short film Web
site, his film was downloaded more than 3 million times, and he earned
notices in USA Today and an appearance on CNN.

But despite the attention, Felux has been disappointed to discover that
"Revelations" hasn't provided him the entrance to Hollywood that other film
shorts inspired by Lucas' franchise have brought in the past.

"I was hoping that the industry might stand up and go, 'All right, that's pretty
good for something a little under 20K, what do you want to do next?"' Felux
said. "And I'd go, 'Well, here is the next thing I want to do, here's how much
it's
going to cost.' And hopefully go on and make another film."

On rare occasions, cinematic calling cards sometimes do their job. Peter
Cornwell, an Australian sound man, spent years crafting "Ward 13," a 14-
minute short about a man waking up in an insane asylum, trying to break free,
facing all sorts of bad guys. With the idea of crafting a calling card, Cornwell
began constructing the figurines and sets in his bedroom, and when the
project expanded, he started moving pieces and construction into his friends'
homes. His hard work paid off when, in November, he was hired to direct "The
Dionaea House," a horror thriller that "Harry Potter" producer David Heyman
is producing for Warner Bros. Pictures.

But Cornwell's experience is very much the exception to the prevailing rule.
It's not that attention-grabbing short films -- whether they begin life as fan
films
or Internet novelties -- aren't the calling cards they once were in the movie
industry. The truth is that, despite a few illusory examples, they never did
guarantee the entree for which their creators hoped. Despite all the initial
acclaim that greeted such short films as the "Stars Wars" spoof "George Lucas
in Love" or "405," in which an airplane lands on the 405 freeway in Los
Angeles, their creators were not instantly given the directing assignments for
which they were angling. And the flood of ersatz films that have followed in
their wake pretty much has rendered the Internet fallow ground for
recruitment.

The phenomenon began in the late 1990s, as the Internet began spawning
so-called fan films, which take well-known characters, usually from fantasy
and sci-fi movies, and present them in new stories via short films and trailers.
One of the first such films to become hot was "Troops," a short directed by
Kevin Rubio in 1998 that followed a group of stormtroopers on Tatooine a la
the TV show "Cops."

Another short that rocketed to short-lived popularity was "Lucas in Love,"
which spoofed the then-popular "Shakespeare in Love" by inserting George
Lucas as the title character as it offered a fictional scenario about how he
developed the "Star Wars" mythology. It was written by Timothy Dowling and
directed by Joe Nussbaum, who made "Lucas in Love" as his USC student
film project.

Even before they hit the Internet, both films attracted attention as VHS tapes
that quickly circulated throughout Hollywood. Executives had their assistants
making copies of copies of copies. Soon Rubio, Dowling and Nussbaum all
got meetings around town and netted agents and managers.

Rubio credits the Internet for fueling the frenzy. "'Troops' had the luck of
being
the first one put on the Net like that, back when you only had QuickTime 2 and
it took eight hours to download," Rubio said of his film, which appeared on
TheForce.net. "The fact that it took that long to download and that we were
crashing sites, it got noticed from the community because people wanted to
know what the hell is worth waiting eight hours to download."

"Lucas in Love" surfaced on the Web site Mediatrip.com, where a few million
watched it.

"This is when everyone thought that every Web site would be laden with short
films and it was going to be a Shangri-La for shorts," said Dowling, who was
written up in People, the New York Times and Entertainment Weekly and
appeared on CNN, CNBC and "The Today Show" while also making the
rounds of film festivals worldwide.

Soon, Hollywood agencies began tracking the Internet with the hopes of
discovering new talent. The developments attracted the attention of Bruce
Branit and Jeremy Hunt, visual effects artists who were working on TV's "Star
Trek: Voyager." Working weekends, spending just a few hundred dollars, they
created a short titled "405" that showed a 747 landing on a amazingly traffic-
free section of what usually is one of the most congested highways in the
country.

At first, their calling card appeared to be a success. Amid the Details and
Rolling Stone interviews and photo shoots, Branit and Hunt quit their jobs,
signed with agents and began taking meetings.

The success of "405," "Lucas in Love" and "Troops" changed the landscape
for calling cards. Suddenly, spoofs flooded the Hollywood landscape and
then the Internet. "It became too much," Dowling said. "It became a lot harder
to get something seen. There were like a hundred 'Blair Witch' spoofs. There
were so many of them that not one of them was making an impact."

The evolution of the Internet and digital technology only made it easier to
make and disseminate such shorts. But as they multiplied, they tended to
cancel one another out.

"It doesn't make a splash anymore," said John Halecky of iFilm, where many
shorts appear. "People are even spoofing the MasterCard 'Priceless'
commercials. Well, you're spoofing a 30-second ad with a 30-second ad."

The evolution of the Internet also made it harder to build buzz. The old days of
making copies of copies on VHS, messengering them around town and
congregating around TVs to catch the latest parody were gone. While the
Internet made such shorts instantly available, it also ended their mystique.

The original calling cards were, Halecky said, "a hotter item because you
couldn't get it unless you knew someone. Whereas today, if it's online, boom,
the whole world can watch it and move on with their lives."

Ultimately, making a splash with a short ended up diverting some of its most
celebrated practitioners from their career goals. The makers of "Troops,"
"Lucas in Love" and "405" were so focused on their particular projects that
they lost sight of why they made their shorts in the first place.

"Once you get those meetings, and they love the short, but they can't do
anything with it, the big question is, what's next? What else do you have?"
Dowling said. "And we were so focused on the short that we didn't have
anything else."

Branit agreed: "What happened was we ended up in a lot of rooms with
people going, 'So what do you want to do?' And we didn't know. We hadn't
planned the second chapter."

Nussbaum turned to commercials work while waiting for a feature project, and
Dowling focused on writing. Branit and Hunt started their own visual effects
company, parted ways with their agents and eventually with each other.

But as they continued to plug away, they learned another Hollywood lesson:
perseverance. Nussbaum eventually landed a directing gig on MGM's 2004
tween movie "Sleepover." Last year, Dowling sold a high-profile project,
"Outsourced," with Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn attached.

Branit moved with his wife to Kansas City, started another visual effects
company and this year worked on "Sin City," "The Adventures of Sharkboy &
Lavagirl in 3-D" and "Serenity." But he still is working on the dream: He is
putting the finishing touches on a nine-minute short he wrote and directed that
he hopes will put him back on the map as a Hollywood player.

Still, for a few would-be players, if such calling cards demonstrate real skill,
they occasionally still can hit their mark.

"It's not (about) saying to the whole industry 'Look at me,"' said Mark Bell of
Film Threat DVD, which specializes in short films. "It's saying, 'I have certain
skills, I can handle a camera, this is the d.p. I want to use, etc."'

For example, looking for a directing gig at New Line, Michael Davis submitted
several minutes of animatic action sequences of his own script, "Shoot 'Em
Up." The studio liked what it saw, and the project is moving forward with Clive
Owen attached.

Filmmaker Wes Ball created a one-minute animated trailer for the coming-of-
age adventure "The Treehouse" that he hopes to make as his directorial
debut. The trailer was instrumental in him getting the gig on the Warner Bros.
Pictures project.

And though the day of the Internet short might be waning, the dawn of the
phone-download featurette could be just beginning with mobile phone
companies desperately looking for short-form content to fill their small
screens. "If the next breakout films (come) on the phone, I would not be
surprised," Bell said.

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051221/tc_nm/internet_dc

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Woody Allen enters modern world for movie promo
Tuesday December 27 9:35 PM ET


Movie marketing used to be a pretty basic business of buying network TV
spots and newspaper ads. These days, it has evolved into a more challenging
puzzle in which nontraditional media are increasingly part of the solution.

A case in point is DreamWorks' innovative marketing campaign for Woody
Allen's critically acclaimed thriller "Match Point," opening Wednesday in New
York and L.A., which includes video and audio podcasts and satellite radio
interviews.

After receiving rave reviews at the Cannes Film Festival in May, it was picked
up for North American distribution by DreamWorks. The studio will release it
nationally on January 20, four days after the Golden Globes where it is
competing in four categories.
ADVERTISEMENTAllen, 70, a noted technophobe who's not exactly
enthusiastic about movie promotion, participated in a series of five video
podcast interviews, all of which can now be downloaded free at the Apple
iTunes Music Store. It marks the first time any studio has created video
podcasts as an element in a film's marketing campaign. The same interview
material with Allen is also being used by DreamWorks combined with other
materials from the film to promote "Match" in a series of programs running on
XM Satellite Radio through January 22.

DreamWorks marketing chief Terry Press likened the podcasts to a director's
commentary track on a DVD. "And Woody Allen does not do (commentaries
on DVDs of his films). As far as I know, he has done no DVD commentaries,"
she said. "So you actually can hear (in these podcasts) this kind of running
stream of consciousness from him, which is really interesting, that you won't
get, I don't think, when the DVD comes out."

"Match," Allen's first film shot in London rather than in New York, is a drama
about ambition and obsession and the importance of luck in our lives.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers plays a tennis pro who becomes friendly with one of
his students, a wealthy young Englishman (Matthew Goode), and goes on to
marry the man's sister (Emily Mortimer). Although he quickly becomes
accustomed to his new upper-class lifestyle, things get complicated when he
becomes romantically entangled with his new brother-in-law's beautiful
American fiancee (Scarlett Johansson).

It received Golden Globe nominations for best picture-drama, director (Allen),
screenplay (Allen) and supporting actress (Johansson).

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/va/20051227/113574813300.html

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U.S. adds 'Baby Face,' 'Rocky Horror' to registry
Tuesday December 27 4:19 PM ET


Films that helped usher in a new era of censorship, changed the way
Hollywood thought about the audience, provided a first-hand look at one of
the nation's great disasters and introduced the world to the word "gnarly" are
among the 25 films the librarian of Congress named to the National Film
Registry on Tuesday.
Full Article: http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/va/20051227/
113572917900.html

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LOOKING BACK AT '05: The Year of the (Film) Blogs, With More To Come

by Steve Rosen (December 15, 2005)

[EDITORS NOTE: This is the first in a series of 5 articles looking back at some
of the notable people, trends and companies of 2005. Additional articles in
this series will be published all next week.]

While it's hard to prognosticate about the overall future and impact of film
blogs, one thing became apparent this year, film-blog prognostication itself
suddenly has become a booming Internet business. And so far, it's benefiting
indie films.

Blogs that treat film awards like a competitive sport, like OscarWatch.com and
David Poland's Hot Blog, have been joined by newspaper-sponsored blogs
from The New York Times, David Carr's The Carpetbagger, The Los Angeles
Times' The Envelope and The Los Angeles Daily News' On The Red Carpet
to create a growth industry in Oscar-handicapping sites. More are on the way,
too, as the Academy Awards broadcast on March 5 approaches -- Yahoo! is
scheduled to start one up soon.

"This is the first year we've really had the industry pay attention to blogs,"
said
James Lewis, a Los Angeles publicist for mPRm, which is working on the
Oscar campaigns of several movies. "They're tied in to major publications."

These blogs may be having an egalitarian effect on awards season, aiding
smaller films like "Brokeback Mountain," "Capote," "Transamerica" or "The
Squid and the Whale" against the bigger Hollywood movies so far.

"It certainly levels the playing field because our prognosticators treat them
seriously and give them the same amount of space as other films," said Tom
O'Neil, who licensed his hobbyist Goldderby.com award-predicting website to
Los Angeles Times last July. It became part of The Envelope, for which he
writes his Gold Derby blog.

These blogs have found a good year to try to make an impact, too. "If we're
going to have the first full-scale gay Oscar season, with 'Brokeback' followed
by 'Capote' and 'Transamerica,' there's going to be a lot to chatter about it,"
said Ray Price, vice president of marketing for Landmark Theatres, the
nation's largest art-house chain.

He's in the process of creating Movienet.com, a new Landmark-affiliated one-
stop independent film website that he hopes will host blogs from critics and
filmmakers. "If I got Robert Altman to show up a few times a week while
people were talking about 'Prairie Home Companion,' that'd be really cool."

But while all these high-profile changes are occurring, other blog activity
augers well for film buffs throughout the Internet. Lively, intelligent blogs
that
feature frequently updated, conversational postings about cinema -- as
opposed to celebrity gossip -- are flowering. They're trying to create an
interlinked community devoted to those passionately interested in film, similar
to what the pioneering urban art houses of the 1950s and 1960s did. And if
they haven't yet reached the point where they have a measured impact on
box office, they're trying.

These blogs include, but certainly aren't limited to, film critic and writer
Dave
Kehr's new blog, online film journal Reverse Shot's Reverse Blog, S.T.
VanAirsdale's The Reeler, the Twitch blog, MovieCityNews' MovieCityIndie
blog, and GreenCine's Green Cine Daily.

The blogs can be as fun as they are erudite, as newsy as they are ruminative,
as friendly as they are academic. And their very logos and mottos connote a
certain luminously magical quality, a sense of entering a new world similar to
what early moviegoers found watching Melies' "A Trip to the Moon."

Twitch, which takes a keen interest in Asian film, bills itself as "spreading
the
news on strange little films from around the world." Kehr's site dedicates
itself
to reporting "from the lost world of cinephilia." Filmbrain's blog is called
Like
Anna Karina's Sweater blog.

Jeff Reichert, a co-founder of the Reverse Shot website who now co-edits its
blog, believes that these all have a shot at bringing a populist, youthful
energy
to the aging art-film world. He thinks they're capable of opening up criticism
to
the masses, without dumbing it down. (He's also director of marketing and
publicity for Magnolia Pictures.)

"If I see the new Hou Hsiao-hsien film and love it, I don't have to talk about
it in
a rarified form," he said. "And if there are more opportunities for dialogue,
people will feel like they're becoming involved rather than being told about
something. That could re-energize art cinema."

While there are good indie-film blogs, there are so many there's concern that
any single one's impact is minuscule, even with host sites and links to direct
traffic. BlogPulse.com identified 19,666,253 blogs of all type in existence -
36,945 added in a recent two-hour period. And a search of "film blogs" on
blogger.com came up with 40,329.

Still, hope is building that they can help first-run specialty movies find an
audience, especially if newspaper coverage of art and indie films undergoes
cutbacks due to stagnant circulation. "The biggest problem we have is that a
film is always dying of anonymity," Landmark's Price said. "And declining
newspaper space doesn't help that - that's the essential problem in our
business and it's getting worse."

"Blogs are good but there has to be a way to navigate through them," he said.
"Maybe 10,000 places, each with a little audience, are fine. Maybe they add
up to one nation. But on the other hand, maybe there's a need for some
centrality." Indie distributors and filmmakers are also getting more active in
creating their own blogs.

For instance, right now "Cape of Good Hope" director Mark Bamford is
chronicling the slow rollout of his Artistic License-distributed drama about
three women's lives in South Africa on his own blog. He posts reviews as well
as such material as snapshots of the actors at the film's New York opening. "It
brings people into the experience in a personal way," he said.

"For the indies, blogs can potentially be much more important for any given
film for a variety of reasons, not least of which is that other forms of
publicity
are relatively so much more expensive yet not necessarily more effective and
certainly not as 'targeted'," said Green Cine Daily's David Hudson, in an E-
mail.

"When an indie production has a particularly intriguing or creative personality
involved, getting them online and blogging can arouse not just a certain level
of buzz but also, if something sparks between them and their readers, a whole
core of evangelists for that particular film."

A particularly good example of that this year was Miranda July's blog for the
IFC Films release, "Me and You and Everyone We Know." "What's interesting
here is that, in July's case, anyone who saw the film was likely to be very
interested in finding out more about her," Hudson said. "If they found the blog,
they found a place that not only had the look and feel of the overall campaign
for that film but also that July was a pretty fun read - and anyone who would
warm up to the film would likely warm up to the personality there, too."

IFC Films' new marketing director, Ryan Werner said he plans to redesign the
company's website to incorporate blogs, and that he's working on having
Danish director Lars Von Trier -- whose fear of flying prevents him from
traveling to America --- personally address that issue as part of IFC's
Internet-
marketing campaign for his upcoming "Manderlay." He also may advertise on
both film blogs like GreenCine.com and politically oriented ones like
huffingtonpost.com.

The film-blogging experience seems sure to grow in 2006. And that will mean
more work than ever for the writers involved, who often have other careers
involving writing, that pay the bills.

Anne Thompson, the Hollywood Reporter columnist who this year expanded
her Risky Business column into an ongoing Risky Biz blog, plans to file on her
personal blog, in her column and in other Reporter coverage at Sundance
this year.

"I hope I see some movies," Thompson said. "But I love doing (the blog). I
have to fight to keep from doing it more than a few hours each day. And it's
helped my voice, helped my writing become more opinionated."


indieWIRE continues its monthly series with AppleStore - SoHo that presents
indie film professionals discussing various aspects of the filmmaking process.

WHEN: Friday, December 16th, 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m WHERE: AppleStore -
SoHo, 103 Prince Street, NYC

indieWIRE is pleased to bring together some of it's favorite film bloggers to
discuss their corner of the blogosphere. As film blogs become more and more
popular, meet the people behind these blogs that cover indie, foreign and
Hollywood films.

Bloggers confirmed include:

Karina Longworth (Cinematical) Scott Macaulay (Filmmaker Magazine Blog)
Alison Willmore Andrew Grant (Like Anna Karina's Sweater) Aaron Dobbs
(Out of Focus) S.T. VanAirsdale (The Reeler) Michael Koresky (Reverseblog:
The Reverse Shot blog)

The event will be moderated by indieWIRE Editor in Chief (and blogger)
Eugene Hernandez

http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/iw/20051216/113473421300.html