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Independent Film Screenings in Austin
Myspace launches MySpace Trailer Park
Withoutabox, Cannes mini-mart pact
With Creation of Dreamachine, Foreign-Language Films Face Sleepless
Nights Ahead
Jackie Chan Launches Chinese TV Show
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Hello,

There are some informative news articles with contests and festival
info, so make sure you check those out. The short film I worked on
with Anurag Aalok & Mehta ("American Chai") will have a two-minute
showing at NAB – National Assoc. Broadcasters in Vegas
(http://www.nab.org) and will be projected from a 4K projector. Just
for reference HD is 1K. A friend's film I was the "wes'side"
production coordinator for, Royal Kill, will have a 15-minute preview
screening at NYFA and Cinespace next month. This was the last film in
which Pat Morita (aka the beloved Mr. Miyagi from "Karate Kid") acted in.

I just saw The Good Shepard the other night and really enjoyed it. I
was surprised that I didn't hear about it early and it didn't make an
Oscar splash considering De Niro is an actor-turned-director and that
usually helps get nominations a la Eastwood. Last month I went to the
Virgin on Hollywood Blvd and checked out their foreign films sections
and all the films I saw in that section were amazing. So I wondered
what I was missing out on. So, I thought I'd try something like the
`recommendations' that IMDb, blockbuster, Netflix tries, but instead
do it via you – the people reading this. I will list 5 movies that I
think were under-the-radar and if you liked any of those give me your
five. Even if you didn't like those give me five somewhat obscure
films you loved.

City of God - Brazilian
Malena – Italian
Cinema Paradiso – Italian
Idiocracy - American
Sullivan's Travels – American (classic)

Looking forward to seeing your list.

I hope all is well with you. Keep me posted on your filmic-ventures
and I'll post them here.

Anup
http://www.myspace.com/anups

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MEMBER UPDATES


DAEG FAERCH

Daeg plays Michael Myers in Rob Zombie's remake of Halloween. Check
out the trailer.

Halloween:
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809784517/trailer

http://www.myspace.com/daegfaerch

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GARY CAIRNS II

I'm in Bulgaria doing a film with Cuba Gooding Jr. and Ray Liotta..
its one of the lead roles in the film HERO WANTED.

http://imdb.com/name/nm1489037/

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JAIMYON PARKER

I am doing a show celebrating Shakespeare's works. It is called:
Bard's Birthday Bash, a selection of some of Shakespeare's best scenes
to honor his 443rd birthday. The details are as follows:


Bard's Birthday Bash
Friday April 27th 8 PM Friday May 3rd 8 PM
Saturday April 28th 8 PM Saturday May 4th 8 PM
Sunday April 29th 2 PM Sunday May 5th 2 PM

The show is being performed at the Two Roads Theatre, which is 4348
Tujunga Ave, in Studio City. I have attached the flyer and as you can
see, there is a discount for actors!!!! Hope to see you there!

~Jaimyon

http://www.myspace.com/jaimyon

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LAK RANA

A project I worked on a while back..thought you might like it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwyAjunz13g

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MARK ELIAS

The feature I starred in, that won 2 awards at the Milan Film
Festival, is now available in Blockbuster!!!

"Cutting Room"
http://imdb.com/title/tt0460760/

http://www.myspace.com/markelias

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RITA RANI

Hello All,

"Bombay Skies" was at The 2007 Method Fest and I wanted to let you
know that:

1. Our lovely actor Rajat Kapoor ("Monsoon Wedding") has been
nominated for The Screen Actor's Guild Award for Best Actor in a Short
Film

2. And the film was nominated for the Audience Award for Best Short Film.

Upcoming screenings:

FLORIDA PREMIERE
12th Annual Palm Beach Film Festival - Florida
April 21, 2007
Visit http:// www.pbifilmfest.org for more details

MASSACHUSETTES PREMIERE
The Boston International Film Festival
June 6th - 13th
Visit http://www.bifilmfestival.com for more details

Best,
Rita

http://www.RitaRani.com

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SHARAT RAJU – `DIVIDED WE FALL' SCREENING 4/21

Hello my friends,

As most of you know, we've been on a national tour with Divided We
Fall since premiering in September. We've been to New York, San
Francisco, Chicago, Miami -- even Omaha, for crying out loud...

Which prompted many of you to ask me, "When the hell are you going to
show the film here in LA?"

Well, curse no more -- we will premiere DWF here in town, this month!

Since everyone on this list has had a hand in making the film, I hope
you can join us at the Arclight on Saturday April 21 at 4pm for our
first-ever screening in Los Angeles.

Here are the details:
SATURDAY APRIL 21, 2007 AT 4PM
INDIAN FILM FESTIVAL LOS ANGELES
ARCLIGHT CINEMAS
SUNSET AND VINE, HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA
http://indianfilmfestival.org/

Now, I have secured some tickets. So if you are planning on joining
us, please let me know so I can keep a ticket aside for you. If you
want to invite people to the screening, additional tickets can be
bought through the Arclight website (link to it through the IFFLA site).

We're hoping to have a full, lively crowd for our first-ever in-town
screening. The Arclight is a great venue, too, so do try to join us.
And let me know soon, if you can be there. I will contact each of you
as we get closer to April 21, as well...

Thanks everyone!

Best,
Sharat Raju
http://www.dwf-film.com/
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ARTICLES


25 FINALISTS FOR THE SECOND EDITION OF "CONTENT 360,"
April 11, 2007
MIPTV featuring MILIA, the world's audiovisual and digital content
market, today announces the 25 finalists for the second edition of
"Content 360," the international competition to commission innovative,
interactive content and applications for mobile and broadband.

For the second year, "Content 360" is organized in partnership with
the BBC, the Korean Broadcasting Commission (KBC), the National Film
Board of Canada (NFB) and for the first time WPP's OgilvyOne Worldwide
and Yahoo!

The call for entries launched on January 8, 2007 and received an
enthusiastic response from hundreds of international multimedia and
application developers. A total of 450 projects from 36 countries were
entered compared to 186 projects from 23 countries last year. 240
companies from countries as diverse as Mexico, Australia, Sweden,
South Africa, US, France, Canada, Italy, South Korea, UK, India,
Singapore… entered projects in this year's competition.

Divided into eight categories, the 25 finalists will attend MIPTV
featuring MILIA in April to promote their projects in the Content 360
Pavilion and during pitching sessions in the Conference Programme. The
projects will be judged by panels of key digital commissioners, brands
and industry experts.

The winners, revealed in Cannes on April 19, will share €100,000 in
development funds pledged by the competition partners.

Click here to discover the 25 "Content 360" finalists
http://www.miptv.com/images/100526/pdf/miptv2007_content360_nominees_list.pdf
http://www.filmfestivals.com/cgi-bin/shownews.pl?obj=ShowNews&CfgPath=ffs/filinf\
o&Cfg=news.cfg&news=general&text_id=30475

or http://tinyurl.com/yoor62

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INDEPENDENT FILM SCREENINGS IN AUSTIN
April 6, 2007
In an exciting new development for film buffs and filmmakers in the
Austin area, the Austin Movie Show has joined forces with the Wolfpack
Film Group to bring independent filmmakers a place to showcase their work.

Nuno's on Sixth will be hosting the Wolfpack Film Screenings (WPFS) on
Wednesday nights starting May 2, 2007, at 6:30 p.m. The the Oaks in
Manor will be hosting screenings on Friday, Saturday, and Sundays
(Time TBA).

The Wolfpack Film Group is one of the fastest growing well equiped
filmmaker groups in Austin, comprised of professional and
semi-professionals. The Wolfpack is distinguishable from the other
independent groups because it includes above the line and below the
line crew members, artists of all types and several production
companies. This collaboration of all ages and levels of experience
banded together in order to raise production value on films in the
Austin area by pooling collective resources and talent.

The Wolfpack Film Screenings, which just kicked off this month at
Nuno's on Sixth Street, will be adding Jegar Erickson of the Austin
Movie Show as a host. Erickson, son of Austin's legendary Roky
Erickson and a popular movie critic, will bring his hip sense of humor
and easy presence to the screenings.

Each screening will feature great independent films that most of the
general public has never seen because they are not part of the
Hollywood/Movie Theater distribution system.

Two venues have joined the Wolfpack Film Group as sponsors and will
host the screenings: Nuno's Bar on Sixth Street and The Oaks in Manor,
Texas. Nuno's bar already has a screen and sound system in place. The
Oaks will be adding a screen to their current large live music stage,
utilizing the existing sound system. The Oaks will also be offering a
more intimate screening option on their covered deck as well.

The Wolfpack Film Group is also planning a large event on August 25th
and 26th called Wolfpack On The Prowl (WpoP), a Battle of the Bands to
be held at the Oaks in Manor, Texas. Fifty percent of the proceeds
will be given to major charities like Loaves and Fishes and A Safe Place.

Two contests will be held, one is the Battle of the Bands, the other
is a filmmakers challenge. The winner of the band battle will be given
a video shoot prize package, the winner of the filmmaker contest will
be given a two-day package including a grip truck, lighting and
cameras for use on a shoot.
http://amfmstudios.com/wolfpack/

http://www.filmfestivals.com/cgi-bin/shownews.pl?obj=ShowNews&CfgPath=ffs/filinf\
o&Cfg=news.cfg&news=general&text_id=30461

or http://tinyurl.com/2kmrmn

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MYSPACE LAUNCHES MYSPACE TRAILER PARK

MySpace, the world's leading lifestyle portal, today announced the
launch of a dedicated video community to debut online theatrical
trailers for film releases. The new video community, MySpace Trailer
Park (http://www.myspace.com/trailerpark), opens in collaboration with
Lionsgate (NYSE:LGF), the leading independent filmed entertainment
studio renowned for the Academy Award(R) winning CRASH, the hit SAW
franchise and the upcoming HOSTEL PART II. The first trailer premiere
is for the raucous comedy "Good Luck Chuck" starring Dane Cook and
Jessica Alba, in theaters nationwide on August 24.
"We expect millions of Americans will come to Trailer Park to check
out the industry's best movie trailers," said Chris DeWolfe, CEO of
MySpace. "The demand on MySpace for premium video content is off the
charts and we expect Trailer Park to speak to users who want to
discover and virally share these videos."

Trailer Park will further enable movie studios to connect with a
film's fanbase on MySpace prior to its theatrical release. Content
will premiere on Trailer Park 3-6 months prior to a film's theatrical
release and a few months prior to the movie's MySpace profile launch.
All trailers posted to Trailer Park will enable users to attach the
content to their own profiles to share with friends and fans. All
friends of the profile will receive bulletins alerting them that a new
trailer has been added to the community.

The launch of Trailer Park marks the first time MySpace has created a
dedicated content community for a specific genre of video. In addition
to Trailer Park's debut with the Lionsgate film "Good Luck Chuck," the
profile will also feature other trailers recently debuted on MySpace.
Trailers now playing on Trailer Park include "The Condemned"
(Lionsgate), "Kickin' It Old School" (Yari Film Group), "The Land of
Women" (Warner Bros. Independent), and "The Invisible" (Buena Vista
Pictures).

"MySpace is constantly coming up with new and fresh ways to help us
make positive impressions on their community. We're thrilled to be the
first to park our trailer (for 'Good Luck Chuck') in the Trailer Park
- because we're sure we'll get the best spot!" said Tim Palen,
Lionsgate Co-President of Theatrical Marketing.

"Good Luck Chuck" stars Dane Cook (Employee of the Month) as Charlie,
a successful dentist who becomes a wildly successful ladies man,
thanks to a bizarre childhood curse.

Directed by Mark Helfrich and written by Josh Stolberg, "Good Luck
Chuck" is scheduled for wide release on August 24th. The producers are
Michael Karz, Brian Volk-Weiss and Barry Katz. More information is
available at the film's website, http://lionsgate.com/goodluckchuck.

The launch of Trailer Park comes on the heels of the recent
partnership with Michael Eisner's new independent production studio
Vuguru to air Prom Queen, a scripted mystery series told in 80
episodes that premiered first on MySpace. Each episode airs on the
show's official profile (http://myspace.com/promqueentv) twelve hours
before being released on any other website and series characters will
incorporate video diaries and plot secrets into their individual
MySpace profiles.

As one of the most popular video platforms on the Web, MySpace Video
is a community-driven experience that blends premium, user generated,
and original content. The debut of Prom Queen and Trailer Park
continues the high volume of upcoming product and content developments
for MySpace Video.

http://www.filmfestivals.com/cgi-bin/shownews.pl?obj=ShowNews&CfgPath=ffs/filinf\
o&Cfg=news.cfg&news=general&text_id=30469

or http://tinyurl.com/yvos7p

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WITHOUTABOX, CANNES MINI-MART PACT
Co. will manage film registration process

By DAVE MCNARY
Withoutabox has formed a partnership agreement with the Cannes fest's
Short Film Corner mini-mart, now in its fourth year.

Withoutabox will exclusively manage the event's film registration
process, including solicitation, management and promotion of films.

Agreement also includes online co-branding initiatives directed at
Withoutabox's membership of more than 110,000 filmmakers in 200 countries.

Mini-mart will be located in the Palais des Festivals and takes place
May 16-26.

Shorts included in the Official Competition, the Cinéfondation, the
Director's Fortnight and Critic's Week also will be screened in the
Short Film Corner.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117962763.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

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WITH CREATION OF DREAMACHINE, FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILMS FACE SLEEPLESS
NIGHTS AHEAD

by Anthony Kaufman

Foreign-language cinema got another vote of no confidence yesterday,
with the announcement of Dreamachine, a new film company formed out of
the merger of international sales outfit Celluloid Dreams with
U.K.-based HanWay Films. While the fusion of the two entities creates
a formidable global financing, producing and sales outfit, lead by two
of the brightest cinephiles in the business (Celluloid Dream's
Hengameh Panahi and HanWay's Jeremy Thomas, producer of "The Last
Emperor" "Sexy Beast," and "Naked Lunch," among others), the union
also signals a move away from the foreign art cinema that defined
Celluloid, long a destination for both burgeoning and veteran auteurs,
from Francois Ozon and Jia Zhang-Ke to Takeshi Kitano and Abbas
Kiarostami.

Hanway's Tim Haslam (formerly of Intermedia), considered more of a
moneyman than an artfilm aficionado, will serve as CEO of the new
company. And while Dreamachine will continue to take on foreign
talents and maintain relations hips with its proven staple of auteurs,
the company will focus on fewer films overall, most of which will be
English-language movies -- Panahi estimates only 4 - 5 out of a total
of 15 titles will be foreign-language -- allowing the new company to
be more integrally involved in bigger projects.

"We can increase our involvement in every movie, help directors make
their bigger films, help producers better produce their films
internationally, and help distributors to better promote the movies
that we're bringing to them," said Panahi.

"But the only problem for me is I have to give up on my smaller films,
which is hard because I love them," Panahi continued. "At the same
time, I realize there is no economy for those movies anymore." By
taking on films with less commercial potential, she said, "We're
helping the market to become more crowded and we're helping the small
distributor to be more fragile."

For some time, the increasingly successful Celluloid has been moving
into the English-language market, with the opening of a Toronto office
three years ago and involvement in higher-budget, North American
movies, such as Todd Haynes' likely Cannes contender "I'm Not There"
(recently acquired by The Weinstein Company) and Michael Haneke's
"Funny Games" remake, starring Naomi Watts and Tim Roth and picked up
by Warner Independent Pictures.

"We had already ramped up North American activity considerably,"
explained Charlotte Mickie, who headed up the Toronto-based North
American operations for Celluloid and will handle the same duties for
the new Dreamachine. "It had become more difficult to sell some of the
foreign language films, so we had wanted to take on more
English-language stuff for awhile."

But what will happen to the next generation of foreign auteurs without
a trusted company like Celluloid backing them? "We will continue to
acquire them, just maybe not as many, and not as many small ones,"
said Mickie. "There are always other sales companies, of course. And
there may be more opportunities on V.O.D." Dreamachine's Hengameh
Panahi with Sony Pictures Classics co-president Michael Barker last
year in Cannes. Photo by Eugene Hernandez/indieWIRE

Panahi says talks with HanWay originally started over a mutual
interest in building a video-on-demand service for both companies'
extensive catalogue of quality films. Like other companies that have
embraced new technology delivery methods for foreign cinema such as
Jaman and IFC First Take, Panahi said digital distribution is the best
response to a worldwide film market that has become glutted. "This is
the answer to the volume and an answer to the cinephilia that has
disappeared," she added.

"Everybody is drowning in volume," Panahi continued, partly blaming
herself and Celluloid's past slate of some 25 films annually for
flooding countries with art films that don't have an audience anymore.
"Today, the market is about survival. All my distributors are asking
me to bring them less movies and more solid movies. So when we come
and bring them beautiful movies that they'll lose more money with,
they're unhappy and unsatisfied."

"It is not a healthy market," she adds, noting a litany of challenges
facing global independents (TV is not buying, DVD is dropping, V.O.D.
is not there yet, studio and domestic product continues to take a
greater share of ticket sales). "We're in the complete center of a
maelstrom where there's lots of confusion and despair. At the same
time, it's a great moment, because you can reinvent anything," she
continued, "because nothing works."

While U.S. art-house distributors did not see the Celluloid/HanWay
pact coming, they agree that the merger makes sense in today's
marketplace.

"It's indicative of the times we're in right now," said IFC
Entertainment president Jonathan Sehring, whose company has worked
extensively with both outfits over the years. "I think studio
involvement in the specialized business has caused a global
consolidation and made it more difficult for more daring projects to
find audiences. I think it's out of necessity. But I think both
companies will be better set up for the future."

Zeitgeist Films' Nancy Gerstman, who recently bought U.S. rights to
Celluloid movies such as Jia Zhang-Ke's "The World" and the Quay
brothers' "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes," agreed that the smaller
foreign language films that Celluloid handled in the past "are
becoming very difficult to release theatrically and I can understand
her wanting to sell fewer, bigger films," she said.

But Gerstman, like many U.S. buyers, still trusts that Panahi and
Thomas will continue to embrace cutting-edge movies. "I don't consider
'I'm Not There' exactly a 'mainstream' work -- and I find it hard to
believe that someone with Hengemeh's passion and taste won't take a
smaller film if she loves it."

Marie-Therese Guirgis, formerly the acquisitions head of Wellspring
Media, the defunct company that specialized in foreign and American
indie art cinema, acknowledged the worldwide challenges of releasing
auteur cinema. "All my foreign distributor friends tell me how
increasingly hard it is to release true 'art films' in their
territories," she said. "Celluloid has to think of their future and I
do believe they will continue to support artistic, director-driven
cinema. I know how much these kinds of films mean to Hengameh
personally. It was never just a business to her."

While Guirgis wondered, "What's going to happen to the Jias, the
Dardennes, the Sokurovs, the Panahis. Who will support and sell their
films?" she prefered to look on the brighter side of the deal. "It's
great for English-language cinema. Look at the directors that
Celluloid and HanWay have been supporting: Todd Haynes, Ira Sachs, Tom
Kalin, Todd Solondz, Terry Gilliam, Richard Linklater to name a few.
They've been a great production and funding resource for our best
directors," she concluded, "and it looks like they'll be an even
better one going forward."

http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/iw/20070404/117572634500.html

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JACKIE CHAN LAUNCHES CHINESE TV SHOW

Jackie Chan on Saturday launched a Chinese TV competition aimed at
scouting out new action movie talent, saying more than 100,000 people
have already signed up for a shot at kung fu stardom.

"A lot of actors are good at fighting but (their style) is not
beautiful," the Chinese star and stunt man, who turned 53 Saturday,
said in Beijing.

"If you can incorporate dance with an ability to perform kung fu, that
would be better," Chan told an audience that included a selected 20 of
the show's contestants and some Chinese celebrities.

http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/ap/20070407/117596298000.html