2 Giant Filmmaking Parties Dec. 5th (RI & MA)

RIFC Annual Black & White Holiday Party 2009
Welcome to the Ice Cave!
Host: Rhode Island Film Collaborative

Type: Party - Holiday Party

Network: Global
Start Time: Saturday, December 5, 2009 at 6:00pm
End Time: Sunday, December 6, 2009 at 2:00am
Location: Kay Studios
Street: 66 Valley St.
City/Town: East Providence, RI

Annual Holiday Party is also one of the two major fundraisers for the RI Film
Collaborative.

There will be live entertainment from Bring Your Own Improv & music from WRIK
Entertainment, plus ice-breaker games, door prizes & a raffle. Food will be
provided by by Raymond Norman Cooks Catering & others; Narragansett Brewing Co.
is providing the beer. Last year, over 350 people were in attendance & the party
didn't stop 'til after 2:30 AM!

Please remember those less fortunate & bring a non-perishable food item for
donation to the RI Community Food Bank; you'll be rewarded w/ a complimentary
beverage ticket & w/ the warm feeling of doing something good.

Don't forget to come dressed in black, white or both!

6 - 8 PM: Network w/ notables in the arts & media industries while enjoying
champagne & exclusive dining. Tickets cost $100/person or $150/couple.

8 PM onward: General admission for a suggested donation of $10.
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Filmmaker's Shindig
Biggest Shindig of the Decade!
Host: New England Talent & Crew

Type: Party - Mixer

Network: Global
Start Time: Saturday, December 5, 2009 at 9:00pm
End Time: Sunday, December 6, 2009 at 2:00am
Location: Blue 22
Street: 1237 Hancock St
City/Town: Quincy, MA

We're announcing the last Shindig of the DECADE! So deck those halls, light your
menora and/or do any one of a number of cliche' practices of various
religious/ethnic groups as they celebrate the light coming back in the world!
Come to the Winter Holiday Shindig!!!
The Next Shindate is set! Join us on Saturday, December 5th at 9pm for what
promises to be the BEST SHINDIG EVER!!!
Come dressed in your holiday best to Blue 22! 1237 Hancock St., in Quincy, too!
Upcoming Surprises
We are planning all kinds of things to make your Shindig an even more
SHINDIG-TASTIC! Stay tuned to find out what's happening behind the scenes of
Filmmaker's Shindig!
All right everyone, check your inbox for the next news! And we'll see you on
December 5th!
Yours in Film,
Jenna & Chuck
Filmmaker's Shindig
Where Storytellers in Need
Meet Storytellers in Deed!
www.filmmakersshindig.com
THE LAST & BIGGEST SHINDIG OF THE DECADE!!!

The Bone 106.3 have officially become sponsors of our next feature film hit
'Back to the Beyond' We are looking for more local businesses that want to
barter product for the movie. Willows Way, our first Maine feature has just
reached it's 52nd country.

www.indyfilmfunding.com
www.backtothebeyond.com

Class: Ready, Set, Go: Everything You Need to Know Before You Get to the Studio:

There are just a few slots left for tomorrow's
Ready, Set, Go Television Production Class at 6:30 to 8:30pm at Community
Television Network, 516 Congress Street in Portland.

For more information contact, CTN at 775-2900 or Lesley Jones at
lesleymjones@.... Pre-Registration is open at 6pm for new participants.
FMI and forms, visit: www.ctn5.org.


Class is $25.00, paid to CTN,  and includes instruction on what you need to do
to get ready for a television studio shoot, including; scripting, crew
recruitment, guests and interviewing techniques and more!

This class is taught by veteran television producer, Lesley Jones and Technical
Director, David Merritt. We hope you can join us for this fun and informative
class! (It is the first and pre-requisite in a series of classes offered at
CTN.)

I'm a Portland-area (Cape Elizabeth) film composer who's searching for musicians
to perform on some score work. It's not a paying gig (at this point) but a fun,
collaborative opportunity with some potential, and obviously anything that makes
it to a finished project would be fully credited.

Primarily seeking classically-trained female vocalists (all ranges) to perform
both vocalise pieces and lyrical works; proficiency with foreign languages
(particularly Eastern European or Latin) would be a definite plus.

Also on the lookout for musicians who play orchestral instruments; I've got a
well-established network of players of the more usual instruments (guitar, bass,
drums, etc) and am a multi-instrumentalist myself so those areas are pretty well
covered, but I definitely want to incorporate other instruments into some
projects. So if you play oboe, bassoon, cor anglais, symphonic percussion,
violin, etc. I'd like to hear from you.

It's about a 50/50 mix of written scores and guided improvisation.

Contact Tim Nelson: psychle62(at)yahoo.com

Thanks,

-t-

Call 207- 885-5883 for more information

BROADWAY AT GOOD THEATER Concerts December 3-6.  Good Theater presents its annual Broadway/Holiday Concerts with special guests Broadway star Norm (Les Miz, Side Show The Little Mermaid) Lewis; Kelly Caufield; Marva Pittman; Dennis St. Pierre and a dozen Good Theater favorites.  Directed by Brian P. Allen; Musical Director Victoria Stubbs. Performance times are Thursday 7:30 ($25), Friday 7:30 ($25), Saturday matinee 3:00 ($25), Saturday evening 8:00 ($30), Sunday matinee 2:00 ($30).  At the St Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress Street, Portland. Call 885-5883 for reservations and information. www.goodtheater.com <http://www.goodtheater.com/>
 
 
WHAT: BROADWAY AT GOOD THEATER Concerts December 3-6.  Good Theater presents its annual Broadway/Holiday Concerts with special guests Broadway star Norm (Les Miz, Side Show The Little Mermaid) Lewis; Kelly Caufield; Marva Pittman; Dennis St. Pierre and a dozen Good Theater favorites.  Directed by Brian P. Allen; Musical Director Victoria Stubbs.
 
WHERE:  St Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress Street, Portland, ME.
 
WHEN: December 3-6. Performance times are Thursday 7:30 ($25), Friday 8:00 ($25), Saturday matinee 3:00 ($25), Saturday evening 8:00 ($30), Sunday matinee 2:00 ($30).
 
TICKETS:  Reservations and information call 885-5883.  
 
WHO:  Presented by Good Theater, a professional theater; the theater is in residence at the St. Lawrence Arts Center. www.goodtheater.com <http://www.goodtheater.com> .

Broadway Star Announced for Good Theater’s Holiday Show

Norm Lewis, a Drama Desk Award nominee, will be this year’s headliner for the annual Broadway at Good Theater concerts December 3-6.  Mr. Lewis was most recently seen on Broadway as King Triton in The Little Mermaid at the Lunt Fontanne Theatre. His other Broadway credits include:  Javert in the recent revival of Les Miserables, Billy Flynn in Chicago, Jake in Side Show, John in Miss Saigon, as well as The Wild Party, The Who’s Tommy and Armor.  He recently released an album of show tunes entitled:  Norm Lewis, This is the Life.    
 
Joining him will be three special guests:  Kelly Caufield, a Good Theater regular; singing sensation Marva Pittman who will be making her fourth appearance with Good Theater; and Dennis St. Pierre who starred as Jean Valjean in Maine State Music Theater’s recent production of Les Miserables.
 
These four guests will join Good Theater favorites Grace Bradford, Jen Means, Marc Brann, Stephen Underwood, Jennifer Manzi Macleod, Todd & Katie Daley, and Brian P. Allen. New performers to the Good Theater stage include Marie Dittmer, Devon Dukes, John Adams, Benjamin Row and Lady Zen.
 
Broadway at Good Theater plays for five performances December 3 – 6: Thursday 7:30 ($25), Friday 7:30 ($25), Saturday 3:00 ($25) & 8:00 ($30) and Sunday 2:00 ($30).  For reservations and additional information patrons should call the Good Theater box office at 207-885-5883 or go to the Good Theater website at www.goodtheater.com.   
 
Broadway at Good Theater is the annual holiday fundraising concert for the organization.  Proceeds benefit Good Theater and their season of plays and musicals.  In the past, all five concerts have sold-out, so patrons are advised to get their tickets early.
 
This unique event mixes Broadway hits with holiday favorites.  Act one is devoted to the music of Broadway.  This year patrons will hear songs from South Pacific, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Chess, Hair, Man of LaMancha and many others.  Act two highlights songs of the holiday season.  In addition to well-known numbers like “Sleigh Ride,” “What Child Is This,” and “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” singers will feature some lesser known Christmas songs as well (“Cool Yule,” “Blue Holiday,” “Three Wishes for Christmas”).
 
Good Theater is the professional theater in residence at the St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress Street, on Munjoy Hill, in Portland.  Upcoming productions at Good Theater include:  The Spitfire Grill (January 21 – February 14) and The Importance of Being Earnest (March 4 - 28).

Short Film seeks Company Financier.

Your Company Credits will appear at the beginning of the film "_________
Presents".

Distribution will be Youtube, facebook, myspace, websites, blogs.

NAME HOLLYWOOD ACTOR ALREADY ATTACHED.

Contact James Stiles http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1762022/ for more details,
script, etc. at findstiles@...

Thank you!

Acouple quick announcements...
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Monthly RIFC Networking Meeting
Nov. 10th 2009
The Wild Colonial
250 South Water St.
Providence, RI
The format's pretty simple - come, introduce yourself, hear announcements about
upcoming productions, events, and who's looking for help with what. Then from
8:30 on, relax with your favorite beverage and network along all lines filmic.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 7 – 11pm
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Passed on from The RI Film Office...
The State Office of Film & TV Needs Your Help:
Dear Friends of Rhode Island Film & Television Production,
For the last five years, we've worked hard to bring an unprecedented amount of
film and television production here to our Ocean State, while providing many new
opportunities for students, crew, vendors, talent, location owners and film
festivals. A few examples of the productions we've hosted include three seasons
of the Peabody award winning Showtime series BROTHERHOOD, the People's Choice
best comedy 27 DRESSES starring Katherine Heigl, Steve Carell's DAN IN REAL
LIFE, the Richard Gere family film, HACHIKO, Walt Disney's UNDERDOG, as well as
EVENING, TELL TALE, TANNER HALL, HOUSE RULES, THE CLIQUE and many more. We are
currently hopeful for the future of film and television in Rhode Island as we
strive diligently to bring more productions home and anticipate an active year
ahead.

Once again, we need your help!
With our state's current fiscal challenges, it is essential we receive feedback
from individuals and companies that have been positively impacted by the film
and television productions, and, more importantly, by the overall impact of the
Motion Picture Incentive Program. Notwithstanding the slowdown of growth due to
the recently enacted "cap" on the tax credit program, we are interested in how
the Motion Picture Incentive Program has helped you and/or your business in the
last five years.

For example, if you are a crew member, how many productions did you work on in
the past five years in Rhode Island and what was the economic impact to you
personally? Did your work in the film industry positively affect your
personal/family life? Were you able to spend more time at home rather than
travel out of state to practice your craft? Were you able to buy a home or start
a new business? Did you receive health insurance? If you are a business/vendor,
has your income grown as a direct result of having Hollywood set up shop here?
Did you hire additional personnel or increase hours for your current staff? Were
you able to save a job? How much did your company earn by providing goods and/or
services to productions in Rhode Island? Most importantly, would you like to see
additional productions filmed in Rhode Island?

This information is crucial to the survival of the Motion Picture Incentive
Program. If the program has had a positive impact on YOUR life or business,
please take a moment to send us a one-page written testimonial by Friday,
November 13, 2009. Attached is a copy of a letter we received from one of our
local vendors which you can use as an example. We look forward to hearing from
you. Thank you for your time.

Warmest regards,
Steven Feinberg
Executive Director
Rhode Island Film & Television Office
Phone: 401-222-3456
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Passed on from Chuck Slavin (Me)...
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Rhode Island Residents Please Call or Email and Tell your Local Legislators to
end The Film Tax Incentive Cap!
House Clerk: (401) 222-2258
Senate Clerk: (401) 222-6625
Ask for your local Representative or Senator. We need to show them we support
their efforts!!!

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/officials/localsearch/alpha/?search_type=alp\
ha&state=RI

(SIMPLY ADD YOU'RE ZIP CODE AND YOU WILL GET A LIST OF ALL YOUR ELECTED
LEGISLATORS!)
Please Call or email to your local Representative or Senator. We need to show
them we support their efforts!!!
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Please only repond to the email listed below...
Passed on... Caldera Films, a small Wolfeboro NH-based film company, is seeking
actresses for an upcoming film, The Marriage Counselor.

Synopsis: Bill and Faye Madison's marriage is on the brink of divorce. The only
thing that can save it is an eccentric, radical marriage counselor, Alexandra
Demauparrie. The problem is nobody will say what her methods are, just that she
has a 100% success rate. With nothing to lose the couple decide to give her a
try.

This non-SAG romantic comedy, expected to be roughly 20-25 minutes, will be shot
in the town of Wolfeboro, NH and will be screened there as well. The film is
being made in conjunction with Wolfeboro Community Television and will be shown
on local public access television. All actors will receive a copy of the
finished DVD and notice of all film festivals that the film gains entry into. We
are entering the film in regional film festivals at this point, and will submit
to additional festivals based on its success. Attached is a copy of the
screenplay and treatment. Rehearsals are expected to begin in January with
principal photography completed by mid-February. Our main goal is to have fun
and make new friends while creating an art form.

Anyone interested can email me at:
Calderaproductions@...
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Passing along for a friend. Please only respond to the email address listed.
Mox Jaded, a local production company, is seeking principal and background
performers to work on a new media sitcom called "Disposable Heroes", which will
begin shooting in and around Boston in December. This production will be signed
to an AFTRA New Media Contract and we are accepting submissions from both Union
and Non-Union performers.

The show takes place in a local card and comic book shop where the characters
are involved in such things as Magic, D&D, Board Games and Anime.
We are seeking performers who can fill the following roles:
MATT - (Mid 20s, male, any ethnicity) -
NATE - (18+ to play 15, male, any ethnicity)
JULIE - (Mid 20s, female, any ethnicity)
MAGIC PLAYER - (Teens to late 20s, male or female, any ethnicity)ROLEPLAYER -
(20s, 30s, male or female, any ethnicity)
BOARDGAMER - (20s, 30s, 40s, male or female, any ethnicity)
OFFICE MANAGER - (40s+, male, any ethnicity)
COFFEE SHOP MANAGER - (Late 20s, male, any ethnicity)
Please submit a headshot and resume to casting@.... You must include
the role you are submitting for as your subject. Auditions will be held on the
evening of November 14th at Boston Casting (129 Braintree Street, Allston, MA).
All auditions will be cold reads; material will be presented to you at the time
of your appointment.

For more information please visit us at www.MoxJaded.com
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Thanks for your time, Chuck Slavin "DotCom"