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February 23, 2009
TERRIFIC FREE OPPORTUNITIES!
Aloha Students, Supporters and Friends of the Academy for Creative Media.
LEARN HOW TO WRITE A BUSINESS PLAN – SELL YOUR FILM OR PROJECT!
The Shidler College of Business is offering a free 1-day workshop,
“Entrepreneur’s Bootcamp #2,” for those interested in learning how to write
a business plan and/or enter the UH Business Plan Competition. Two ACM
students have won in the past and started their own production company! The
workshop will be Saturday, March 7 in BusAd A-102. Learn about marketing
strategy, investor’s perspectives, and making the business pitch. Register
at <www.uhbusinessplancompetition.com>
FREE WORKSHOP ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Pacific New Media is allowing ACM students to attend what’s normally a $50
workshop for FREE on Saturday, March 7, covering Intellectual Property
Issues for Content Creators. The workshop will cover copyright,
branding/trademark/domain names, right of publicity, privacy, fair use, idea
theft, and other legal issues that affect filmmakers whether online or
offline. Sayoko Blodgett-Ford and Sharon Webb, two experts in IP law, will
conduct. If you’d like to attend, please contact Susan Horowitz
<horowitz@hawaii.edu> at PNM for FREE registration.
UPCOMING HITCHCOCK COLLOQUIUM
ACM will join with the English Department to co-sponsor a colloquium on the
films of Alfred Hitchcock with writer and critic Murray Pomerance on April
21 at 3pm in KUY 410. Pomerance is the editor of the “Techniques of the
Moving Image” series from Rutgers University Press. He’ll focus on the
special effects techniques used in the Mount Rushmore finale of Hitchcock’s
NORTH BY NORTHWEST.
INTERNS SOUGHT
* Christen Marquez seeks interns for camera and HD P2 workflow on a PBS doc
about the origins of a Hawaiian name she’s shooting March 2 – April 2.
Contact her at <christen.marquez@gmail.com>. Other info at
<www.paradocsproductons.com>.
* Angie Laprete is looking for script editors and Pas on an upcoming indie
film. Some pay might be available, depending on experience. Contact
<alaprete@aol.com>.
FESTIVALS, CONTESTS, ETC.
REMINDER: ALL ACM films submitted for festivals and contests must first be
cleared by Production Manager Gregg Ambrosius. No exceptions. See him BEFORE
you send anything off.
* Diversity in Place: Making Documentaries on the Multicultural City. More
than half of the population in the world now lives in cities, and the urban
share of the globe will continue to increase dramatically to reach 70
percent by 2050. We invite the submission of documentaries whose emphasis is
on exploring multicultural cities and processes of place making. Videos not
in excess of 15 minutes are requested for submission to screenings that will
be held at the Conference venue at the University of Hawai'i Manoa Campus,
April 24th, 2009. Deadline for submission: 1 March 2009. Check
diversityinplace.wordpress.com for latest details. For further information
please contact: diversityinplace@gmail.com
Also:
* Maui Film Festival <www.mauifilmfestival.com>. Deadline May 1.
* Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival <www.hgicf.org>. Deadline March 15.
* Moondance Festival, “The American Cannes” <www.moondancefilmfestival.com>.
Deadline May 15.
* New Orleans Film Festival <www.neworleansfilmfest.com>. Deadline April 3.
* 11/22 International Comedy Short Film Festival in Vienna. Deadline March
2. <www.11-22.at>
* Just for Laughs Film Festival (Montreal, July 16-26, 2009). Deadline May
1. <www.hahaha.com/film/en>
SHOW OFF ACM PRIDE WITH T-SHIRTS, HATS
The newly formed ACM Student Association is selling spiffy ACM-logo t-shirts
and wicked cool hats Contact ACMSA head Erik Manke <acmsa1@gmail.com>.
T-shirts available in all sizes S-XL. White shirts are $11, black shirts are
$12. Those way cool black hats are $13. Proceeds will help support ACM
student programs.
NEW LIBRARY RESOURCE
Critical Studies students take note: The Library has announced a trial
access to an extensive database, the Film & Television Literature Index,
with full text retrieval. Go to the library main page
<http://library.manoa.hawaii.edu> and click on “E-Resources and Databases”
link. Or go directly to
<http://micro189.lib3.hawaii.edu/ezproxy/details.php?dbId=51836>.
Two other databases of interest are the ARTstor – lots of images, graphics,
drawings, photographs, art, and architecture. Great for designers, as is the
DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index.
ALSO WORTH CHECKING OUT
At Sinclair Library’s Wong A/V Center:
* From “Plasticland” and “Stoner Park” to Sonic Youth “I love you golden
blue,” it’s the short films and music videos of Dave Markey. DVD #8185
* Man Ray, Orson Welles, Sergei Eisenstein – all are among the avant garde
filmmakers featured in this collection of experimental cinema of the 20s and
30s. Surreal! DVD #7495
POST YOUR CASTING CALL NOTICES ON ACM WEBSITE
Your film casting call can be posted on the ACM website. Send your flyer as
a jpg file to ACM Production Manager Gregg Ambrosius <ambrosiu@hawaii.edu> a
week before the call date, and it will go up for all to see.
Remember, no flyers should be posted on the glass on the front and back
entrance doors to Crawford Hall. They’ll be taken down, pronto.
REMINDER TO NEW MAJORS & INTENDED MAJORS: YOU ARE NOT A MAJOR UNTIL…
Please keep in mind that you must complete your Academic Proposal and have
it approved by both your ACM advisor and Interdisciplinary Studies Advisor
before you can be declared an ACM major. While some students have applied to
ACM and their application has been accepted, they have delayed taking the
next step of preparing the Academic Proposal with their ACM advisor, and
then having it approved by IS. Those students will have difficulty
registering for courses that are restricted to majors, as they won’t have
been officially declared, or recognized, as ACM majors. So get that advising
done pronto. For new applicants to the major – the same advice for you: You
are not a major until your Academic Proposal has been approved by both your
ACM and IS Advisors. Without it, no advanced courses will be open to you.
MAKE A GIFT TO ACM
ACM welcomes donations to support our programs, which support our students.
You can make a gift online at www.uhf.hawaii.edu/acm.
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