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The Magenta Shamrock tells the story of an elderly man who, unforeseen, embarks on a baffling journey through his past, all at the hands of an oddly shaped birthmark, and a rousing phone call that he’ll never forget.
This is an ultra-low production and all actors, union or non-union, will receive some pay in addition to copy, credit and meals. Auditions will be scheduled on an individual basis. Please send a headshot and resume to jon@rock-creek.com if interested. Please indicate in the email which role you are seeking and why you believe you would be a good fit.
We need to fill the following roles ASAP:
- Zachary Masters (65-70, white). He is a charming, southern gentleman type who despite his age, still possesses a bachelor-like attitude but also a soft-side for old fashioned romance. He’s never been married and has spent most of his adult life as a successful business executive.
- Sandra Billing (55-65, white). She is a divorced professor of history at a major university with lower-class roots whose free-spirited days have since passed. She finds herself at a time in her life where she is a creature of routine who largely keeps to herself. Her home life is quiet and generally solitary, except for the occasional visit from her son, and the companionship of her aging golden retriever.
- Motel Clerk (unnamed) - (35-45, any), seedy looking, perverse, freakish.
If interested in any of these positions, please send an email to jon@rock-creek.com.
Seeking film and journalism students in need of performing actual film and journalism tasks for experience or course credit. Subject material is the launch of the first online breaking news and entertaining network for firefighters and EMTs.
Will need all levels of production, news gathering, scripts, editing, shooting, set operations, lighting, sound and motion graphics. Warehouse in
If this sounds interesting to you, please email for more details.
Contact: Martin Grube Executive Producer Fire Rescue TV News mcgrube@verizon.net
Virginia filmmakers with 7 years LA experience casting for short film to be shot in Roanoke and New River Valley.
"Boots" is a dry romantic comedy between a man and a cat that he happens to inherit as excess baggage from his recent live-in girlfriend. We are currently looking for talent for the following roles:
Paul - 30s - Not terribly handsome or ambitious. Think of the pizza delivery guy. Paul is the nice guy that just can't say no.
Melanie - 30s - The crazy cat lady in her 30s.
Cashier - Female anywhere between 20-50. We know, a pretty broad range.
Send an email stating your interest and experience to
Joe at bootsfilm@gmail.com
Please include a headshot/photo with your email. Open to work with actors at any level, so if your just starting out feel free to give us a shout as well.
TANGO DOWN PRODUCTIONS, responsible for last year's entry into the Richmond 48 Hour Film Comp titled INTERVENTION, is currently seeking cast and crew for this year's competition.
Actors of all shapes, sizes, races, and religions are invited to join.
Also seeking production assistants in various capacities including ADs, Cam Asst, and Asst Producers, as well as PA grips and gaffers.
Also in need of a new Make-up and FX artist to handle general make-up as well as possible prosthetic and gore FX.
Per the 48 Hour Fest rules, there's no paid compensation, but meals and a copy of the final product will be provided.
This year's competition takes place between July 17 & 19, with most of our shooting on Saturday the 18th in and around the immediate Richmond. Any assistance on any of these dates would be greatly appreciated.
If interested in helping your fellow filmmakers, please contact Chuck Paschal via e-mail at pavetheearth@gmail.com to arrange a short meeting/audition.
PEEP THIS!
A series of short documentaries produced by Richmond area youth
Please join the East District Family Resource Center and the VCU Department of African American Studies for the inaugural premiere of Peep This!
The project implements documentary filmmaking to facilitate positive youth development in adolescents from challenged communities.
When: Sunday July 12, 2009 @ 2:00pm
Where: The Byrd Theatre. 2908 Cary St. Richmond, VA
More information is available by e-mailing:
Cynthia Newbille
s2cinewb@vcu.edu
Shawn Utsey
soutsey@vcu.edu
Audition place: Williamsburg Players, 200 Hubbard Lane, Williamsburg (http://www.williamsburgplayers.org/directions/index.php)
Hello friends and fellow filmmakers!
The 48 Hour Film Project returns to Hampton Roads for 2009 during the weekend of August 7-9th. Grab your friends and start assembling your teams because this year will be better than ever!
What is the 48 Hour Film Project? In short, at 7PM Friday, August 7th, you and your team, along with other teams from Hampton Roads, receive a genre, the name of a prop, a line of dialogue, and a character. You have until 7PM on Sunday, August 9th to write, produce, edit, and complete a film that must use all of those elements. Its a gloriously exhausting weekend spent doing the thing you love with the people you want to work with!
Awards, prizes, and great accolades await! Participate and become a winner for our city then see your film go on to compete against entries from across the
The Wednesday after your amazing weekend, all qualifying completed entries will be screened in front of a large audience at the Naro Expanded Cinema in
Go to www.48hourfilm.com/hamptonroads to register! Now! Registration is limited.
VPA MEETING IN JULY !
The Monthly meeting for the VPA
Richmond Chapter AND Hampton Roads Chapter Will be COMBINED for JULY !
Tuesday July 7th
from 6pm to 8pm
at 37th and ZEN
1083 W.37th Street & Hampton Blvd.
(757)-533-5151
Norfolk, VA 23508
(This is the latest hip spot in Norfolk!)
Social and networking time (FUN!) from 6:00pm to 6:30pm Meeting begins at 6:30pm (MORE FUN!...but, you know, with some serious stuff mixed in)
See you there!!
Virginia Production Association News
Check out the titillating and entertaining crew and actor interviews provided by the Hampton Roads chapter!!!
See the VPA website: http://www.filmva.com/index.phpsays
Check also for meeting dates in Richmond and in Hampton Roads.
Stay connected; keep up with the VPA!
Casting call for Headshots and Resumes by E-mail
Small, low-budget independent feature filming in Fairfax, Virginia.
Title: The Only Real Fun in Life
Described as an extremely controversial, deeply philosophical, sexually charged, violent, dramatic, psychological thriller about a beautiful woman who falls in love with a fellow college student who she soon realizes is a maniacal serial killer.
Needed: 6-8 males to play college-aged students WHO ARE A BIT PSYCHOTIC, OBSESSED WITH VIOLENCE AND LOVE TO PLAY ROLL-PLAYING GAMES (e.g. Dungeons & Dragons). No cash pay, but a copy of the DVD and tickets to the premiere screening will be provided.
For more information, and/or to send a head shot and resume, please use this address:
KaPaK Direct Talent is seeking submissions from union and non union talent
for a full-length independent feature film entitled “The Fellowship”. The film, produced by Opening Act Productions, is a coming–of-age story about a fellowship of geeky gamer friends who set off on an adventure to a Lord of the Rings gaming convention. They find that there is a "little geek and hero in all of us". Principal photography is scheduled to begin August 10 through September 5 in the VA/MD/DC area.
Please email kapakdt.patricia@hotmail.com if you fit the specifications listed on the cast list and you want to audition.
Please do not submit if you do not fit the description. Additional casting announcements for other character roles will be released soon!
In the SUBJECT LINE of your email put your NAME, AGE and CHARACTER NAME. You will receive a reply back with the audition location, date, and time. This is a cold read audition. A parent or legal guardian MUSTattend the audition with anyone 18 or under.
Contact: Patricia
KaPaK Direct Talent-Casting
CALLING ALL FILMMAKERS!
The 48 Hour Film Project is returning to Richmond! In a wild, sleepless weekend, you and a team will make a movie--write, shoot, edit and score it. From scratch. In 48 hours. On Friday, July 17th, you'll get a character, a prop, a line of dialogue and a genre, all to include in your movie. By Sunday, July 19th, the movie must be complete. It will show at the Byrd Theatre at a screening in the next week.
There are three ways to be involved:
1. FORM A TEAM. If you can rustle up enough folks to make a movie, great! The project is open to pros and amateurs alike. Just put together a team and register on-line at http://www.48hourfilm.com/richmond and then meet us on Friday, July 17th ready to go. There are a limited number of slots, so apply soon...
2. JOIN A TEAM. If you're interested in participating, but can't form a team, you can still definitely be involved! There will be happy hours where folks can meet team leaders and join their teams. Get your information to team leaders at:
http://www.48hourfilm.com/join
...and get your ear to the ground by signing up for the Richmond 48HFP listserve at:
http://www.48hourfilm.com/newsletter/
3. WATCH THE MOVIES. Come on by to the see the movies! They will be showing at the Byrd Theatre on July 25th.
Meet other filmmakers, spend 48 hours in intense movie making, and have your film screened at the Byrd! And compete to represent Richmond at the 48HFP international screening!
The winning Richmond team will compete against other films to represent Richmond at the 48 Hour Film Project's Filmapalooza – the 2009 international screening and awards event of the year at the NAB Show in Las Vegas (April 2010), and will compete for additional prizes including the opportunity to be screened at Cannes!
Entry instructions can be found at: http://www.48hourfilm.com/richmond
Come to the Meet-N-Greet!
This event is open to all:
Date: Tuesday, June 30th Time: 5-7pm
Place: New York Deli - Carytown,
2920 West Cary Street, Richmond, VA 23221
Notes: Filmmakers: Come and meet your competition for this year's 48HFP. Also find cast and crew people to round out your team. If you have not yet registered for this year's competition, go to www.48hourfilm.com/richmond.
To all actors and crew: This is your opportunity to meet the Filmmakers of the Richmond 48 Hour Film Project! Come on out and get yourself on a team !!!
TwoMeter Studios
has several opportunities for interns to be involved in the production of two feature films currently in production in the DC area this Summer and Fall, 2009.
Interns will be involved in all phases of production and will be included in the credits for films worked on.
Need skilled and unskilled people to work crew, production and support.
CONTACT: Joe Zito joe@twometer.com 391 601-5010
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Joe Zito
TwoMeter, Inc.
1736 14th Street, NW
Second Floor
Washington, DC 20009
301 601 5010
Wonder what's happening in D.C. ?
Check out ALL the latest news from the
D.C. Film Alliance at
Richmond's 48 Hour Film Project registration is OPEN!
The 48 Hour Film Project returns to Richmond in 2009
during the weekend of July 17-19th.
Make A Film in 48 Hours!
The 48 Hour Film Project, the first and biggest timed film competition in the world, brings filmmaking teams together to make a movie from scratch — teams write, shoot, edit and score a short film — all in just 48 hours. This year the 48HFP will visit over 70 cities around the world.
And it’s returning to Richmond for the 3rd year!
Filmmakers compete to see who can make the best short film in only 48 hours. The winning film goes up against films from around the world. Enter today! Space is limited. Each completed film is guaranteed a big-screen screening in front of a full audience.
To be part of the 48HFP, you must register online at:
http://www.48hourfilm.com/richmond
The winning Richmond team will compete against other films to represent Richmond at the 48 Hour Film Project's Filmapalooza – our international screening and awards event. And this year, the Filmapalooza is at the NAB Show in Las Vegas in April 2010!
Entry in the project is first come, first served, so check out the website and enter today! http://www.48hourfilm.com/richmond
Questions? Email Richmond Producer Ellie St. John at richmond@48hourfilm.com
9th ANNUAL Southern Mystique Film Camp
presented by Central Virginia Film Institute
Sun Aug 2, 3:30pm thru Sat Aug 8, 2009 4:30pm EST
New Millennium Studios in Petersburg, Virginia (map)
Who can apply? Anyone between the ages of 14 and 24 who wants to be involved in film
Owner/Creator: kay.ingram@cvafilm.org
It's NOT TOO LATE TO SAVE $50!!!!
If you act now to register for the 9th ANNUAL Southern Mystique Film Camp.
When: August 2-8, 2009, with a Premiere of Students’ Works on August 8th.
Where: Classes are held on the real movie soundstage at New Millennium Studios
in Petersburg, Virginia!
More camp info: 804-957-4211 or email: filmcamp@cvafilm.org
Applications will be taken beginning April 28th with a $50.00 application fee to reserve your space.
Slots are filled on a first come basis and classes will be closed when they are filled.
Conducted by: The Central Virginia Film Institute and New Millennium Studios.
What you will learn: Choose one of the Film Studios - During the Camp you will be teamed up with 10-12 other student filmmakers, where you will each play a crucial role in developing and completing your team’s project!
FOR MORE DETAILS and AN APPLICATION, click below or
COPY AND PASTE THE FOLLOWING LINKS to your web browser
2009 Camp Schedule - Preliminary
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dg4zdpvp_6f467frc9&invite=cfwc3jh
2009 Southern Mystique Film Camp Flier
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dg4zdpvp_7n84xh5c7&invite=gsf25sj
2009 Southern Mystique Film Camp Enrollment Application
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dg4zdpvp_2f7vxjthk&invite=dptpjjh
Student entries wanted for the Southern Appalachian International Film Festival!
SOAPIFF, located in Johnson City, Tennessee, strives to encourage film production and film culture in Southern Appalachia.
All filmmakers worldwide are invited to participate including film professionals, teachers, faculty, students both high school and college. All student filmmakers should enter our SOAPIFF – iTunes U Audience Choice Award competition. All high school students as well as full and part time college students are eligible to compete.
For the 2009 Festival,
SOAPIFF competition will accept short and feature films from professional and student filmmakers in the following categories:
Cultural Minorities: Films emerging from or about cultural minorities in any country.
Appalachian: Films that are a product of Appalachia, Appalachian filmmakers, or films with subject matter that emerges from the culture, individuals, geographic area, and history of Appalachia.
Gender Subjects: Films that deal with the perspectives of the female or male experience, as well as films about gender orientation, bisexual, lesbian, gay, trans-gender themes, issues and influence.
Documentaries: Non-fiction subjects, nature, environmental.
Animation: Films that primarily employ motion graphic or stop motion technique in the image.
Children: Family friendly films directed toward children, entertainment for immature audiences, films for or by children, no adult content or adult language, violence or gore. Made by children 14 and younger.
Features: All fictional films that run more than 45 minutes. Features and Shorts are accepted in all genres and subjects, including categories not listed.
Horror: Films that provoke intense fear, dread, or dismay.
Art: Films exploring non-traditional approaches to form, narrative, and presentation, audio or cinematic technique.
Environmental: Feature, documentary or short films that deal with the issues that impact of man’s footprint on earth.
For more information, contact Mark Compton at markcompton@soapiff.com.
Phone: (423) 743-7627
DP, Camera Operator, and Producer needed.
Film to be shot in Virginia. Shooting will start end of September.
Need three positions filled by June. All these positions are low to no pay.
Please contact Tom Kerr Southern Shores Productions, LLC. tkerr@southernshoresproductions.com or call at 804-304-5236.
Here are a few helpful links for filmmakers everywhere:
Daily Motivation for Screenwriters
Producers, Studios, Agents, Managers and More...
Writers Guild of America
List Your Screenplay for Sale!
To apply, contact this address: casting@edelmandc.com
Put “Real Estate Intervention” in the subject line and include the following information:
-Name, address and phone numbers
-Names and ages of everyone in the household
- A family photo
-A photo of your home
-When you plan to put your house on the market or the number of days your house has been on the market (please include current asking price)
- What are the stakes? Why are you moving and what’s your deadline?
-What kind of real estate advice do you need?
Questions? Please contact Amy Johanson acjohanson@gmail.com
NEW FROM VIRGINIA FILM TOURS!
Richmond Movie Van Tours Now Available For Small Groups of 4 to 12 Passengers
Enjoy a private tour in a brand new van with a private guide!
Virginia Film Tours now offers their award winning ,”Where Hollywood Meets History”
Richmond Movie Tours. This tour provides information on over 40 famous Hollywood movies
filmed in Richmond and how they were made!
Other tours offered by the VFT include: Historic Richmond Tours, Richmond Art and Historic Museum/House Tours, Richmond Garden Tours and Richmond War Museums and Memorial Tours.
Three-hour or full day tours available year round. Hotel vacation packages also available. Van tours designed for private parties of 4 to 12 passengers with the Richmond Convention Center and hotel pickup. All tours also available for large bus groups. For more information please visit www.richmondcitytours.com or call 804-744-1718
University of Richmond, School of Continuing Studies
Presents
“Hollywood Movies Made in Virginia”
Learn about the history of Hollywood movies and TV shows filmed in Virginia over the last quarter of a century in this educational and entertaining class room power point presentation. Learn about the movie scenes filmed at U of R. Gain knowledge about the art of the filmmaking process. Receive a fascinating insider’s look into how certain scenes were created from some of over forty Hollywood movies and TV shows filmed in the Richmond area, including: Evan Almighty, Cold Mountain, The Contender, Commander in Chief (ABC series pilot), The Jackal, Hearts in Atlantis, Hannibal, First Kid, Gore Vidal’s Lincoln and other major Hollywood movies filmed around the state.
Date: Saturday, July 11, 2009
Time: 9:00 AM to 11:00 PM
CRN: FLM309.01
Fee :$29
Instructor: Helene Wagner, Owner/Program Director of Virginia Film Tours
THE 48 HOUR FILM PROJECT – RICHMOND
July 17th - 19th, 2009
http://www.48hourfilm.com/richmond
Go to: http://www.48hourfilm.com/newsletter/?city=richmond
PS- A selection of the best films from the 48 Hour Film Project's 2009 competition will screen at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner. A Richmond team's film was selected in 2007, this could be your year!
with MIMI EISMAN
SUMMER SESSION '09
Summer Session '09 will run for 7 weeks starting the week of June 22nd. "Acting for the Camera" & "Audition Technique" will be explored through improvisation,
script work, theatre games, and so much more.
Class will be taught at:
The Actor’s Place
1917 Laskin Road
Virginia Beach, VA 23454
CALL 757.496.0209
Final Act Drama Camps
Richmond
Grades 1st – 12th
This summer, Final Act Drama is offering multiple drama camps and music camps.
For more information, registration forms, and locations of our summer camps, go to:
Millwood School Summer Programs 2009
Millwood School Summer Programs is proud to present a fantastic slate of courses for rising K-8
th students this summer.Film Camp: Back to One
Enrollment: 6th-8th
Dates: Sessions III & IV: July 20-31
(This is a two week course.)
Instructor: Diane Lang, Tin Roof Films
Have you ever wanted to make your own movie? Film Camp gives students the knowledge and experience to begin their journey in filmmaking. Taught by instructors who have worked on feature films, national commercials, and with Spielberg, Disney, Tyler Perry, PBS and more, students learn how to script, direct produce, cast, light and shoot their own short film. (Check out the video about film camp: www.tinrooffilms.com )
Broadway—Under Construction!
Enrollment: 1st-8th
(To be grouped by age.)
Dates: Session I & II: July 6-17
(This is a two week course.)
Instructors: Flynn Cross Cowling
Melanie Nan, Millwood School
Through fun and intensive musical theater workshops, students will create a musical theater performance from the ground up! Working with a writing coach, they will create an original performance and bring it to life as actors, singers and dancers! Students will learn basic acting skills, movement for actors, voice, stage & costume design, plus so much more! This program is designed for beginner to intermediate levels.
For more information visit www.millwoodschool.org
Riverviews Artspace Monthly Film Screenings
Interested in exploring films outside of the mainstream media? Want to see what other countries are producing? Enjoy unique and creative experiences with your movies? Then come and see Riverviews Artspace's monthly film screenings!!! They are an exciting and alternative option to what you'll see at traditional movie houses.
Foreign Film Series: Saturdays at 8pm (unless otherwise noted)
Documentary Film Series: Thursdays at 7:30pm (unless otherwise noted)
Location: 901 Jefferson Street, Suite 113, Lynchburg, VA 24504
Telephone: 434-847-7277
Check out the complete list of screenings at http://www.riverviews.net
Screenings Page: http://www.riverviews.net/NewFolder/Programs/2ndSaturday/2ndSaturdayMain.htm
What's the D.C. Film Alliance?
The D.C. Film Alliance serves as a bridge between the myriad of media arts organizations in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. This includes film festivals, screening venues, and member organizations that serve media arts professionals.
From their site, www.dcfilm.org, check out the DC Shorts Film Festival that takes place annually in September.
Find out how to meet other DC filmmakers by attending the DC Film Salon, a monthly "meet and greet".
See the DC Film Alliance Calendar to stay on top of what events are happening in the DC area.
Keep in touch with the Washington, DC metropolitan area D.C. Film Alliance!
www.northernvirginiafilmfestival.com
Beginning July 1, 2009, the Northern Virginia Film Festival, a division of Rainmaker Media Foundation, will accept submissions for its first annual filmmakers` competition. Winners will be announced on October 10, 2009.
Six Film Categories
Our Film Festival will consider submissions in any of these six categories, but please note that each film may be considered in only one genre:
•Feature
•Short
•Documentary
•Music Video
•Animation
•Experimental
All Ages Welcome
Our Film Festival welcomes submissions from any genre in any one of the following categories:
•Youth The film’s writer, director and editor must all be under 13 years of age.
•Student The film’s writer, director and editor must all be under 21 years of age.
•General The film’s writer, director or editor was over 21 years of age at completion of final editing.
Affordable Fees, Priceless Exposure
Our Film Festival wants to encourage participation from as many filmmakers as possible. The submission fees and deadlines are:
Standard Deadline: August 1, 2009 $25 (USD)
Final Deadline: September 9, 2009 $50 (USD)
Panel of Judges Includes:
•Karen Hall, multiple Emmy®-nominated writer, producer and show runner for television series including M*A*S*H, Hill Street Blues, and Judging Amy.
•Jeffery Deaver, New York Times bestselling author of 25 novels including The Bone Collector and Roadside Crosses.
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•Rick Seyford, creator of the film program at the
Phone 703-451-1143
Fax: 703-490-5011
Festival Director: John Gilstrap
Email: novafilmfest@gmail.com
Submission mailing address: John Gilstrap, Executive Director
Northern Virginia Film Festival
This Year’s
48 Hour Film Project in Richmond
will be July 17th-19th
The screening will be the following week.
Registration will open in late May.
In April 2010, the winning 48HFP films from this year's competition will screen
at the NAB show in Las Vegas!
A select number of 48HFP films will screen at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2009
and again in 2010!
There are MANY great reasons to participate in this summer's 48 Hour Film Project,
most importantly, the FUN of coming together as an independent film community.
For more information on this exciting event such as how to become involved, or the history and successes of past participants, please contact
Ellie St. John
Producer, Richmond's 48 Hour Film Project
www.48hourfilm.com
The University of Virginia Announces
"Funny Business" as the Theme
for the Upcoming
22nd Annual Virginia Film Festival
The Festival is set for November 5-8 at venues throughout Charlottesville. The event is known for celebrating films as well as for inviting the public to explore a variety of cultural themes through them.
For more information on the Festival visit www.vafilm.com
CASTING FOR STUDENT FILM
A senior film student at VCU in Richmond, VA
is casting a caucasian male actor
between the ages of 18-22
to play the lead actor in a
student senior thesis film (a short).
Please email hartmb@vcu.edu
or call (703) 314-1104
for more information.
