CALL FOR ENTRIES
Entries are being accepted for the Promenade of Film and Music Festival. There is a $20 entry fee per entry.
ENTRY CATEGORIES (5):
• Comedy: Suggestions: Sitcom; Funniest Home Video; Animal funnies, bloopers, parody, satire
• Arts: Suggestions: Continuous rotating art slides; expressionist piece; post modern; film noire, music video
• Animation: Suggestions: Anime, Cartoon, claymation, puppets, computer animation
• Of Local Interest: Suggestions: local heroes; local history; local news; local politics; local events
• Green Living: Suggestions: public transit; solar energy; recycling; pesticide-free gardening; sustainable living
GUIDELINES:
• Projects should fall into one of the above categories.
• Projects 10 minutes or less preferred. However, longer will be accepted – but 10 minute excerpts only may be viewed.
• New and previously produced projects are eligible.
• Acceptable format: DVD-MOVIE ONLY
• Eligibility: Anyone interested in participating in the festival – young or old!
• Entries and forms must be completed and submitted by Friday, 6pm -- June 29th, 2007 and include:
Entry Form
Producer Agreement Form (for each producer)
• Entries will NOT be returned
• Adult themes and Adult language will not be accepted. RATED PG ONLY
• Direct all questions to ladyalibug@gmail.com or call: 650-462-1795
JUDGING CRITERIA:
Entries will be judged on the following:
• Creativity: The writing, directing and editing is imaginative and supports the structure/story.
• Ability to Deliver the Message: The message is clear and relevant to the category, and the entry moves the viewer.
• Technical Execution: The entry demonstrates competent production techniques (editing, image composition, lighting, audio quality, graphics, etc.)
FESTIVAL INFORMATION:
Visit www.paloaltodowntown.org for event directions and other festival information
For any questions regarding the festival, please contact: ladyalibug@gmail.com
SPONSORS & SUPPORTERS
Palo Alto Downtown Association (PAd)
West Coast Songwriters Association (WCSA)
Mid Peninsula Community Media Center (MCMC)
Alice @ 97.3
Patagonia
HSBC
Terry Hines & Assoc.
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
YOUTH: Videos on the Web
If you haven't checked out the Media Center's YOUTH: Videos on the Web, you're missing some entertaining programming! Following the first show JUST WING IT (shown below), you'll see finalists from last year's Greenlight Earth Day Film Festival. A CAN'S LIFE, the middle school winner, was one of the big hits at the awards ceremony. (4 minutes).
http://www.communitymediacenter.net/watch/videosontheweb/youth.html
http://www.communitymediacenter.net/watch/videosontheweb/youth.html
Saturday, May 12, 2007
GREENLIGHT Film Festival
Student Filmmakers Express Concern – and Hope – about the Environment through Films, PSAs, and Documentaries for 2nd Annual GREENLIGHT Earth Day Film Festival, Thursday, May 24
The public is welcome to attend, and admission is free
WHO: Student filmmakers from Redwood City to Mountain View stepped up to the challenge of this year’s Greenlight Film Festival with fresh creativity and technical know-how, producing dozens of new films, documentaries, public service announcements, and other original works about changes in the global environment. Using animation, comedy, music, and other special effects, the works reflect an increasing culture shift in which today’s youth fully expect to experience an improved global environment within their lifetime.
The field of competition combines playfulness, technical expertise, and knowledge about serious environmental issues and includes clever titles such as A Convenient Truth, The Tell Tale Wrapper, and Another Fine Mess. Student filmmakers tackle saving the rain forest, handling electronic waste, and recycling construction debris. A claymation hybrid vehicle dukes it out with a polluting pick-up. Carelessness is observed from a gopher’s-eye view. One tongue-in-cheek PSA shows how polar bears can be helped until evolution adapts them to global warming. The young filmmakers advise the average citizen on what to do, and a sassy film team of fifth graders educates older kids about how to stop pollution at their middle school. One teacher described entries as “odes to the planet.”
WHAT: The Film Festival competition explores environmental citizenship through film. While emphasizing student-produced work, filmmakers of all ages participate from cities across South Bay. This year’s competition reveals “very impressive” technical talent, in the words of one judge.
WHEN: Thursday, May 24, 2007, 6 pm to 9:30 pm, concluding with an Academy Awards style ceremony.
WHERE: Cubberley Theatre, 4000 Middlefield Road (between East Charleston Road and San Antonio Avenue), Palo Alto.
VISUALS: Beginning at 6 pm, entrants and their entourages – glam attire encouraged! – will walk the “green carpet.” All nine "Best Of" Film Festival entries will be shown, beginning at 7pm. Following the Festival, clips from winning entries will be available to electronic media along with still images at www.city.palo-alto.ca.us/earthday/. Entries will later be shown on cable TV and online.
MORE DETAILS:
– Prizes total nearly $5,000, including a “Best of” cash award of $500.
– This year’s Festival features environmental information resources, with local organizations on hand to demonstrate how to reduce your impact on the earth.
– Judges include: Bruno Borello, Bruno Borello Productions; Michael Closson, Executive Director, Acterra; Dan Dippery, Director, Dan Dippery Communications. Many bring extensive backgrounds in professional film, video and environmental policy. Three high school students were added to the judging panel this year.
– Entry categories include: students in grades 6 through 8; students in grades 9 through 12; and all other individuals. The deadline for submitting entries has passed.
– The City of Palo Alto, Midpeninsula Community Media Center, and other community-minded sponsors and supporters established the Film Festival in 2006 through monetary and in-kind donations.
The public is welcome to attend, and admission is free
WHO: Student filmmakers from Redwood City to Mountain View stepped up to the challenge of this year’s Greenlight Film Festival with fresh creativity and technical know-how, producing dozens of new films, documentaries, public service announcements, and other original works about changes in the global environment. Using animation, comedy, music, and other special effects, the works reflect an increasing culture shift in which today’s youth fully expect to experience an improved global environment within their lifetime.
The field of competition combines playfulness, technical expertise, and knowledge about serious environmental issues and includes clever titles such as A Convenient Truth, The Tell Tale Wrapper, and Another Fine Mess. Student filmmakers tackle saving the rain forest, handling electronic waste, and recycling construction debris. A claymation hybrid vehicle dukes it out with a polluting pick-up. Carelessness is observed from a gopher’s-eye view. One tongue-in-cheek PSA shows how polar bears can be helped until evolution adapts them to global warming. The young filmmakers advise the average citizen on what to do, and a sassy film team of fifth graders educates older kids about how to stop pollution at their middle school. One teacher described entries as “odes to the planet.”
WHAT: The Film Festival competition explores environmental citizenship through film. While emphasizing student-produced work, filmmakers of all ages participate from cities across South Bay. This year’s competition reveals “very impressive” technical talent, in the words of one judge.
WHEN: Thursday, May 24, 2007, 6 pm to 9:30 pm, concluding with an Academy Awards style ceremony.
WHERE: Cubberley Theatre, 4000 Middlefield Road (between East Charleston Road and San Antonio Avenue), Palo Alto.
VISUALS: Beginning at 6 pm, entrants and their entourages – glam attire encouraged! – will walk the “green carpet.” All nine "Best Of" Film Festival entries will be shown, beginning at 7pm. Following the Festival, clips from winning entries will be available to electronic media along with still images at www.city.palo-alto.ca.us/earthday/. Entries will later be shown on cable TV and online.
MORE DETAILS:
– Prizes total nearly $5,000, including a “Best of” cash award of $500.
– This year’s Festival features environmental information resources, with local organizations on hand to demonstrate how to reduce your impact on the earth.
– Judges include: Bruno Borello, Bruno Borello Productions; Michael Closson, Executive Director, Acterra; Dan Dippery, Director, Dan Dippery Communications. Many bring extensive backgrounds in professional film, video and environmental policy. Three high school students were added to the judging panel this year.
– Entry categories include: students in grades 6 through 8; students in grades 9 through 12; and all other individuals. The deadline for submitting entries has passed.
– The City of Palo Alto, Midpeninsula Community Media Center, and other community-minded sponsors and supporters established the Film Festival in 2006 through monetary and in-kind donations.
Thursday, May 10, 2007
"Just Wing It!" with the Youth Advisory Council
Watch improv comedy featuring local high school talent from the Bay Area Midpeninsula. Produced by the Youth Advisory Council of the Media Center, for youth by youth, in Palo Alto, CA.(28:30)
Bike to Work Day is Thursday, May 17
The Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition produced this 1/2-hour video to tell us about Bike to Work Day, Thursday May 17 this year. They talk about what SVBC and transit agencies are doing to entice people to Try Bicyling on that day, including Energizer Stations where you can get refreshed, chat with fellow cyclists, and pick up loads of freebies. Two well-known bike trails are featured which you might use on your commute, and then they cover on-the-bike basics for beginning bike commuters.
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
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