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MIA ANIMATION CONFERENCE & FESTIVAL will be holding a Pitching Contest as part of its Animation Festival. All creators are encouraged to submit their projects for consideration. The top submissions in both categories will be invited to pitch their idea in person to a panel of animation industry experts and professionals.
CATEGORIES:
1. Animation for Television and Web Series - targeting kids (any audience 13 and under)
2. Animation for Television and Web Series - targeting adults (any audience 14 and up)
FINALIST PITCHES:
The top entries from each category (roughly five entrants from each, but the panel reserves the right to select any number) will be selected as Finalists. Selected Finalists will be notified by August 15, 2012. Finalists will be invited to pitch their projects in person to a panel of industry experts at MIA ANIMATION. No travel expenses will be covered.
In person pitches can be in any form, but cannot take more than Five (5) minutes. There will be a question and answer time with the panel at the end of the five minute initial presentation. Finalists will be contacted during the summer and can request A/V equipment or display space for pitch materials, but the entrant is ultimately responsible for ensuring that all necessary technical or other equipment is present and working properly.
INDUSTRY PANEL:
The following studios and agencies will be represented at the Pitch:
Walt Disney Television Animation, Cartoon Network, Universal Pictures, Neversoft Entertainment, The Third Floor, Microsoft Studios, Blizzard Entertainment.
MIA ANIMATION Pitch to the Industry
Miami International University of Art & Design
1501 Biscayne Blvd Ste 100 · Miami · FL Directions
October 20th, 2012
Entry Fee: $ 50
Deadline: July 31st, 2012
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Directed by Yuri Grymov
In the life of little Gleb everything is fine. In his world there is no fear, everything is calm and harmonious: the pictures in a museums are rough, the snow is prickly, his grandfather is kind and soft
FLIFF 2011 - http://www.fliff.com
The Artist - Official Trailer 2011 HD
Genre: Musical, Drama,Foreign
Official Site: http://theartistmovie.net
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Cast: Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo, John Goodman, James Cromwell, Penelope Ann Miller, Missi Pyle
Writers: Michel Hazanavicius
In theaters: November 23rd, 2011
Synopsis: Hollywood 1927. George Valentin is a very successful silent movie star. The arrival of talking pictures will mark the end of his career. Peppy Miller, a young woman extra, becomes a major movie star.
The new trend hit South Florida once more on August 24 at the City Hall The Restaurant. Benefiting Ability Explosion, the experience is the preview of Lights Out Miami on October 20th, 2011, where 15 restaurants will open their doors to unique dinner ready to have a lifetime experience of eating in the dark.
uVu producer, Jessy Schuster, was among the attendee and challenged herself further by filming and taking pictures without taking her blindfold off.
MAX PIERRE and HENNESSY BLACK proudly presents:
MY HEART WON’T LET YOU GO: A PHOTOGRAPHER’S VIEW OF HAITI
BY PULITZER PRIZE RECIPIENT PATRICK FARRELL
Pulitzer Prize Winner Patrick Farrell will be sharing some of his experiences shooting Haiti in a solo photography exhibition. We'll be showing a collection of his candid photographs captured during some of the most catastrophic moments Haiti and its people have endured over the past two decades. This exhibition reminds us of our vulnerabilities and limitations in the presence of nature and that our moral responsibility to fellow man is truly a responsibility to ourselves. All proceeds from the exhibition will go towards funding the award-winning Haitian dance company Ayikodans who are on the brink of loosing their dance studio.
EXHIBITION RUNS:
April 6th, 2011 thru May 28th 2011
Following the record-breaking run of The Irish Curse, Award Winning Mosaic Theatre is proud to announce that Stephen Belber's Dusk Rings a Bell will feature a member of "Chicago's Elite 8," Jenny McKnight in the lead role of Molly to star in the first production of this play outside of New York.
"We are incredibly fortunate to bring down the talents of Jenny McKnight," Executive/Artistic Director Richard Jay Simon said. "We are continuing to push the envelope to leverage a national identity. Jenny has worked at major theaters in Chicago and the midwest that are national models including Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf, Victory Gardens, Milwaukee Rep, Indiana Rep, and Jeff Daniels' Purple Rose Theatre. This is a very exciting time for Mosaic Theatre and all South Florida audiences."
Dusk Rings a Bell runs April 7 - May 1, Thursdays through Saturdays @ 8:00 with a Saturday matinee at 3:00 and a Sunday matinee at 2:00.
Molly and Ray unexpectedly meet 25 years after a one-afternoon adolescent fling. She has a successful media career; he owns a small landscaping business. Both begin to romanticize their chance reunion, but a renewed connection is disrupted when Ray reveals the sordid details of a crime that left him incarcerated for ten years. Their encounter reveals two vastly different paths taken and two lonely souls attempting to reclaim a moment of possibility, when they were young and perhaps at their very best.
Jenny McKnight (Molly) is a Florida native, and is very happy to return to the Sunshine State to work on this lovely play. After earning an MFA at The University of Alabama, Jenny moved to Chicago, where she has been fortunate to appear in Talking Pictures and The Actor at the Goodman Theatre; Pride and Prejudice at Northlight Theatre; Old Times at Remy Bumppo Theatre; Frozen, The Laramie Project and The Incident at Next Theatre; Ariadne's Thread at Victory Gardens Theatre, Three Tall Women at Apple Tree Theatre, multiple shows with Eclipse Theatre, where she was a company member; as well as work with Steppenwolf Theatre, Redmoon Theater, Chicago Dramatists and others. Regionally in the Midwest, Jenny has been seen in Crime and Punishment, Pride and Prejudice, Painting Churches and The Turn of the Screw at Indiana Repertory Theatre; Speaking In Tongues and All My Sons at Milwaukee Repertory Theatre; and Liliom at Kansas City Repertory Theatre. Thank you for your support of the arts!
One of the fuel farm at Miami airport caught fire on the night of March 24th, 2011 causing traffic on 836 and numerous cars stoping by the side if he road to take pictures and videos, including uVu producer, Jessy Schuster!
One of the fuel farm at Miami airport caught fire on the night of March 24th, 2011 causing traffic on 836 and numerous cars stoping by the side if he road to take pictures and videos, including uVu producer, Jessy Schuster!
When the Norton Museum’s curator of photography, Charles Stainback, began organizing the Museum’s next exhibition, From A to Z: 26 Great Photographs from the Norton Collection, he had a couple of problems, namely ‘X’ and ‘Z.’ Without a photographer for every letter in the alphabet, the premise of the exhibition, to alphabetically arrange a selection of photographs based on the first letter of the photographer’s last name, wouldn’t work. But the problem was solved, and the exhibition, on view from March 19 through June 19, includes photographs by such seminal figures as Ansel Adams and Edward Weston.
“We really wanted show off the depth and breadth of the Museum’s collection, and thought alphabetizing the artists would be an interesting way to create an exhibition that would accomplish that,” said Stainback, the Museum’s William & Sarah Ross Soter Curator of Photography. “It gave us a clear direction on how to select 25-30 photos from a collection of 3,000.”
According to Stainback, an intern’s meticulous research helped to identify outstanding candidates for photographer ‘X’ and photographer ‘Z.’ The Norton purchased a work by Xiaoze Xie, a Chinese-born photographer living in California, and one by the 82-year-old documentary photographer, George S. Zimbel. The pieces had to be purchased rather than borrowed, since the exhibition was only featuring works from the Museum’s own collection.
The addition of the two photographs not only rounded out the alphabet, but also added contrasting textural elements to the exhibition—and some exciting cinematic history.
Zimbel’s photograph is of a dazzling Marilyn Monroe standing over a New York City subway grate with the iconic white dress swirling around her thighs. “Having such a well-known person who has been so widely photographed portrayed in the exhibition added a layer of flash to it,” said Stainback, who contacted Zimbel himself to inquire about purchasing the photograph.
Not only was the Montreal-based Zimbel delighted about being included in the exhibition, he will also be joining Stainback for a talk about the exhibition on March 17.
The photograph of Marilyn Monroe, taken in 1954 while she was shooting The Seven Year Itch, brings up an important question about photography’s evolution as an art form. “Sixty years ago what’s considered photojournalism, or pictures that appeared in fashion magazines, wouldn’t have been shown in most museums,” Stainback said. “But in hindsight we have a better appreciation of the artistic talent that was required to take that particular photograph. In general, I would say it’s taken a while to accept photography as worthy of being exhibited in museums, and even longer to accept all photos.”
In addition to America’s growing obsession with Hollywood and the cult of celebrity as depicted in the photograph of Marilyn Monroe, the exhibition also includes several photographs that document significant events and defining movements in 20th century American history. Born in Fort Scott, Kansas, in 1912, African-American photographer, Gordon Parks, realized he could fight the small-mindedness and hate he encountered by becoming a photographer. Parks’ portrait of Farm Security Administration charwoman Ella Watson included in the exhibition, American Gothic (1942), is widely considered to be an icon of American culture, representative of its centuries-old struggle with racism and bigotry.
A psychological thriller set in the world of New York City ballet, BLACK SWAN stars Natalie Portman as Nina, a featured dancer who finds herself locked in a web of competitive intrigue with a new rival at the company (Mila Kunis). A Fox Searchlight Pictures release by visionary director Darren Aronofsky (THE WRESTLER), BLACK SWAN takes a thrilling and at times terrifying journey through the psyche of a young ballerina whose starring role as the duplicitous swan queen turns out to be a part for which she becomes frighteningly perfect. Black Swan premieres at FLIFF on Wednesday, October 27th at 8pm.
Now in its 25th year, The Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (FLIFF) will reel out over 200 films from around the globe. Filmmakers and celebrities will attend many of the screenings and events over the 21 day fest, October 22 - November 11. Parties and gatherings at area "hot spots", on board yachts, and on the beach will provide audiences an opportunity to hob knob with film talent and other movie buffs.
Calm And Cure Yourself By Studying Mixed Media
Mixed Media art is truly calming. There is an array of media available for you to uncover your own artistic side. You can begin with pastels, change to water colors as you advance, and, if you nurture your art practice, you may even see yourself move on to oil paintings some day. Encouraging art furthermore includes enabling yourself to have a go at at modeling with clay, pot painting, and other activities. Think out of the box. Make something out of odds and ends, like a paper bag puppet, for example. Dabbling in art is a fantastic stress reliever. Actually, psychologists encourage a child to draw so that they can draw inferences from the child's art and psychoanalyze them.
Drawing and painting can also be an ideal way to vent your pent-up feelings. If you are encountering grief, chronic pains, or major life adjustments, think about art therapy. There is something really cool about making a picture, photograph, or clay sculpture from raw materials, specifically if you can dip into your soul and let your personality peek out. Words may not be sufficient to convey the physical and psychological hardship of individuals struggling with chronic pain. People usually feel more secure containing these unspeakable feelings inside artwork.
Creating art strengthens your sense of self and also contributes to feelings of normalcy. Plus it is calming. Creativity raises serotonin levels and reduces stress; it also improves blood pressure and heart rate. If you're dealing with a recent disease, art therapy can help create a new post-sickness identity. You could explore how irritated, discouraged, and sad you are -- and look at the ways your life has improved.
A recent study exhibits that the right kind of art in the hospital could speed-up a patient’s recovery. It could enhance a facility's identity. During the past several years, hospital leaders, doctors and patients have found that art in the hospital environment can help patients cope with their illnesses more effectively and possibly go back to full functioning previously. Healing art could be as basic as looking at pictures on the wall to help calm the worries of anticipating a procedure. Therefore, caregivers, volunteers as well as artists from around the nation are interested in taking art to the bedside and to the entire healthcare environment.
Mixed Media could make you really feel beautiful inside and out. Learning how to paint and see just like a painter does is a very unique experience. It is a different view from ones previous photographic viewpoint. Learning exactly how to oil paint or acrylic and watercolor helps provide you with a greater understanding as to just how fantastic works inside museums and galleries were made and all the time and effort involved. Maybe you could have painted that artwork, but you've now learned all the care and creativity that was put into creating it. Many people who seek art therapy usually have disguised emotions that they do not normally feel comfortable talking about or may not even be aware of. Art therapy is known to be one of the best ways to help a person realize something regarding themselves.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/... Commercial shrimping resumed along parts of the Gulf Coast recently, and an area near the Florida Panhandle reopened for fishing on August 10. The question, of course is whether consumers will feel good about eating Gulf seafood. The government seems to think we should. But all those pictures of oil-covered wildlife might still make you wary of a shrimp kebab or grouper sandwich. NEED TO KNOW did its own research and uncovered five things you need to know about Gulf seafood. Need to Know airs Fridays on PBS. Watch full-length episodes of Need to Know at http://video.pbs.org/program/1458405365/
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC houses survivors’ stories, artifacts, pictures, and even a railroad death car from the Holocaust. It also maintains a data base so you can discover what happened to your loved ones, both those who survived and those who did not. In recent years, incredibly detailed Nazi papers have become available, and they can be found in the Museum. The Museum contributes to the efforts of the US Justice Department in its pursuit of Nazi criminals. It also focuses on education to make certain that the Holocaust can never happen again. Eli Rosenbaum, of the US Justice Department spoke at this luncheon in Boca Raton.
After a mass held at the Archbishop Curley Notre Dame in Miami, the crowd gathered outside to talk about their lost ones and show pictures of the missing ones in quest of any information.
Marleine Bastien, US Representative for Disctrict 17 candidate was among them and shared with uVu her thought on the catastrophic earthquake that hit Haiti on January 12th, 2010.
After a mass held at the Archbishop Curley Notre Dame in Miami, the crowd gathered outside to talk about their lost ones and show pictures of teh missing ones in quest of any information.
One of the attendee shared her horrific story where she lost five members of her family and is still trying to locate her niece.
Over the course of nearly 30 years, park enthusiasts Margaret and Edward Gehrke from Lincoln, Nebraska, made pilgrimages to national parks across the country. As seen in this clip from Ken Burns's newest film, THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA'S BEST IDEA, premiering Sunday-Friday, September 27-October 2, 2009, at 8 p.m. ET/PT, Margaret would record the start of every trip as "the day of days" in her journal. Edward would bring along his Kodak camera, snapping pictures Margaret would later carefully place in photo albums to commemorate their adventures. For more information on the film, visit http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks
