MOMMA Legislative Day, 2010

All MOMMA members and anyone who works in the Missouri motion media production community are invited to attend this event.
 
We need production community members from all regions in Missouri to attend.
 
Our primary goal is to sustain the current Film ProductionTax Incentive of 4.5 million, and not have it transferred to another industry as recently recommended by the Governor’s Tax Incentive Task Force.



IT HAS NEVER BEEN MORE IMPORTANT TO SHOW UP AND MEET LEGISLATORS WHO WILL TAKE UP THE TAX INCENTIVE DEBATE IN THE 2011 SESSION.


If you plan to attend, please follow these steps:
Step 1 – RSVP to: filmMOMMA@gmail.com
Step 2 – When you RSVP, it is very important to include the name of your state representative & state senator in your email. You can find this information at http://www.mo.gov, click “My Government,” then “Elected Officials.” You will need to know your zip+4 to use the mo.gov site.
(Don’t know your zip+4? Go to: http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/ to find it.)

If you can provide a demonstration (show animation/show CGI, etc), please contact Joni Tackette (jtackette@aol.com). We are also interested in all other jobs in the industry. (Space is limited, please reply asap to request a table.) It’s important to get to the Capitol building early to set up as you will need to unload near the garage entrance and it gets very crowded later in the day. Those with tables should arrive around 8:30am. Below is a tentative agenda.

Schedule:
8:30 a.m. – Exhibitors arrive to set-up. We will provide a diagram. We’re asking everyone who can, to come and have a table to showcase what they do. Very interested in those who do: sound editing, digital editing, animation, 3-D, CGI/fx as these fit in with the new media tie to film.

10:00 – Legislative attendees should assemble in House Hearing Room 4 (basement level). Briefing by MOMMA lobbyist Jeff Brooks. Overview of day & instructions. …. .. Donuts, juice and coffee available.

11:00 – Noon – Visits with legislators. Exhibitors should be at their tables during this time.

Noon – 1:00 – Legislators view exhibits and eat lunch in our exhibit area. MOMMA members should be there to mingle (3rd Floor Rotunda and Senate Alcove). Important for exhibitors to be at their tables during this time. Lunch provided by MOMMA.

1:00 – 2:00 – Continue visits with legislators – Exhibitors stay at tables – other members make calls.

2:00 – 3:00 – Thomas Hart Benton room (3rd Floor-House side) – Update from legislative leaders.

If you plan to drive to the event, here is a link to a map for the capitol: http://ht.ly/3CMHo

Andrea Sporcic
Assistant Director
Missouri Film Office

*NOTE NEW CONTACT INFO*
573-751-6573
301 W. High Street, Suite 720
Jefferson City, MO 65102

What: 5th Annual Missouri Film Meet Up
When: Thursday April 15th, 7-10 pm
Where: The Parlor in Santa Monica
1519 Wilshire Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90403
Who: Friends of the Missouri Film industry

There will be drink specials, appetizers and prize give-aways. Here’s how to get there!

Please RSVP to Andrea@MOfilm.org or by calling 573-522-1288

What: Screening of “Rosewood”
When: Wednesday February 17th, 7:00 pm
Where: Missouri Capitol Rotunda, Missouri State Capitol Building

Prior to the screening, beginning at 6:30 pm, The Seeds of Success: The Legacy of George Washington Carver will be shown.

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The 48 Hour Film Project returns to St Louis in 2010! We’ll be back on June 4-6 with the most exciting 48 filmmaking hours of your life! Keep an eye out here for the start of registration.

In the meantime, we have a lot of cool things coming up. Including, a chance to:

1. Vote your least favorite genre “Off the Island!”
2. Make a 48HFP Music Video – no time limit!
3. Attend our end of the year extravaganza – Filmapalooza in Vegas!

YOUR VOTE COUNTS!
Take this short, and I mean really short survey, to help us decide the official genres this year. Tell us which to keep and which to get rid of in 2010. (A note to you lovers and haters of our beloved “Musical/Western”… it’s not going anywhere, so vote for something else to get rid of or keep.) This is also your chance to make suggestions for the required Character/Prop/Line of Dialogue for cities throughout the world, so put those thinking caps on!

Click here to take the survey:

MAKE A MUSIC VIDEO!
That’s right… here’s your chance to take a little more time to make your masterpiece 48HFP film. Make a Music Video to “You Have 48 Hours” by Bill Briare. We invite you to make a music video — in whole or in part — and we’ll mix the submissions together for the best music video ever and post it on our website and on YouTube.

The deadline for submissions is February 28th, so don’t miss out. For more info, visit the website!

ATTEND FILMAPALOOZA in VEGAS!
We’ll be in Vegas to celebrate the fantastic 48HFP filmmaking of 2009 and we hope you’ll join us. Filmapalooza is April 10-12 at the NAB Show. We’ll screen all the 2009 City Winning Films, the winning
Showdown and National Film Challenge films, network with filmmakers from around the world and party like it’s 2010.

Registration for Filmapalooza is only $25… AND it includes access to the NAB Show Floor for free! Click here to register:

We hope you’ll take part in one or all of the above!

Doug Whyte
Director of Media Arts Programs
KDHX Independent Media
St. Louis, MO | Portland, OR
314.397.9740 | 503.493.4365

http://www.kdhx.org/mediaarts

http://www.docchallenge.org

http://www.filmchallenge.org

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St. Louis 48 Hour Film Project

http://www.48hourfilm.com/stlouis

Awards were announced at the Nov. 22 closing-night party at the festival Host Hotel, the Moonrise:

Audience Choice Awards
Audience voting determined the winner of three awards from among the films in competition:
Best Feature: “Precious,” directed by Lee Daniels
Best International Feature: “Marcello, Marcello,” directed by Denis Rabaglia
Best Documentary: “9500 Liberty,” directed by Eric Byler and Annabel Park

Interfaith Awards
Juries gave Interfaith Awards to both a documentary and a feature, choosing from among 10 competition films (five in each category), which were selected for their artistic merit, contribution to the understanding of the human condition, and recognition of ethical, social and spiritual values.
Best Feature: “Laila’s Birthday,” directed by Rashid Masharawi
Best Documentary: “Rough Aunties,” directed by Kim Longinotto

New Filmmakers Forum Award
The fest’s New Filmmakers Forum annually presents the Emerging Director Award. Five works by first-time feature filmmakers competed for the prize, which was determined by a jury headed by Gerald Peary, longtime Boston Phoenix film critic and director of “For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism.” A cash prize of $500 is awarded.
“St. Nick,” directed by David Lowery

Short Awards
Juries choose the winners of seven awards from among the short subjects in competition.
Best of Fest: “Lost Paradise,” directed by Oded Binnun
Best Live Action: “Funky Prairie Boy,” directed by Mike Shultz
Best Animated: “Naiade,” directed by Nadia Micault
Best International: “Love Hate,” directed by Blake & Dylan Ritson
Best Short Short: “Cattle Call,” directed by Mike Maryniuk & Matthew Rankin
Best Local: “Spaces,” directed by Zlatko Cosic
Best Documentary Short: “Cohen on the Bridge: Rescue at Entebbe,” directed by Andrew Wainrib

Midrash St. Louis Film Award
Midrash St. Louis (www.midrashstl.com) presented the inaugural Midrash St. Louis Film Award, which seeks to celebrate St. Louis-related films of honesty and artistry that portray the need or the hope for reconciliation or redemption. Eligible work includes features and shorts directed by St. Louis-area natives or those with strong local ties and films largely shot in St. Louis. The award comes with a cash prize of $1,000.
“Game of the Year,” directed by Chris Grega

St. Louis Film Critics Award
A jury from the St. Louis Film Critics selected the annual Under-the-Radar Award winner, honoring an acclaimed international film that deserves more audience attention. SLIFF chose the five films for jury evaluation on the basis of critical recognition and major festival awards. The St. Louis Film Critics also gave a Best of Fest Award.
Under the Radar Award: “Snow,” directed by Aida Begic
Best of Fest: “North Face,” directed by Philipp Stölzl

For more information, the public should visit www.cinemastlouis.org or call 314-289-4150.

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The 18th annual St. Louis International Film Festival runs through Nov. 22 at the Tivoli, Hi-Pointe and Plaza Frontenac theaters, the St. Louis Art Museum, Webster University and Washington University, and it’s all about choices.

To guide you, the organizers from Cinema St. Louis have grouped the lineup into more than 30 geographic and genre “sidebars.”

Are you hot for Hollywood? The studios are previewing at least eight of their big year-end releases, including three probable best-picture finalists: “Precious,” “An Education” and the St. Louis-lensed “Up in the Air.”

Are you dedicated to documentaries? There are more than 40 of them. Mad about music? There’s an app for that. Wild about Westerns, sentimental for silents, fond of the French? Bienvenue. There’s even a sidebar devoted to Bosnian cinema.

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