Category Archives: Film & Movie Making

Urban Media Makers Film Festival (Atlanta, GA)

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Host: www.umff.com
Start Time:
Friday, October 17, 2008 at 6:00pm
End Time:
Sunday, October 19, 2008 at 1:00pm
Location:
Holiday Inn Select – Atlanta Peachtree Corners
Street:
6050 Peachtree Industrial Blvd
City/Town:
Atlanta, GA

The Urban Mediamakers Film Festival (UMFF) is a not-for-profit, charitable 501(c)(3) organization that promotes and supports independent mediamaking — animation, film, music, print, television, and video. Guided by past wisdom and reflecting the new and exciting generation of mediamaking, we are dedicated to thinking out of the traditional box as we pursue our dreams courageously. As mediamakers, we have talents that can transform world views and actions!

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UMFF 2008 Brings One of the Nations Most Sought After Actor Audition Coaches to Norcross, Georgia

If you are an actor, you don’t want to miss the 7th Urban Mediamakers Film Festival’s Intensive Actor’s Audition Workshop conducted by Rosalyn Coleman Williams. One of the most sought after audition coaches in New York, Rosalyn loves to teach. She was hand-picked by coach to the stars Margie Haber to be the East Coast representative of her world famous studio. She has also taught at Actor’s Connection, Howard University and Duke Ellington School of the Arts. Rosalyn coaches you with truth, insight and real world knowledge of the audition experience. You will gain the confidence to do your best acting in the pressure-filled audition room. “We are searching for the truth of who you are in a set of imaginary given circumstances. I teach, I push and I expect results,” said Rosalyn.

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“Breakthrough Screenwriting” with award-winning writer Craig T. Williams.
Many journalist, authors and creative writers are making the transition to screenplay writing. But how do you get noticed as a screenwriter? How do you create your own career path as a screenwriter? In this intensive workshop instructed by award-winning screenplay writer, Craig T. Williams, you will learn how break through screenwriting barriers and become a successful screenwriter.

Register Today!! www.umff.com

Save the dates – October 17-19, 2008, and spread the word about UMFF 2008. FREE film screening Saturday, October 18, 2008. Join us as we pursue our dreams courageously with the “Movement in Progress through Independent Filmmaking.” We’re changing the world, one story at a time!

Join us for a weekend of creativity, networking, education, activism, independent filmmaking and fun!

Visit www.umff.com for festival details.

Three Silent Classics By Josef Von Sternberg (Underworld / Last Command / Docks of New York) (The Criterion Collection)

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Vienna-born, New York–raised Josef von Sternberg (Shanghai Express, Morocco) directed some of the most influential, extraordinarily stylish dramas ever to come out of Hollywood. Though best known for his star-making collaborations with Marlene Dietrich, Sternberg began his movie career during the final years of the silent era, dazzling audiences and critics with his films’ dark visions and innovative cinematography. The titles in this collection, made on the cusp of the sound age, are three of Sternberg’s greatest works, gritty evocations of gangster life (Underworld), the Russian Revolution (The Last Command), and working-class desperation (The Docks of New York) made into shadowy movie spectacle. Criterion is proud to present these long unavailable classics of American cinema, each with two musical scores. UNDERWORLD Sternberg’s riveting breakthrough is widely considered the film that launched the American gangster genre; it earned legendary scribe Ben Hecht a best original story Oscar the first year the awards were given. 1927 • 81 minutes • Black & White • Silent with stereo scores • 1.33:1 aspect ratio THE LAST COMMAND Emil Jannings won the first best actor Academy Award for his performance as an exiled Russian military officer turned Hollywood actor, whose latest part—a czarist general—brings about his emotional downfall. 1928 • 88 minutes • Black & White • Silent with stereo scores • 1.33:1 aspect ratio THE DOCKS OF NEW YORK A roughneck stoker falls hard for a wise and weary dance hall girl in this expressionistic portrait of lower-class waterfront folk, one of the most exquisitely crafted films of its era. 1928 • 75 minutes • Black & White • Silent with stereo scores • 1.33:1 aspect ratio