Filmmakers Connection Newsletter 1-26-11

THE NEWSLETTER OF
THE FILMMAKERS CONNECTION

www.LONGISLANDFILM.COM

THE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26 FILMMAKERS CONNECTION MEETING HAS BEEN CANCELED DUE TO SNOW CONDITIONS. IT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2011.

Early bird submissions for the Long Island International Film Expo are Feb 18, 2011 – so if you’re going to submit, this will be the least expensive time. Drop dead extended deadline is April 1, 2011.

(Still confirming February date – so this day is tentative)
The next meeting of the Filmmakers Connection will be held on Wednesday, February 16, 2011 at 7:00 pm in room 303 of Five Towns College (305 North Service Road, Dix Hills, NY 11746).
The speaker will be Steven Taub, an Emmy Nominated Documentary filmmaker (“Laugh A Day”), who has worked in Television & Video Production since 1986. He will guide you and teach you how to succeed and get your work seen. Steven has an extensive background in marketing, public relations, and writing. Steven Taub is a member of the Suffolk County Film Commission.
He will be collecting head shots and resumes as will Donna McKenna for two films she is currently casting. (If it snows and it sticks, this meeting will be postponed. We will alert you through my (Debra Markowitz) and Donna’s (McKenna) facebook pages – be sure to check them if it’s snowing!).
Also at this meeting:
Mr. Mullen, a 12 minute short horror film, directed, written and produced by
Scott Goldberg will be showcased at this months meeting. The film was inspired
by the collapse of the economy in 2008 and comments on society as well as the
horrors of one losing their life savings, home and sanity. Inspired by real life
horror, Mr. Mullen offers a realistic look on humanity, greed, power, corruption
and a man who loses it all.
The film features Friday the 13th Part III veteran actor Paul Kratka, as well as
Long Island talent, Robert Youngren, Chris Margaritis, Keith McMahon and Peter
Longshanks. The film can be viewed at http://www.facebook.com/l/00f79CuO_SZFBw6TcwcGBY1llMg;www.mrmullenfilm.com.

Donna McKenna will again be collecting canned goods for the food pantry.

Because of showing Scott’s movie as well as speaker Steven Taub, we will not be doing “show and tell” screenings at this month’s meeting.

Free Screenwriting Panel:The Long Island International Film Expo will have a screenwriting panel held at Adelphi University on Wednesday, April 13, 2011. The tentative time will be from 7pm – 8:30pm. Panelists will include Adelphi Communications Faculty, Terrence Ross and Joan Stein Schimke. Additional panelists will include: award winning filmmaker, Stephan Mena (Bereavement), and video game screenwriters, JT Petty (of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell) and WGA nominee, Sande Chen. Topics covered will be writing for short films, website storytelling, writing within the horror genre, and writing for video games. More details of the event will unfold within the weeks to come. If you have any questions, please contact Jim Cook at jim.cook2006@gmail.com.

Save the date!Sunday, September 25, 2011 – 2:00 pm – Movies & Music event at Five Towns College. Seven indie filmmakers and seven indie musicians will discuss how they use music to enhance their movies, and how their music is created. Stay tuned for more information, but save the date!

The Long Island International Film Expo (LIIFE) is now accepting films for consideration for the 2011 festival. Get in on the deeply discounted early bird submissions until February 18 at http://liifilmexpo.org/ or www.longislandfilm.com The 14th annual LIIFE will be held from July 8 – 14, 2011, with the closing party on Thursday, July 14 – Buffet 5:00 – 6:30 in Filmmakers Lounge, with awards ceremony beginning next door in the Bellmore Movies at 6:45 pm. General admission is $55, or $45 for Filmmakers Connection Members!

LONG ISLAND FILM/TV FONDATION FINISHING FUND GRANTS ARE NOW OPEN!! Cut-off date for grants is February 28, 2011. Forms will be online shortly at: http://longislandfilm.com/sections/grants.html or e-mail debfilm@aol.com for an application. Grants are given out at the LIIFE closing party and awards ceremony.

If you’re interested in finding out up-to-the-minute information on film jobs that I hear about (both cast and crew) or locations needed for film/tv/commercials, plus other film related information (or my own personal musings), check www.debramarkowitz.blogspot.com You can also sign up for our twitter account below, and I will tweet whenever I have anything film-related of interest. Let’s keep the work here!! If you are a filmmaker/casting person who knows of any positions, I can post those for you as well. Please e-mail me details: Union or nonUnion, personnel needed, whether it’s a paid position, when, where and what. Thank you.

We’re now on Facebook, Twitter, Myspace AND have our own Youtube channel! Come join us at: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/Long-Island-International-Film-Expo/125921132847, youtube at: http://www.youtube.com/user/LongIslandFilmExpo, myspace at: myspace.com/liifilmexpo and Twitter at: www.twitter.com/liintlfilmexpo.

If you had a film in the Long Island International Film Expo and have received a distribution deal (DVD, theatrical, and/or television), please send us a blurb and a link, and we’ll promote it for you on the Long Island International Film Expo facebook site.

If you have a home in Nassau County and would like to list it as a possible location for film/tv/commercial production, please contact debfilm@aol.com or call 516 571-3168.

If you have a business, service, or headshot you would like to bring to the attention of the dedicated audience that visits LongIslandFilm.com – consider placing a banner ad. They are quite reasonable this year, and could easily double in price by next year. If you sign up shortly, you will have your ad shown in random rotation for an entire year. Small banner ads are $150 – (120 x 60 pixels). Large banner ads are $300 (468 x 60 pixels). If interested, please e-mail your banner ad in the appropriate amount of pixels to debfilm@aol.com. Please include the URL you would like your ad to be connected to. You can pay by check to LIFTF, or by PalPay under “The Foundation” and then “Donations.” Just let us know when you send in your banner ad.
You can now pay for your membership to the Filmmakers Connection through PayPal on the www.LongIslandFilm.com website. Please be sure to include your name, address, phone #, e-mail address, which area of the film industry you are involved in (ex. Writer/director/producer) and whether or not you are already getting this newsletter by e-mail. Cost is $30 per year fee. If you are a student with current ID, it is $15 to join.)

If you would like to become a member (or renew your membership) of the Filmmakers Connection, please send $30, made out to the LIFTF to the Long Island Film/TV Foundation, c/o Bellmore Movies, 222 Pettit Avenue, Side Entrance, Bellmore, NY 11710. You may also pay at the meetings. The $30 membership fee entitles you to attend the Filmmakers Connection meetings for free. It also entitles you to discounts on Foundation functions such as the Long Island International Film Expo, the Awards Ceremony party, all mailings and newsletters, and (if all other criteria is met) a chance at winning the $1,000/$500 Finishing Fund Grant. (When you send in your $30, please be sure to include your name, address, phone number, e-mail address and how you are involved with the film industry, i.e. director, producer, voice overs, etc.) and whether you are already getting this newsletter by e-mail. If you are a student with appropriate college/high school ID, the cost is $15 to join for the year. If you do not join, you can still attend meetings for free.

Please be advised that the Foundation/Film Commissions/Film Offices are not responsible for speaker cancellations. Every effort will be taken to insure a speaker’s availability on the date mentioned. In case of a cancellation, every effort will be made to book an alternate speaker.

For information on the Long Island Film/TV Foundation contact Robert Hansen at 516 707-2237. For information about the Long Island International Film Expo, please contact Debra Markowitz at 516 571-3168.

Name:______________________________________Webpage:________________

Address:____________________________________________________________

Phone:__________________ Fax:__________________ E-Mail:_______________
Talent (optional: producer, writer, director, lighting, sound, acting,
Make-up, music, computers, etc) ___________________________________________________________________
How did you hear about these meetings:_______________________________

Are you already receiving this newsletter by e-mail?_____________________

Filmmakers Connection Newsletter, Grants, Contests, Jobs, LIIFE Discounts!

Filmmakers Connection Newsletter 1-7-11

Jobs, Contests, Finishing Fund Grants, LIIFE Festival discounts, etc!

Video Contest and Job Opportunity with Entertainment Law Firm:

Seeking : MEN, WOMEN, CHILDREN ACTORS/COMEDIANS,
Are you one of the many who make your own fun videos and post them on youtube. If so I invite you to create a 20- 60 second video,
that has something to do with pasta/ healthy eating
If your video is selected you will receive $500. For more information, contact Donna McKenna at dmmcasting@aol.com. Deadline – January 30, 2011.

Job Opportunity!!
Have immediate need for an experienced legal assistant for busy transactional law office and entertainment industry consulting firm. Salary is about $40,000, + we pay 50% of health insurance premiums. Very unique position. Send resume to marc@marcjacobson.com, please. Thanks!

The Long Island International Film Expo (LIIFE) is now accepting films for consideration for the 2011 festival. Get in on the deeply discounted early bird submissions until February 18 at http://liifilmexpo.org/ or www.longislandfilm.com The 14th annual LIIFE will be held from July 8 – 14, 2011, with the closing party on Thursday, July 14 – Buffet 5:00 – 6:30 in Filmmakers Lounge, with awards ceremony beginning next door in the Bellmore Movies at 6:45 pm. General admission is $55, or $45 for Filmmakers Connection Members!

LONG ISLAND FILM/TV FONDATION FINISHING FUND GRANTS ARE NOW OPEN!! Cut-off date for grants is February 28, 2011. Forms will be online shortly at: http://longislandfilm.com/sections/grants.html or e-mail debfilm@aol.com for an application. Grants are given out at the LIIFE closing party and awards ceremony.

Free Screenwriting Panel!!
The Long Island International Film Expo will have a screenwriting panel held at Adelphi University April 13, 2011. Panelists will include Adelphi Faculty, Terrence Ross and Joan Stein Schimke. Additional panelists will include award winning filmmaker, Stephan Mena, and video game screenwriters, JT Petty and Sande Chen. Topics covered will be writing for short films, website storytelling, writing within the horror genre, and writing for video games. For more information, please contact Jim Cook at jim.cook2006@gmail.com

If you’re interested in finding out up-to-the-minute information on film jobs that I hear about (both cast and crew) or locations needed for film/tv/commercials, plus other film related information (or my own personal musings), check www.debramarkowitz.blogspot.com You can also sign up for our twitter account below, and I will tweet whenever I have anything film-related of interest. Let’s keep the work here!! If you are a filmmaker/casting person who knows of any positions, I can post those for you as well. Please e-mail me details: Union or nonUnion, personnel needed, whether it’s a paid position, when, where and what. Thank you.

We’re now on Facebook, Twitter, Myspace AND have our own Youtube channel! Come join us at: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/Long-Island-International-Film-Expo/125921132847, youtube at: http://www.youtube.com/user/LongIslandFilmExpo, myspace at: myspace.com/liifilmexpo and Twitter at: www.twitter.com/liintlfilmexpo.

If you had a film in the Long Island International Film Expo and have received a distribution deal (DVD, theatrical, and/or television), please send us a blurb and a link, and we’ll promote it for you on the Long Island International Film Expo facebook site.

If you have a home in Nassau County and would like to list it as a possible location for film/tv/commercial production, please contact debfilm@aol.com or call 516 571-3168.

If you have a business, service, or headshot you would like to bring to the attention of the dedicated audience that visits LongIslandFilm.com – consider placing a banner ad. They are quite reasonable this year, and could easily double in price by next year. If you sign up shortly, you will have your ad shown in random rotation for an entire year. Small banner ads are $150 – (120 x 60 pixels). Large banner ads are $300 (468 x 60 pixels). If interested, please e-mail your banner ad in the appropriate amount of pixels to debfilm@aol.com. Please include the URL you would like your ad to be connected to. You can pay by check to LIFTF, or by PalPay under “The Foundation” and then “Donations.” Just let us know when you send in your banner ad.
You can now pay for your membership to the Filmmakers Connection through PayPal on the www.LongIslandFilm.com website. Please be sure to include your name, address, phone #, e-mail address, which area of the film industry you are involved in (ex. Writer/director/producer) and whether or not you are already getting this newsletter by e-mail. Cost is $30 per year fee. If you are a student with current ID, it is $15 to join.)

If you would like to become a member (or renew your membership) of the Filmmakers Connection, please send $30, made out to the LIFTF to the Long Island Film/TV Foundation, c/o Bellmore Movies, 222 Pettit Avenue, Side Entrance, Bellmore, NY 11710. You may also pay at the meetings. The $30 membership fee entitles you to attend the Filmmakers Connection meetings for free. It also entitles you to discounts on Foundation functions such as the Long Island International Film Expo, the Awards Ceremony party, all mailings and newsletters, and (if all other criteria is met) a chance at winning the $1,000/$500 Finishing Fund Grant. (When you send in your $30, please be sure to include your name, address, phone number, e-mail address and how you are involved with the film industry, i.e. director, producer, voice overs, etc.) and whether you are already getting this newsletter by e-mail. If you are a student with appropriate college/high school ID, the cost is $15 to join for the year. If you do not join, you can still attend meetings for free.

Please be advised that the Foundation/Film Commissions/Film Offices are not responsible for speaker cancellations. Every effort will be taken to insure a speaker’s availability on the date mentioned. In case of a cancellation, every effort will be made to book an alternate speaker.

For information on the Long Island Film/TV Foundation contact Robert Hansen at 516 707-2237. For information about the Long Island International Film Expo, please contact Debra Markowitz at 516 571-3168.

Name:______________________________________Webpage:________________

Address:____________________________________________________________

Phone:__________________ Fax:__________________ E-Mail:_______________
Talent (optional: producer, writer, director, lighting, sound, acting,
Make-up, music, computers, etc) ___________________________________________________________________
How did you hear about these meetings:_______________________________

Are you already receiving this newsletter by e-mail?_____________________

For questions or more information, please contact me at debfilm@aol.com.
Thank you.

Film Contest - Win $500 AND Job Opportunity

CONTEST!! WIN $500!!!
Seeking : MEN, WOMEN, CHILDREN ACTORS/COMEDIANS,
Are you one of the many who make your own fun videos and post them on youtube. If so I invite you to create a 20- 60 second video,
that has something to do with pasta/ healthy eating
If your video is selected you will receive $500. For more information, contact Donna McKenna at dmmcasting@aol.com. Deadline – January 30, 2011.

Job Opportunity!!
Have immediate need for an experienced legal assistant for busy transactional law office and entertainment industry consulting firm. Salary is about $40,000, + we pay 50% of health insurance premiums. Very unique position. Send resume to marc@marcjacobson.com, please. Thanks!

List your home/business/service for FREE for Movies/TV/Commercials!

Hello All,
I hope that you've had wonderful holidays. I also wish for a brand new, prosperous and healthy year for us all. And in keeping with this - if you have a home or business in Nassau County - please list, for free, with the Nassau County Film Office.
We have private homes on our site (listed by code and village/town only). We take no fee for this - you work out whatever arrangement you want with the location manager or producer (and we call you about any inquiries for approval before we give out your contact information).
2011 should be our busiest year yet, don't miss out! All you need to do is complete a home/business listing form and return to me with pictures of your home or business (interior and exterior) on cd or dvd. Forms can be obtained by e-mailing debfilm@aol.com or calling 516 571-3168 and requesting one.
If you don't want your business listed as a possible filming location but would like it listed free in our film/video guide - please call for film/video guide business listing form, complete, and return to me asap. Once udpated, our fim/video guide will be listed on both the LongIslandFilm.com site and the nassaucountyny.gov/agencies/filmcom/ site.
Thank you, and I look foward to working with you in 2011!
Sincerely,
Debra Markowitz
Categories for Film/Video Guide:
Accounting
Advertising
Aerial Photography
Air Conditioners/Heaters
Airports
Animals
Animal Transportation
Animation
Aquariums
Audio-Visual Production
Beauty/Barber/Make Up Chairs
Blank Disc Dealers
Cable TV Companies/Satellite Systems
Camera Rental Canopies/Awnings/Tents
Cars for Films
Carpets
Casting/Talent and Theatrical Agencies
Catering Services…
Costumes/Costumers/Stylists/Wardrobe
Dance Companies
Distributors-Feature and TV Films
Editing ServicesEquipment
Fitness
Hotel Information
Hotel/Motel
Ice Skating Rinks (Portable)
Insurance
Laboratories
Libraries
Lighting Equipment
Location Equipment and Facilities
Location Scouts
Make Up
Mobile Units
Modeling Agencies
Motion Picture Equipment and Supplies Repairing
Music Arrangers/Composers and Scoring
Musical Libraries
Nursing Supervision/Medical Consultation
Photographers
Producers/Production Companies and Services
Projectionists
Props and Antiques
Recording Service/Tape Duplications…
Restaurants
Scenic Artist/Set Design and Construction
Script Writers
Security…
Silk Screen Printing and T-Shirts/Team Uniforms
Slides and Film Strips
Solar Installation Services
Sound Rental
Special Effects-Fireworks
Special Effects-General
Special Effects-Models/Miniatures
Special Effects-Sound
Stadiums/Arenas/Large Theaters
Stages/Studios
Stunts
Tape Transcriptions
Television Production
Theatrical Equipment and Supplies
Tool Rental
Transfers
Translators and Interpreters
Transportation
Underwater Photography…
Unions and Guilds
Video Production Services
Voice Over Talent
Walkie Talkies
Weather Forecasts and Consultants