Filmmakers Connection Meeting and Newsletter
Hello everyone, We hope you
got a chance to visit during this past Long Island International Film
Expo. What a terrific time, and it was
wonderful meeting filmmakers from Poland, Italy, the Philippines, England and
Australia, just to name a few. And of
course our local filmmakers! The 2013
LIIFE will be held from July 11 – 18, 2013.
We will begin accepting submissions for consideration mid October, and
the cut-off will be April 1. We will
keep you posted!
There will be a Filmmakers
Connection Meeting on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. in room 303 (305
North Service Road, Dix Hills, NY
11746). The speaker will be Mark Steiger. He is producing and directing a film
titled Taking Back Vegas(Facebook), Taking Back Vegas(2012)(imdb) which is in-development and will be the
topic of discussion for the night as well as the services of his two
companies 86'd EntertainmentEnterprises, Inc. and Off The Lots, Inc., to a network of film
industry professionals. He will answer
any and all questions for aspiring filmmakers, actors, producers, directors.
Jim Cook will be holding
another one of his exciting and informative panels on Tuesday, March 5 from
6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at Adelphi University.
We’ll provide more information on that as it becomes available.
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
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. 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.
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