THE NEWSLETTER OF THE FILMMAKERS CONNECTION
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Hello everyone. This year’s Long Island International Film
Expo (LIIFE) will be held from July 18 - 25, 2013. (Please note that this is a date change) AND, we are open for film
submissions now. Take advantage of the
deeply discounted earlybird prices AND we now offer student, filmmakers
connection AND LIIFE Alumni discounts!
Apply at www.LongIslandFilm.com.
We are having another filmmaker panel to promote LIIFE at Adelphi
University's Alumni House in Garden City, on Tuesday March 5th
from
7pm-8:30pm. Our award
winning panelists include Joan Stein Schemke,
Stevan Mena, Stephen Marro, and Steven Moskovic. Some of the
topics
covered will be the artistic process, making sure your film is
ready
for distribution and what to look out for when making a deal.
This is a free event and all are welcome to attend.You'll need to
RSVP. Please note that as of January 29th the site has not been
updated to reflect this event. You can RSVP by calling Tom Luberto
at
516.877.3058 or email him at tluberto@adelphi.edu.
In the meantime,
please keep this link handy: http://events.adelphi.edu/LIIFE/.
If you
have any questions you can email Jim Cook at Jim.Cook2006@gmail.com.
We look forward to meeting you!
FINISHING FUND GRANTS ARE AVAILABLE. If you’d like to apply for a Long Island Film/TV
Foundation Finishing Fund Grant (cut-off date April 30, 2013), please check our
site, or e-mail debfilm@aol.com for an
application for short, feature and student finishing fund grants.
We’re very excited that LIIFE Alumnus, Julian Adams, will be
releasing his film, Phantom, (starring Ed Harris and David Duchovny) on March
1, 2013 – hope you’ll support this friend of LIIFE!
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.
We
also have journal ad space available in our 2013 LIIFE Journal – please e-mail debfim@aol.com for a journal ad form.
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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