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Sacramento Magazine features Movies On a Big Screen’s run at the Guild Theater in Oak Park for the month of August.

As a follow up to this post, Sacramento area filmmakers, KeJo Production’s thriller Rogue River is screening at the Sacramento Film and Music Festival on July 31st at 8pm at the Crest Theater.  There will be an after-party across the street at the Cosmo Cafe, following the screening.  Noticeably missing is a trailer for the movie.  Come on guys, post a trailer, so I can link to it!  But for now, below is a behind the scenes video.

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In addition, here is the schedule for the rest of the Sacramento Film and Music Festival.

About 4 years ago, I attended a discussion panel on filmmaking at the Sacramento International Film Festival where Deon Taylor was a speaker.  Something he said that day made him stand out as one of the smartest people in the room, and a name to remember.  (more…)

A USC cinema graduate student from Sacramento, has shot the first movie on the iPhone4 and has got some buzz with some help from Twitter.  Good Idea.  When the iPad gets a camera, I am shooting the first movie with it.  Probably not, but it will be worth some buzz.

A week after the iPhone4 was released, a USC cinema graduate student from Sacramento is making news online and with Mac World movers and shakers.

via News10.net

See the iPhone4 movie, Apple of My Eye, shot in 48 hours on vimeo.

I first met Mike Carroll about a year into my own attempt at becoming a filmmaker.  He came out and did a story for KCRA 3 on a feature film that I was camera operator on.  I never saw the story but I remember my mom calling and leaving a frantic message on my voicemail that she had seen me on the news.  You have to love moms.  Without my mom, I don’t think I would have any fans.  But I digress.

After the feature wrapped, I came across Mike’s first “one man” film, Year.  I was blown away.  Here was an excellent film, shot on the same camera that I owned (a DVX-100B), on a very small budget, by one person.  I emailed Mike, and he was very cool and down to earth. He was very forthcoming and helpful with advice.  We stayed in touch, he sent me the script for his second feature, Nightbeats before he started shooting it, and he even had me out to shoot some behind the scenes for Nightbeats (part of the making of Nightbeats is here). Both Year and Nightbeats are available on Amazon.

Mike recently released a book on his “one man” filmmaking process called Naked Filmmaking: How To Make A Feature-Length Film – Without A Crew – For $10,000 Or Less.  I haven’t got a chance to check the book out yet, but it is available on Amazon.com.  See the video below for an interview with Mike about the book on KCRA Channel 3.

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Also, Mike is leading a Sacramento Filmmaker- Cameraman Meetup on Sunday, June 27th on the west steps of the capitol, with the goal of people bringing their cameras or interest in cameras and sharing information.  Go to his website nakedfilmmaking.com for more information.