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Beam Me Up Scottie: Transporter Effect with Final Cut Pro and Motion 4

admin — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:10:02 +0000

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Sac Music Seen Winner Best of Program from 2010 Sacramento International Film and Music Festival

admin — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:59:04 +0000

Zoo Human Project’s “NWT” dir by Scott Howe

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A Very Quiet National Dumbworld Day at Home with the Family

admin — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 05:12:45 +0000

This year we decided that we would hide out at home and celebrate National Dumbworld Day quietly, instead of braving the the long lines at bars and craziness that such a day usually causes. However you celebrated it, we hope that you had a good time, were safe and remember the real reason why we celebrate.

If Cartoons Were Real

admin — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:07:12 +0000

If you aren’t familiar with Sacramento area Smosh you should check them out. They are doing a lot of things right.

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Movies on a Big Screen Featured in Sacramento Magazine

admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:12:00 +0000

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

Sacramento Film and Music Festival presents Garibaldi Live to Benefit Sacramento Arts

admin — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:24:13 +0000

Sacramento painter, David Garibaldi is premiering his documentary “Walking Dreams” and performing live at the Sacramento Film and Music Festival on July 29th at 7:30pm at the Crest Theater. I met David in 2003 when he used to paint on Wednesday nights at the Fox and Goose. Even then, before his success, his story was pretty inspirational.

His paintings from the night will be auctioned off with the proceeds to benefit the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commision and their Advance Commuinty Through Arts and Culture program. See the trailer for Waking Dreams below and go to his blog to purchase tickets and get the rest of the story.

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Rogue River Screening at the Sacramento Film and Music Festival

admin — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:53:28 +0000

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.

Groupon for Sacramento Film and Music Festival: $49 for all festival pass

admin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:00:54 +0000

Groupon’s deal for the day is $49 all screening pass for the Sacramento Film and Music Festival ($120 value). There is some fine print (if you aren’t familiar with Groupon, here is how it works). You have five days to get in on the deal- so hurry.

Sacramento Filmmaker Deon Taylor Featured on Huffington Post

admin — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 01:49:47 +0000

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. He said that if you are looking to get theatrical distribution as an independent filmmaker start out with a horror movie. They are relatively cheap to make, and unlike say comedies, which aren’t culturally universal (i.e. what is funny to an American isn’t necessarily funny to a Japanese or even a British person), Horror movies have a worldwide audience.

Fast forward to today and Taylor is the only Sacramento filmmaker that has scored theatrical distribution as an independent (correct me if I am wrong). Fresh off the success of landing theatrical distribution for his horror film Chain Letter (coming out in October), starring Nikki Reed of Twilight, Deon Taylor gets some love from Huffington Post. See the article for an insight into Taylor’s journey.

But as he shuttled between Los Angeles and his home in Sacramento, he kept his backpack full of movie materials and his spirit full of the foundation of his company, Deon Taylor Enterprises.

Read the rest here

The First Movie Shot on the iPhone4?

admin — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:20:46 +0000

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.