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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.

Dumbworld Sucks (Or Sorry, “Creates a Vacuum”)

admin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:13:13 +0000

What is the significance of 080910? It is the date that National Dumbworld Day happens to fall on this year. Nothing significant will probably happen on that day. No parades (like last year). No free give-aways. No handing out turkeys to the less fortunate or knocking on strangers doors and asking for free candy. Nothing. But know that Dumbworld still loves you and holds you dear to its heart.

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.

Kitchen Raps!!!! And They Get Their Fiber Son.

admin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:29:18 +0000

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Kitchen Raps (with Random Abiladeze & Ruby Ibarra)

thanks JT!

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.

Naked Filmmaking and Sacramento Filmmaker Meetup

admin — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:31:27 +0000

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.

The First Dumbworld Peace: Watch As I Dip (2006)- Our First Video

admin — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:31:52 +0000

I found this in a box in the back of my closet. It is an underground classic. Me and Jay shot this in front of his mom’s house in North Highlands (Sacramento) with my Sony HandyCam. The elusive Blak Rik Rubin edited it. This video started it all. Funny stuff.

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