SILVERDOCS is now recruiting interns to work in marketing, programming and video archiving/production. Here is your chance to work behind the scenes at what Screen International calls “the pre-eminent US documentary fest.” Be part of our great team and an exciting work environment culminating in the 2007 SILVERDOCS festival - a six-day showcase of films, conferences and special events that celebrate the art of documentary filmmaking.

We’re looking for energetic, organized people with excellent communication skills who are willing to commit 10-20 hours on weekdays. Internships are unpaid, but school credit is available.

For more information, please visit: silverdocs.com/2006/i.aspx or send your resume & cover letter to jobs@SILVERDOCS.com.

DER is a supporter of the talented teens who manage and show their work at the DIYDS Film Festival. We invite you to get involved.

DER is offering a first time DIYDS Documentary Distribution Award

It includes:

*An exclusive, distribution contract with DER that includes a $100 cash advance on the royalties
*Continued royalty payments over a 5 year contract period
*Featured on our DER web site
*Featured in our next New Releases catalogue
*A free 2 hour tutorial for the teen filmmaker on marketing, distribution and contract negotiation
*Free DVD authoring, packaging, production
*Submission and marketing to additional youth film festivals worldwide

CALL FOR ENTRIES!!

2006 “Do It Your Damn Self!!” National Youth Video and Film Festival at the Cambridge Brattle Theater

November 17-19, 2006

DEADLINES
Preliminary: June 30, 2006
Final: September 15, 2006 (extended)

Visit www.diyds.org to download an entry form, follow the instructions and send your complete submission to:
The Community Art Center
119 Windsor St.
Cambridge, MA 02139

A complete submission should include:
. your piece(s) on miniDV or DVD (If your piece is selected, we will need it on miniDV.)
. complete entry form
. release form signed by all copyright owner(s)
. self-addressed stamped envelope, if you want your tape returned (please do not send master copies.)
. the appropriate fee ($15 for the first entry; $5 for each additional entry). Make checks or money orders payable to: The Community Art Center, Inc. If the fee is a hardship, please contact us.

Note: Please do not send entries in fiber-filled mailers, as they may damage the media.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at 617.868.7100 ext.17 or
linwood@communityartcenter.org

The Teen Media Program is a proud recipient of a nationally-prestigious Coming Up Taller award from the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities. Other projects include screenings of “Juicy (remake)” at the Los Angeles Film Festival June 24th. TMP teens are also working on a documentary about Hurricane Katrina. Stay tuned!

DER announces the release of VAL a thirty minute film on DVD. OAK PARK STORIES which are reflexive ethnographic explorations of Oak Park, Illinois, a Chicago suburb - one of the most successfully integrated places in the U.S. Employing interactive and digital technologies these portraits present an anthropological perspective of this “social experiment” through written and video portraits of African American, lesbian and WASP families and an institutional portrait of the Oak Park Regional Housing Center, the core of the community’s integration maintenance polices. Additional information about this research project can be obtained at astro.temple.edu/~ruby/opp.

VAL (a 30 minute film on DVD) is an Oak Park Story about Val’s Halla, an independent record store that is a cultural institution in Oak Park. For thirty plus years Val has offered her customers an incredible array of recorded music from classical to rap, both new and used. In addition, the collective knowledge of Val and her staff makes it possible to carry on an informed conversation about music and recordings. Concert information is always readily available. As these cultural founts of musical knowledge are being rapidly replaced with Wal-Marts where employees know nothing about music, Val’s Halla has become part of the disappearing commercial landscape of small businesses run by knowledgeable people interested in what they sell. In this film, Val talks about the changing role of the record store and muses about what Oak Park looks like from the vantage point of its counterculture.

OAK PARK STORIES is authored by Jay Ruby, a recently retired visual anthropologist, who has spent the last forty years exploring the relation between culture and the visual/pictorial world. He has published numerous studies about photography, film, popular culture and produced several ethnographic films and also founded graduate and undergraduate program in the anthropology of visual communication at Temple University. OAK PARK STORIES is the culmination of his interest reflexivity as the village is also his hometown as well as American cultures.

“Jay Ruby has long espoused the use of visual data as a powerful tool for academic research. In his Oak Park Stories he has provided a clear example of how his theories can work and bridged the gap between visual and mainstream written anthropologies. “Prof. Sarah Pink, Anthropology, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, UK.

The CD-ROM is available from DER for $29.95 or $49.95 for any two OAK PARK STORY CDs.

VAL will have its world premiere at the Oak Park International Film Festival at the Oak Park Public Library on September 15th.

We are pleased to announce that one of our titles, Singing Pictures: Women Painters of Naya has been selected for the Sixth IAAC Film Festival, Nov 1-5, 2006. Congratulations filmmakers, Akos Oster, Lina Fruzzetti and Aditi Nath Sarkar!

The 2006 Festival is packed with compelling programming and other exciting features and we are delighted to have our film in the outstanding line-up this year. We are also pleased to announce that the festival is opening with Mira Nair’s “The Namesake”. More information about this screening will be available shortly. You are invited to the Opening Night Screening on Nov 1, 2006 and you will receive further details shortly.

All other screenings take place at the Anthology Film Archives, 2nd St. at 2nd Ave, NYC. Screenings are followed by Q&A sessions. In addition, filmmakers receive a full festival pass for all regular screenings, and will be able to purchase additional tickets at a discounted price once the schedule and the online ticket engine is launched.

Film Independent is now accepting submissions for its annual Producers Lab
that will take place in Los Angeles during October and November 2006. The
deadline for submissions is August 28, 2006 (postmarked). Sponsored by
Technicolor, Film Independent’s Producers Lab is an intensive seven-week
program designed to help filmmakers develop skills as creative independent
producers. Lab fellows develop a strategy and formal action plan for
bringing their projects to fruition -including a budget, schedule, and
business plan. Fellows have one-on-one meetings with established
producers, directors, and other industry professionals who act as advisors
to them on their specific projects.

A maximum of ten producers are accepted into the program each year. Some
projects that have gone through the Labs are the following: So Yong Kim’s
Sundance-winning film, In Between Days; Jessica Sanders’ After Innocence,
short listed for the Academy Awards’ documentary category; Andrea Millers’
Dark Matter, currently in production with Val Kilmer and Meryl Streep;
Scott Prendergast’s Kabluey, currently in production with Lisa Kudrow;
Dana Jackson’s Park starring Billy Baldwin; Mora Stephens and Joel
Stephens’ Conventioneers, winner of an Independent Spirit Award; Ted
Kroeber’s American Gun recently released by IFC Films.

Past instructors include Effie Brown (In the Cut), Eric D’arbeloff (Lovely
and Amazing), Alison Dickey (Piggie), Matthew Greenfield (The Good Girl),
Jasmine Kosovic (D.E.B.S.), and Shelby Stone (Lackawanna Blues). Past
guest speakers include Craig Emanuel, Debra Grieco, Midge Sanford, Peggy
Rajski, Laurie Parker, Ron Yerxa, among others. For an application or
more information, go to

www.filmindependent.org/index.php/talent_development/producers_labs

For more information, please contact Soo Hugh, 310.432.1275, or email
shugh@filmindependent.org

Home of the Independent Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival



INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY CHALLENGE
Thursday, August 31, 7:00 p.m.
AFI Silver Theatre
COST: $9.25 / $7.50

SILVERDOCS is proud to present the competition winners and regional favorites of the First Annual International Documentary Challenge at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center.

The International Documentary Challenge (IDC) is a timed filmmaking competition where teams from around the world have just five days to make a short documentary film. The IDC is produced by Doug Whyte, and was developed by KDHX, Saint Louis Community Media, in cooperation with the International Documentary Association (IDA) and the creators of the 48 Hour Film Project and the National Film Challenge.

The screening will include 14 shorts and run approximately 100 minutes. Following the screening, there will be a Q&A with the filmmakers and Doug Whyte, as well as a cocktail reception.

Official Web site: documentarychallenge.org/

For more program information and to purchase tickets, please visit:
www.afi.com/silver/new/nowplaying/2006/v3i4/idc.aspx

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 22, 2006

CONTACT: Jim Madigan, 708-697-6909, jmadigan@oppl.org
Stan West, 708-829-0067, stanwest1@msn.com

Oak Park International Film Festival presents Diversity in Cinema
at the Oak Park Public Library

Oak Park documentarian Stan West hosts Diversity in Cinema to showcase emerging global points of view through independent films

OAK PARK, IL - On Saturday, September 16, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., filmmaker Stan West hosts the second Oak Park International Film Festival’s Diversity in Cinema program including screenings and panel discussions at the main branch of the Oak Park Public Library, 834 Lake St. The multiplicity of films and filmmakers is an exercise in diversity itself; from a series of shorts by hot, new high school filmmakers to a documentary on a local White entrepreneur to a feature on Black cavalry heroes to a sneak preview of a full-length international film showcasing a local South Asian woman. There will be a morning panel on “Youth and Cinema” and an afternoon panel on “Local links to International Cinema.”
For a complete listing of screenings and discussion times see www.oprf.info/film.

1.Val: An Oak Park Story, written, edited, directed and produced by Jay Ruby, 29 minutes running time
Val is the story of Val’s Halla, an independent record story that is a cultural institution in Oak Park. For more than 30 years, Val has offered her customers an incredible array of recorded music from classical to rap, both new and used. As these independent cultural founts of musical knowledge are rapidly replaced with Wal-Marts where employees know nothing about music, Val’s Halla has become part of the disappearing commercial landscape of small businesses run by knowledgeable people interested in what they sell. Val talks about the changing role of the record store and muses about what Oak Park looks like and from the vantage point of its counterculture. This is Val’s world premiere.

2.American Gas, written, edited, directed and produced by Peter Vandenberg and Karen Langan, 10 minutes running time.
American Gas is the story of Jack, a National Guardsman who has recently returned from the conflict in Iraq. Jack battles his memories and the prospects for the future as he struggles to adjust. One thing you might notice about Jack and his friends is they’re all toy dolls. Karen Langan was born and raised in Nebraska, currently works in retail, and resides in Oak Park. Peter Vandenberg teaches at DePaul University and directs the Master of Arts in New Media Studies.

3.Sculpting John Egan, written, edited, directed and produced by Brendan Burke featuring Oak Park-based sculptor Margot McMahon, 27 minutes running time
Sculpting John Egan documents Margot McMahon’s process of creating casting and installing a large-scale public sculpture about social justice organized, John Egan, a Catholic priest. The sculpture is permanently installed at DePaul University’s Lincoln Park campus at the Student Union Building.

4.Flight, written, edited, directed and produced by Jim and Ian Duignan, 4 minutes running time
Flight is a moving short about how one Oak Park dad reflected on 9/11 while his son, Ian, commemorated his third birthday. Jim Duigan is associate professor and director of the Visual Arts and Education Program at DePaul University. His eight-year-old son, Ian, is a second-grader at Irving Elementary School. They recently collaborated on Flight II, which chronicles Ian’s visit in 2005 to Ground Zero in Manhattan.

5. Art-Based Inquiry, written, edited, directed and produced by Pat and Adina B. Allen, 17 minutes running time.
Art-Based Inquiry is a poetic documentary following Adina Allen, a Tufts University senior, as she struggles to integrate the emotions around by the demanding intellectual work of a special college course The subject is Oil and Water; the course is Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship in the Institute for Global Leadership. The film follows her as he learns the Studio Process, a method of art making and witness writing guided by intention, mediates in nature and confronts the expectations and contradictions of being a college student in today’s world. Her mom, Dr. Pat Allen, is an artist, writer, art therapist, filmmaker and adjunct associate professor at the School of the Art Institute and former owner of Studio Pardes on Harrison Street.

6. Our ‘Hood, written, edited, directed and produced by South Shore’s School of Entrepreneurship in association with Stan West, Yves Hughes Jr. and Columbia College Chicago, 30 minutes running time
A close-up look at how boys and girls tell stories differently from the viewpoint of Black teens at a Chicago South Side high school where poverty, violence an abuse guides many narratives. During the shooting of this production, one of the three girls producing this gritty work witnessed her cousin’s murder in an accidental shooting at the cousin’s 11th birthday party. This shooting, the second of a girl by a boy in a week, made national news and shook the fabric of Chicago’s community when a male gang member shooting at another male gang member missed his target hitting an innocent schoolgirl. The focus group featured in this documentary helped relieve some of the pain of the girl’s stunning witness narrative. They also helped teach themselves how to better manage anger. Shot in entirely by the students and produced in part by principal Bill Gerstein, art teacher Pam Adams, facilitator Stan West and editors Yves Hughes Jr. and Jacques St. Surin, this video verite, rough in style and content, premieres at the festival. Stan West, an author-journalist-filmmaker-human rights activist who teaches writing at Columbia College., just completed with Hughes and the Historical Society of Oak Park and River Forest, Suburban Promised Land, a book that examines the rich history of Black and Biracial citizens of Chicago’s western suburbs.

7. The Forgotten West, written, edited, directed and produced by Vincent Singleton with casting by Donna “DW’ Watts, co-coordinator of the Oak Park International Film Festival, 20 minutes running time The Forgotten West, a powerful short feature about the United States Army’s first all-Black cavalry units, is a superb cinematic portrait of this country’s struggle with diversity. The tag line is a Buffalo Soldier must weigh duty versus ego when a prejudiced postman’s daughter is kidnapped. Singleton is an MFA candidate at Columbia College who also did a stunning international documentary, Yo, Mendigo: Sin Tech, Sin Hogar about homeless conditions in Barcelona, Spain. Watts, a recent Columbia film graduate, had two films she worked on presented at the Oak Park International Film Festival in 2005. She’s one of the Midwest’s most sought-after casting directors and producers.

8.Commercials by Oak Park adman Ed Bunch features ‘Jazzman,” “Pictures” “We’ve Got Your Number,” and “Rappers” in 30 second shots. Other short commercials are familiar to viewers who know Pizza Hut, Amoco, McDonalds and Budweiser ads. 15 minutes running time. It’s the only work presented on VHS.
Bunch is an adjunct professor of marketing at Columbia College and a substitute teacher in Oak Park public schools.

8. The Best of Oak Park-River Forest High School filmmakers, 70 minutes running time
This fine collection of award-winning shorts, ads, cartoons, and music videos was presented earlier this year as part of the 2nd Annual Student Film Festival at the Lake Theatre. Thanks to OPRFHS’s TV/Film/Radio teacher John J, Condne and principal Dr. Susan Bridge, we’re proud to present this fun-filled reel:
Thank God for Sunglasses, a music video by Alex Curtis
Railroad Crossing Safety, a PSA by Laurie Golman
Fruit Claymation, animation by Kris Rey-Talley, Sam Wooton, and Brendan Murphy
The Envelope, a short by Kris Ray-Talley and Sam Wooton
Friend, a music video by Joy Jones
Casimer Pulaski Day, a short by Sam Mausner
L’Essence, a short by Noco Marquez
Ch-Check it Out, a music video by Kris Rey-Talley and Sam Wooton
Squirrel Hunter, a short by Kris Rey-Talley and Sam Wooton
Black, a music video by Miitch Matt Mitchener
Love, Blood and Kryptonite, a teaser by Kris Rey-Talley and Matt Mitchener.

10. Breaking Tradition, a documentary written, edited directed and produced by Karl Gewiniger in collaboration with Stan West’s First-Year Seminar class, Spring, 2006, 14 minutes running time
Breaking Tradition is a collaborative Columbia College First-Year Seminar class effort to find answers to an essential question about tradition versus innovation and what is best for the individual, what is best for the community? Inspired by the themes of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, each student submitted a piece of art work for the project and each student went on camera to answer the rhetorical question. The answers will amaze viewers.

11.Wny Am I Waiting? a poetic and visually stimulating documentary written, edited, directed, and produced by Corelle Perry, 10 minutes running time
Why Am I Waiting? is an important work that grew out of series of moving photographs by this Oak Park-based photojournalist. It illustrates a personal conflict with abstinence. Corelle Perry is a 23-year-old student at Columbia College Chicago.

12. Sneak Preview, 110 minutes running time
Sneak Preview of an international feature showcasing a lovely and talented local South Asian actress-writer-producer from last year’s film festival. Mums the word!.
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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
FILM ARTS FOUNDATION
FILM ARTS FOUNDATION – a national non-profit media arts center serving independent media makers with more than 2500 members – is seeking an Executive Director. The Executive Director will work with and supervise the staff to ensure that the organization maintains its commitment to its mission and goals and remains in healthy financial condition.

Film Arts Foundation is a non-profit organization supporting media artists and the creation of independent film and video. During its 30 year history, Film Arts has provided core services to the filmmaking community including: a comprehensive Education program, information resources including the bi-monthly magazine, Release Print, networking and exhibition opportunities, rental equipment and facilities, the Film Arts Foundation Grants program, fiscal sponsorship, and other respected programs.

The Board of Directors is searching for a visionary leader with a strong background in fundraising and program management and someone who is also an excellent team builder among staff, board, the membership and supporters. The Executive Director should have knowledge of media arts and training/experience in arts administration, fundraising, and general management.

Qualifications:
The successful individual will have experience in the following areas:

Required
· Demonstrated leadership in fundraising and capacity building
· Minimum of 5 years’ experience working at the executive level in a management and fundraising capacity for a nonprofit arts or media organization; prefer candidates with experience of budgets in the $1m or above range and a proven track record in donor cultivation
· Proven knowledge/experience of nonprofit fiscal management and business development
· Excellent written and oral communication abilities, strong public speaking skills, communications and public relations experience
· Experience with human resources and organizational management
· Experience and broad knowledge of independent film, the film community, and national organizations and funders affecting filmmaking and media arts
· Knowledge of local, state, and national funders for media arts organizations

Preferred
· A creative thinker, with an engaging and persuasive personality and a sense of humor
· A commitment to independent media, media artists, freedom of expression and freedom of speech
· Knowledge of public policy issues affecting the creation, funding and wide distribution of alternative media
· Experience to evaluate performance and implement change when appropriate

Web site: www.filmarts.org

Start Date: Position is open until filled.

Education Requirements: Film Arts Foundation would prefer a master’s degree from an accredited institution of higher education within a related field of study. Yet the equivalent combination of education and work experience is also acceptable for candidacy.

Compensation is competitive for non-profit media arts organizations. We offer a compensation package that includes an annual salary, annual merit increases (based upon performance evaluations), two weeks vacation (with increasing weeks for years of service), paid holidays, a 401(3)(b) Retirement Annuity Plan, health insurance and related benefits.

Applications: Submit resume & cover letter via e-mail to edoffice@filmarts.org. Please, no phone calls. The Film Arts Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer, women and minorities are encouraged to apply.

We are pleased to announce that INTO THE FIELD, a New 2006 release from DER by Filmmaker Alyssa Grossman will be screened at the International Women’s Film Festival from October 11-15, 2006 in Cologne. CONGRATULATIONS ALYSSA!