Join fellow activists, media makers, educators, journalists,
policymakers and concerned citizens in calling for real and lasting
changes to the nation''s media system at the National Conference for
Media Reform, June 6-8 in Minneapolis. Bill Moyers will deliver the
keynote address. On June 7, the Alameda Writers Group in Glendale
interviews humorous author, screenwriter, and producer Eric Garcia,
best known for his novels, Anonymous Rex, Casual Rex, Hot & Sweaty
Rex, Matchstick Men, and Cassandra French's Finishing School for Boys.
Eric Garcia's Matchstick Men which was made into a 2003 film directed
by Ridley Scott, starring Nicolas Cage. The annual Webby Award
Competition, open to all organizations and individuals involved in
designing, building, managing, maintaining, marketing or promoting Web
sites for business, consumer of general audiences, takes place this
year in New York, June 8-10. BANFF World Television Festival 2008
combining an international program competition, the Banff World
Television Awards, with a comprehensive conference agenda, will be
conducted June 8-11 from its always scenic location of Banff in the
Canadian rockies.
This year, the Music 2.0 Summit has been
combined with the Sixth Annual Digital Media Summit, in New York on
June 9, to create one conference designed to put you at the center of
the oncoming battles over digital content. The annual Maui Film
Festival, kicks off June 11-15 in Wallea, Maui, and among the venues
for screenings, Celestial Cinema has seating on the grass. This year's
North By Northeast Music and Film Festival covers three nights of
performances, with about 400 showcasing bands performing at over 25
live music venues in downtown Toronto, from June 12-15. The NXNE Film
Festival offers a unique program of music related feature films,
documentaries and shorts. In the beachside resort village of Saugatuck,
the Waterfront festival showcases many award-winning and critically
acclaimed films. This year, June 12-15, they add a NewMedia Television
Festival as a sidebar of the 10th annual Waterfront Film Festival,
providing a platform for independent producers, directors, writers, and
actors to share their pilots that could be aired via network and cable
television, webmedia and other future forms of broadcast. Human Rights
Watch's International Film Festival, a venue for fiction, documentary
and animated films and videos with a human rights theme, showcasing the
heroic stories of activists and survivors from all over the world, has
a June 13 launch date at New York's Lincoln Center.
At Beyond
Broadcast Conference 08, on June 17 in Washington, DC, the panelists
examine the role of media in informing and mobilizing publics, and the
rise of both citizen and data-driven news. The Los Angeles Film
Festival / LA Film Festival Submissions Orientation, conceived as a
platform for launching a film, will include the free annual Diversity
EXPO that offers filmmakers access to more than 40 film companies and
media arts organizations, during its run from June 19-29. Cinema Expo
International 2008, in Amsterdam, June 23-26, guides its participants
to competing in the European movie theater industry by displaying
products and services, previewing upcoming cinema releases for the
European market, and revealing what the movie studios and distributors
have lined up, as well as many other activities. "Music in Films" held
June 23 in Santa Monica, seeks to give its attendants an explanation of
music rights, ownership vs. licensing issues, and even nuts and bolts
on how a movie soundtrack is put together. Intro to Studio Production
will cover basic use of all television studio equipment, including
camera operations, lighting theory, color, and audio mixing, as well as
control-room equipment and more, in a session conducted by Denver Open
Media, on June 28. In addition to free open air screenings parties and
concerts, The Brussels European Film Festival is hosting Film Workshop
2008 to give fledgling directors an opportunity to make a film with
professionals during that week of the festival, which runs June 28 to
July 6.
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