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- Boston area
- Filmmaker? Genres you work in:
- documentary
- About Me:
- I started in the filmmaking world in 1999 after taking a course at Union Theological Seminary in the prophetic power of documentary film. My background is in marketing and special event planning (which is very similar to the skills needed in filmmaking). I wish it were something that I could make a living at, but alas that has not been the case. I grew up in New England and have lived in NJ for a decade and recently returned back to the Boston area.
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- http://www.alighterfootprintfilm.com
- additional web site
- http://www.spencerfilms.com
- Current filmmaking concerns:
- Raising money, online distribution, learning more about how to use the web to my advantage to get the word out about my film and learning more about social netowrking.
- About my films:
- My first film "Mixed Blessings: The Challenges of Raising Children in a Jewish-Christian Family" was completed in June 2004 and has appeared in film festivals all over the globe and on select PBS affiliates. There is a DVD for sale on my website www.mixedblessingsfilm.com that comes with a companion discussion guide.
My new film is entitled "A Lighter Footprint" and is in production. The film is about the environment and shows individuals, families and companies making changes that have ripple effects onto others that will ultimately lessen our environmental footprint on the earth in order to better use our natural resources.
- Books I'm reading:
- Just finished "Someone Knows My Name" by Lawrence Hill. It was wonderful.
- Films I love (or can't wait to see):
- "Juno" was better than I thought it would be. "No Country for Old Men" was terrible - the acting was good but there was nothing redeeming about the storyline.
- Television --the papers say its the golden age- you agree (or you don't!) because you watch.....
- The screenwriters strike really put a crimp in shows that I enjoy like Law and Order: SVU and Grey's Anatomy but they ought to have gotten more benefits for what they contribute to the industry.
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Thank you, John
We are down to the wire! We have some great films but have room for a couple more
($750 prize Best Short)
Last call for submission of shorts
www.cineslam.com
Vermont’s gay liberation Short Films Fest
Part of Vermont Pride: June 14, 2008
Sponsored by The Kopkind Colony
“[CineSlam]reaches back to the radical roots of liberation, to the joyously skewed visions of sex, love, culture and camp that lie outside the conventions of the straight world,”-- Andrew Kopkind, 1993 (A Queer Nation)
CineSlam takes place in springtime in Vermont, (think green) -- a one day ‘videovapalooza’-of-a-festival -- screening rousing shorts in a old barn on a farm in
Guilford, Vermont
Saturday June 14th
A full day of screening sessions
with a number of filmmakers in attendance.
Money Prizes for filmmakers ( $750 Best Short and more prizes see our website)
See website : www.cineslam.com submission page to find out how to submit a film! It’s easy to be part of Vermont’s CineSlam.
Filmmakers don’t need to be glbt and the films can be very diverse in themes and subject matter.
Underwritten by a grant from the Chessie Foundation
Programmed by John Scagliotti, creator of the first glbt TV series on PBS, In the Life. Producer of Before Stonewall and After Stonewall,
Programmer of the VT Bear Film Festival every August
Administrator, Kopkind Colony
Email: stonewal@sover.net
Deadline: May 28th
Send DVD to:
Kopkind, 158 Kopkind Rd, Guilford, VT 05301
pitches for a web series about people and their cars. You submit a
detailed written synopsis of a film 3 to 5 minutes in length, with 4
or 5 more episode ideas intended to total around 30 minutes of
original webisodic content. Finalists receive $5000 each. General
Motors is sponsoring the contest and if they decide to produce final
pitches, they will fund the production. Filmaka.com will start
accepting submissions in the middle of next week and the contest
closes March 11. Details at: http://www.filmaka.com/gm/
I just spent some time adding photos and trying to get into this new thing. It turns out it's kind of fun. Thanks for telling me about your visit to Tree Frog - it was so awesome for me to be able to spend time with other filmmakers last August. I wish we could have a reunion.