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Best First Film: Divided by Daniel Speers Best Narrative: My Thanksgiving by Peng Wan Best Documentary: Welcome Home by Tarik Mahdi Best Experimental: Existence by Pete Herron Best Animation: Seeking Strumpet by BEX Best Screenplay: Igbo Kwenu by Chinonye Chukwu Best Cinematography: Mosaic by Ian Markiewicz Best Editing: Home by Alexis McCrimmon Best Undergraduate: I Quit by Dave Sarrafian Best Graduate: Igbo Kwenu by Chinonye Chukwu These Projects can be seen on the Projects Page 
The Flickering Light is a monthly screening of independent films in Philadelphia's Mt. Airy neighborhood. Each month is organized around a different theme and presents a mix of experimental, documentary and narrative approaches to the theme. This month's screening, My Father: The Radical, features films by two Temple MFA alumni, Bernadine Mellis (Forest for the Trees) and Naima Lowe (Birthmarks). To read more about the films and the screening series go to http://www.flickeringfilms.com. 
The Scrapper is having its Philly premier along with two world premieres of locally created films… The event was featured in the City Paper http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2009/05/14/941-theater-philadelphia-filmmakers It will happen @ 941 Theater 941 N. Front St. Philadelphia PA 19123 (on Front just as you hit the cobblestone) SCHEDULE / PRICES Sun May 17 6pm - 20th Century Boy - $6 7:30pm - The Scrapper - $3 8pm - The Mind - $6 All day pass - $10 The Scrapper is a 30 minute documentary about a metal scrapper who live in Kensington made by Temple MFA student Jonathan Olshefski -http://thescrapper.org 20th Century Boy is a romantic comedy of sorts about a guy who thinks he was in World War 1 http://.myspace.com/20thcenturyboyfilm The Mind is a wild horror movie…http://.myspace.com/themindmovie Get advance tickets here: http://brownpapertickets.com/producer/7724 The Diamond Screen Film Festival 2009 Screenings: Tuesday May 12th, 7-9pm in Annenberg Hall 3 & 201 as well as broadcast to temple.edu/fma web channel Wednesday May 13th, 7-9pm in Annenberg Hall 3 & 201 as well as broadcast to temple.edu/fma web channel Awards ceremony: May 13th in the Annenberg Atrium 9-11pm - will be live broadcast to fma web! Tuesday May 12th 7pm-9pm My Thanksgiving – Peng Wan Seriously – Lauren Mountain Andy and Jared – Ronnie Bruce Somewhere – Pete Harron Nate’s Kitchen – Hunter Johnson En Vakker Reisse – Greg Onsa Home – Alexis McCrimmon Counting Teeth – Grant Levine Handsome Devils – Pete Hill Wedgewood Locals – Brad Allen Seen Unseen – Sara Suleman Beginning To Turn – Ian Markiewicz Halfway There – John Hutelmyer Love Left Unspoken – Joshua Fleury God’s Critters – Bruce James The Lights Fade – Emily Neary Freese Winner #1 Wednesday May 13th 7pm-9pm The Latecoming – Jennifer Schneider El Zapato y La Taza – Ziggy Gamble Hot Diggity Dog – Brian Morrissey, Lenore Romas, Joe Hund Way lay – Alexis McCrimmon Envy – Will Dejessa Conversations with My Aunt – Aggie Ebrahimi-Bazaz Seeking Strumpet – Bex* I Quit – David Sarrafian Divided – Daniel Speers Welcome Home – Tarik Mahdi Existence – Pete Herron Igbo Kwenu – Chinonye Chukwu Open Closed – John Note Freese Winner #2 Congratulations to all the filmmakers!! The screening both nights will begin promptly at 7pm simultaneously in room 3 and room 201 in Annenberg Hall. Wednesday please join us for the Awards Ceremony and after party at 9pm-11pm in the Joe First Media Center (Annenberg’s Atrium). Awards for all categories will be announced and food and drink will be abundant!It’s that time of year again, so submit your work to the 11th Annual Diamond Screen Film Festival. The Submission Deadline is May 1, 2009. Awards: Best Picture Graduate Best Picture Undergraduate Best Narrative Best Documentary Best Experimental Best Animation Best New Media Best Screenplay Best “First” Film Best Editing Best Cinematography Audience Award The Diamond Screen Film Festival Screenings: Tuesday May 12th, 7-9pm in Annenberg Hall Wednesday May 13th, 7-9pm in Annenberg Hall Awards ceremony: May 13th in the Annenberg Atrium 9-11pm This year we have a new submission process so please refer to the items below for instructions. Submission Instructions: Please follow the instructions. If you have any problems or questions please email: diamond@temple.edu Where to Submit: RM 18 Annenberg Hall (Post Production) Submission Deadline: May 1, 2009 1. Export a full-quality QuickTime file of your movie (in FCP: File-Export-Using QuickTime Conversion). Name your file like this: TITLE OF YOUR WORK_YOUR NAME. Save it to your personal hard drive or flash drive. 2. Drag your File from your hard drive or flash drive onto the green and purple "DS" icon on the desktop called "Drop Diamond Screen Submissions Here." This will add a list of annotations to your file to enable easy sorting. 3. Open your QuickTime File and click on the "Window" menu. Select "Show Movie Properties." This will open a window with information about your movie. 4. Click for a list of Annotations (PDF). This is information that will be stored along with your movie in the QuickTime file. Double-click in the "Value" field next to each annotation and enter your information. If a category does not apply to your movie, leave the default text in place. See below for further information on the copyright field. 5. Get the Diamond Screen Hard Drive from the Post Production attendant and copy your QuickTime file to the "Diamond Screen Submissions" folder. You're done! Thank you for submitting to the Diamond Screen Festival! Copyright options: All Rights Reserved: By submitting your work to the Diamond Screen Festival, you are only giving us the right to show it as part of the Diamond Screen Festival. Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives: We may show your work as part of the Diamond Screen Festival as well as other venues, such as the FMA screen, FMA web site and the Temple Television station. This is a Creative Commons license, which allows others to copy, distribute, and transmit your work with the following restrictions: They must attribute your work to you. They may not use your work for commercial purposes. They may not alter, transform, or build upon your work. For more information, see: http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/ Monday, April 13th @ 6:30pm in The Reel (Student Center South). Come see some of the best of international student filmmaking, not to mention some works that were made by Temple University students. Here is the info: What: NextFrame When: Monday, April 13th, 2009 @ 6:30p Where: The Reel (Temple University, Student Center South) Why: Because you love film. Need more info? Write to nextfest@temple.edu 
Please join us for the: Derek Freese High School Film and Video Festival. Sunday March 29, 2009
Screenwriting Senior Project FMA 4365-4366 Screenwriting Senior Project is a two-semester sequence in which each student writes and polishes a feature-length screenplay. Professor Jeff Rush will teach the first semester and Professor Elisabeth Subrin will teach the second. Like Senior Projects, students must apply for admission to this sequence in the spring of their junior year. To be eligible, a student must have earned at least a ‘B’ in both Writing I (FMA 2361) and Writing II (FMA 3396). She must have earned a university GPA of at least 3.0 and at least a ‘B’ in all the four courses of the FMA core. Packets for the 2009-2010 Screenwriting Senior Project are due in the FMA office by 4pm on Fri, April 17th. Packets must include: If you have any questions about this sequence, please email Jeff Rush at jrush@temple.edu or Elisabeth Subrin at subrin@temple.edu. 
Senior Projects 2009-2010 Deadline to apply: April 15, 2009. Application packet must include:
For narrative projects:
For documentary/experimental projects Project proposal, which must include:
Deliver completed application to: FMA Office (Room 120) by April 15th, 2009 Note: Please label your application clearly with name and project title
The Flickering Light is a dynamic new monthly independent film screening series on the first Saturday of each month. The screenings will be held at the Sedgwick Theater, Mt. Airy?s historic art deco theater that has been out of use for several years. The first program, East Looks West Looks East: A Few Films from the Iranian Diaspora takes place on Saturday March 7th, 2009 at 7pm at 7137 Germantown Ave. The next program, MIXed Up in Philly: The Best of the MIX, New York?s LGBT Experimental Film Festival will take place on Saturday April 4th, 2009 at the same time and location. The series is founded by Temple alumn Sara Zia Ebrahimi. For more information please visit flickeringfilms.com.  MFA alumni Heidi Saman's thesis film, The Maid, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2008. It recently screened at Slamdance Film Festival and the Dubai International Film Festival. It will also screen at the 2009 Washington D.C. independent film festival in March.  FMA alumni Max Margulies and Naoko Masuda have been screening their film "God of Tears" at various festivals around the world. It has received the award for Best Short Film at the Atlanta Underground Film Festival, Best College Animation at the Bucks Fever Film Festival, and has played at the Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival in Brazil and the Washington DC Independent Film Festival. Their other short film "Fish" has also been making the festival rounds, having played at Fantastic Fest 2008 in September. It will also be screening at Montreal International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. For more info visit: www.lbcfilm.com.  Daniel Kremer’s film A Trip to Swadades was screened at the WildRivers 101 Film Festival in Eureka, California and the Iowa Independent Film Festival. It has been invited to screen at the Fantasporto Film Festival in Portugal, and has been submitted to a great many others, many of which are in Europe. The film picked up a Best Feature Film prize and a quick review in an INDIEwire Magazine article. To see a trailer of the film click here.SCT Equipment Office
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