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JS Media welcomes Roberta Marie Munroe, launches
How NOT To Make a Short Film: Secrets From a Sundance Programmer
during the 2009 Sundance Film Festival JS Media welcomes Roberta Marie Munroe and her new book How NOT To Make a Short Film: Secrets From A Sundance Programmer (Hyperion), in bookstores and Amazon.com on January 20, and launching in Park City, Utah during the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.
While there are already a few "how to" make a short film books on the market, Roberta Marie Munroe chose instead to write a book that not only will help you make a great film but also show you "How NOT to Make a Rotten, Unwatchable, Unprogrammable Short Film".
She should know. After five years as the short film programmer at the Sundance Film Festival, 15 years of watching 15,000 short films and making her own award-winning short films, Munroe has a keen insider's take on the production and business of short filmmaking.
How NOT To Make a Short Film dispels the mystery of making short films and guides you through the madness of low budget production in an engaging, highly informative and humorous style. With a foreword by Tom Quinn of Magnolia Pictures, the book features in their own words the first-hand experiences and advice of over twenty award-winning short filmmakers and industry professionals. Plus it is chock full of filmmaker resources and just plain practical advice.
In a media world that is increasingly oriented towards the short film format, including online and mobile content, How NOT to Make a Short Film is soon to become a must-have resource for all short form media makers.
The book will also be distributed in the UK, Canada, Australia and India. A book signing with Roberta Munroe will be held on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah at Dolly's Book Store.
See more at www.robertamunroe.com
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Imagine a School...Summerhill
Official Selection of "The World's Largest Children's Film Festival"
JS Media and RMI are pleased to announce that the feature documentary film Imagine a School...Summerhill is an Official Selection of the 2009 KIDS FIRST!® Film and Video Festival, from January to April 2009. Now in its ninth year, the KIDS FIRST!® Film Festival showcases the films of studio, independent, and youth producers, TV shows and DVDs.
Run by the nonprofit Coalition for Quality Children's Media and billed as "the world's largest children's film festival", the year-round traveling festival partners with over 100 venues nationwide, includes more than 10,000 screenings and reaches an audience in excess of 600,000 children and adults. More than 300 titles are accepted annually, with the programming changing every quarter. The festival jury is comprised of both kids and adults, and all entries must meet the organization's minimum standards of "no gratuitous violence; no racial or cultural bias; no inappropriate sexual behavior; no replicable unsafe behavior; no condescension towards children."
Films screened during the September to September festival year are eligible for the KIDS FIRST!® Best Awards, which are presented every October. The 2008 KIDS FIRST! Best Awards Day was held in Los Angeles at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
www.kidsfirst.org
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Imagine a School...Summerhill debuts at the
Asheville Film Festival, Nov. 6 - 9, 2008
Imagine a School...Summerhill by director William Tyler Smith had its debut festival screening at this year's Asheville Film Festival in Asheville, N.C. The feature documentary, produced by 418 films ltd. and represented by Reflection Media, Inc., was filmed in England over a period of seven years.
"In 1997, Tony Blair's New Labor government took steps to live up to its promise to improve standards in education. Ironically, this would threaten the existence of an unusual little school in Suffolk called Summerhill..."
So begins this extraordinary documentary about an exemplary school in England, in which the students, the staff and a few formidable barristers take on OFSTED (Office for Standards in Education) and Tony Blair's Labor Government to fight for its existence and the lifeblood of alternative education throughout the world.
Imagine a School...Summerhill follows four students from the ages of eleven to sixteen as they grow up and make important decisions about life and their education at the same time that they become involved in the legal and political fight to save their school.
Watch for the festival reviews next week! |
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NEW! JS Media Film Festival Packages for Indies
JS Media is pleased to announce our new three-tier publicity service for independent films. We have created three flat fee packages that should fit any serious filmmaker's budget:
1.) Basic Film Press Kit
2.) Basic Festival Campaign Package 3.) Complete Festival Campaign Package
Public relations services with a concentration on filmmakers is a JS Media Publicity specialty. Do the right thing and promote your film to its best advantage with a creative festival publicity campaign. JS Media Publcity continues to cultivate press and festival contacts and conscientiously works with the utmost enthusiasm for and commitment to any project that we represent.
For details CONTACT JS Media. |
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JS Media in Michigan with RMI, Michigan Film Office and SAG, Detroit
During the 2008 Traverse City Film Festival, JS joined writer/producer Jill Gambaro of RMI and met with Janet Lockwood, Director, Michigan Film Office and Marcia Fishman, Exectuive Director SAG, Detroit Branch to discuss RMI project Black and White, a musical film that Jill plans to make in Detroit next summer.
Black and White is a West Side Story meets Once urban musical, for which Jill won an award in the Best Historical Screenplay category at the Houston WorldFest Film Festival. Jill will produce the film through her independent production company Reflection Media, Inc. (RMI). The story is set in Detroit during the late sixties, and Jill had always wanted to make the film on location. Now, with the added advantage of Michigan's new 42% film incentives, it seems more appropriate than ever to do the project in Michigan. |
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Writer/Director Arlene Bogna Wins KIDS FIRST!® Screenplay AwardsJS Media is pleased to announce that Earth Kids, the family feature screenplay by writer/director Arlene Bogna and writer Nicole Schubert has won the 2007 Best Screenplay Award from the 2007 KIDS FIRST!® Film Festival. The writing duo also received the sponsored Screenplay Award from Feature Films For Families, a film production and distribution company. Arlene and Nicole are currently working on their next feature script/project--a female action buddy comedy that Arlene is attached to direct. See more about Arlene in CLIENTS. See more about the Coalition for Quality Children's Media at: http://kidsfirst.org (Photo left to right): Nicole Schubert, Arlene Bogna, and Ranny Levy, Founder/President Coalition for Quality Children's Media at the 2007 KIDS FIRST!®Awards Ceremony.
Photo: Weintraub Photography |
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JS Media Blog Covers the Media! People are calling JS Media Blog "inspiring", "great stuff","wonderful" and simply "fabulous, fabulous, fabulous".
See why here: http://jsmedia.wordpress.com
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