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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jennifer Gilomen Date: Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:06 AM Subject: [BAVC] PAH Fest - good opportunity to get media produced for your org To: Schlomo Rabinowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jennifer Gilomen said: I strongly encourage each of you to round up a team for this festival and to produce a 6-minute film about the issues your organization deals with. The "Mobiflicks" project is competitive community-based storytelling on teams, with cash (and camera) prizes. They provide everything for your team to produce a film--a coach, production and postproduction equipment, etc., and they encourage community members of all ages and walks of life, with little or no media experience to participate. It'll be a fun event, everyone will learn production skills, there's a screening at the end, and you'll end up with a film that is useful for marketing your organization and doing advocacy. ------------- "Digivantelist" Christopher Coppola Brings FREE Digital Media Festival to Bay Area August 10--17 www.pahnation.org PAH stands for Project Accessible Hollywood and PAH-FEST is a week-long, free digital media festival that travels to cities throughout the US and internationally 18 July 2008--SAN FRANCISCO: Leave it to a Coppola to find a new way to bring media to the masses. In this case--Christopher Coppola: filmmaker, nephew of Francis Ford Coppola, brother of Nicolas Cage and renowned "DigiVangelist." The concept is simple put a digital video camera or a cell phone in the hands of someone with an idea and let them create art. Then put the finished project on the Internet at to enable cross cultural communication and understanding. The result is PAH-FEST (PAH stands for Project Accessible Hollywood)-- www.pahfest.org-- a week-long, free digital media festival that travels to cities throughout the US and internationally. It comes to the Bay Area this August 10 - 17 in partnership with San Francisco Art Institute and Oakland School of the Arts. "My goal is to bridge the gap between Hollywood and the heartland," says Coppola, who has been dubbed the "pirate" of his filmatic family. "PAH-FEST allows people from all walks of life, ages 5 105, the chance to tell their stories through video in five different contests. We are excited about PAH-FEST coming to the Bay Area because the San Francisco region is a place of neighborhoods with individuals and stories in every area of the city and suburbs. We are reaching out through museums, youth groups and schools to find people interested in participating." Participants are provided with digital equipment and a professional "helping hand" enabling them to create their own short digital films. PAH-FEST: Bay Area offers participants the opportunity to build confidence using digital technology while discovering "the artist within us all." The finished work will be posted on the www.pahnation.org online theatre, where the public and a pool of professional judges review it and cast their votes for the winners. All submissions will remain online indefinitely for viewing and sharing. Coming from a storied Hollywood family, and having directed movies himself, Christopher Coppola has one foot in the studio filmmaking system and the other on the frontier of new media storytelling. He believes that great stories come from everyday people, and that with the advent of digital technology, those stories can be shared globally through digital films and the Internet. He created PAH-FEST for this purpose. PAH-FEST: Bay Area categories include: 1) Mobiflicks: six-minute digital films using Canon pro-sumer digital cameras. 2) Cell Phone Art: one-minute or less videos created on a video-enabled cell phone. 3) DigiPortraits: participants create a two-minute portrait of themselves or another person. 4) Tone Poem: musicians, songwriters and composers shoot a two-minute video to portray their original music. 5) Circus Vision Challenge: children ages 14 and under, embark on a visual treasure hunt to capture and gather a list of visual ingredients. On Sunday, August 10, 12pm-4pm. at San Francisco's Exploratorium and at Oakland's Jack London Square PAH-FEST: Bay Area will kick off with Circus Vision Challenge. Coppola will welcome youth aged 14 and under, accompanied by a parent, guardian or chaperone. They will be given a brief orientation and then provided with a video enabled smart phone or camera as they embark on a visual treasure hunt to capture and interpret a list of visual ingredients. Participants will have five hours to shoot and edit a two-minute piece on the phone. PAH-FEST: Bay Area's tech crew will be available at the PAH Headquarters at SFAI and OSA for help with editing and submitting the piece. The Circus Vision piece judged to interpret the list of visual ingredients the most uniquely and accurately, will win a $100 prize awarded at the closing awards ceremony screening on August 17 at 7pm at the San Francisco Art Institute. Mobiflicks is the team event, with ten teams chosen from entries submitted online through the PAH Nation website. Participants are encouraged to sign up and submit their story ideas online. If chosen, teams spend the week shooting and editing their films with the help of a professional coach provided by the festival. Cell Phone Art is open to anyone and the purpose of this competition is to create a one-minute or less video on a video-enabled cell phone. Coppola will reveal a theme that must be expressed through one continuous shot with no edits. DigiPortraits is where participants create a two-minute portrait of themselves or another person. The winner of the Circus Vision Challenge will receive $100. First place winners in the Tone Poem, Cell Phone Art and DigiPortraits categories will each receive $250. The winner in the Mobiflicks category will receive a top of the line Canon Digital camera and $1000. PAH-FEST: Bay Area in conjunction with SFAI and Oakland School of the Arts will supply a complete, state-of-the-art editing system and technical support to edit and finish the Mobiflicks and the DigiPortraits. Throughout the week, the festival also offers creative and technical seminars featuring local artists and representatives from progressive media organizations. For more information please call (323) 645-4353 or go online to http://www.pahnation.org. .......................................................................... -- Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://hatfactory.net AIM:schlomochat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
