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NC Filmmakers Connect

February 11th, 2009 · No Comments

The brilliant mind of Rick Burnett of Asylum Studio Productions has made it his goal to put together a site where NC filmmakers can go and meet, create and collaborate on projects happening in the great state of North Carolina. Called NC Film Connection.
Have a project? Post it. Want to work on [...]

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Guess Where I Will Be Thursday Night

August 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Looking for future filmmakers for the next and following months. Huge thanks goes to Blake and Micah to help me out for this month’s show. If you want to know more about The dotmatrix project check it out. Hope to see you at the show Thursday night.

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Tags: Creative · Filmmaker · Music

Film Festival Idea

August 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments

If I were a new film distribution company I would go ahead and invest in creating a film festival. The top films will be guaranteed to be distributed at the next film market we attend. This way you have the films come to you and you can make a slight profit while doing [...]

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Conversation With Seth Mendelson and Joseph Baron Creators of “Take Me Back” The Series

June 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Thanks Joe and Seth I had a blast talking with you. If you have never seen Take Me Back visit the site and experience a pleasant surprise of filmmaking.

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Tags: Conversation · Podcast

The DotMatrix Project… Filmmakers Needed

March 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Sean, my brother, is the director of the dotmatrix project which is kicking off on April 24th, 2008 at The Burro, in Greensboro, NC. Sean has taken the pill and is opening himself up to the music industry and dissecting the ridiculous nature of the music labels on his blog. It is a [...]

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Tags: Creative · Filmmaker · Music · Original

ConvergeSouth Film Festival Audience Award Announced

October 28th, 2007 · No Comments

I’m so happy to announce that we raised $350 dollars for prize money for this years ConvergeSouth Film Festival.
I divided up the prize money into two categories, Fiction and Non-Fiction with first and second place prizes. First place will receive $125 and second place will receive $50.
First Place for Fiction with an [...]

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ConvergeSouth Film Festival: Sponsors Announced

October 19th, 2007 · No Comments

This year’s film festival is going to be great. We have some funny shorts as well as some powerful emotional pieces. We will have a handful of the filmmakers in the audience. I encourage everyone to introduce themselves to the filmmakers and ask them anything you want. This past week I [...]

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ConvergeSouth Film Festival: Audience Award

October 14th, 2007 · No Comments

OK, I’m in the process of putting together a sheet for the audience to rate each film. After I get the returned sheets I will grade the films and we will have awards the ole fashion way… Democratically. No prestigious panel with their noses in the air. The audience will tell [...]

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Tags: Creative · Filmmaker · Ideas · Message · Sidework

Cool Freeware Applications For Filmmakers

July 11th, 2007 · No Comments

I have to give Free Geekery credit for this great find. He list 15 freeware and shareware programs for the Mac and PC that any filmmaker could use. I’ll show you my favorite in each category. Check out the site for the remaining software tools. I’m download a few of these. [...]

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Tags: Apple · Filmmaker · Freeware · Software

Producers, Editors & Filmmakers: Open Source Documentary

March 7th, 2007 · 8 Comments

I’m making a call to the filmmaking community to assist in this on-line open source documentary. I encourage musicians to create music for this project too. The Greensboro community has heard the name of Gil Barber, not sure if they know the story. Gil Barber was only 22 years old when he [...]

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Tags: Creative · Documentary · Filmmaker · Ideas · Original · Personal · Profession