Miami International Film Festival, Cable Congress '09, Leadership Music Digital Summit, South Beach International Animation Film Festival, Film, Stage & Showbiz Expo, Highlight March Media and Entertainment Industry Networking Events
The Durango Independent Film Festival, happening in Durango, will havean array of festival events including late night parties for filmmakers
and VIPs running through March 8. The annual Chicago International
Movies and Music Festival brings together movies and music, showcasing
films about music, movie scores and soundtracks, and other syntheses of
moving images and musical performance such as the world premiere of
musician Martin Atkins' directorial debut about his foray into the
Chinese musical underground, '16 Days In China', during the festival's
run March 5-8. Interactive discussion panels planned for the Puerto
Rico Music Business Conference enable its participants to receive
strategies, recommendations and true-life tales, applicable to any
music genre, from experts currently shaping industry events. The Miami
International Film Festival whose program is international in scope,
but with a special emphasis on Ibero-American cinema, hosts over 350
filmmakers, producers, talent and industry representatives from around
the world, during it's run, March 6-15. Entertainment industry career
guidance group urnetworkalliance is hosting a series of power breakfast
sessions on Saturdays during the month of March. At the opening session
Lelia Shearer, Casting Associate of Elissa Myers Casting, currently
casting a mini series for PBS, will be in attendance. Joining the
sessions is possible through the group's Meetup page
(www.meetup.com/urnetworkalliance/calendar/9613814/) or email to: info@urnetworkalliance.info
The
Chicago/Midwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and
Sciences holds its annual Career Day Seminar on March 14, for college
students interested in television as a career and for young
professionals looking to advance in their profession. Certainly on the
cutting edge, U.K. based group Crossover Play explores new forms of
entertainment for digital media: the relationship between play and
narrative, formats dependent on user contributions, mobile or location
based entertainment with a broadcast component. It engages all this at
the Sheffield Doc/Fest, March 15-20, and the group has presence on
Facebook and Myspace as well. At Cable Congress '09 in Berlin, view
tomorrow's technology and discover the latest content available at the
exhibition, in addition to panels featuring top executives from Europe
and the world's leading cable, technology and media companies. Then
meet your peers at the exclusive Gala Dinner, Lounge Bar, buffet
lunches or coffee breaks, all taking place March 18-20. The United
States Institute for Theatre Technology Annual Conference & Stage
Expo offers over 175 sessions featuring design, technology, costume,
sound, architecture, management, engineering, and production. With over
150 exhibitors the Stage Expo provides conference attendees with the
opportunity to see the newest products and services on the market
today, when it runs March 18-21 in Cincinnati. Chicago Filmmakers Open
Screening is back in operation, and it gets going again with a March 21
start date showing practically anything of a 20 minute duration that
comes through the door, except of course, for X-rated material.
The
upcoming Film/TV Production & Finance Summit taking place in Los
Angeles, March 23-24, tackles current challenges attached to financing
a film, television or online content in the current economy, as well as
to address international co-ventures between the U.S. and Canada, how
to make money through branding products with your content, online
distribution, as well as, how to get the Film/TV production distributed
and financed by studios. The Leadership Music Digital Summit, produced
by Leadership Music, an educational 501(c)(3) focused on cultivating an
educated, issue-oriented music community, conducts the Summit, March
23-25 in Nashville to identify and explore new technology
opportunities, innovations, and challenges, and to foster a
knowledgeable, issue-oriented, vibrant community of music
professionals. At this year's 2009 Game Developers Conference,
happening March 23-27 in San Francisco, some of the party and
networking functions will include: Playstation Interactive Lounge;
Intel Visual Adrenaline Lounge; Game Connection Reception; IGDA
Members-Only Party; ISM Charity Poker Tournament; GDC World Mixer;
Booth Crawl. NXT STAGE Online & Mobile Entertainment Conference
& Market, is a market conference and networking forum to discover
future trends and digital content, March 24-25 in Hollywood. This years
IPTV World Forum 2009 in London will continue to address the key
strategic issues for telcos deploying IPTV, and will also focus on the
challenges facing satellite and internet broadcasters, when it runs
March 25-27. This year's South Beach International Animation Film
Festival, running March 26 - April 5, offers screenings, parties and
special events taking place at a variety of venues around Miami and the
Beaches, along with art exhibits, hands-on demonstrations, seminars,
and workshops about the newest technology and creative software. Film,
Stage & Showbiz Expo will take place March 31 in New York, and will
highlight some of the following areas: film festival, designer's
showcase, focus groups, round table meetings for networking, movie reel
showcase, original music showcase, headshot lane, live audition
recording, and much more.
The above events are only a sample of what is fully listed. Complete details are on the "Media, Entertainment and Performing Arts Industry News and Events"
page at actorschecklist.com/news.html. Video and podcast versions of
this news summary are also available at popular video sites around the
Web like MySpace, YouTube, Daily Motion, as well as on The Actor's
Checklist podcast blog at actorschecklist.com/loudblog, a great place to get your iPhone, ipod or Apple TV download from. The Free Home Video Showcase at www.actorschecklist.com/video
now serves as an archive for all past video presentations. This month
on video you will again see an interesting array of performing artists
from the indie sector on video, in a lineup that will be announced. The
Actor's Checklist continues to build it's archive of high quality
digital video. All past video uploads of the monthly news summary are
now archived without the audio news narration to the Free Home Video Showcase.
