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World Copyright Summit, CineVegas Film Festival, NXNE: North by Northeast Music & Film Festival, Cinema Expo International, American Black Film Festival, Highlight June Media and Entertainment Industry Networking Events

The BANFF World Television Festival, opening this year in Alberta from
June 7-10, is a not-for-profit event produced by Achilles Media Ltd.,
an international events management company serving the television and
digital media industries. Among various sessions programmed into the
festival, the Broadcaster Briefings get inside information on what
broadcasters from around the world want. In these open, informal
sessions, international Program Executives will provide insight into
their schedules, outline production priorities and biases, discuss
potential partnership deals, and answer questions. The second World
Copyright Summit kicks off this year with an opening night party and
reception in DC, hosted by the U.S. Rights Societies and Guilds members
of CISAC on June 8. For the duration of the Summit running through June
10 the shape and impact of the new creative, economic, technological
and legal environment will be addressed. Beginning June 10, industry
networking and career guidance group URNetworking Alliance (meetup.com/urnetworkalliance)
will be part host to a playreading series in New York, and, the group
is also conducting the Casting Director Workshops and the Power Lunch
Series in other venues as well. A think tank like event gives shape and
substance to the 2009 Lake Placid Film Forum, running June 11-13, whose
programs throughout the years have provided opportunities for
filmmakers, screenwriters and actors to come together to exchange and
obtain information related to the creation, production and distribution
of film and other electronic media.

At this year's CineVegas
Film Festival, happening June 11-20 in Las Vegas, CineVegas will honor
two actors, two directors and two video game design pioneers, including
Jon Voight who will be given the Marquee Award, and Willem Dafoe
honored with the Vanguard Actor Award. InfoComm International will host
an International Reception, one of many, when it stages its annual
convention in Orlando, June 13-19, which serves the professional AV
communications industry worldwide. When TeatroStageFest: the Third
Annual Celebration of Latino Arts and Culture opens June 15-28 in New
York, it will present 19 events featuring 23 theater, dance, music, and
comedy performances, family programming, workshops, artist panels,
youth awards, and an all-day conference, with performances in English
or Spanish. During Broadcast Asia 2009, in Singapore, solutions will be
offered for broadcasters, cable and satellite operators, content
providers, new media operators, vendors, IT and multimedia providers,
to gather and discuss latest trends, business strategies and technology
updates over a four day run starting on June 16. The DISCOP
Organisation, which facilitates audiovisual content distribution and
coproduction business in 87 countries located in Central, Eastern
Europe, Eurasia and Africa, presents its annual convention to an
audience of International suppliers of finished programs, packaged TV
channels and formats; Programming, acquisitions and coproduction
executives representing TV Stations, Pay-TV operators, DVD and
theatrical distributors, broadband and telco operators, and others,
from June 17-19 in Budapest.

North by Northeast Music & Film
Festival and Conference (NXNE) is a Toronto-based conference and
showcase taking place June 17-21 for new music and music-related films,
where listening and mentoring sessions assist career planning for
future considerations, programmed screenings of hand-selected music
movies, from concert classics to the latest indie docs from Rio to
Rwanda, nightly music showcases, and on June 20, Wu-Tang Clan founding
member and creative engine, GZA will be interviewed by hip hop
historian Fab 5 Freddy. Opening June 18-28 for its annual event, the
2009 Los Angeles Film Festival features s varied offering, and such
unique signature programs including the exclusive Filmmaker Retreat -
hosted by the Festival's annual Guest Director - and the Spirit of
Independence Award ceremony and gala. Cinema Expo International is a
pan-European convention and trade show happening in Amsterdam this
year, June 22-25, dedicated to the needs of the movie theatre industry
where over 1,250 cinema exhibition and distribution professionals from
Europe, the Middle East and Africa come to view the latest major cinema
releases and extensive product reels and more. At this year's American
Black Film Festival, running June 24-27 in Miami, the Festival hosts
The Star Project, an international acting competition, and now in its
12th year, the HBO Short Film Competition, showcasing five short film
finalists selected from hundreds, including Derrick Anthony's 'Popous
Pane and the Kids He Love to Hate' starring Alfred Rutherford.
This year Brussels Film Festival is conducted over nine days, June 27
to July 5, with open air screenings, free concerts every evening, and
parties. Los Angeles based career service, Talents Connection,
has invited performers to the family oriented Orange County Market
Place on June 28, and has announced the formation of its Roller Derby
Team, Rolling Vixens, for which it is seeking sponsors (talentsconnection@yahoo.com).

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. Follow the posting of the news summary on
Twitter at: http://twitter.com/actorschecklist.
This month on the video news summary you will again see a dynamic array
of artists in performance of film and music. Last month's video news
summary showcase featured Russian film music composer, Edgar Arens (http://edgararens.com)
and Dutch video editor, State 209, who have produced graphic game video
'Deadly Pursuit.' Freelance bass guitarist of the RagaZZ style, Jayen
Varma (www.jayenvarma.net),
considered one of the fastest bass guitarist in the world. Excerpts
from the web series of comedy performer Maija DiGiorgio whose
documentary feature, 'Hollywood Outlaw' (www.hollywoodoutlaws.com), is playing out in episodes over the Web. These videos are now available on the Free Home Video Showcase at http://www.actorschecklist.com/video which now serves as an archive for all past video presentations but without the audio news narration.

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