Flickerfest-Bondi Beach, Golden Globe Awards, Norway’s Tromso Fest, Sundance, MIDEM, are some highlights in January’s Media and Entertainment Industry
Flickerfest-Bondi Beach, Golden Globe Awards, Norway’s Tromso Fest, Sundance, MIDEM, are some highlights in January’s Media and Entertainment Industry
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Right up until January 17, this year’s Palm Springs International Film Festival will feature a new program highlighting African Cinema as well as films selected to compete for the FIPRESCI Award, New Voices/New Visions Award, and John Schlesinger Awards. The Festival will screen 40 of the 65 official submissions to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Best Foreign Language Film, and will host it’s own Black Tie Awards Gala at the Palm Springs Convention Center.
Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer will deliver a pre-show keynote address at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show, January 6-9 in Las Vegas. Digital Hollywood sessions at this years CES tackle issues of content anytime, anywhere, on screens of any size, and how new platforms are refreshing approaches for reaching target audiences. On January 6, attend the Media Money Makers reception, co-sponsored by the Scripps Networks, home of HGTV, DIY Network, Food Network, Cooking Channel, Travel Channel and Great American Country. The International CES is produced by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), a trade association promoting growth in the consumer technology industry, and made up of more than 2,000 corporate members.
In 2003 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science elected to recognize Flickererfest as a qualifying festival for the Best Short film and Best Animation categories of the Academy
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Streaming Media East, CLIO Awards, Cannes Film Festival, Florida Music Festival, Seattle International Film Fest, Backstage.com Highlight May Events
Streaming Media East, CLIO Awards, Cannes Film Festival, Florida Music Festival, Seattle International Film Fest, Backstage.com Highlight May Events
In addition to a week-long meeting over international animation production, AniFest, which runs through May 10 in Trebon, strives to facilitate the best contacts among Central European artists who are engaged in animation, especially after the festival through the ongoing AniFest Echoes. The Council on Foundations’ 42nd Annual Film & Video Festival in Baltimore showcases films, videos, and television programs, May 4-7, that have received support from foundations, corporate giving programs, and donor networks, with the aim of encouraging grantmakers to use media to advance their philanthropic goals. A festive party atmosphere takes shape when the 16th Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film presents a program from May 5-10 of screenplay workshops, fine art by Japanese artist Kozue Kodama, live music, and animated film in the open air festival garden at the Schlossplatz, free of charge to the public. Representatives of newspapers, television, magazines, radio and web-only outlets will come together to discuss new-media both on the business and editorial sides, and culminating with awards for the Best Media-Affiliated Internet Services presented by Editor & Publisher and Mediaweek, at the Interactive Media Conference & Trade Show happening in New Orleans, May 6-7.
For one day, on May 11, Content Delivery Summit assembles in New York and brings together customers, vendors, analysts, and Wall Street to discuss and define where the video delivery industry is headed. And on the very next day, May 12-13, in the same New York hotel, annual Streaming Media East 2009 Conference & Exhibition continues the topic of online video in a broader sense, catering to the needs of content owners, viral video creators, online marketers, enterprise corporations, broadcast professionals, ad agencies, educators and others that come to Streaming Media East to see and hear the latest online video technology, and to discuss the business models that are coming of age. Game Developers Conference Canada 2009 meets May 12-13 in Vancouver and covers industry-leading methodologies in game design, production, programming, visual arts and writing for big-budget multiplatform games. The CLIO Awards will be celebrating its monumental 50th Anniversary in Las Vegas, highlighting accomplishments in the industry with five new and distinct award shows, after parties, conference sessions, industry networking opportunities, and more. Cannes Film Festival gets started this year May 13, continuing through May 24.
Former US president Bill Clinton will join actress Sharon Stone at this year’s Cannes Film Festival AIDS fund-raiser in southern France, Clinton will attend the May 21 event alongside Stone, Harvey Weinstein, Carine Roitfeld, Michelle Yeoh and Donatella Versace, among others. The gala will take place at the Eden Roc, at Cap d’Antibes. The Indie Film Jam is back for its fifth year as part of the Florida Music Festival, running May 14-17, screening selected films in the heart of Downtown Orlando throughout the FMF weekend and offering independent filmmakers networking opportunities as well as industry panels designed for educating, enlightening and gaining insight into the world of filmmaking. The George Foster Peabody Awards which recognizes distinguished achievement and meritorious service by broadcasters, cable, webcasters, producing organizations, and individuals, conducts its 68th annual awards May 18 in New York, with a reception that begins at 11 am, followed by lunch, with Brian Williams of NBC Nightly News the events MC. At this year’s Seattle International Film Festival, running May 21 through June 21, SIFF will present the 2009 Golden Space Needle Award for Outstanding Achievement in Directing to Spike Lee, on May 23, followed by a screening of Lee’s ‘Passing Strange, a Q&A session, and an intimate Tribute Dinner celebration with Spike Lee as the guest of honor. Later in the festival, director Francis Ford Coppola will host a special presentation of his new film, ‘Tetro’ at a June 10 screening. MUTEK is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the dissemination and development of avant-garde digital creativity in sound, music, and audio-visual art, which it does in part through the annual presentation of its namesake festival held in Montreal, this year running May 27-31. Nashville Screenwriters Conference will again offer one of its more popular panels, “Music in the Movies,” offering aspiring songwriters, composers and artists advice on how to get their music placed in films and TV, when it assembles again this year for sessions running May 29-31.
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. 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. Leading entertainment industry publication Back Stage has redesigned their Backstage.com website to allow for better resume and picture upload, casting and job alerts, and much more. 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 New Jersey based Mindbreak Entertainment’s with murder mystery thriller The Secret, directed by Ian J. Kenney. The futuristic 4D virtual gaming arena ‘Turbo’ a short film from Jarrett Conaway, in the tradition of the Karate Kid and Tron. Los Angeles based Rooftop Mind, with ‘Sex Text’ and The Moonlit Road. Music video production company, THEfilmboyPROJECT, of London with ‘Never Wanna Lose You’ performed by East End hip hop, r&b group, DNA. A documentary segment in which film composer Jermaine Stegall conducts the Hollywood Studio Symphony. These videos are now available on the Free Home Video Showcase which now serves as an archive for all past video presentations but without the audio news narration.
Schermerhorn Symphony Center
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Schermerhorn Symphony Center, Nashville, TN
Pediment: "Orpheus and Eurydice"
Artist: Ray Kaskey of Washington D.C.
Material: Limestone relief sculpture
Size: 48′ w X 8′ h
Performance with Keni Thomas & Nashville Symphony. Nashville 4th of July 2007
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Blake Shelton Tickets – Blake Shelton Among ACM Awards Performers
Blake Shelton Tickets – Blake Shelton Among ACM Awards Performers
The 15th annual Academy of Country Music Awards will take place in Las Vegas on April 18 and Blake Shelton has been named as one of the performers. On March 23 the ACMs announced the batch of artists lined up to perform, and along with Shelton, Carrie Underwood, Jason Aldean, Kenny Chesney, Brooks & Dunn, Trace Adkins, Tim McGraw and Reba McEntire (who will host the country music awards show for the record 12th time) will take the stage. The ACM Awards will be broadcast on CBS at 8:00 p.m. EST on April 18, but fans who want to see Shelton live can get <a rel=”nofollow” onclick=”javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview(‘/outgoing/article_exit_link’);” href=”http://www.stubhub.com/blake-shelton-tickets/”>Blake Shelton tickets</a> from <a rel=”nofollow” onclick=”javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview(‘/outgoing/article_exit_link’);” href=”http://www.stubhub.com/”>StubHub.com</a>.
Blake Shelton is also a nominee at the upcoming ACM Awards. “Hillbilly Bone,” Shelton’s hit song featuring special guest Trace Adkins, is nominated in the Vocal Event of the Year category. Produced by Scott Hendricks and released via Reprise Records/Warner Music Nashville, “Hillbilly Bone” will compete for the Vocal Event of the Year honor against “Honky Tonk Stomp” (Brooks & Dunn featuring Billy Gibbons), “I Told You So” (Carrie Underwood featuring Randy Travis), “I’m Alive” (Kenny Chesney with Dave Matthews) and “Seeing Stars” (Jack Ingram featuring Patty Griffin).
Hillbilly Bone is also the name of Blake Shelton’s most recent album, which arrived on March 2. Although Hillbilly Bone only has six tracks, Shelton is prepping another six-song album to arrive later this summer, reported CMT.com. Following the release of his new album, Shelton headlined his first concert at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium on March 18. At the gig, Shelton’s duet partner and friend Trace Adkins turned up to lend his vocals to “Hillbilly Bone.” The track is currently sitting pretty at the top spot on Billboard’s Country Songs chart.
On March 23 AOL Radio revealed the title of the first single from the second installment of Shelton’s next six-song collection. Titled “All About Tonight,” the track is the follow-up to “Hillbilly Bone,” the only single from the first installment of the EP Six Pack series. The second installment is rumored to be due sometime in late August 2010. “All About Tonight” features Shelton singing: “I’ve got some wild ass buddies that love spending money / And I see you brought a couple of friends / Just tell me your name, I don’t need your number or a date next Saturday.” Wonder what his country-singing girlfriend Miranda Lambert, who is up for six ACM Awards, thinks of those flirty lyrics!
Blake Shelton is currently on tour and will stop in U.S. cities like Grand Prairie, Texas; Austin, Texas; Greensboro, N.C.; Duluth, Ga.; Columbia, S.C.; Biloxi, Miss.; Meridian, Miss.; Nashville, Tenn.; Cadott, Wis.; Oshkosh, Wis.; Fredericksburg, Wash. and Detroit Lakes, Minn. through August. Shelton’s upcoming tour dates include festival appearances at Country USA and WE Fest. Held in Oshkosh, Wis. from June 22 through 26, Country USA will also feature performances by Randy Houser, the Zac Brown Band, Lonestar, Darius Rucker, Jason Aldean, Rodney Atkins, Toby Keith and Travis Tritt. Shelton will perform on the final date of Country USA.
On Aug. 6, Shelton will perform on the first day of WE Fest, another country music festival. WE Fest is slated for Aug. 5-7 in Detroit Lakes, Minn. and will also see artists like Kid Rock, Keith Urban, Kenny Chesney, Jason Aldean, Montgomery Gentry, Dierks Bentley and Gretchen Wilson performing.
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front row @ the Jonas Brothers & Friends show @ the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN on January 4, 2009 * i took these videos with a sony cybershot DSCW200 12.1MP digital camera * to see my other photos from the show, add me on myspace: www.myspace.com/turnthetides
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