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April 1, 2005

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EVENTS CALENDAR

The Events Calendar welcomes notice of film, video, and multimedia workshops, conferences, competition, and other news of interest to the media community. Please write us at: newsletter@proscenia.net

Up Coming Events:

ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Symposium on
Interactive 3D Graphics and Games.
April 3 - 6, 2005
The I3D is the leading-edge conference for techniques that combine 3D computer graphics with human interaction. The conference continues to focus on the hottest research in 3D game technology, interactive visualization and visual depiction, interactive modeling, user-assisted techniques, and applications.

Cinema Sensibilities on Disability Festival
Eugene, OR
Date: April 21 and 22, 2005

The Disability Studies Committee at the University of Oregon (UO) in cooperation with the UO Cultural Forum, and the Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts (DIVA) will inaugurate a film and video festival devoted to the experience of disability. The festival will be held in conjunction with "Art-cess-able," a three day event focusing on disability culture and access to the arts to people with disabilities.
    The purpose "Cinema Sensibilities on Disability" will be to increase awareness of disability, reinforce accurate portrayals, and to subvert stereotypes. More information: http://studydisability.uoregon.edu/filmfestival.html. For additional information and questions contact Doug Blandy at dblandy@darkwing.uoregon.edu

Electronics Entertainment Expo
May 17-19
Los Angeles.
Hottest new titles, latest industry developments and trends. This is the annual meeting of everyone who is anyone in this industry. Web Info.

National Media Education Conference
June 25-28, 2005 - San Francisco, CA.
  The National Media Education Conference (NMEC) 2005 -- the largest, oldest, and most broad-based gathering of media literacy educators in the U.S. -- will be held June 25-28 in San Francisco, Calf. It is sponsored by the non-profit Alliance for a Media Literate America (AMLA).
  Presented every two years, this is the first NMEC to be held on the West Coast.
  The huge conference Bookstore and A-V Preview Room of media literacy teaching resources - books, videos, CDs, curriculum kits, etc. – will be provided by the Center for Media Literacy in collaboration with GPN Educational Media.
 More than 75 conference events, including keynotes, workshops, and preconference seminars provide many opportunities for learning how to do media education in the classroom as part of English, Social Studies, Health and other standard subjects.
 This year's theme - "Giving Voice to a Diverse Nation" - explores the role of media literacy education in enabling all individuals in our increasingly diverse society:
-- To participate fully in our information and media-saturated culture;
-- To be accurately represented in and by media; and
-- To acquire the skills, access and opportunities to tell their stories and hear their stories told.
  The AMLA calls for Americans to explore whether our media truly represent and serve citizens of all ages, genders, ethnicities, abilities, and income - and to find solutions in media literacy.
 Participants will be able to meet, hear, and exchange views with some of the top media education experts from the U.S., Canada and around the world. Featured speakers include David Buckingham, Alan November, Gloria Tristani, Kenneth Smith, Carlos Cortes, Ronald Takaki, and many more.
 Early discount is available for registrations by May 1. Conference organizers have accommodated tight budgets by obtaining low room rates and using a downtown San Francisco hotel that is accessible by BART from both the San Francisco and Oakland airports.
 Conference topics of interest to our readers include:

• Media Arts in Public Schools: Reflections, challenges, and successes
• Video Prism: Revealing the Spectrum of K-12 Video Storytelling
• And the Story is… Using Digital Storytelling to Find Voice
• Giving Voice: Arts & Media Literacy
• It Takes a Village with a Camera: Community Building Through Media Education
• Media Arts as a Tool for Cultural Respect and Understanding in the Elementary School Classroom
• Producing a ML Community: Lessons from the Summer Visions Film Institute, 2000-2005
• From Voice to Vision: Creating Poetry Videos in the Classroom
• EAT This!  Education Arts Technology in the Classroom    
• Arts, Design & Media Education Framework For 21st Century Literacy Skill

Full details are available at http://www.amlainfo.org/conference.

Plymouth Independent Film Festival (PiFF '05)
July 21-24
Plymouth, Mass.
The Plymouth Independent Film Festival (PiFF '05) continues to invite local, national and international filmmakers to submit
their films for possible screening during July, 2005.
      Between July 21st and July 24th this summer twenty feature films, documentary and fiction as well as short films and animation will be chosen for screenings at various locations in historic downtown Plymouth. All genres will be considered including cultural diversity and the environment.
  The Festival accepts works in progress. Foreign language films without subtitles will be eligible to be screened as works in progress.
  Opportunities to network with other filmmakers and to study the filmmaking process, will be available during the four day festival through discussion groups, panels followed by Q&A sessions and workshops.
  Gary King, who has an extensive background in creating special effects for movies such as A Civil Action, Logan's Run, The Towering Inferno, Aliens - The Resurrection and Patriot Games and television shows such as M*A*S*H, Charlie's Angels, Tracey Takes On as well as music videos for Janet Jackson and Duran Duran, will offer a workshop on Special Effects.
  Nora Hassan is an actress and graduate of Emerson College. Nora's latest movie is a re-make of The Longest Yard, due out in theatres this May. She will offer the workshop on Acting In Front of The Camera.
  James Koonce graduated from the University of Arizona with a degree in television and film, then relocated to Los Angeles where he began his career with Diane English's company as her assistant helping to develop television comedies. He developed and wrote a half-hour comedy pilot for Fox Family Channel and was a staff writer on the Fox comedy, Living in Captivity. James will offer two workshops, The Art of the Pitch and Writing for Film.
  Visit www.plyfilmfest.org for submission forms and information or contact Lisa Mattei, Festival Director at 508-801-2530, e-mail:
lisa@plyfilmfest.org.

SIGGRAPH 2005.
July 31 - August 4, 2005
Los Angeles, CA
The World's leading marketplace of computer graphics and interactive technologies.
www.siggraph.org/s2005

Northwest Film Center Events. Film screenings, workshops, classes and other activities in Portland.

Arts Electric Calendar. A worldwide calendar for new music, electronic music and the media arts. You'll find hundreds of events listed, as well as articles, interviews, and other writings.

Film Festivals. (Scout Report) Now that the Oscars and Golden Globes have all been awarded, some cineastes may think that the season of film celebration, award shows, and festivals is in a quiet slumber for a few months. Nothing could be farther from the truth, and a quick glance at the Film Festival website quickly dispels that misconception. Online since 1995, the site provides a great resource about previous and upcoming film festivals from all over the world. Here visitors can read the latest headline news from the various festivals, read coverage of the proceedings, and search a prodigious database of information. Visitors may also want to consider signing up to receive the free weekly newsletter or also viewing a selection of popular video clips culled from coverage of recent festivals.