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Miami International Film Festival, Cable Congress '09,
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Film Festival, Film, Stage & ShowbizExpo, Highlight March Media
and Entertainment Industry Networking Events
The Durango Independent Film Festival, happening in Durango,
will have an array offestival events including late night parties
for filmmakers and VIPs runningthrough March 8. The annual Chicago
International Movies and Music Festival bringstogether movies and
music, showcasing films about music, movie scores and
soundtracks, and other syntheses of moving images and musical
performance such asthe world premiere of musician Martin Atkins'
directorial debut about his forayinto the Chinese musical
underground, '16 Days In China', during the festival'srun March
5-8. Interactive discussion panels planned for the Puerto Rico
MusicBusiness Conference enable its participants to receive
strategies, recommendationsand true-life tales, applicable to any
music genre, from experts currently shapingindustry events. The
Miami International Film Festival whose program isinternational in
scope, but with a special emphasis on Ibero-American cinema,hosts
over 350 filmmakers, producers, talent and industry representatives
fromaround the world, during it's run, March 6-15. Entertainment
industry careerguidance group urnetworkalliance is hosting a series
of power breakfast sessionson 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'sMeetup page
(www.meetup.com/urnetworkalliance/calendar/9613814/) or email
to:[email protected]
The Chicago/Midwest Chapter of the National Academy of
Television Arts andSciences holds its annual Career Day Seminar on
March 14, for college studentsinterested in television as a career
and for young professionals looking toadvance in their profession.
Certainly on the cutting edge, U.K. based groupCrossover Play
explores new forms of entertainment for digital media:
therelationship between play and narrative, formats dependent on
user contributions,mobile or location based entertainment with a
broadcast component. It engages allthis at the Sheffield Doc/Fest,
March 15-20, and the group has presence onFacebook and Myspace as
well. At Cable Congress '09 in Berlin, view tomorrow's
technology and discover the latest content available at the
exhibition, inaddition to panels featuring top executives from
Europe and the world's leadingcable, technology and media
companies. Then meet your peers at the exclusive GalaDinner, Lounge
Bar, buffet lunches or coffee breaks, all taking place March
18-20.The United States Institute for Theatre Technology Annual
Conference & Stage Expooffers over 175 sessions featuring
design, technology, costume, sound,architecture, management,
engineering, and production. With over 150 exhibitorsthe Stage Expo
provides conference attendees with the opportunity to see thenewest
products and services on the market today, when it runs March 18-21
inCincinnati. Chicago Filmmakers Open Screening is back in
operation, and it getsgoing again with a March 21 start date
showing practically anything of a 20 minuteduration 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, televisionor 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
productswith your content, online distribution, as well as, how to
get the Film/TVproduction distributed and financed by studios. The
Leadership Music DigitalSummit, produced by Leadership Music, an
educational 501(c)(3) focused oncultivating 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
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Conference, happening March 23-27 in San Francisco, some of the
party andnetworking functions will include: Playstation Interactive
Lounge; Intel VisualAdrenaline Lounge; Game Connection Reception;
IGDA Members-Only Party; ISM CharityPoker Tournament; GDC World
Mixer; Booth Crawl. NXT STAGE Online & MobileEntertainment
Conference & Market, is a market conference and networking
forum todiscover future trends and digital content, March 24-25 in
Hollywood. This yearsIPTV World Forum 2009 in London will continue
to address the key strategic issuesfor 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 BeachInternational Animation Film Festival, running March 26
- April 5, offersscreenings, parties and special events taking
place at a variety of venues aroundMiami 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 thefollowing areas: film festival, designer's
showcase, focus groups, round tablemeetings for networking, movie
reel showcase, original music showcase, headshotlane, live audition
recording, and much more.
The above events are only a sample of what is fully listed.
Complete details areon the "Media, Entertainment and Performing
Arts Industry News and Events" page
atactorschecklist.com/news.html. Video and podcast versions of this
news summary are
also available at popular video sites around the Web like
MySpace, YouTube, DailyMotion, as well as on The Actor's Checklist
podcast blog atactorschecklist.com/loudblog, a great place to get
your iPhone, ipod or Apple TVdownload from. The Free Home Video
Showcase athttp://www.actorschecklist.com/video now serves as an
archive for all past videopresentations. This month on video you
will again see an interesting array ofperforming artists from the
indie sector on video, in a lineup that will beannounced. The
Actor's Checklist continues to build it's archive of high
qualitydigital video. All past video uploads of the monthly news
summary are now archivedwithout the audio news narration to the
Free Home Video Showcase
at:http://www.actorschecklist.com/video
