Monday, May 3, 2010
48 Hour Film Project SLC
Filmmakers and Film Fans,
Just a reminder about our first get together this coming Wednesday.
CREW MEET AND GREET
May 5th, 7pm- 9pm, Noodles & Co, 5207 South State Street, Murray.
Lonely editor without a team? Team missing a DP? Well come along to Noodles and ease your hunger while mixing, matching and filling the empty spots on your team as well as those empty spots in your belly!
SLC 48HFP screening groups are nearly complete. To reserve your space, register your team now at: http://www.48hourfilm.com/saltlakecity
Brian Higgins
Salt Lake City Producer
48 Hour Film Project, Inc.
http://www.48hourfilm.com/saltlakecity
saltlakecity@48hourfilm.com
Just a reminder about our first get together this coming Wednesday.
CREW MEET AND GREET
May 5th, 7pm- 9pm, Noodles & Co, 5207 South State Street, Murray.
Lonely editor without a team? Team missing a DP? Well come along to Noodles and ease your hunger while mixing, matching and filling the empty spots on your team as well as those empty spots in your belly!
SLC 48HFP screening groups are nearly complete. To reserve your space, register your team now at: http://www.48hourfilm.com/saltlakecity
Brian Higgins
Salt Lake City Producer
48 Hour Film Project, Inc.
http://www.48hourfilm.com/saltlakecity
saltlakecity@48hourfilm.com
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Look Alikes
When I saw this poster for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, I thought it was Elijah Wood playing the Mad Hatter, not Johnny Depp.
Can you see why I was confused?
As expected, I loved the film.
Monday, March 22, 2010
PBS opens national stage for West High students
Reprinted from the Salt Lake Tribune website today:
PBS opens national stage for West High students
SLC school is among 6 in nation chosen to participate in Student Reporting Lab.
By Rosemary Winters
The Salt Lake Tribune
Updated: 03/22/2010 07:05:42 AM MDT
Students in West High School's TV West class dash around a low-budget television studio with shag carpet and turquoise couches. Three kids huddle around a microphone after the second-period bell rings to deliver morning announcements to classroom speakers.
The class, split into two periods of 25 or so students each, produces a weekly TV news show that airs Fridays in first period. But thanks to a new partnership with PBS NewsHour Extra, these student reporters are now tackling national news stories that reach beyond the day-to-day talk of baseball games and junior prom.
They're producing videos about the U.S. Supreme Court and global climate change for national viewers.
NewsHour Extra, an online educational branch of the Washington, D.C.-based NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, has launched a Student Reporting Lab with a $200,000 grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Salt Lake City's West High is one of six high schools across the country chosen to participate this year. The other schools are in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Texas, Louisiana and Washington, D.C.
"I see [reporting] as a form of learning," says Leah Clapman, managing editor of education at NewsHour Extra. "Making connections to what's going on in the world to your curriculum is a very important motivating factor for young people."
For their first assignment, students in the TV West class produced two videos about the U.S. Supreme Court. One group examined the tension between parental rights and children's individual rights. A second looked at rulings that upheld students' First Amendment rights to freedom of speech.
"It was a lot more interesting" than routine school news, said West High senior Clara Purk. "It was interesting to learn how Utah is so parental-rights focused."
Now, Purk and other students are reporting on global warming, including scientific findings and the fiery political debate the topic generates in Utah's conservative Legislature.
As part of the reporting lab, the TV West class has teamed up with Utah Education Network, a public media station. UEN, in turn, offers mentors and assistance tracking down experts to interview. KUER reporter Dan Bammes coached the fledgling journalists on story telling and script writing for their Supreme Court pieces.
"It's been awesome for my kids," said West High teacher Jared Wright, who noted the students already do four in-depth features a year to air on the school news program. "When they got this assignment from PBS, it was really quite natural for them."
NewsHour Extra also provided TV West with file footage to use in student reports and a $1,000 grant to spend on
equipment -- a "boon," Wright said, in a year when he's been told he does not have any money to buy new video gear. The students' videos are posted on the NewsHour Extra Web site and could be plugged during a NewsHour broadcast.
PBS NewsHour, Clapman said, is interested in gathering student perspectives on national stories, cultivating more savvy consumers of news and mentoring the next generation of journalists.
"I want to do this in real life," Purk said. "It is something that I'm very passionate about."
Purk leans toward documentary or dramatic filmmaking, but she's also open to broadcast journalism. She has been offered a debate scholarship to the University of Southern California, and she's crossing her fingers that she gets accepted into the film program. She hopes her work producing videos for TV West and an advanced film class will give her an edge.
"If I get into the film school it's definitely because of this," says Purk, 17. "I could not have done anything I've accomplished [in film] without this class and without the equipment."
rwinters@sltrib.com
PBS opens national stage for West High students
SLC school is among 6 in nation chosen to participate in Student Reporting Lab.
By Rosemary Winters
The Salt Lake Tribune
Updated: 03/22/2010 07:05:42 AM MDT
Students in West High School's TV West class dash around a low-budget television studio with shag carpet and turquoise couches. Three kids huddle around a microphone after the second-period bell rings to deliver morning announcements to classroom speakers.
The class, split into two periods of 25 or so students each, produces a weekly TV news show that airs Fridays in first period. But thanks to a new partnership with PBS NewsHour Extra, these student reporters are now tackling national news stories that reach beyond the day-to-day talk of baseball games and junior prom.
They're producing videos about the U.S. Supreme Court and global climate change for national viewers.
NewsHour Extra, an online educational branch of the Washington, D.C.-based NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, has launched a Student Reporting Lab with a $200,000 grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Salt Lake City's West High is one of six high schools across the country chosen to participate this year. The other schools are in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Texas, Louisiana and Washington, D.C.
"I see [reporting] as a form of learning," says Leah Clapman, managing editor of education at NewsHour Extra. "Making connections to what's going on in the world to your curriculum is a very important motivating factor for young people."
For their first assignment, students in the TV West class produced two videos about the U.S. Supreme Court. One group examined the tension between parental rights and children's individual rights. A second looked at rulings that upheld students' First Amendment rights to freedom of speech.
"It was a lot more interesting" than routine school news, said West High senior Clara Purk. "It was interesting to learn how Utah is so parental-rights focused."
Now, Purk and other students are reporting on global warming, including scientific findings and the fiery political debate the topic generates in Utah's conservative Legislature.
As part of the reporting lab, the TV West class has teamed up with Utah Education Network, a public media station. UEN, in turn, offers mentors and assistance tracking down experts to interview. KUER reporter Dan Bammes coached the fledgling journalists on story telling and script writing for their Supreme Court pieces.
"It's been awesome for my kids," said West High teacher Jared Wright, who noted the students already do four in-depth features a year to air on the school news program. "When they got this assignment from PBS, it was really quite natural for them."
NewsHour Extra also provided TV West with file footage to use in student reports and a $1,000 grant to spend on
equipment -- a "boon," Wright said, in a year when he's been told he does not have any money to buy new video gear. The students' videos are posted on the NewsHour Extra Web site and could be plugged during a NewsHour broadcast.
PBS NewsHour, Clapman said, is interested in gathering student perspectives on national stories, cultivating more savvy consumers of news and mentoring the next generation of journalists.
"I want to do this in real life," Purk said. "It is something that I'm very passionate about."
Purk leans toward documentary or dramatic filmmaking, but she's also open to broadcast journalism. She has been offered a debate scholarship to the University of Southern California, and she's crossing her fingers that she gets accepted into the film program. She hopes her work producing videos for TV West and an advanced film class will give her an edge.
"If I get into the film school it's definitely because of this," says Purk, 17. "I could not have done anything I've accomplished [in film] without this class and without the equipment."
rwinters@sltrib.com
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Environmental Film Series
Swanner Eco-Center in Park City is doing its Environmental Film Series again in 2010. Yah!
FUEL
Wednesday, March 17, Evening
FUEL is an entertaining and comprehensive look at energy in America: a history of where we have been, our present predicament and a solution to our dependence on foreign oil.
Josh Tickell's stirring, radical and multi-award winning FUEL may be known by some as the "little energy documentary," but in truth, it's a powerful portrait of America's overwhelming addiction to, and reliance on, oil. Rousing and reactionary, this film will leave you feeling hopeful and inspired.
In addition to the film, Johnny O'hara, the film's screenwriter, will be speaking before the film. Time and ticket price TBA.
Reservations for the film are required. Please RSVP to Nell@SwanerEcoCenter.org or 435-649-1767 ext. 103.
FUEL
Wednesday, March 17, Evening
FUEL is an entertaining and comprehensive look at energy in America: a history of where we have been, our present predicament and a solution to our dependence on foreign oil.
Josh Tickell's stirring, radical and multi-award winning FUEL may be known by some as the "little energy documentary," but in truth, it's a powerful portrait of America's overwhelming addiction to, and reliance on, oil. Rousing and reactionary, this film will leave you feeling hopeful and inspired.
In addition to the film, Johnny O'hara, the film's screenwriter, will be speaking before the film. Time and ticket price TBA.
Reservations for the film are required. Please RSVP to Nell@SwanerEcoCenter.org or 435-649-1767 ext. 103.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Coen Brother's Grit Shooting in Utah?
In January at the Sundance festival it was announced that the Coen brothers were scouting locations in Utah for at least one scene in their upcoming remake of True Grit, the 1969 western starring John Wayne. This month Ethan and Joel Coen begin filming in Santa Fe. This year's Academy Award winner for best actor, Jeff Bridges, dons another cowboy hat to take on the Wayne role. Matt Damon and Josh Brolin serve in the other leading roles. Still hoping the big shoot out finale will take place here in the beehive state.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
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