Congratulations to all of the Digital Film Academy student filmmakers who screened their short films last night at Anthology Film Archives. It was our biggest screening yet! This is part of DFA’s ongoing short student film showcase in conjunction with the NewFilmmakers.

DFA Directors worked alongside the student filmmakers, providing additional editing consultation to help students create the best version of their films.

While all of the student filmmakers received votes and praises from the audience, the top two films of the evening that won the

DFA Audience Choice Award are:

Ana Ventura Miranda, “Tea Time”
George Lajara, “Victory”

A BIG Congratulations to Ana and George, and their DFA classmates who were crew on their films!!

Digital Film Academy student filmmakers who screened November 17, 2010:

Anthony Hampton, WAKE/ SILLAGE
Ben Chua, EMPTINESS CYCLE
Lee Grossberg, A WAR OF WORDS
Vanessa Jorquera, DISSONANCE (Music Video)
Zoi Florosz, BRUSHSTROKES
Tiffany Meeks, BAD IDEA
Katung Aduwak, IT’S COMPLICATED
Joffre Valles, MARK OF THE ASSASSIN
Dave Tozin, TEENAGE PREGNANT SAMURAI (Preview)
George Lajara, VICTORY
Ana Ventura Miranda, TEA TIME

November 17, 2010

On Wednesday, November 17th, NewFilmmakers celebrates film and television, actors and directors.

Our Film Program presents three films. Terence Donnellan A HOLLYWOOD LOVE STORY (2010, 17 minutes) is about an actress and a writer searching for fame and fortune who find something more important: their love for each other. In Hiroo Takaoka ONCE MORE (2009, 24 minutes) Jay Park will soon welcome back his dead wife as the world’s first human clone, while TV reporter Linda Martin discovers there’s more to this grieving widower than meets the eye. Jack Gattanella, Zack Abramowitz LINES OF GLORY (2009, 21 minutes) is about the making of the latest masterpiece – Crest of Senses – by renowned cult film director Jack Gattanella. It’s getting weird, and only weirder still, as the weeks go on and Zack and Hayley hold on for dear life. Maybe the dolphins will help….

Our 7:15 PM Film School Screening Series hosts The Digital Film Academy, the premier digital film and media academy in New York, when it presents an evening of short films from students in its Digital Filmmaking programs and workshops. Students wrote, produced, directed, and edited these individual short films within their course work.

And our 9:15 PM Feature Presentation is Yoni Bentovim, Emily Harris BORGES AND I (2009, 74 minutes). Through the use of a secret camera, an out-of-work actor tries to uncover the reasons behind his failing career and takes on an experiment to find out if it is possible to control how others perceive him.

NewFilmmakers NY screens every week at Anthology Film Archives on the Lower East Side at 32 Second Avenue & 2nd Street. NewFilmmakers LA screens in the Stanley Kramer Theater at the Sunset Gower Studio and has become a leading showcase for new films in Hollywood. Many features screened at NewFilmmakers are now available on NewFilmmakers Online.

Admission is $6 for the whole evening and tickets are available at the Anthology Box Office the night of screening.

QuickFilmBudget.com is a user friendly website that empowers writers, directors and producers to create professional customized film budgets in minutes. Since filmmakers do not always have the money to pay thousands of dollars and months to wait for a Line Producer to deliver a budget, nor do they have the money to buy expensive complicated software, QuickFilmBudget.com automates the process by asking some key questions and instantly generates a professional customized film budget for the low cost of $199.

About the presenter:

In 2008, Sony released Tortured, a film that Nolan Lebovitz wrote and directed and Adam Lebovitz produced. Tortured starred Laurence Fishburne, Cole Hauser and James Cromwell. Before that, Adam produced Unrest for Lionsgate in 2006. Most recently, Nolan and Adam sold a webseries to Fox TV Studios in 2009.

Dear Students and Faculty,

Save the date for the next DFA short film showcase!

WEDNESDAY, JULY 28 7:15PM

NEWFILMMAKERS FILM SCHOOL SCREENING SERIES AT ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES with THE DIGITAL FILM ACADEMY

Digital Film Academy, the premier digital film and media academy in New York, presents an evening of short films from students in the Digital Filmmaking programs and workshops.

Students wrote, produced, directed, and edited their individual short films within their course work. See www.newfilmmakers.com for list of tonight’s films.

Anthology Film Archives 32nd Avenue at 2nd Street (F train to 2nd Avenue)

On Tuesday, April 20th, NewFilmmakers presents our regular Documentary Series and Feature Presentation and welcomes the Digital Film Academy as part of our continuing Film School Screening Series.

The Evening begins with the 6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY SERIES. Deco Dawson SLUICE BOX AND A ROCKER (2009, 8 Minutes, 16MM) shows the ruins of Dawson City within the Artic Circle. Ivana Todorovic A HARLEM MOTHER (2009, 13 Minutes, Video) is about eighteen year old Latron Parker who made a documentary in 1998 about the difficulties of growing up in Harlem; eight years later he was shoot dead on the street. HaJ CPM INSIDE THE DIGITAL MOVING IMAGE SALO (2010, 30 Minutes, Video) takes us on a journey with one the first African American women filmmakers and animators of our time, Ayoka Chenzira, as she creates an outlet for a new generation of young women to recognize the importance of documenting their story using new media technologies. The DMIS program is the first of its kind and is located at the prestigious Spelman College, a historically Black college for women.

Our 7:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS FILM SCHOOL SCREENING SERIES welcomes the Digital Film Academy. The Digital Film Academy, the premier digital film and media academy in New York, presents an evening of short films from students in the Digital Filmmaking programs and workshops. Students wrote, produced, directed, and edited their individual short films within their course work. Films include Jamie Newman A SECOND CHANCE, Gall Friedman IMPORTANT THINGS, Joao Francisco AU REVOIR DANIEL, Susan Hunt SWEET SWEET BABY , Ana Ribeiro ILLEGALLY SUPER, Shaista Roshan GYPSY GAMBLE, Joffre Valles THE PROPOSAL DINNER, Richard Lovering OFFICE OF THE BLACK DOG, Tony Levani VENGEANCE IS MINE.

Then our 9:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION is introduced by John Ollom KARPOS & KALAMOS (2009, 10 Minutes, Video), based on the myth of Karpos and Kalamos, which was once revered in ancient Greek society as a story of love and devotion. Our Feature is Marc Lafia PARADISE (2009, 76 Minutes, Video). As Solange brings her dream of “Paradise” into being: a deconstruction of the messianic, sugar-coated Matrix fantasy, characters become authors who create characters who become authors: a Hoffmannesque nesting of conscious- nesses begins. Solange, a novelist, dreams her family into the future, conjures her characters into the present, and leaves them haunted by an unremembered past. She renames her children Jules and Juliet, makes them lovers, siblings who like to pretend that they are pretending to be sister and brother, and who keep love and memory alive by impersonating each other.

NewFilmmakers NY screens every week at Anthology Film Archives on the Lower East Side at 32 Second Avenue & 2nd Street. NewFilmmakers LA screens in the Stanley Kramer Theater at the Sunset Gower Studio and has become a leading showcase for new films in Hollywood. Many features screened at NewFilmmakers are now available on NewFilmmakers Online. Admission is $6 for the whole evening and tickets are available at the Anthology Box Office the night of screening.

Additional information is available on our new website at www.NewFilmmakers.com.

DIGITAL FILM ACADEMY IS A SPONSOR OF THE 48 HOUR FILM PROJECT – NEW YORK

Digital Film Academy is proud to support and be a sponsor of The 48-Hour Film Project – New York! Filmmakers throughout the tri-state area will take part in the 48 Hour Film Project during the weekend of May 29th!

In line with the Digital Film Academy philosophy of developing skills through hands-on training, the 48 Hour Film Project encourages filmmakers and would-be filmmakers to get out there and make movies. The deadline of 48 hours puts the focus squarely on the filmmakers – emphasizing creativity and teamwork skills.

The 48 Hour Film Project began in 2001 and eight years later, more than 150 competitions have taken place around the world. Currently, the world’s largest timed filmmaking competition, The 48-Hour Film Project’s ninth annual tour will expand to nearly 80 cities, including the first-ever local contests in Beijing, Lisbon, Prague, and Savannah.
The 2009 Tour will challenge a record 35,000 people worldwide to complete the entire filmmaking process – from writing and casting to shooting and editing – in 48 hours

Films will be screened in each city just days after the competition with prizes awarded to the top filmmakers. Organizers announced that 14 of the 2009 tour’s best films will be screened at the Cannes International Film Festival’s Short Film Corner in 2010, as well as appear on a nationally distributed DVD.

For more information about the 48 Hour Film Project or to enter the competition, please click here: http://www.48hourfilm.com/newyork/

AG-HMC150                             AG-HMC70

Both of these cameras are very popular among new film students and are pretty impressive for a handheld HD video camcorder.

About Bernie Mitchell
Bernie Mitchell is a consultant for Panasonic Broadcast & Television Systems, and is an Emmy nominated Producer/Director/Writer/Editor, Multimedia Person of the year, and DVD Association Hall of Fame member, whose experience includes; overall responsibility for the launch of a global hi-def TV, Radio and Web network, running his own marketing consulting and multimedia production company, and writing a book.

Mr. Mitchell has done hundreds of presentations on AVCHD workflow.

About the cameras

AG-HMC70 Retail Price: $1850 – $2530
The AG-HMC70 provides entry-level professionals with an easy-to-use, high-quality, solid-state HD recording solution at an affordable price. As the first shoulder-mount camcorder in Panasonic’s professional AVCHD line-up, the HMC70 utilizes the AVCHD high profile video codec, which offers similar image quality to HDV 1080i at about half the bandwidth. This second-generation, affordable HD format offers longer recording times and half the storage requirement of older systems.

As easy to use as a digital camera, the HMC70 records onto standard SD/SDHC cards to assure a fast tapeless production workflow. It gives you fast access to content without fast forward or rewinding, and footage is immediately available to editing systems without the ingest delay and additional cost of a playback deck.

Using just one 16GB SDHC memory card, the HMC70 can record over 2.6 hours at 13Mbps, the HMC70′s highest quality mode, or up to 6 hours at 6Mbps, the camera’s extended recording mode.

AG-HMC150 Retail Price: $3200 to $3,995
The powerful tapeless AG-HMC150 joins the Panasonic line of professional HD camcorders. This AVCCAM camcorder features highly-acclaimed functions for the popular AG-DVX100 Series of DV-tape based camcorders to tapeless HD recording. Using the cost-saving AVCHD format to record onto SDHC or SD Memory Card media, the AG-HMC150 produces exceptional images and responds to creative production needs. It also features a 28mm (35mm equivalent) wide-angle lens – widest in a professional camera of this class – and a newly developed 1/3-inch 16:9 progressive CCD. It further enhances image quality by adding a higher-quality PH mode to the clean, extended-time recording abilities of the AVCHD format. The AG-HMC150 handles full-pixel (1920 x 1080/1280 x 720) 24p and 30p progressive recording, and includes cinelike gamma and other versatile functions to meet the special needs of creative image production.