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Assembly 2.0 Playwright List

by Tessa Smith
The Indyish Assembly 2.0 starts on May 1st. Sign up has been happening through indyish and on the Celtx forums. Below is the list of writers signed up to begin writing scripts on Tuesday. There is still room for a few more writers if you’re interested.

Joel Kelly
Deadite
Sharkey
Cecilia Katan
Jean Vinurov
Ira Markowitz
Aeryk Pierson
scenarist
Nikesh Murali
Miles Rausch
bluecollarpride
Michael Dees
Suraji Wagage
J Jack Unrau
Ricardo
Merlin Goldman
Zachariah Rush
Katharine Miller
Robert Kemp
Robert Allison
KGB Kommissar
Anna Blackmon
André Simoneau
Alex Pallas
Maxx Walker
Robert Costa
Jean-Philippe Drecourt
David Blake
Benjamin Shingler
Zack Mulcahy
shrikant
Everett Bunker
Kit Stewart
arbitrarylogic
Ahmed Jamal

After these writers finish their scripts at midnight May 31st, the scripts will be passed through Celtx to illustrators who will create images for the Assembly Projectbook. The illustrations will also go to teams of gifmakers who will have one week to use them with the scripts to create a 5 minute animation. The scripts will also be passed to theatre groups who will have 48 hours to stage them. The gifmakers and directors and actors will meet back during the Fringe Festival where bands will work with them for 48 hours to take both the gifs and plays and create soundtracks to be performed live at the screening and show on Friday May 15th and Saturday May 16th at Club Lambi in Montreal.

Sign up for any stage of the Assembly 2.0 (besides writing) before June 1st.

Celtx Teams with Indyish Assembly 2.0 Art Relay

Announcing Indyish.com’s latest collaborative art project, Assembly 2.0: a relay for writers, directors, actors, illustrators, musicians and animators.

April 16, 2007, Montreal - Assembly 1.0 was the first Indyish art relay experiment, and Indyish’s first teaming with Celtx.com. It ran from Feb- March 2007 and brought together more than 60 Canadian artists who passed projects along to create 7 original films, soundtracks and a published scriptbook.

Assembly 2.0 is part of Indyish’s special 2007 partnership with the Fringe. In it’s 7th year the Montreal Fringe brings together over 100 different theatre companies from around the world and connects with a total of over 100 000 visitors. Drawing on the Fringe’s Play-In-A-Day tradition, this Assembly will have a theatrical angle, and will connect the local music and theatre scene with the wonderful fringe-folk in town for the festival.

The Assembly 2.0 games begin on May 1st. (read complete article)

The Rocking Chair - Celtx Project of the Week #17

Hey Folks!
We're happy to announce this week's Celtx POW is a French film short titled 'The Rocking Chair' written and, to be produced by Val Lopes of MEDEO, an audiovisual production company based in Cape Verde, Africa. Along with many other story details, Val has included some cool storyboarding and a quick demo of musical instrumentation so be sure to check it out.

Félicitations Val!
We'll get your new Celtx T out to you shortly.

-S

Mike Jones - Australia's Celtx Evangelist

Not too long ago we received a glowing email from the very accomplished Australian media producer, Mike Jones about how much he likes Celtx. By day Mike works as Manager of the Soundhouse-Vectorlab digital media studios at Australia's largest Museum, The Powerhouse. And by night (frankly I don't know when the guy sleeps!), Mike does even more interesting work like this. It goes without saying we were rather elated when Mike appeared on our radar with some of these wonderful comments...

"... I've taught, reviewed and used every editing system, compositing application, audio sequencer, production process, script-writing tool, storyboard system and imaging program known to humankind and I simply need to tell you that Celtx is the most efficient, effective, flexible and forward-thinking piece of software I have ever encountered in 15 years or making moving images..!"
"... Bloated, unstable, inefficient junk sadly forms the bulk of the software market. Celtx is a shining tungsten light in a crowded and poorly white-balanced room....."
"...I felt I really had to write simply to congratulate you on a superbly functional tool that delivers an insurmountably enormous contribution to the creative community of the world."

Mike has proven to be a terrific volunteer evangelist of Celtx, spreading the word and delivering workshops and demos to the many educational and industry conferences and events at which he is regularly invited to speak.

And, if that isn't enough, he recently wrote Part 1 (of 2) of this Celtx review on Digital Media Net Forums. It's a very thorough and objective description from an expert in his field and definitely worth the read.

Needless to say we think Mike is pretty wicked, and are most grateful for his efforts.
Many cheers to you, Mr. Jones!

Love,
The Celtx Team

The Celtx Easter Egg Hunt!!!

The hunt is on!

The Easter Bunny’s hidden 10 easter eggs in his The Easter Bunny of Oz project on Project Central.

Can you find 1 … or all 10?

When you do, click on the egg and leave a comment (though not all eggs are 'clickable'). At the end of the hunt we’ll draw 1 winner from each of the eggs, 10 prizes in total, them being cool celtx t-shirts and jackets. Only one prize per user, in case your name gets drawn twice.

So get hunting now!

PS - we’ll notify all winners by email on April 17th .