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Project Conisli - Celtx Project of the Week #21

This week's POW offers a terrific example of the power of open source software. It is a 5 minute Portuguese animation created entirely with free software by the Equipe Dinâmica Visual from Santo André, SP, Brasil. For those of you who don't understand Portuguese, team member, Reginaldo was kind enough to take the time to provide some project details for us below.

The Team says their video, animation and design laboratory became the first multi-media cooperative that is completly based in open-source technologies, and they encourage anyone interested to collaborate with them. Ahh.. the spirit of open source.. t'is a wonderful thing.

From the Celtx Team to Team Dinâmica Visual... Congratulations!

Project Conisli:
Our project is a production of an animation completly based on free software technology, being developed to be presented at the CONISLI (International Congress of Free Software), to be realized in São Paulo city in october/2007.

The movie is an animation that contains about five minutes lenght, an uses 3D and 2D animations, captured video and motions,  developed to demonstrate all possibilities and resources of open-source plataforms and free-software utilization on Video, 3d, 2D and design creation.

Its produced by the Dinâmica Visual  Cooperative, allocated in the CPDF (Professional Formation Center of Information Technology in Free Software "Valdemar Mattei") at Santo André, SP, Brasil. The movie is a cooperative project that carries the idea of the disseminatios of open-source filosophy, not only tecnologically but as an propose of acess to more equally oportunities in our society.

The cooperative is also an center of teaching, training and learning on free technologies. With a very tight budget our objective is create an Video, animation and design laboratory and became the first multi-media cooperative completly based in open-source. For this we count with the support anyone who would be interest in collaborate with us.

This is the objective of our project Conisli. An animation movie 100% free-code based, produced in a cooperative way, counting not only with cooperated members but also with. teachers, programmers, students an general support of open-source community, on this path to the democratization of knowlege, technology and oportunities.

Our best regards, ever to the Celtx for the project recognization and we invite all people to follow the project developing, colaborate and aprecciate the final product.

Thank You !

Equipe Dinâmica Visual,
2007, july 2,
Santo André, SP, Brasil

EDV Team Members: Djtks - Illustrator, 3D Modelator. Designer, Instructor; Najos - Illustrator,  Designer; Dj Tiago - Musician, Designer; Gilblender - 3D Modelator,Animator; Rencka - Techninician, Instructor; Mirian - Modelator, Designer; Petreca - Maestro, Designer; Jack - System Administer; Vinicus - Designer; Leafar - Trainee; Liwking - Designer; Eonrock - Animator; Morcego Dourado - Modelator, Designer; Macarrão-Trainee; Jé - Instructor; Japa - Marketing Estrategist; Otto-Webmaster;Du-Designer, Illuminator; Cris Japa - Educator; Adan -Trainee; Leo - Administrator.

The Franklin Indiana First Annual B Movie Celebration...Needs Your Help!

Hey Everybody!

If you're a big fan of films like 'Bride of Frankenstein', Barbarella, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes or Invasion of the Body Snatchers, or part of writer/ director/ actor/ producer Lloyd Kaufman's cult following, then you'll definitely want to head to Franklin, Indiana from Aug. 17th to 19th for the First Annual B Movie Celebration. See more details below.

In the meantime, Bill and the crew over at the IndyFilm Co-op and Cenema need your help spreading the word. So whether you email-it, IM-it, blog-it, talk-it, post-it, sing-it, or preferably SCRRRREEEEAAAM-it!!.... Just do-it!

Splendid! - S

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Introducing the B Movie Celebration. We Need Your Help.....

Franklin Indiana will be hosting the First Annual B Movie Celebration August 17th to 19th. We are asking for your help to get the word out.

The Celebration will feature screenings of over 50 classic B movies. We will also have personal appearances from such B Greats as Special Effects Guru Tom Savini, B Director Jim Wynorski, Ed Wood Almuni Conrad Brooks. The highlight of the celebration will be the presentation of A Lifetime Achievment Award to The Mayor of Tromaville himself, Lloyd Kaufman.

Lloyd will be presenting a Troma retrospective at the historic ArtCraft Theater. As well we will be holding a B Movie Gala, Breakfast and a Movie and Driv In Movie In the Park....

We will also feature over 20 educational seminars dealing with the art of the B film:

Topics will include:
Directing B Movies
Acting for B's
Music Composition
Director's Roundtable
Writing workshop

and many more....

As this is our first event, we need your help in getting the word out to the legions of B movie fans. This will be an annual event giving B Movies the exposure they so rightly deserve.

For further information please go to our website http://www.bmoviecelebration.com
or email us at info@indyfilmco-op.org

Thanks for your help.
Bill Dever

A Princess of Mars - Celtx Project of the week #20

It's a pleasure to award this week's POW prize to David Cortesi for his adaptation of Edgar Rice Burrough's classic fantasy novel, A Princess of Mars.  - "...a wonderful scientific romance that perhaps can be best described as early science fiction melded with an epic dose of romantic adventure."

A lot can be learned from this project because not only are we treated to a good script, but David also shares with us his project notes which reflect incredible attention to detail related to descriptions of various story elements, characters, and locations, and the notes also provide transparency and valuable insight to David's vision of the project and to the challenges encountered while adapting the story.

It's clear Cortesi put a great deal of work into adapting this novel to screenplay. While unrelated to his own effort, other attempts to bring the same classic to real production have been sited on IMDb and in this ERB fanzine. I have no doubt that 'when' David's script gets into the right hands, we'll be seeing his vision of 'The Princess of Mars' on the big screen too.

Thanks for sharing, David Cortesi... and Congratulations!!
We look forward to reading more from you.

Sheila and The C Team

GIF Makers needed for Indyish Assembly 2.0 Project, June 7-12/07

Anybody?... Anybody?....
If you, or someone you know is interested, contact Tessa Smith or 'SignUp' at the addy below... - SC
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Signup for GIFmaking in the Indyish Assembly Art Relay! Projects have been passed from artist to artist since May 1st, with a change in media at each stage.

June 7-12 is GIFmaking.

You'll get a script and 5 drawings by an illustrator and have 5 days to make a 5 minute animation. Your GIF will have a soundtrack made for it and will be performed live at the Assembly screening during the Montreal Fringe Fest.

Sign up: www.indyish.com/the-assembly-20-signup-form

More info on the Assembly: www.indyish.com/indyish-assembly-20-full-project-description

Pass this info on to GIF-friendly friends.

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www.indyish.com

Celtx at the Tenth Sydney Writers' Festival

If you live in, or are fortunate enough to be visiting Sydney, Australia during May 28 - June 3/07, be sure to attend The Tenth Sydney Writers' Festival and take in Mike Jone's workshop at the reknowned Powerhouse Museum:

From Script to Screen Workshop: Screenplay, Scripting and Pre-Production planning with Celtx

It's one of the highlights included in the Film and Screenwriting strand!

Mike discovered Celtx awhile back and lucky for us, he has been one of its greatest evangelists ever since. So if you're in the neighborhood, at the very least go give him a kiss from me and The Team!!

Sheila
( and No... not that kind of 'Sheila' ;) )

Script Frenzy and Celtx

Pssst....You might have heard already but just in case....

Our friends over at The Office of Letters and Light who brought you NaNoWriMo (also known as National Novel Writing Month which happens to be the largest writing contest in the world with over 79,000 participants in 69 countries), are about to launch a NEW! event called Script Frenzy. (Celtx forum member, 'zotz' also extends an invitation here.)

Starting in June (that's 8 days to be exact!), this International writing event is free for kids and adults who dare to take on the fun and scintillating challenge of writing 20,000 words in 30 days!! There are no judges or prizes--everyone who hits the word-count goal within the month is a winner.

The 5 Basic Rules are (#5 being the most Important!):
• 1) To be crowned an official Script Frenzy winner, you must write a script of at least 20,000 words and verify this word count on ScriptFrenzy.org.
• 2) You may write individually or in teams of two. Writer teams will have a 20,000 total word goal for their single co-written script.
• 3) Script writing may begin no earlier than 12:00:01 AM on June 1 and must cease no later than 11:59:59 PM on June 30, local time.
• 4) You may write either a screenplay or a stage play.
• 5) You must, at some point, have ridiculous amounts of fun!!!

So if you haven't already,... go download Celtx here, and then sign up for Script Frenzy there and start creating that inner masterpiece that's been itching to get out.

And by the by, as an interim solution to facilitate the writing process, over the next few days the Celtx devs will be adding a server-side word count feature especially for this auspicious occasion :) So stay tuned, and ....

Good Luck!

Sheila

MONTREAL FRINGE PRESS CONFERENCE INVITE:

RISA WRITES....
Salut Bonjour allo!
Come join Indyish.com, POP Montreal and the FRINGE at the Fest Press
Conference, Monday May 28 @ Petit Campus!

Come, and we'll tell you more about the 42 teams of scriptwriters in
cities all over the world who are already hard at work on the first phase
of our major project for the Fringe: The Indyish Assembly 2.0
International Art Relay.

Not in Montreal? You know we'll blog it.

For a pre-glimpse of all the happenings Indyish is adding to this year's
Fringe, check out the press release attached, then browse
indyish.com/events.

To download all our Fringe press materials in one shot, including hi res
images, hit:

Indyish.com/press.
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What a better place to be than Montreal in June (oops, and May!)....Thanks for the invite, Risa! - S

St-Ambroise Montreal / Festival St-Ambroise Fringe Fringe
Festival 17th Edition de Montréal, 17iéme édition

This is YOUR invitation to the Funnest, Wildest Press conference of the
year complete with special catering surprise befitting our
All-You-Can-See theme!

The St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival® is Montreal’s only annual
festival of independent theatre, dance, and music. This event is your
appetizer to this year’s festival, and not to be missed! RSVP Today!

Nous vous invitons à la Conférence de Presse la plus folle, et tout
simplement la plus le fun de l’année, spécialement pourvu de délices
surprises appropriès à notre thème Fringe À Volonté! Le Festival
St-Ambroise Fringe de Montréal® est le seul festival annuel montréalais de
théâtre, de danse et de musique indépendants. À ne pas manquer, cette
événement est votre entrée à l’édition du festival 2007! RSVP dès
maintenant!

Monday, May 28, 7pm / lundi le 28 mai à 19h
Petit Campus, 51 Prince Arthur
RSVP: communications@montrealfringe.ca / 514.849.3378

www.Indyish.com

Zack Wilson - GrandPrize Winner of Ithaca College CellFlix Cell Phone Fest

On behalf of the Celtx community, the Team would like to extend a big Congrats to Celtx alumnus, Zack Wilson, for his recent win in Ithaca College's 2nd Annual CellFlix Festival. Zack impressed the judges so much with his piece "Assisted Living" (view below) that they awarded him the $5,000.00 Grand Prize! In 30-seconds, Wilson's film tenderly relays the message to "Get out and live your life". THe piece was written with Celtx and shot on a cell phone, and while that all may sound simple enough, he actually shot 6 cuts, so it took him about 90 minutes to set up and shoot, and about 10 hours to edit.

Zack's production group, negativeZERO Films just finished another short film titled "Grief Assurance" in which Celtx was used for all of the pre-production including organizing cast and crew. They are now looking to distribute on the Internet, ... so if you know anybody, point them that-a-way and leave a message.

Zack is a senior TV-Radio major at Ithaca College's Roy H. Park School of Communications and about to graduate any minute now, so I'm sure this CellFlix win is a bit of icing on that graduation cake!

Hopefully we'll be seeing much more from this talented fellow.

All the best to you, Zack Wilson!

The C Team

Les Fées - Celtx Project of the Week #19

This week's POW winner is 'Les Fées', a music video screenplay (and wicked storyboard) created by Sebastien Bellaval for the French rock band, 'LIPO'.

Sebastien hails from Toulouse, France and describes himself as a storyteller, screenwriter, filmmaker, and owner of Galere Prod. He says, "I mainly deal with a "psycho-fantasy" style, exploring and exposing the most personal feelings of unlikely heroes through their dreamlike world struggling with their serious real life. Magic and Reality works together in every mind.." And you certainly see that reflected in Les Fées which tells the story of a young insomniac and his struggles with work at a daily newspaper.

An interesting approach to a music vid, and lots of great effort here, gang so go check it out!

Félicitations, Sebastien!!
The C Team

Assembly 1.0 Projectbook - Now Available!

by team indyish

The Indyish Assembly 1.0 is a collaborative art relay that took place from Feb 10th to March 10th involving artists in music, filmmaking, and illustration. Scriptwriters wrote short scripts from a rock opera piece, filmmakers shot the scripts, and musicians made the soundtracks, each having a week to do their part. We screened the films at Friendship Cove on March 10th with bands playing their soundtracks live.

This Projectbook documents the Assembly from start to finish with a wide range of media and can be used as a tool for groups wishing to organize collaborative art projects and events.

Scripts by Jack Oatmon, Louis Pearson and Tu-Linh Doan, Sylvia Rich, David Schultz and Pat Buckley, Roseanne Harvey and Anurag Dhir, Benjamin Shingler, and Jonathan Stewart.

Colour illustrations by Beth Frey, Tyson Bodnarchuk, Pascaline Knight, Carl Ruttan, G Blott, Mirela Zdjelaric, Greg Ryan, Timothy Kasper, Donna Davis, and Jennifer Barrett.

Beautiful colour photos by Tristan Brand, Marilis Cardinal, and others, and stills from the films.

Educational tools include blog posts documenting the entire project, interview with Celtx boss, calls for participation, press release, screening invitation, emails, project rules and resources, script notes, rewrites, screening flyer and poster, Celtx feedback, and project wrapup.

Printed in full colour, 144 pages, published in May 2007 by Indyish with Creative Commons Attribution 2.5

You can purchase the Projectbook from Lulu (print-on-demand self-publishing) by going here.

You can also download this book as a pdf.

The Assembly Scriptbook, a shorter zine version of the projectbook with just the scripts and illustrations, is also available on indyish at the link below: