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3rd Annual New Media Film Festival LA CA June 12 & 13 2012

Entries accepted through May 1, 2012

Check often for updates to our programming below

Tuesday June 12  2012 Red Carpet Begins at 7:30PM

New Media Networking Lounge, New Media Marketing Table, International Art Exhibit and Art on Wall Screenings throughout the entire festival at Landmark Theatre Westside

9:30PM - 3D Opening Night Films

1)    Afterlight - WORLD PREMIERE
2011 | UK | 05:43 | Dir. James Uren
On discovering life in an old photograph, a widower makes an audacious attempt to reunite with the wife he lost many years before.

2)   Maraton 3D - NORTH AMERICA PREMIERE
2011 | Romania | 03:54 | Dir. Mihai Filoneanu
An armed man is pursued by two policemen until he enters a kindergarten, where things take a surprising turn.

Wednesday June 13, 2012

Full day of Panels, Screenings & Awards Ceremony  

9:30AM Webseries SuperStar Creators

See their Content, Hear their journey, Learn how to get their success & more.

Immediately following is our Webisode/Webseries Program

10:00AM Webisode/Webseries

 11:00AM New Media Panel 

Experts discuss the Who, What & Why of New Media 

2:00 PM Apps, Digital Comics & Animation

The Digital Comics will be interviewed by Michael Lent, a writer who has been a featured columnist for Creative Screenwriting Magazine.  His work also appears in the French film periodical Tournages, as well as in Screenstyle, Marvel graphic novel Prey: Origin of Species

DIGITAL COMICS

Reclamation
2011 | USA | 10:00|  Dir. Romeal Watson
A pragmatic preachers son discovers the true power of mysticism when the bizarre death of his father drags him in the middle of an ancient supernatural rivalry.

ANIMATION

1) Live outside the Box

2011 | Taiwan | 04:19 | Dir.Shu-Hsuan Lin
Simon is a workaholic whose world is becoming smaller and smaller. Can he find the way to bring his life back before it is too late?

2) The Natural Order of Things - NORTH AMERICA PREMIERE

2011 | UK | 05:49| Dir.Sarah Beeby
Hiding in this desert there are strange and dangerous animals. Philip must take the opportunity when it comes.

TRAILERS

1) Shoreditch Slayer
2010 | UK | 02:26 | Dir. Simon Levene

Vampires have hunted humans since the dawn of time. Yet with rising inflation, soaring unemployment and higher taxes, it is vampires who are currently struggling for survival.

2) Donna’s Revenge: Confessions of an Ex-Contestant - WORLD PREMIERE
2011 | USA | 02:29 | Dir. by Oliver Oertel
 A confession of an Ex-Contestant is a web comedy about the aftermath of Reality TV fame, and what happens to one contestant when her fifteen minutes are up

3) Sea Meadow- WORLD PREMIERE

 Dir. by Lily Baldwin

 A young woman stumbles upon a seemingly empty estate. Hesitantly she enters and wanders its chilling insides: a Pandora's Box that entices and haunts her with a series of stylized dance tableaux. History reveals itself in these poignant flashes. She is in fact a ghost in her own home.

APPS

  1:00 PM Documentary Feature Screening

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Q & A:Joshua Stecker, West Coasat Editor of Script magazine-a Final Draft, Inc. publication wii host the Q&A to discuss their work.

3:00PM New Media Panel 

Experts discuss Distribution, Social Media and Incremental Monetization        This panel will focus on new avenues to monetize content, new platforms that are being launched to interact and monetize on a global scale. Examples of new and developing ways to get your content made, sold and seen. The convergence of TV to Web and Social Media for the people creating New Media today.

 4:15PM Shorts, Mobile, LGBT

SHORTS

Q & A hosted by Melodie Shaw, Lead Organizer, Writers Guild of America, West

1)  Boxed Up
2011 | USA | 0:33 | Dir. Sean McCarthy

2) Spoiler
2011 | USA | 17:17 | Dir. Daniel Thron
Coroner Tommy Rossman isn't just a collector of the dead anymore. Now he comes to make sure you're actually dead. Or to help you get there.

3) Viral
2011| USA| 08:57 | Dir. Dustin Waldman
With YouTube event Playlist Live as the backdrop, digital ethnographer Dr. Michael Wesch and various members of the YouTube community discuss the changing nature of media, celebrity and human connection.

 MOBILE

LGBT

5:45PM Shot on RED, Music Videos,  & SRC-Socially Responsible Content

SHOT ON RED

MUSIC VIDEO

Music Video Category will be judged by Ron Proulx, Gemini Award winning (Canadian film awards) songwriter, and owner of music supervision company Arpix Media

1)    Sadder
2011 | USA | 15:02 | Dir. Tucker Dansie
Call it the anti-love song, try as he might, up and coming singer-songwriter Nik Day can't seem to make his girl anything but "sadder" in this silent film inspired music video.

2) Tik Tok Nation
2011 | USA |12:39 | Dir. Anais Godard
What happens when a single cup of coffee is not enough? "Maybe..." is about a moment where creativity and love come together... a Rom-Com by Pedro Resende

3) Perfect Two
2011 | USA | 3:07 | Dir. Sean Patrick Cannon
"Singer/songwriter, CEEJ writes the Perfect song for the animated feature film, HOODWINKED, TOO! Her song, PERFECT TWO was made into this video for the films DVD release."


4) Traffic in Frenetic
2011 | VietNam | 03:42 | Dir. Rob Whitworth
Love it or hate it the traffic in Saigon is unique; this time lapse set to the fast paced Mondo'77 by Looper sets about capturing the cities chaotic beauty.

5) Destiny Knows My Name - LA PREMIERE
2012 | USA | 03:38 | Dir. John Errington
Destiny Knows My Name is all about discovery, coming full circle back to your home, to your roots. It's about realizing that 'faith defies all reason' and the ties that bind are what hold you up when life gets too crazy

SRC-SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE CONTENT

1) The Elephant Man Journey
2011 | USA | 08:14 | Dir. Chris Gallucci
The final journey for my best friend remains incomplete. 

2)    Jesus Was a Commie 
2011 | USA | 15:50 | Dir. Terence Ziegler and Matthew Modine
Jesus Was a Commie elegantly and intelligently captures an audience desperate to understand what is happening across our country. Using unambiguous language that openly presents two swamplands America is presently bogged down in: environmental degradation and partisanship.

3) Yosemite Nature Notes - WORLD PREMIERE
2011 | USA | 06:40 | Dir. Steven Bumgardner
Throughout the Sierra Nevada, high plateaus are found at elevations around twelve and thirteen thousand feet. These isolated sky islands are the home to unique plant communities that are found nowhere else.

 4) Supa Pirate Booty Hunt
2011 | USA | 4:00 | Dir. Dahveed Kolodny-Nagy

"Metal In My Shell" features Dave Mustaine of Megadeth encouraging all music lovers to donate blood because each donation can save up to three lives. His on stage messages gets put on hold when Cpt Zack and Daniel the Turtle face off against Dave in a rock-off that warps the boundaries of time and space.

7:30 PM CLOSING NIGHT PROGRAM

9:30PM Awards Ceremony immediately following the above

Awards will be handed out by multiple Award Winning Actress (Golden Globe, Independent Spirit Award, LA Critics Winner and Oscar Nom) Sally Kirkland, Golden Globe Winner John Saxon and Silver Spoons Mom and Buck Rogers and the 25th Century Erin Gray in this fast paced, fun, ceremony for the category winners & Grand Prize Winner of the 3rd Annual New Media Film Festival!

Please join us for

FREE Networking in the Lobby-Sponsored by PopChips

FREE New Media Marketing Table-Place One-Take One (postcard/business card)

FREE Art on Wall Screenings-New Media entries that will be screened in the Networking Lobby on a continuous loop throughout the festival.

Enjoy the stunning visuals (see titles and info below) in this International Art On Wall Exhibit that will have a category winner!

ART ON WALL

1) Found
2011|USA|18:14|Dir. Brian Levi Bowman        

                           

2) Big Bio
2011| Singapore|03:38| Dir. Eileen Reynolds 

3) Sixty in 60
2011|USA|60:00| Dir. Ronnie Cramer

                                       
4) Re:Lease - World Premiere
2011|USA|03:19| Dir. Michael Wiehart 

5) I am Ashamed of myself
2011|South Korea|11:40 |Dir. Yongchu Suh    

6) Aerial
2012| USA |3:45 |Dir. Peter Hriso

7) Fluid Thoughts
2012| USA |2:30 |Dir. Peter Hriso

Registration information, complete agenda and additional details are available at www.NewMediaFilmFestival.com