Warren Etheredge, longtime friend and mentor to JUMP Society Filmmakers, returns to Juneau this weekend to teach strategies and tips that will turn mundane questioning into meaningful interviews.

All JUMP Society Filmmakers and enthusiasts are invited to a private reception for Warren on Friday at the Ruby Room. This will be a good opportunity to introduce yourself and learn about what’s in store for the weekend.

As usual, all workshops and lectures are free but the JUMP Society will accept contributions (or you can bring delicious food to the reception!!)

Friday, November 20th – 6pm @ the Ruby Room
Reception

Saturday, November 21st - 7pm @ the Juneau Public Library
The Art of the Interview – Overview

Saturday, November 21st – 9pm @ Goldtown Nickelodeon
Related Screening – TBA

Sunday, November 22nd – 9am @ TBA (Marlintinis? The Viking?)
Warren is addicted to the Cowboys, come watch the game with us.

Sunday, November 22nd – 1pm – 4pm @ TBA
The Art of the Interview – Workshop

HOW TO GRILL A STAR or THE ART OF THE INTERVIEW…

We’ve all seen them, documentaries built on boring, lifeless interviews. We’ve all read them, profiles that don’t even hint at the motives of the person behind the story. Warren Etheredge has spent a career interviewing filmmakers, authors and ordinary people on screen, in print and in person and has an uncanny ability to bring out insights his subjects never imagined they’d share.

During this program Warren offers structures, tips and strategies to turn mundane questioning into the Art of interviewing. It is an art that Warren has honed in more than 1,000 professional interviews with such personalities as Amy Sedaris, Sir Salman Rushdie, Zack Braff, Michael Pollan and Naomi Watts. He is currently producing The Warren Report television series in which he conducts in depth interviews with filmmakers and experts on the issues brought up in their films. During this workshop you will not only learn the secrets of solid interviews but get to practice the craft yourself under Warren’s watchful eye.

JUMP Society organizers will be at UAS for media night this Thursday along with Andy Kline from KXLL and Cheryl Levitt Snyder from KTOO.

A new resource for independent filmmakers, Video WTF looks like a great way to muddle through the frustrations and technical hangups that you’ll run into while making your masterpiece.

• Video WTF

Thursday, October 1st – 5:30 @ Goldtown Nickelodeon

Thanks to the many local filmmakers who contributed to the CityOneMinutes project. Please join us for a preview screening on Thursday, October 1st starting at 5:30 with a drink and a talk at the Goldtown Nickelodeon. The films will screen at 6:00 PM and we’ll move down the hall to Ruby Room around 7 PM to celebrate the completion of the Juneau CityOneMinutes.

24 Hours In Order of Appearance

• 5-6 Mukhya Kaur Khalsa and Toni Fratzke
• 6-7 Hari Dev Singh Khalsa
• 7-8 William Ryan
• 7-8 Greg Chaney
• 8-9 William Ryan
• 8-9 Clint Jefferson Farr
• 9-10 Maaike van der Linden
• 10-11 Maaike van der Linden
• 11-12 Greg Chaney
• 11-12 Maaike van der Linden
• 11-12 JDHS, Digital Image Design Class
• 12-13 Maaike van der Linden
• 13-14 William Ryan
• 14-15 Hari Dev Singh Khalsa
• 14-15 Patrick Race
• 15-16 Brice Habeger
• 16-17 Clint Jefferson Farr
• 16-17 William Ryan
• 17-18 Maaike van der Linden
• 17-18 William Ryan
• 18-19 Jan Neimeyer and Tony Khmelev
• 18-19 Tavyn Gentry
• 19-20 Greg Chaney
• 20-21 Lou Logan
• 21-22 Fred Otilius
• 22-23 William Ryan
• 23-00 Brice Habeger
• 00-01 William Ryan
• 01-02 William Ryan
• 02-03 William Ryan
• 03-04 Patrick Race
• 03-04 Willy Stauffer
• 04-05 William Ryan

Filmmaker Maaike Vanderlinden has arrived in Juneau to work on her one month short film project. We’ll be having a welcome event at the Ruby Room this evening where she’ll be available to answer questions, meet interested filmmakers and talk about her project. Please come by around 6:00 on Wednesday September 2nd and join us in welcoming Maaike.

Feel free to bring some sort of finger food or beverages.

The City One Minutes is a portrait of a location taken through one minute films. The one minute films will debut in Beijing in 2010 and then become part of a traveling installation visiting art fairs around the world.

Filmmaker, Maaike van der Linden will be visiting Juneau in September for the cityoneminute project. She hopes to work with local artists, video artists, and filmmakers to create a portrait of Juneau through twenty-four individual and diverse one minute movies each representing a different hour of the day.

This looks to be a good project for all first time and veteran filmmakers.

The cityoneminutes will be a gigantic gesamtkunstwerk with hundreds of artist participating and capturing their city all over the world. The city portraits will début in Beijing 2010. Afterwards the installation will travel around the world. In addition a selection of the best movies from every city will be shown on the website. And often smaller selections of city portraits will be shown at exhibitions and major Art Fairs.

For more information about the project please contact Maaike: maaikevanderlinden {at} yahoo.com

http://www.theoneminutes.org
http://www.cityoneminutes.org

The Juneau Arts & Humanities Council sends word of a local video contest with a $500 cash prize.

Your task, should you choose to accept it, is to create a short, promotional video about Juneau. The submissions should highlight the economy, quality of life, capital city, geography, people and history.

The FILM Juneau Contest is sponsored by the City and Borough of Juneau, Juneau Arts & Humanities Council, and Juneau Economic Development Council and the wining video will be featured prominently on their websites. A panel of judges will review entries and the top 10 will be screened at the awards ceremony on April 2, 2010 at Centennial Hall. The audience will participate in the judging for the winning video. The winner will receive a cash prize of $500.

Application deadline is February 15, 2010. Application forms available at JAHC and online at http://www.jahc.org/

No Malarky, a local ski and snowboard film, will be screening in the Centennial Hall Ballroom 3 on Wednesday, August 19th at 7:30 and 9:30. No Malarky features the work of filmmakers Dylan Wenzlau, Sam Buck, Jarrett Thomas, Mckenzie Wilson, and Alan Gordon.

The Anchorage International Film Festival and Permafrost Alaskan Vodka present The Ultra Premium Short Film Contest, prizes include $500 and two all festival passes to AIFF.

A reminder that AIFF is also accepting film submissions through September 15, 2009.

• Permafrost Short Film Contest
• Submission Information

Get your tickets!  Hot off of the printing presses, or laser printer, as the case may be.  My point is they are still warm and you should come get one.  They are located at Lucid Reverie, downtown in the Emporium mall.  Give us a call at 586-3440 if you get lost.

The festival is this weekend, July 23rd through the 25th. 

• Thursday, July 23 – 7pm @ UAS Egan Lecture Hall
• Friday, July 24 – 7 & 9 pm @ Silverbow Backroom
• Saturday, July 25 – 7 & 9pm @ Silverbow Backroom

See you here!