JUMP Society

Best of the Northwest Film Festival

Strap on the moon boots and mittens, it’s gallery walk this weekend! That’s right, bring your Tupperware, it’s time to load up on cheese and crackers for your holiday parties. And once you’re done drinking wine… I mean looking at art.. we’d like to invite you to join us for the Best of the Northwest Film Festival at Centennial Hall.

Slide on over to Centennial Hall at 8:00 and see this show featuring a selection from the 31st Annual Northwest Film Festival. As usual, the show is free but we’ll have one of our poor loveable film making street urchins manning the donation bucket and a dozen more picking pockets inside. Proceeds will be split between the JUMP Society and the North West Film Center.

January Show DEaDliNe

It’s time! Start documenting the growth of your avocado tree or wrap yourself in tinfoil and talk like a robot. Do whatever it takes to make that perfect short film you’ve been planning because it’s already time for another JUMP Society film festival!

Entries are due January 7th and the show will likely be on or around the weekend of the 21st or 28th. We do like to get entries early so if you’ve already got a film in the can, drop it by Lucid Reverie or mail it to:

JUMP Society (rocks the world)
174 S. Franklin Suite 104
Juneau, AK 99801

Preferred format is Mini-DV but if that’s a problem then let us know and we’ll figure something else out.

Pre-Film Festival Visual Storytelling Workshop

I’m holding a visual storytelling workshop sometime in early December. I’m not an expert on the subject but I do have several good books and I’m pretty sharp with that googly internet thingy so basically it’ll be awesome. I’ll scrape together an overview and a few hands on exercises but we I’m hoping we can all pool our knowledge into.. a bigger pool… of knowledge. Then we will drink the pool? I’m obviously still working on logistics but I’m leaning towards Sunday afternoon on the 11th of December. Let me know if you’re interested… in drinking from the pool of knowledge… mmm… refreshing…

• Knowledge +2
• Charisma -1

Laters

Ok, that’s the newsletter. Awesome I’m done. Now I can go play Nintendo.

The film festival went smashingly well this summer and we apparently need to have more shows next time around. Sorry to those who were hoping for an encore show but we’re already on to our next grand adventure…

Kembrew McLeod and Illegal Art

We’ve been working with the Juneau Arts Council to put together a discussion on intellectual property rights featuring professor, author, and artist Kembrew McLeod. Kembrew is perhaps best known for taking out a trademark on the term “Freedom of Expression,” his way of suggesting that some intellectual property laws may overstep their bounds.

Things will get started this evening (Friday, August 5th) with an illegal art show at the Arts Council Gallery located at 206 N. Franklin Street. The exhibit will feature local artists who push boundaries of copyright and open discussion of ownership through their work. Kembrew will be there to answer questions about intellectual property rights and to help dissect some of the issues surrounding the art. The gallery will be open from around 4:30 to 7:00.

Saturday evening Kembrew will host a lecture at Centennial Hall at 7:00. Admission is free and the presentation will include clips from short films and music videos as well as a question and answer session.

Laters

Hope you can make it to one or both of these events exploring intellectual property rights. We’re an information age and the discussion of who owns an idea and for how long is becoming increasingly relevant not only to filmmakers and artists but to everyone from farmers to doctors to engineers.

It’s time once again…
[Bring up the lights, Cue the trumpets]

To announce…
[Now give me some building snare in the back]

The official showtimes for the slickest show at the Silverbow…
[Cut music. Hushed anticipatory silence layered with light trance inducing microphone hum]

[Wait for it.]

THE JUNEAU UNDERGROUND MOTION PICTURE SOCIETY’S SUMMER FILM FESTIVAL!!!!!!
[The crowd goes wild tearing up souvenir floor boards and ripping down keepsake ceiling fans]

Summer Festival – Official Showtimes!!

Thursday July 14th 7:00pm
Saturday July 16th 7:00pm & 9:00pm
Friday July 22nd 7:00pm & 9:00pm

All shows will be at the Backroom of the Silverbow and you can pick up tickets at Lucid Reverie starting Thursday. Admission, as always, is free but you’ll need to pick up a ticket at Lucid Reverie to get a seat.

Donations are appreciated but not required …even though we’ll probably have someone harass you at the door for pocket change and tic tacs.

Meet the Maker – Secret Show

We’ll be having a secret show for filmmakers and those who want to learn more about the process. This show is Thursday, July 7th at the Silverbow backroom. No admissions, no tickets and a chance to hear some of the filmmakers talk about their work and inspiration.

We won’t be playing all of the films so if you’re a filmmaker and you’re interested in discussing your film or others, let me know ahead of time so we’re sure to bring yours.

Some people may want to tell an entertaining story about something wacky that happened during the making and others may want to just answer questions. Some people will probably just hide in the shadows, shrouded in silence.. wrapped in darkness… dipped in the spicy green goo of mystery… holding the chopsticks of secrecy. Mmmm. I’m hungry for sushi.

We realize some people are shy and we’re flexible on how we do this thing but remember that feedback is about the most helpful thing you can get in any art… even if it is hurty sometimes.

Radio Land

If you’re reading this over your morning Triple Shot Mega Ounce Big Cup Espresso McFlurry then you might want to flip on the radio because me and a few other JUMP Society filmmakers will be on Capitol Chat with Chris Burns at 8:00. I probably won’t have had much sleep so it should be extra entertaining listening to me power through some rambling response while trying to speak over the sound of my voice cracking.

Illegal Art

The JUMP Society in association with the Juneau Arts and Humanities Council is putting on an illegal art show and bringing Kembrew McLeod to Juneau for the event! Kembrew is an author, teacher, filmmaker, and music critic who champions “freedom of expression” and also happens to own the trademark on the term. He’s an interesting cat who even made a few bucks selling his soul on Ebay.

This is going to be some good fun. We’re looking for music, movies, writing, drawings, paintings, collage, and whatever else pushes the boundaries of intellectual property laws. For more information on this hip, trendy, and deliciously educational affair check out the following links or drop me a line:

https://jumpsociety.org/illegalart.pdf
https://jumpsociety.org/postah1.pdf
http://kembrew.com/academics/

Northwest Film Festival Submissions

The call for entries went out for the 32nd Annual Northwest Film & Video Festival which is put on by our friends at the Northwest Film Center in Portland. They’re seeking submissions of any length in any genre from Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, and British Columbia. You can download an entry form today at www.nwfilm.org and if memory serves me.. and it rarely does… there is no entry fee for this festival.

AMIPA job opening

There’s a great employment opportunity available in Anchorage at the Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association. Whoever picks it up will be working with Bob Curtis-Johnson of Bob’s Shorts, one of our informal partner organizations that cranks out some great films in the Anchorage area.

https://jumpsociety.org/mediatech.pdf

Laters

Wow, that took a long time to write, I’m spent. Thanks for all the submissions, we’ll have a great show… catch you at the film festival and don’t wait until the last minute to get those tickets!