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PCS Script Submission Update

Posted on May 4, 2012 in Local Film

For those of you who submitted scripts for “A Place Called Sacramento” 2012 and are eagerly waiting to hear whether or not your script has been chosen, we will be notifying everyone by May 21st. Even if your script was not chosen, expect to be informed. The public announcement of scripts chosen will be made at our June 2nd Cast and Crew Call.

The scripts have just gone through the first phase of the judging process will undergo two more panels before the final scores are tallied.

We have a great group of scripts this year and look forward to seeing the top ten on the big screen this October.

While you’re waiting on news about your script, feel free to check out some of our past PCS videos by clicking HERE.

Documentary Screening Hosted By Sacramento Film and Music Festival and Public Health Institute

Posted on April 14, 2012 in Local Film

The Sacramento Film and Music Festival and the Public Health Institute invite you to a screening of “THE POWER OF TWO” a documentary film about Northern-California native, half-Japanese twin sisters with cystic fibrosis and their story receiving double lung transplants and promoting organ donation in the US and Japan. This powerful film, considered for an Academy Award nomination, has received nearly a dozen awards around the world. Please join us for a public screening at 5:00pm on Wednesday, April 18, 2012 at the Crest Theatre in Downtown Sacramento followed by a special post-screening panel with co-star Anabel Stenzel.

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/events/283819251693484/

Flyer: http://www.scribd.com/doc/87290267/Power-of-Two-April-18-Crest

Don’t Miss the PCS Script Submission Deadline, April 10th!

Posted on April 6, 2012 in Local Film

There’s still time to submit your script. The PCS script submission deadline is Tuesday, April 10th at 5pm. Scripts have been rolling in and we hope to see yours added to the list. Last year’s scripts were so great that the final judges scores were neck in neck up to the last minute so if you turned one in last year and didn’t get to the top ten you can still re-submit this year. For new submissions you can check out the guidelines and get submission forms online at our website at www.AccessSacramento.org and click on “Quentin Big Fish Director Sacramento” in the upper left hand corner. He’ll take you right to the PCS page. You can even watch previous year’s films on this page.

Time is running out, so come on down to turn in your script to the Access Sacramento Office inside the Coloma Community Center at 4623 T Street in Sacramento.

The Office is temporarily located inside the Access Sacramento Media Lab on the 46th Street side of the building.

If you have any questions you can call us at (916) 456-8600 x 0.

Gary Martin Invites Producers to SAC VIP Meeting

Posted on March 24, 2012 in Local Film

On Wednesday March 28 at 7:00 PM, plan on attending the monthly meeting of the Sacramento Video Professional’s – Final Cut User’s Group meeting. Cosumnes River College Professor and Access Sacramento Board of Directors Vice-Chair Gary Martin, presents”Walking and Talking: Field Techniques for a Live Shot, Documentary, or Guerrilla interview”. When you have lots of time to prepare or are working in a well established studio setting with experienced talent, the chances of getting a quality usable interview are very high. Many times though, you just can’t get those stars to align.

Gary Martin, an Emmy-award winning news producer and Apple Certified Trainer for Final Cut Pro 7 and X, will demonstrate techniques for talent and their shooters to improve interviews in the field. Should you provide interview questions in advance? What to do if you’re a one-man band, and have to do the interview AND operate the camera at the same time…. How to ask questions that connect with your intended audience…. What to do if you are on camera LIVE (to tape or podcast) and things start to go awry… these questions answered… plus more!

Meeting details and directions go to: www.SacramentoVIPS.com

Movies On A Big Screen: The Eleventh Annual Media that Matters Film Festival

Posted on February 24, 2012 in Local Film

Sunday, February 26, 2012 7:30pm
Admission: $5.00
Movies on a Big Screen at The Guild
2828 35th St, Sacramento, CA

Ever since the first year of MOBS, we’ve shown this annual festival of socially conscious short films, and so once again, we’re bringing the all-new 2011-2012 edition of the Media That Matters Short Film Festival to Sacramento! The fest is compiled by Arts Engine in New York, which incidentally been incredibly supportive of MOBS – see the Arts Engine quote on our website.

The shorts are all made by student and independent filmmakers, and subjects covered in this year’s fest include: the continuing effects of the United States’ use of Agent Orange in Vietnam; challenges facing LGBT youth in Chicago; living with Asperger’s Syndrome; a portrait of Sikh-American activist Sonny Singh as he organizes New York City Sikh youth to combat harassment in their schools; seasonal hunger in coffee growing communities; and much, much more.

Movies On A Big Screen

Posted on February 3, 2012 in Local Film

Sunday, February 12 – 7:30pm
Admission: $5.00
MOBS at The Guild 2828 35th St, Sacto, CA

Right around Valentine’s Day, we like to show some kind of movie that might make your date a little uncomfortable with your idea of romance, so this year, we’ll be showing this silent classic! If you remove all of the violence, murder, mayhem and obsession, this IS a romantic movie. But there is the aforementioned violence, murder, mayhem and obsession… The film launched Lon Chaney as a worldwide superstar and is noted for the amazing makeup effects used by Chaney. For “Hunchback,” he wore a 70 pound hump and designed a torturous leather harness which forced his body into the hunched position he maintains throughout the film. This was also one of Forrest J. Ackerman’s favorite films! So bring a date, or just bring yourself and see this classic in a theater! Due to the length of the film, this will be starting VERY close to 7:30 PM.

Save the Date – CROCKER MUSEUM “A Place Called Sacramento” – Thursday, Feb. 2nd

Posted on January 20, 2012 in PCS 2011 Film Festival

Sunday, January 29 7:30pm

Admission: $5.00

The Guild Theater

2828 35th St, Sacramento, CA

With recent pending legislation in the U.S. such as SOPA and PIPA, it’s a good time to revisit this documentary we originally showed in 2009. The film itself was created before these bills existed but it is a good primer on issues like media control and fair use within (and outside of) the internet, and is relevant now more than ever. About the film-

In RiP: A Remix Manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers. The film’s central protagonist is Girl Talk, a mash-up musician topping the charts with his sample-based songs. But is Girl Talk a paragon of people power or the Pied Piper of piracy? Creative Commons founder, Lawrence Lessig, Brazil’s Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil and pop culture critic Cory Doctorow (co-editor of Boing Boing) are also along for the ride. Hope to see you there! http://www.moviesonabigscreen.com

Save the Date – CROCKER MUSEUM “A Place Called Sacramento” – Thursday, Feb. 2nd

Posted on January 20, 2012 in PCS 2011 Film Festival

For the first time, the Crocker Museum auditorium will welcome the ten short films from the 2011 “Place Called Sacramento” film festival. Friends of Access Sacramento, PCS filmmakers and fans are invited to “spread the word” and celebrate, again, the ten films first premiered last October at the Crest Theater.

Crocker Museum Auditorium – 216 O Street

February 2, 2012 – Thursday evening

Doors Open 6:00 PM – Show starts at 6:30 PM

Tickets: $4.00 for Crocker Members

Non-member tickets: Advanced tickets – $8.00 (online – Crocker.com or box office)

At the door: Non-members $10.00

The Crocker screening serves as the official launch of the 13th annual “PCS” production process. “A Place Called Sacramento” (PCS), is the original, local scriptwriting and short film production project for local writers and producers. PCS challenges local scriptwriters, new and experienced, to write ten-minute scripts about the people, places, and events that make our community such a unique place to live (entry forms and submission guidelines are available on-line at www.AccessSacramento.org). The deadline for script submission is 5pm Tuesday April 10, 2012 in the Access Sacramento office.

Want to know more about making a movie this summer? Do you have a good story but need to write a script? Go to: www.AccessSacramento.org for submission rules and deadlines.