Albuquerque, NM

Film Arts
art films, films about art, and news from the Film Industry

The 48 Hour Film Project’s sister competition, the National Film Challenge, took place October 19-22. Teams from around the world wrote, shot and edited short films in three days. They each received a character, prop, line of dialogue and a genre on a secure website at 7pm local time October 19 and mailed their film in on October 22. Over 180 teams from around the world competed and the Albuquerque team Rattlesnake Wash Productions won the 2007 Grand prize with their film Time Cougars. The film also won Best Acting Ensemble. The film will be screened at The Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose in association with The 48 Hour Film Projects end-of- year screening and awards ceremony Feb. 29-March 2. Rattlesnake Wash Productions was founded by local actor, writer and producer Isaac Kappy. The collective of local talent that make up Rattlesnake Wash Productions along with Isaac are Mark Chavez and Shenoah Allen, creators of the critically acclaimed comedy duo The Pajama Men, actor/writer/director Ross Kelly, actor/editor/director Reuben Finkelstein, cinematographer Nolan Rudi, writer Josh Klein and actor/artist David Kappy to name a few. This information was provided by the Albuquerque Film Office.
48hourfilm.com

Art in Film Series premiers at the Guild in March
Albuquerque Art Business Association (AABA) and albuquerqueARTS Magazine are co-sponsoring the first in a series of Art on Film events at the Guild Theater in Albuquerque. The Rape of Europa tells the epic story of the systematic theft, deliberate destruction and miraculous survival of Europe’s art treasures during the Third Reich and the Second World War. View the trailer.
Screenings March 14-21 at 2:15, 4:45 and 7:15
The Guild Cinema
3405 Central NE
(505) 255-1848
guildcinema.com

Duke City Shootout accepting scripts for 2008
The people at Digital Filmmaking Institute (DFI) have been called “pioneers of the marathon movie-making competition” (Moviemaker Magazine)”, the world’s strangest little film festival-where movies are made at their down-and-dirtiest” (Premiere Magazine), and the “real deal” (Ray Penton, President of the Film and Video Producers Association of Newfoundland). Here’s your chance to be part of the world’s longest- running script-to-screen movie competition — The Duke City Shootout. Part script competition, part production festival and totally exhilarating, the ninth annual Shootout will take place July 25-Aug. 2, 2008 in Albuquerque. To become part of this challenge, submit your script of up to 12 pages and you’ll be eligible to be one of seven lucky filmmakers chosen to have their movie shot, edited and premiered in just one week — at our expense. As usual, we’ll be accepting scripts on-line via Withoutabox, or you can fill out forms from our website and submit directly. Visit our website and click on “Submit Your Script” for more information. Get a $5 per script discount if you submit by April 15, 2008. The deadline is May 15, 2008 and 10 finalists will be announced June 4, 2008. The seven winners will be announced a week later.

Workshops, calls for entry, workshops and more opportunities
A complete listing of auditions and other calls as well as every type of arts event can be referenced at the Arts Alliance website where you can also subscribe to their all new Something to Do Online Newsletter.
www.abqarts.org

Did you know that the Arts Alliance maintains the only Ethnic Events Calendar in the state? It’s on their web site. Check it out!

There’s a lot more this week, and so I’ll do another short blog.