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"Aesthetica is looking for filmmakers who are driving the genre of short film forward through inspirational and innovative works. Whether you are fresh out of film school or have been making films for years, we want to hear from you. Accepting films in all genres: drama, documentary, music video, satire, comedy and artists' film.

This award offers the winner and runners-up a fantastic prize package, which will bring your films to a wider audience.

The deadline for submissions is 30 April 2010. All winners will be notified by 31 May 2010 and the DVD will be released 1 August 2010."

For more details see the competition website.

A Panel Discussion on the Works of Wolgin Prize Finalist Ryan Trecartin
October 7, 5:30 pm, Paley Library Lecture Hall

Ryan Trecartin’s work advances understandings of post‐millennial technology, narrative and identity. Discussed from a variety of perspectives, panelists will examine issues of social media and networks; gender and aesthetic themes in video art; and more. Participants include Temple University’sGerard Brown, Chair of Foundations, Tyler School of Art (moderator); Scott Gratson, Director of the Communications Program and SCT Undergraduate Studies; Aaron Smuts, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy; Elisabeth Subrin, Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and Media Arts; and Andrew Suggs, Executive Director of Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia.

This event is part of a series of collaborative public programs presented in conjunction with the Tyler School of Art’s Jack Wolgin International Competition in the Fine Arts

My Father, the Radical:
Films by Children of Activists
Saturday June 6th, 7pm
Sedgwick Theater, 7137 Germantown Ave
(accessible by public transit–R8 and #18 & #23 bus)
$5! Locally made chocolate and baked goods available for purchase.

Birthmarks, by Naima Lowe (29 minutes)
Birthmarks is a nonfiction film by Naima Lowe featuring her father, Bill Lowe. The film tells the story of the series of small darks scars on Bill’s back that he got when the Newark Police beat him up in 1967, and the ways that fathers and daughters create beauty out of trauma, and art out of living. Using film, video, still photography, archival footage, music, and original writing by Bill and Naima Lowe, Birthmarks takes a complex and layered approach to storytelling that honors the scars of the past and sheds light on a father/daughter relationship in the present and future.

Forest for the Trees, by Bernadine Mellis (57 minutes)Filmmaker Bernadine Mellis is the daughter of civil rights lawyer Dennis Cunningham, who started out his career representing the Black Panthers and the Weathermen.
Judi Bari was an Earth First! leader who was one of the first to place as much importance on the legacy and future of the trees as she did on timber workers’ lives and families. But that strategic relationship was too much of a threat. Her car was bombed in 1990, and three hours later, she was arrested as a terrorist–charges that were later dropped. Convinced it was a ploy by the FBI to discredit her and Earth First!, Judi decided to sue.
Cunningham took on Judi’s case and after 12 years, Judi Bari v. the FBI finally gets a court date. Knowing this is one of her father’s most important cases, Mellis is there at strategy meetings, at breakfast, driving to and from the court, documenting her morally driven, very tired dad. Not your typical “Take your daughter to work day,” THE FOREST FOR THE TREES offers access to a piece of U.S. history that everyday grows increasingly resonant.

www.naimalowe.com

Temple University Cinematheque presents
A Double-Feature of Unorthodox Noir Films

The Bewitched
dir. Arch Oboler, 1945, 65 mins, black & white

This very unusual noir about a young woman struggling with a murderous split personality remains unavailable on DVD. Take this rare opportunity to see a film by the multitalented Oboler who, like Orson Welles, started in radio and once incited a public panic by detailing the horror of a giant, undulating chicken heart!


Chan is Missing
dir. Wayne Wang, 1982, 75 mins, black & white

Ostensibly a noirish quest for a missing business partner, this independent feature actually becomes a complex portrait of San Francisco's Chinese-American community. The film was shot in three weeks for around $30,000 and incorporates many non-professional actors from the Chinatown community as well as local actors who are given room to improvise in scenes sometimes reminiscent of Cassavetes. The film won numerous awards upon its release and has since been deemed a National Treasure by the Library of Congress Film Registry.

Thursday, April 30, 5:30PM
Tuttleman Learning Center - Room 101
13th between Montgomery and Berks

Both films will be presented on DVD projected onto a big screen.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 9, 2009

Contact:
Jennifer McLennan
jennifer@arl.org

SPARKY VIDEO CONTEST GOES LOCAL, ADDS PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD
Competition showcases student videos, promotes library services
and offers instructors a fun and thought-provoking class assignment

Washington, DC - April 9, 2009 - The organizers of the popular Sparky Awards, which recognize the best new short videos on the value of information sharing, are calling on colleges and universities to organize their own campus video competitions in 2009 to get maximum benefit from the third-annual installment of the contest.

Well-suited for adoption as a class assignment, the Sparky Awards invite contestants to submit videos of two minutes or less that imaginatively portray the benefits of the open, legal exchange of information. The contest is an opportunity to promote library services, including media services or the information commons, where students can edit video, browse media, work collaboratively and learn about copyright.

Last year Brigham Young University (BYU), Penn State University, and Dartmouth College were among the campuses that organized local Sparky contests. "The experience was remarkable," said BYU librarian Randy Olsen. "Although our contest was open for less than a month, we received seven submissions prepared by 58 students. The night we screened the entries I invited the video producers to introduce their works. In every case the students spoke articulately, even passionately, about open access and it was obvious that they had become conversant with all of the issues we as librarians care so much about. By the end of the evening I felt that our investment in the awards - an iTouch and two fifty dollar checks - was money well spent."

Entries in the international Sparky Awards competition must be received between April 9 and December 6, 2009. To be eligible, videos must be freely available on the Internet and available for use under a Creative Commons License.

In addition to the international Grand Prize and Runner-up winners selected by a distinguished jury, the organizers are adding a People's Choice Award this year, which will give visitors to the Sparky Web site a chance to vote for their favorite entry in the international competition. People's Choice voting will be open between December 8, 2009 and January 30, 2010, after all entries have been received.

The international award-winning videos will be announced in conjunction with the January 2010 American Library Association Midwinter Conference in Boston, where the winners will be screened. The national Grand Prize winner will receive a cash prize of $1,000 along with a Sparky Award statuette. The Runner Up and People's Choice winners will each receive $500 plus a personalized award certificate. At the discretion of the judges, additional Special Merit Awards may be designated.

For details on the contest and tips on organizing a local competition, visit the Sparky Awards Web site at http://www.sparkyawards.org.

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THE SPARKY AWARDS are organized and sponsored by SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), an alliance of academic libraries and research institutions that promotes new scholarly communication models that expand sharing of information via the Internet. SPARC is a founder of the Alliance for Taxpayer Access, representing taxpayers, patients, physicians, researchers, and institutions that support open public access to taxpayer-funded research.

The panel unanimously agreed Romanelli was at fault for failing to properly identify himself or to comply with the instructions or directions of a person acting in duly authorized university capacity and gave him disciplinary probation until the end of the Fall 2009 semester and 20 hours of community service, which they recommended he complete with Campus Safety.

I wish this Temple News article had gone into more detail about what photographers on campus are expected to do to comply with University regulations, and any discussion about how that may or may not differ from what regular citizen photographers can or cannot do with city or state police and photography. I bet there was some interesting followup discussion in that Photography for Filmmakers class.