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WIFE SWAP, ABC'S HIT PRIMETIME SHOW, SEEKS SUPERSTAR FAMILIES OF INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS!
Got an email today from a casting producer with ABC's "Wife Swap." Apparently, they're looking to do an episode with filmmaker families (families with one or more director that uses the rest of the family to help make movies).
The premise of Wife Swap is that one parent from each household swaps places for a week to experience how another family lives.It is an incredible family experience and opportunity to both learn and teach different family values. Let us know if you get picked!
Wife Swap is a fascinating story of what happens when two couples see themselves and their partners in a whole new light. The New York Post says, "It should be called 'Life Swap' because it's not just the wives who learn something here. It's the families."
Potential families can live anywhere in the United States, but we ask that families applying for the show consist of two parents and have at least one child, age 7 or older, living at home. Specifically, I'm looking for families of independent film makers!If you, along with your family, are hustling in the independent film scene, then I want to talk to you! To submit for the show please email a family photo and description to:
IMMENANT THREAT - Tucson Mayor and City Council may cut or eliminate all funding for Access Tucson TUESDAY!! Don’t let them take the community’s voice away!!
FACTS:
The economy is tanking, yet cable fees paid by Cox subscribers to the City of Tucson are not declining. These fees amount to $5,250,000 a year. They are not taxes although the City treats them as general fund income.
Access Tucson funding from the City of Tucson went from $1,077,690 in 2008 to $897,921 in 2009. That was a funding decrease of 17%. As a result every budget category has been cut, staff has been laid off and all remaining staff will be sent home without pay for the month of June. Just to get through June!
Access Tucson proposed to the City that significant money could be saved by co-locating their own government channel (Tucson 12) with Access Tucson to save on rent, equipment and some functions. At this point there are no signs that this is under consideration by the City.Write Comment (0 comments)
It was a sad yet fitting sign of the times for the Tucson movie industry Monday night, as movers and shakers gathered at the dilapidated Temple of Music and Art for the Tucson Film Industry Summit.
Seven panelists, consisting of the leaders of the Tucson and Phoenix film offices, a crew union rep and a Hollywood producer gathered for a muddled event that came off to me as a roundabout, two-hour pitch for donations to the foundering, Scottsdale-based Arizona Film & Media Coalition, which lobbies for the tax incentive program and wants to conduct a $50,000 study on filmmaking’s economic impact in the state.
I walked away from the meeting, which was full of contradicting messages (Our tax incentive plan isn’t good enough! Donate to us to keep it alive!) fairly depressed about the present and future of our once-thriving movie scene.
It was fitting the meeting took place Downtown, amid torn-up streets and decaying buildings. Tucson Film Office director Shelli Hall likened the tax incentive’s impact to Rio Nuevo, saying that progress has been made, but it’s difficult to see.
I think Hall was spot-on with the metaphor, only not in the way she wanted to be. The tax incentive program, instituted in 2006 and set to expire in 2010, is just like Tucson’s fumbling of Downtown renewal and attempts to keep Spring Training. Nice, well-intentioned people are spearheading these movements, and seem to lack the connections or resources to get anything significant accomplished.
Reel Inspiration is hosting an intensive weekend workshop with
master directing instructor Mark Travis.
The workshop runs from 8:30
a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on March 21-22 at Artfare, 55 N. 6h Ave. Downtown Tucson, AZ.
Come at 8 a.m. the first day to sign in. The cost to observe for pre-registered
directors and actors is $70 (with a $10 discount for APA, IFP, IFASA and NALIP
members.) Students with school ID, are $40. The cost at the door is $80 where
only cash and money orders will be accepted. *Lunch is available at a modest
price at Artfare's restaurant.
Space is limited so don't wait to
register. To get the pre-registration price register before March 13. Interested
actors and directors, contact Jana for registration information at 325-9175 or
The workshop is sponsored by Artfare, the
Tucson Film Office, Tucson Mariott University Park, and Reel
Inspiration.
Mark is the author of the Best Seller, THE DIRECTOR’S
JOURNEY: the Creative Collaboration between Directors, Writers and Actors as
well as DIRECTING FEATURE FILMS. Mark has shared his techniques at The Directors
Guild, American Film Institute, Pixar Animations Studios, UCLA Extension, and
workshops around the world. Mark is a creative consultant to film directors Mark
Rydell, George Tillman, Cyrus Nowrasteh, among others.
Reel Inspiration is hosting a directing workshop March 21-22 with master
directing instructor Mark Travis on \"Working with Actors in Rehearsal, Staging
and Performance.\" Day 1, Mark will lecture and demonstrate with 3-4 actors the
Travis Technique as a powerful tool to explore the characters within the actors.
Day 2, pre-selected directors will be coached as they direct two-actor scenes
while being observed by an audience of directors and actors.
Mark is the
author of the Best Seller, THE DIRECTOR?S JOURNEY: the Creative Collaboration
between Directors, Writers and Actors as well as DIRECTING FEATURE FILMS. Mark
has shared his techniques at The Directors Guild, American Film Institute, Pixar
Animations Studios, UCLA Extension, and workshops around the world. Mark is a
creative consultant to film directors Mark Rydell, Geo rge Tillman, Cyrus
Nowrasteh, among others.
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Got an email today from a casting producer with ABC's "Wife Swap." Apparently, they're looking to do an episode with filmmaker families (families with one or more director that uses the rest of the family to help make movies).
Reel Inspiration is hosting a directing workshop March 21-22 with master
directing instructor Mark Travis on \"Working with Actors in Rehearsal, Staging
and Performance.\" Day 1, Mark will lecture and demonstrate with 3-4 actors the
Travis Technique as a powerful tool to explore the characters within the actors.
Day 2, pre-selected directors will be coached as they direct two-actor scenes
while being observed by an audience of directors and actors.
