Tuesday, March 15, 2011

FALLOUT - Official Selection, 2011 Phoenix Film Festival

UAT Digital Video's epic sci-fi action thriller "Fallout" makes its second stop on the film festival circuit at another hometown film festival - the big daddy of all Arizona festivals, the PHOENIX FILM FESTIVAL!

"Fallout" had its film festival premiere back in October 2010 at the International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival in Tempe. If you missed it then, now is your chance to see the film as it was meant to be seen - on the big screen with an audience!

"Fallout" will screen TWICE as part of "Arizona Shorts"
Saturday April 2 @ 11:55am
Sunday April 3 @ 11:35am 

Don't forget to "Like" the film over on our Facebook page!

And for those who missed it - here's the trailer for "Fallout."

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Somewhere (dot dot dot) also nominated for 2 awards!

Hot on the heels of our "Extraordinary Colleagues" announcement earlier today comes news that ANOTHER 48-Hour Film Challenge entry, "Somewhere (dot dot dot)" as also been nominated for 2 awards - BEST EDITING and BEST STORY!



"Somewhere (dot dot dot)" was produced by the UAT Digital Video student team under the leadership of Damien Rufus, Monica Thies, and Jace Oppie for the January 2011 "Beat the Clock" challenge.

Winners from each of the three rounds of the 2010-2011 Beat-the-Clock Specialty Awards will compete for finals in each respective category. IFP Phoenix members vote on these awards and winners are presented with a trophy. Voting is open to IFP/PHX members only, March 11th through March 22. To become a member and be eligible to vote, go to: http://www.ifpphx.org/page/join-ifpphx

Teams that competed all year were assigned ranking points and are also eligible for the BEST TEAM award. The winner of BEST TEAM will be announced at the April 5 screening and awarded a cash prize. In addition to Best Picture and Best Team, individual awards are also bestowed and consist of nominees from all three rounds.

Come watch the top 18 scoring films screen at the Phoenix Film Festival on Tuesday, April 5th at 7pm,  with the awards ceremony following.

Extraordinary Colleagues nominated for 4 awards!

The UAT / Locked Horns Productions 48-Hour Film Challenge entry "Extraordinary Colleagues" has been nominated for the Best Directing, Best Editing, Best Actress (Kathleen Cameron) and Best Story awards in this year's 48-Hour Challenge Finals!



Winners from each of the three rounds of the 2010-2011 Beat-the-Clock Specialty Awards will compete for finals in each respective category. IFP Phoenix members vote on these awards and winners are presented with a trophy. Voting is open to IFP/PHX members only, March 11th through March 22. To become a member and be eligible to vote, go to: http://www.ifpphx.org/page/join-ifpphx

Teams that competed all year were assigned ranking points and are also eligible for the BEST TEAM award. The winner of BEST TEAM will be announced at the April 12 screening and awarded a cash prize. In addition to Best Picture and Best Team, individual awards are also bestowed and consist of nominees from all three rounds.

Come watch the top 18 scoring films screen at the Phoenix Film Festival on Tuesday, April 5th at 7pm,  with the awards ceremony following.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Why You Need to Use SCENECHRONIZE Now!

So I'm sure many of you are familiar with Celtx - an online preproduction site. Some of you may be aware of Base Camp - an online project management tool. And the vast majority of pros in this industry are familiar with Entertainment Partners' "Movie Magic" line of software for budgeting and scheduling.

Now - how about a service that combines the functionality of all three. Scenechronize provides industry-standard tools such as Final Draft script imports (via PDF), Script Breakdown, Stripboard, Day-out-of-Days, and more, combined with an online collaborative environment that allows cast and crew to have one central point of contact for all information related to a project.


Import the PDF of your script and get right to the Breakdown. Scenechronize identifies characters and starts filling in the details for you. To add items to the Breakdown, simply highlight text in the script and then choose the category it belongs to. Before you know it, your Breakdown is totally populated with every element you need to make your film.

Once the Breakdown is complete, you can start building your Stripboard and your Schedule. Auto-sort tools allow you to sort your Stripboard by character, location, slugline, and more, plus you can then manually sort by simply dragging and dropping.

Once you enter a start date into the Stripboard, then you can generate your DooD (Day-out-of-Days) for EVERY element in the film. Need to know when a particular actor starts work? It's all there.

Plus, you can upload any kind of document, like pictures of your cast, costumes, props, your storyboards, anything that goes into your creative process. Documents can be linked to particular scenes or simply made available to the crew and cast members you select. You can generate any kind of report you might need, plus Call Sheets, daily Sides, and more.

Scenechronize offers a variety of packages, some of which even fit a student budget - FREE. Check it out and start using it today. I'm using it on my MFA thesis film and I can't imagine doing this project without it!

TEDxPhoenix videos now online!

Last semester, the DVA241 / DVA274 class documented the TEDxPhoenix event "Catalysts and Optimists." Here are the videos they produced:

This playlist is over 3 hours long, so if you'd rather pick and choose which videos you watch, surf over to YouTube directly.