The Shoot Out 24 Hour Filmmaking Festival » Press Release http://www.theshootoutboulder.com/blog Named one of the world’s top 24 events for 2010 by a Frommer's Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:48:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 New Boulder History Museum film exhibit highlights CO films past and present, including Boulder’s filmmaking Festival http://www.theshootoutboulder.com/blog/press-release/new-boulder-history-museum-film-exhibit-highlights-co-films-past-and-present-including-boulders-filmmaking-festival/ http://www.theshootoutboulder.com/blog/press-release/new-boulder-history-museum-film-exhibit-highlights-co-films-past-and-present-including-boulders-filmmaking-festival/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:48:15 +0000 mmconti http://www.theshootoutboulder.com/blog/?p=255
Bell Howell Filmo 70DA 16mm

VINTAGE FILM EQUIPMENT

The Shoot Out 24 Hour Filmmaking Festival Boulder will also be represented as part of the display along with some other filmmaking items provided by Michael Conti (see camera above) for the exhibit. Thank you Boulder History Museum!

The Boulder History Museum’s new film exhibit opening Friday, January 13th, 2012 celebrates over a hundred years of filmmaking in Colorado with film posters and footage dating back to 1898. A special sneak preview with drinks and appetizers will take place Thursday, January 12th from 5:30-7pm. Admission is $10 for the general public, free for members. From the museum’s website:

“Colorado was the backdrop for over 500 movies since 1898. Whether it was for early silent films, Westerns and ski movies, or Stan Brackhage’s famous works of avant-garde art cinema, Hollywood came to Colorado to set the scene. View original movie posters and footage of more than 100 years of Colorado films set in areas such as Golden, Morrison, Cañon City and throughout the high country. This exhibit will also be supplemented with material highlighting Boulder’s own movie history.”

 

Here is a bit more information about the item shown above:

Bell & Howell Filmo 70DA 16mm Camera (Circa 1940s-1950s)
As a student at The Colorado College in 1986, Michael Conti (Executive Director of The Shoot Out 24 Hour Filmmaking Festival) was given the camera by a film lab technician at Alexander Film and Video in Colorado Springs during post production work on his senior thesis film project “Public Fixture”.  At the time, Michael was editing his black and white 16 mm student film under the mentorship of Boulder filmmaker Stan Brakhage.

Alexander Film and Video was the last incarnation of now defunct Motion Picture Alexander Corp., which began in 1919 and eventually became heavily involved in commercial production for national accounts. They were the world’s largest producer of screen ads for the theater industry and by 1955, had agreements with 2,500 drive-ins. It was estimated that 10,000,000 people a week saw their ads.  All of which was produced from their studios in Colorado Springs which made them the biggest film studio between New York and Hollywood!

While the camera may have been part of Alexander’s trailer making arsenal of equipment, it is important to note that the Bell & Howell Filmo helped usher in the beginnings of television news. In the mid to late 50′s and early 60′s when local stations first began to venture out of the studio and incorporate film into their nightly news programs, it was the well proven 16mm Filmo they chose to acquire B&W footage of local events.

Because of the short deadline between filming the news and then getting on the air, cameramen typically shot in-camera or in continuity which required no editing in a post production facility.  The film only needed to be processed and projected for television.  

This concept is still in action today at The Shoot Out 24 Hour Filmmaking Festival Boulder (September 28-30, 2012) as a requirement for its filmmaking contestants in order to encourage their creativity.

References:

Motion Picture Alexander Corp (Pictures): 
In-Camera Editing – The Shoot Out Boulder
Bell & Howell Filmo 70DA 16mm Cameras
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  • What form of art is the shoot out?
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]]> http://www.theshootoutboulder.com/blog/press-release/the-shoot-out-boulder-art-event-24hrs/feed/ 0 The Shoot Out evolves with the changing times by meeting the needs of the community, participants and audiences http://www.theshootoutboulder.com/blog/press-release/the-shoot-out-evolves-with-the-changing-times-by-meeting-the-needs-of-the-community-participants-and-audiences/ http://www.theshootoutboulder.com/blog/press-release/the-shoot-out-evolves-with-the-changing-times-by-meeting-the-needs-of-the-community-participants-and-audiences/#comments Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:48:11 +0000 mmconti http://www.theshootoutboulder.com/blog/?p=219 The 1st annual 24 Hour Filmmaking Festival kicked off Oct. 22th, 2004 at 9:43 PM in front of the Boulder County Court House on the Pearl Street Mall. 74 teams entered that event,

And for the last seven years, we have continued to draw participant interest in Boulder’s only annual filmmaking contest and where “Experiences Are Better Than Possessions.”

The Shoot Out Boulder is listed in the 2010 World Trip Planner published by Guardian U.K. to the world’s hottest tickets and little-known events, compiled by the Frommer’s team at Whatsonwhen.com. Other three events listed in the United States are Burning Man, Macy’s Day Parade and the San Diego Surf Dog Competition.

Westword Best of Denver has honored The Shoot Out 24 Hour Filmmaking Festival as the Best Local Film Festival 2009, Best Film Festival 2007, Best New Festival 2004 by their Editors.  We are also rightfully included in Keep Boulder Weird

Registrants have come from the Denver Metro, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, and Seattle, WA, Scottsbluff NE, Boston, MA and Gurnee, IL.  Colleges represented: University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado Film School, Colorado College, CUS and Westminster Front Range Community College.

The Shoot Out Boulder’s mission continues to be to break through artistic inertia and audience indifference by providing an exceptional creative venue for artistic expression through film.

The top films from previous years were shown at Boulder Adventure Film Festival, Toofy Film Festival, Boulder International Film Festival [BIFF], Moondance Film Festival, ManiaTV’s Too Short for Hollywood, CATV 55 Boulder, International Film Series at CU-Boulder, CU Program Council, Boulder Public Library, Emerging Filmmaker’s Project, the Starz Film Center in Denver, Colorado College Film Union and The Colorado Music Festival.

Press has included cover articles for Friday Magazine Section in the Daily Camera, Boulder Weekly,  Colorado Daily, Denver Post, Colorado Springs Gazette, Westword, Longmont Times-Call.  Radio interviews on Colorado Public Radio’s “Colorado Matters“, KBCO, KRCC,  and KGNU.

The sponsors have been The Boulder Arts Commission, Boulder County Arts Alliance, Boulder International Film Festival, KBCO, Daily Camera, The Boulder Convention and Visitor Bureau, Chimera Perfect Lighting, Sony, Twisted Foundation, Audition for Hollywood, Boulder Digital Arts, Peak Media and Downtown Boulder, Inc., Film/Video Equipment Service Co, Breckenridge Brewery, Bacaro Ristorante, and CROCS to name just a few.

Our demographics show that we now have a growing family category. In 2011, we will designate a new award for that category “Best Boulder Family Award”.  Number of junior teams was a  33% increase over 2009 numbers. This age group continues be our growth area with the highest number of participants all teams. The average age is 15, and teams came from Englewood, Denver, Littleton, Boulder and Lafayette. Known High schools represented were Boulder High School, Fairview High School, Golden High School and Dawson School.

All of these highlights point out that The Shoot Out has continued to evolve with the changing times by meeting the needs of the community, participants and audiences to deliver a fun and memorable creative event in downtown Boulder.

Please let us know what you think?

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]]> http://www.theshootoutboulder.com/blog/press-release/2010-poster-is-ready/feed/ 1 “Do something only you would come up with—that none of your friends or family would think of.” http://www.theshootoutboulder.com/blog/press-release/%e2%80%9cdo-something-only-you-would-come-up-with%e2%80%94that-none-of-your-friends-or-family-would-think-of-%e2%80%9d/ http://www.theshootoutboulder.com/blog/press-release/%e2%80%9cdo-something-only-you-would-come-up-with%e2%80%94that-none-of-your-friends-or-family-would-think-of-%e2%80%9d/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:51:22 +0000 mmconti http://www.theshootoutboulder.com/blog/?p=147 It is affirmation that The Shoot Out Boulder was creating an interest in community based film-making when international film-making festivals come to Denver such as Film Racing 2010 and The 48 Hour Film Project. Now in their 7th year, The Shoot Out 24 Hour Filmmmaking Festival Boulder returns for the weekend of September 24-26, 2010.
The Shoot Out Boulder asks filmmakers to trust their courage, imagination and determination by making a 7-minute film in just 24 hours using in-camera editing. The challenge and skill involved becomes evident with the list of required technical, material, and timing ‘rules’ for creating the films.
An unique feature of The Shoot Out Boulder not found in other competitions is the in-camera editing requirement.  While this rule may appear to add an unnecessary hardship to the creative process, it is actually a means to level the field for participants.  For someone that isn’t familiar with non-linear digital editing (using the computer to cut together scenes), in-camera editing is easier to explain and do.  All the director needs to know is how to turn on and turn off the camera, and to shoot in continuity (tell the story as it happens).  For the more experienced director, in-camera offers some challenges that require more thought and prep in preparing the storyboard and shot list, but the skills learned may help later to “shoot for the edit”.
The participants in The Shoot Out Boulder are not just film professionals, but come from all walks of life, consisting of friends and families and all age groups.  It is from their combined efforts over a short weekend that gives Boulder the freshest and most creative films to behold at the Top 10 Gala screening on Sunday, September 26 at the Boulder Theater. That screening event is probably the number one reason why The Shoot Out Boulder is so much fun to participate in.
The cost per team is $100 which includes two participants and two tickets to the screening event. 17 & under teams are $75. Additional team members are $25 and $20 respectively and includes a ticket to the venue screening. Additional venue tickets can be purchased for $15 each. The screening is open to the public with tickets available at the Boulder Theater Box office.
Call for entries will start on August 4, 2010 online at http://theshootoutboulder.com. Check out the website for new rules for 2010. If you are interested in learning more about in-camera editing, a pre-event all day workshop that is being co-presented with Boulder Digital Arts will occur on September 18th in downtown Boulder.  Visit BDA’s website for more details.
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“I’m looking forward to showing our club’s film from the Shoot Out Cheyenne, ‘To Be A Cowboy.’ I am proud of it,” Best of the West President Emily Robinson said. The seminar will offer four workshops: digital storytelling, camera basics, three-point lighting and audio production.

Read the full article in The Branding Iron, the local Laramie Wyoming newspaper.

]]> http://www.theshootoutboulder.com/blog/press-release/best-of-the-west-to-offer-filmmaking-workshop/feed/ 0 Young Haitian filmmakers lose their film school but keep shooting – and they need our help! http://www.theshootoutboulder.com/blog/press-release/young-haitian-filmmakers-lose-their-film-school-but-keep-shooting-%e2%80%93-and-they-need-our-help/ http://www.theshootoutboulder.com/blog/press-release/young-haitian-filmmakers-lose-their-film-school-but-keep-shooting-%e2%80%93-and-they-need-our-help/#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:44:17 +0000 mmconti http://www.theshootoutboulder.com/blog/?p=133 The Ciné Institute, based in Jacmel on Haiti’s southern coast,
was completely destroyed in Tuesday’s earthquake. The Ciné
Institute provided Haitian youth with film education and
edutainment, technical training, and media related micro
enterprise opportunities.

It is now gone.

BUT…the students (all of whom survived) went back into the
rubble of their building and found their cameras. And they are
now shooting – making a visual record of Haitians (by
Haitians) during this crisis.

What can we do?

The Institute relies on the support of individuals,
organizations and film professionals from around the world to
support a movement that harnesses the power of film to educate
and create opportunity for Haiti’s youth.

Check out the website and donate anything you can to help
rebuild the school – and give these passionate students hope
for their future. http://www.cineinstitute.com

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“Bored of Cannes? Sick of Sundance? Then try Shoot Out where filmmakers have just 24 hours to make a seven-minute movie.”

Read more

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Included in this stellar line-up is The Shoot Out 24 Hour Filmmaking Festival Boulder 2008 winner of Best Film: GLASS REUNION

Brad Stabio and Team of GLASS REUNION

 

As part of:

PROGRAM 32
Sunday, 3:00pm, Boulder Public Library

Glass Reunion

USA/Colorado, short film 2008, 7 min
Glass Reunion won Best Film at The Shoot Out 24 Hour Filmmaking
Festival. Now in its fifth year, the Shoot Out Boulder is
a pioneering film festival that challenges filmmakers to trust
their courage and determination to make a 7-minute film in
just 24 hours.
Directed by Brad Stabio, Brad Stabio in person

Also included in the programming is:

The Prince of Broadway

USA, Feature Film, 2008, 99 min
Grand Prize Winner at the
Turin International Film Festival
The latest film by rising-star indie filmmaker Sean Baker is about
Lucky, a charismatic West African NYC street salesman with a
hearty laugh who runs a nonstop hustle selling knock-off designer
merchandise to passing tourists. Lucky’s luck changes when his
ex-girfriend drops off a baby she says is his, and then disappears.
Like all new parents, Lucky finds that his life has turned upside
down.
The genius of this film is that Lucky is played by a real Ghanian
NYC street hustler named Prince Adu, who attracted other
outrageous characters from his neighborhood to play themselves
in the film. Their complicated personal stories began to weave
into Baker’s fictional script, resulting in one of the grittiest and
surprisingly funny films about the lives and loves of immigrants in
America that you’ll ever see.
Directed by Sean Baker
Boulder Premiere
Sean Baker in person

Tickets at the Boulder Theater

More information available at Boulder International Film Festival Website

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Best 17 & Under
Produced and Directed by Kevin Bell.  Camera by Huan Manton.  Script by Jake Lackner.  Sound by Calla Winchell.  Music by Julian Brier.  Acting by Julian Brier, Annie Martens, Aharon Montes.

Steppin’ Out
Produced by Devyn Isaacson. Directed and Camera by Tyler Isaacson. Script by Katherine Horwich and Devyn Isaacson. Sound by Taylor Freeman. Art by Katherine Horwich. Acting by William Horwich and Olivia Freeman.

Brock Vs Jon
Best Music
Produced by Zachary Dripps. Directed by Jack Gregory.  Camera by Cody Hart.  Music by Zackary Dripps, Jason Potter and Adam Brauerman.

Take As Directed
Produced, Directed and Camera by Mark Copley. Script by Mark Copley. Acting by Jim Quan and Steven Wash.

Lipstick on the Loose
Produced by Jackie Dawson.  Directed by Samuel Gerber.  Camera by Jackie Dawson and Samuel Gerber.  Art by Kate Turcotte.  Script by Lynn Grasberg.  Sound by Phoenix- Brian Priester and Samuel Gerber.  Music by Lynn Grasberg.  Acting by Kate Turcotte, Lynn Grasberg, Phoenix- Brian Priester and Samuel Gerber.

Roll with It II:  This Time it’s Institutional
Produced by Jonathan Kohler.  Directed by Ben Flynn.  Camera by Jonathan Kohler.  Script by Damien Dawson.  Acting by Jonathan Kohler, Damien Dawson, Ben Flynn.

The Room
Best Sound Design
Produced by Mark Philips.  Directed, Script, Sound, Music, Camera by Eric Klassen.  Acting by Nick Albino, Oscar Phillips, Mark Phillips.

Crust Never Sleeps Extra Cheesy Part II
Best Comedy
Best Art Direction
Produced and Directed by Ashley Albiniak.  Camera and Art Direction by Corbin Gill. Script by David Coile. Music by Emily Miller.  Acting by David Coile, Ashley Albiniak,  Kevan Masters, Amaraja Turzanski, Ben Hueffle, and Cheryl McLean.

Are You Watching Closely
Best Director
Produced and Directed by Cougar Littlefield.  Camera and Art Direction by Justin Salvia.  Script by Cougar Littlefield.  Acting by Richard Fleming, Sean Hart, Seth Tonk.

The Chess Stop
Best Actor – Jason Paul McGlauglin
Best Screenplay
Produced by Daniel Goldhaber.  Directed by Daniel Goldhaber and Jeffrey Orlowski. Sound, Camera by Jeffrey Orlowski.  Art and Script by Daniel Goldhaber.  Music by Giancarlo Columbo.  Acting by Jason Paul ‘Jake’ McGlauglin and Johanna Walker.

Glass Reunion
Best Film
Best Cinematography and In-Camera Editing
Produced, Camera, Directed by Brad Stabio.  Art Direction by Jordan Leigh.  Script by Jeff Kosloski.  Sound by Robert Stocking.  Acting by Jeff Kosloski,  Kirk Anderson, Meghan  McMahon and Jordan Leigh.

Honorable Mentions

Buzz Worthy
Silver Spurs 17 & Over
Produced, Script, Sound and Directed by Angela Palermo. Camera and Art by Sandra Azcarate. Acting by Russ Mills, Lauren Yormack, Bonnie Pierce.

Career Day
Silver Spurs 17 & Over
Produced, Directed, Camera, Art direction and Script by Sam Gansfield. Additional support by Mareike D. Duffing Romero. Acting byPatrick O’Neil, Alice Gansfield, Steven Gansfield, Robert Brooks and Gabby Kennedy.

Stealing Time
Silver Spurs 17 & Under
Produced, Directed, Camera, Music and Sound by Wendell Luckow. Art and Script by Ethan Shamarock and Wendell Luckow. Acting by Tyler Setlock, Ethan Shamarock.

Updated: October 19, 2008

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