One more notice

Hello Everyone!

Just wanted to give one more notice to you busy media makers out there. I have had a few more calls and emails than usual this year. Probably because our CALL FOR ENTRY deadline is earlier this year. We want all of you to enjoy the Showcase. So the the deadline has been extended to the end of next week, March 28. Please use the online entry form to state your intended entry by March 21.

Best of luck to all of you!

Sincerely,
Barbara

Big Screen Showcase
P.O. Box 204
Carlotta CA 95528

Any questions or just want to talk about your films give a call
(707) 768 -1738
Please forward to those who need to know.

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Many Thanks ! Big Screen Showcase Winners Online

Hello Everyone:

I hope you had a rather splendid holiday weekend.

I would like to give a special thanks to Doug Renwick of CopiaGroup and Derek Howard. These two have made it the best year ever for our web site.

Our web master, Derek Howard, released a new version of the site TheYoungMediaMakers.org that contains a NEWS / blog section and a variable access display of all the winning entries of the 2007 Big Screen Showcase. Please go to TheYoungMediaMakers.org and enjoy the success of our youth.

Derek is a senior at Fortuna Union High School. He developed TheYoungMediaMakers.org in his elective computer applications class, "Students Working In The Community of Humboldt" (SWITCH).

The site is supported by HostGIS, a CopiaGroup company. Doug also helped to design the entry and release forms. I can't wait to experience the newest movies coming in for our spring festival.

Enjoy.

Sincerely,
Barbara Domanchuk

TheYoungMediaMakers.org

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News Article in the Beacon

A News Article by The Humboldt Beacon.

  Young movie makers ages 8 to 22 are invited to enter their films in The Young Media Makers seventh annual Big Screen Showcase. The showcase provides an opportunity for youth to have their movies viewed by the general public, learn more about their career opportunities and talk with media teachers and other filmmakers about future projects.

  All movies that are submitted by the deadline, March 14, will be eligible to compete for prizes in the selected category, and for the grand prize of having the movie go to Chicago.

  Winners from the Big Screen Showcase are automatically entered into the Chicago Film Festival. Last year, three movies from the 2005 Big Screen Showcase were selected for screening at the Chicago Film Festival. This is quite an honor, as films are solicited from all over the world and only 581 submissions were accepted worldwide.

  Of those 581 movies, Humboldt County-based Chisa Hughes won a Certificate of Merit for her first movie, “Working to Survive Behind Barbed Wire: The Nisei Interned.” Her documentary portrays the living conditions for Japanese Americans in the internment camps set up in the United States during World War II.

  Entries should be submitted on mini DV tape or DVD and can be no longer than 10 minutes in length. Submit them to The Young Media Makers Big Screen Showcase, 790 Riverside Park Road, Carlotta, CA 95528.

  Categories include commercial, educational, documentary, animation, experimental and narrative trailer.

  The competition will commence on May 5 at College of the Redwoods Forum Theater, 7351 Tompkins Hill Road, Eureka.

  For more information, call Barbara Domanchuk at 768-1738 or go to www.TheYoungMediaMakers.org.

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Get ready!

  Now is the time to start buttoning up your edits on the 2007 movie submissions to the Big Screen Showcase. We have made the festival slightly more competitive this year by moving up the CALL FOR ENTRY to March 14, 2007. All producers that want to compete for prizes must have their movies in by the deadline. Go here to enter your movie, print entry forms, and mail them in with your media.

  Winners from the Big Screen Showcase are automatically entered into the Chicago Film Festival. Last year, three movies from the 2005 Big Screen Showcase were selected for screening. Its a huge deal because they solicit world wide and received 581 submissions. Of all those movies, Humboldt County based Chisa Hughes won a Certificate of Merit for her first movie, "Working to Survive Behind Barbed Wire: The Nisei Interned." Her documentary portrays the living conditions for Japanese Americans in the interment camps set up in the United States during WWll.

  Central Recycling Agency- Director/producer Caleb Price gives up a sci-fi twist to this educational movie about the importance of our recycling effort. Good acting, great special effects, and conceptually sweet.

  Another noteworthy movie that entered itself into the Chicago film festival, after screening at the 2005 Showcase is Wiggyman Productions' "Waking Up," a spellbinder about a young man capable of seeing the future. Producer/director Rameen Aryanpur, good writing and good acting. The editor was really paying attention.

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Another News Article

A News Article, by The Eureka Reporter.

  A 16-year-old budding filmmaker’s work featured in Young Media Makers 2006 Big Screen Showcase has garnered a Certificate of Merit from the 2006 Future Filmmakers Festival, which was presented by Cinema/Chicago June 16-18.

  Young Media Makers founder/director Barbara Domanchuk submitted North Coast Preparatory and Performing Arts Academy student Chisa Hughes’ documentary “Working to Survive Behind Barbed Wire: The Nisei Interned” and the film was one of 581 submitted to the festival from across the United States.

  The documentary is about the second-generation Japanese Americans, the Nisei, interned during World War II. Her film research included interviewing her grandparents, aunts and uncles and friends, who were all interned.

  Hughes made the film at age 14. It was a culmination of a research project, completed during the first semester of her freshman year at the Arcata-based North Coast Prep.

  Hughes said that she hopes to educate fellow teens through her film.

  "I believe that it's easier for teens to absorb and learn through visual means than through text," she said.

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