APPLYING TO FESTIVALS: THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
Wednesday May 26th, 6PM-8PM
SAW Video members: $15 / Non-members: $30
Instructor: Sharon Katz
Workshop limited to 10 participants

Congratulations, you just finished a film. Now, you can put it in the bottom drawer or send it out to festivals. Nobody we know takes the bottom drawer option.

Filmmaker and Animation World Network (AWN) author Sharon Katz shares her experience with the international festival circuit and offers practical advice on how to navigate a route that will best showcase your film.

Sharon Katz is a visual artist working in animated and still images. In 1994 she began experimenting with digitally created images in motion and followed this with formal studies in animation. Since then she has completed five animated short films and a number of experimental works in the genre. Her films are screened at art and film festivals worldwide.
 

Date: Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Location: Mayfair Theatre, 1074 Bank Street
Time: 7:00pm
Admission: $5
Come celebrate the New Year with RESOLUTION 2010, the anticipated annual screening of new works from SAW Video members.
Featuring independent works produced in 2009, the programme is comprised of eleven short videos. The range of styles and interests from dramas to documentaries to experimental videos make for an evening which pays tribute to the creativeness and rich diversity of Ottawa's media arts community.
Join us after the screening at Patty's Pub, 1186 Bank Street!

Thanks to all who responded to my casting call! I am quite sorry I didn't have time to get back to you all individually. I have archived your email addresses though, so I may contact you in the future for different projects.
 

Deadline: January 11, 2010
The Video Virgin fund is a production support program aimed at providing opportunities for LGBT artists from the Ottawa/Gatineau region. This program is aimed at gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual, transgendered and two-spirited artists who wish to express themselves creatively through the medium of video. Applicants to the fund must be new to filmmaking or have less than 3 videos to their credit. Proposals are assessed by a jury and the successful applicant will have one year to complete the project.

I am currently looking for an actress to play the role in EVOLUcity.
A woman 25-30 years of age. Dark hair and fair complexion. The role does not involve any speaking, but you must be comfortable smoking a cigarette.
The whole scene will be shot on green screen, wearing various period costumes from the 1900s to the future. Stylist, make-up artist and hair professionals have already been sourced.
The shoot is only for one day, and will be happening on January 3rd 2010.
Please email *** if you are interested. Only serious and commited candidates may apply.
visit: www.evolucity.wordpress.com to see the progress on the animation/construction of the film. The actress will be compiled into the paper environments! If you ever wanted to be a paper doll, NOW IS YOUR CHANCE!

Visit my process blog @
www.evolucity.wordpress.com
to see some of the work that I have been working on lately.

The ArtSocial.... live art.... conversations on post-humanism and how it relates to electronic mediums..... experiments and video installations, break dancers....Mrs. PAC MAN and Galaga and live printi making.....delicious soup that warms the blood.....we'll there was no soup but soup is good. Maybe nextime. 

On July 7, 2009, there will be a new kind of video screening in Ottawa, unlike any seen before.
 
Tuesday July 7th, 2009 - Club SAW, at 2 Daly Avenue, will be a screening of short videos by Ottawa Artists and Film makers called, simply, JULY 7.
(www.july7.ca)
Curator and Artist, Marc Adornato, who is organizing and funding the free event, has assembled some of Ottawa's biggest names in video and film shorts.
Heavyweights like filmmakers Bridget Farr, Roger Wilson, Phil Caron, Ariel Smith, as well as new-comer to Ottawa Megan Turnbull and others will be showing their stuff in a new screening that is anything but ordinary.
"JULY 7" is an eclectic mix of arts and entertainment shorts weaved  together with youtube clips, historical footage of Ottawa, and other interludes set to the music of Ottawa's Dr.Lee and others.
Produced by Ottawa Artist Marc Adornato, a prolific media making machine, this screening event, like Adornato's website, is a MUST SEE!

In the artsy Ottawa district of Hintonburg, near the Parkdale Market, there is a gallery called The Patrick John Mills Gallery. There you will find an out-door video station playing videos by Ottawa Video Artists.
This is a must see. For more info, contact me, or visit http://www.patrickjohnmills.com/

 Why is the mircokorg such a common used tool in the Canadian indie scene....? let me do a quick demo for you......when experimenting with sythns, reading the manual is key....the korg can do anything...seriously read the manual its all there...brilliant arpeggios can come together will just a few keystokes and tweaks....fun stuff....working on MIDI tempo Syncs...exciting.
 
 
Here is my experimental glitched video demo of me using the MicroKorg. Enjoy:
 

 
 
In the production phase of Sunjet's next EP release, NO official date or title. For those of you don't know Sunjet (my band) check us out Rah Rah/Sunjet/Ketch Harbour Wolves/Ship Shapes. Should be a fantastic show and line up...
 

  As an avid web technologist, I'm privy to the wonderful world of open source information. While some artists, or purveyers of creative media are desperately trying to recover revenue in this age of digital information, others are paving the way for a world where information is free.

check:

• http://creativecommons.ca/ 
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source 
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_software 

..to learn more about the specifics. point is, I almost feel tempted, as an artist, as a musician, as code monkey, web junky, to declare myself offically open source.
Imagine a world where truely inspired creation could happen between groups of individuals. Remixing, rebuilding, seperate creative beings contributing to the same stream of thought as it deverges and converges and callapses in on itself.