ISE-NY, Inc.
Newsletter
February/March 2005 Volume 1, Issue 3
The Institute for Spiritual Entertainment, Inc.: MISSION
ISE-NY (The Institute for Spiritual Entertainment) is a collective of practical and artistic people from all corners of entertainment, film, theater, media, communication and innovative arts dedicated to envisioning and creating empowering, positive and spiritually nourishing entertainment
ISE-NY is a pending 501(c)3 non-profit company formed to support media creators with networking opportunities, educational forums, practical support, fundraising services, audience outlets, film festivals, competitions and basically as many ways to empower its members to create excellent spiritual entertainment as possible or necessary.
ISE-NY monthly series offers networking opportunities and practical programs that are both informative and also provide hands-on-experience. Additionally, we offer a series of interactive seminars with knowledgeable media professionals, as well as screenings of films in various stages of completion. ISE-NY also invites producers and performers of live entertainment to participate and share their work.
As an off-shoot of the global non-profit ISE organization and the film distribution company www.spiritualcinemacircle.com, ISE-NY media makers are in communication throughout with their potential audience.
ISE-NY MEETS MONTHLY every first Tuesday of the month 7PM-9:30PM Location TBA. For details and to join the email list call 212 475-1875 or email muriela@nyc.rr.com
BE INPIRED, SHARE YOUR WORK, LEARN NEW SKILLS, MEET LIKE-MINDED MEDIA MAKERS!
Upcoming ISE-NY Events/Screenings
ISE-NY March Meeting
Tuesday March 1, 2005, 7PM - 10PM
From Dream to Screenplay: Manifesting Your Vision
Guest Speaker: David Baugnon
BIO - David E. Baugnon (a native of New Orleans currently living in New York City) is a fulltime filmmaker and screenwriter whose credits include the documentary Matisyahu, which won the Special Jury Prize at the God on Film Festival 2004, the documentary White Bait, screened at the New Orleans Film Festival 2003, the short comedies Born Slippery and Call Time, which screened at the New York Independent Film & Video Festival 2001, and writer of a Public Service TV campaign for United Cerebral Palsy Foundation produced by Give a Damn Films. David teaches screenwriting in New York at Writers Boot Camp and the Pratt Institute. His feature script, Code of Ethics, was optioned to Thousand Yard Films in November of 2001.
Program Location:
St. Johns University Saval Auditorium
101 Murray Street ( Near WTC)
Program Notes:
To take FULL advantage of this opportunity, please view films the following films in advance of the program:
(1). Movie: "Whale Rider"
(2). Movie "Punch Drunk Love"
As this is intended to be an INTERACTIVE and CREATIVE program, please watch the films carefully for structure and character development, taking notes for discussion during the program.
Please Bring:
(1). Pitch: Single Sentence Movie Idea
(2). Paper & Pen
"Dave Baugnon ... will offer insight, inspiration and instruction on crafting your screenplay idea into a script."
Admission: Gratis-All welcome
Donations to ISE-NY, Inc. gratefully accepted.
Save-the-Dates
ISE-NY presents a weekend of
SPIRITUAL FILMMAKING with Stephen Simon
June 9 - June 12, 2005
Join veteran Hollywood producer and Spiritual Cinema pioneer Stephen Simon for an interactive weekend of seminars designed to inspire and empower spiritual cinema enthusiasts, established and emerging industry professionals and students to create and appreciate spiritual entertainment.
Stephen Simon is the co-founder and President of The Spiritual Cinema Circle, the niche DVD home delivery subscription service and President of the non-profit organization, ISE, The Institute for Spiritual Entertainment.
Stephen produced and directed the independent film INDIGO and produced the Academy Award® winning WHAT DREAMS MAY COME starring Robin Williams. His book The Force is With You -Mystical Movie Messages That Inspire Our Lives calls for recognition of a new film genre - Spiritual Cinema.
Program Schedule:
Thursday, June 9th: Mystical Movie Messages that inspire our lives
Friday, June 10th: Mini-Film Festival & Reception
Saturday, June 11th: Spiritual Filmmaking 101: All day workshop
Sunday, June 12th: The Power of the Pitch
For details and to RSVP, contact Muriel at (212) 475-1875 or email muriela@nyc.com
Featured Filmmaker
Muriel Stockdale
Director & ISE-NY, INC.'s Co-Founder and Spirit Leader
For over 26 years Muriel has created outstanding costumes for some of the finest producers of film, TV and live entertainment. She has also produced, directed, stage-managed, performed, crewed, managed costume shops, and designed and painted scenery.
Muriel taught at New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts, Graduate Design Department for fourteen years. She is an accomplished artist and craftsperson, a Reiki hands-on-healer, a resourceful businesswoman, and a writer. She has completed her second screenplay, Gabriels Flight, and won a commission to write the book for a musical version of the Indian epic myth, Ramayana.
Over 30 years Muriel has been devoted to the study of spiritual traditions of all cultures. She has acquired a profound appreciation for all forms of worship. Her mandate is to create uplifting entertainment that shares and celebrates our rich multicultural human heritage and the universal truths of our spiritual traditions.
The idea for this film was born during a sacred Hindu fire ceremony held in the Shree Muktananda Ashram in upstate NY.
For me that fire ceremony was a powerfully sacred and profoundly nurturing event. It was a celebration that made me feel that my connection to the divine was tangible and that that connection was primordial, now and eternal. I realized right then that this America is filled with sacred events that uplift us. I made a commitment then to find a way to share those nurturing practices through media.
Muriel's short film NEW YORK CITY SPIRIT will premiere at the 4th Annual Damah Festival March 11-12, 2005 in Los Angeles. See websites below for more information. There will be 5 members of the ISE-NY community in attendance. Safe travels!
www.nycspirit.com: New York City Spirit is a prayer, an affirmation for a positive future for our entire world. This film celebrates the spiritual heart of New York City which is a paradigm for a new global future. It is a missive of peace. Cultures are integrating all over the world and unfortunately we hear about it only when there are problems. We dont hear how integration brilliantly enhances communities. People fear that mingling with other cultures means the destruction of their own heritage. In New York, conflict is the exception not the rule.
www.damah.org: The Damah Film Festival is open to the general public and is dedicated to screening short spiritual films. Damah (dù mah)[1] noun. Hebrew 1. a metaphor that transforms. 2. an art form that starts with a commonly accepted way of looking at the world and adds a surprise or unexpected twist that results in a new perspective that inspires and transforms the viewer. 3. the merging of the known, the unknown and the transcendent. 4. similar to the storytelling form known as the parable.
* for further information please visit www.nycspirit.com
Production News & Opportunities
Check out - http://www.goodnewsbroadcast.org/ - Look for Muriels soon to come interview about the film New York City Spirit with Paul Sladkus of Good News Broadcast. While you are at it look at the excellent mandate of Good News Broadcast. Also they are looking for good news content. If you have great uplifting news to share, please contact Paul Sladkus.
ABOUT GOOD NEWS CORPORATION A 501 C 3 Corporation
Good News Corporation (GNC) is the first media company to focus solely on delivering non-violent, life-affirming, thought-provoking, educational and multi-cultural news and content world-wide.
Programming for GNC comes from leading independent or network producers throughout the world who care about Good News. In addition, inspirational writers, lecturers, celebrities and world figures will be part of the "team". But the team is larger than that, as it requests you to become part of it and help create the content.
Paul Sladkus, a 30-year award-winning veteran of the communications industry founded Good News Corporation in 1998. A distinguished, caring, Board of Advisors serves as additional eyes, ears and the conscience of the programming.
SCENES IN A MIND
A Screenplay by Micheley Angelina
CAST OF CHARACTERS:
Carl Stanislavski
A twenty-seven year old, Polish American, with brown hair and brown eyes, six feet two, with an athletic build. He is shy and reserved, a bit naïve, tied to his Polish Jewish roots yet also trying to find himself. He wants to have a relationship but is also phobic about commitment. A talented bassist, he has nevertheless chosen medicine over music and is presently undergoing his hospital internship as an emergency room doctor.
Kate Huben
A thirty-seven year old, Austrian American, blond with blue eyes, five feet eight inches tall, slender and graceful. She practices yoga. Her parents are both psychiatrists and she is a successful, practicing psychologist. Her work has given no solutions to some of her cases and she refers them to her friend and mentor in her spiritual path, Eliara Molvos.
Eliara Molvos
A fifty-three year old artist, musician, psychic, channel, interfaith minister with traditional psychology training who also practices alternative body-mind-spirit healing modalities.
Dr. Jacob Spinberg
A friend of Carl and his father, a family physician. He has helped Carl overcome his mothers death in a car accident and mentors Carl in his medical career
While ISE-NY, Inc., supports all of the Spiritual Entertainment Community members, ISE-NY, Inc. is not affiliated with the individual projects and is simply providing a platform for the community to announce their projects and network with other members of the community.
Related Programs of Interest
Writer's Boot Camp
Photographer - New York City area only
Writers Boot Camp is presently offering a Professional Membership, which begins with the 22-month Think Tank program, in exchange for photographic services. Most of the events wed like to fall under the parameters of a photography barter will be held on weeknights, though on occasion a weekend day/night may be involved. Please direct an E-mail detailing relevant experience/qualifications to Dave Sparling, dsparling@writersbootcamp.com, Los Angeles Program Coordinator, with NEW YORK PHOTOGRAPHER in the Subject Line.
Videographer - New York City area only
Writers Boot Camp is presently offering a Professional Membership, which begins with the 22-month Think Tank program, in exchange for Videographic services. Candidates must have their own, high-quality digital camera equipment and editing capabilities. Most of the events wed like to fall under the parameters of a photography barter will be held on weeknights, though on occasion a weekend day/night may be involved. Please direct an E-mail detailing relevant experience/qualifications to Dave Sparling, dsparling@writersbootcamp.com, Los Angeles Program Coordinator, with NEW YORK VIDEOGRAPHER in the Subject Line.
Writers Boot Camp Founder and President Jeffrey Gordon sheds light on some commonly held fallacies about writing for film and television.
Screenwriting
Museum Project
Writers Boot Camp is proud to be the primary sponsor of this unique organization.
If You're an Actor ...
Writers Boot Camp has a long history of helping members of the acting community.
I'd Rather be Dancing
Dir. Yvonne Farrow, 30 min.
American Theater of Harlem Film Festival
Thursday, February 24, 2005
South Oxford Space
138 South Oxford Street
Fort Green, Brooklyn
7:00pm (promptly!)
Tickets are $15
(or buy a pass to the entire festival for $50)
You Are Warmly Invited to
A Screening of My Twin Sister Yvonne's Short Film...
While throwing out her memories, a paralyzed dance diva (now wife and mother), is confronted by her ex-lover and dance partner, who shows her that the spirit of a dancer doesnt die with the use of her legs, forcing her to choose between her family and a creatively fulfilling life from her wheelchair.
Yvonne's film had it's National debut recently in the Pan African Film and Arts Festival in Los Angeles at the Magic Johnson Theatre and will be shown in different festivals (including one in West Africa!) over the next month or so. Happily, it will be presented right here in New York so we can all see it!
I was invited by Yvonne to work on the film, and will have an opportunity to say a few words at the screening. I hope you will come!
For more information visit: www.americantheatreofharlem.org or email them at info@americantheatreof harlem.org or telephone them at 718-857-2783.
A Dog's Life A Dogamentary
HBO/Cinemax
Television Premiere
March 15, 2005
7:30 PM
American Theatre of Harlem: www.americantheatreofharlem.org
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Submit your announcements and pertinent articles of interest for the ISE-NY, Inc. newsletter to Ms Guirlaine Belizaire, gbelizaire@unicefusa.org, by the 10th of each month to have them included in the next issue.
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Images provided by New York City Spirit - www.nycspirit.com
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