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A Newsletter for The Institute for Spiritual Entertainment
New York City
November 5, 2004 Volume 1, Issue 1
On the Agenda
1. The Institute for Spiritual Entertainment, Inc.: An Overview
2. Upcoming Events
3. Featured Filmmaker
4. Call for ISE Talent Base
5. Other Announcements
The Institute for Spiritual Entertainment, Inc.: An Overview
Our Vision: To be an idea incubator that nurtures creativity, ignites the imagination and awakens the sacred within. To use traditional and new media to express ideas that illumine, and inspire individual and social transformation.
Our Mission: To define and attain recognition of 'spiritual entertainment' as a new genre in entertainment that inspires, enriches and ennobles the human spirit and to support, promote, develop and advance 'spiritual entertainment,' its evolving sub categories and the international spiritual entertainment community.
Upcoming Events
ISE-NYC MEETINGS ISE-NYC meets the first Tuesday of each month presently at 810 Broadway PH, Buzz 10, 9th Floor. The space is fast-becoming overcrowded, so Muriel is on a mission to find a larger and public location. If you have any suggestions, please send them to Muriel Stockdale, muriela@nyc.rr.com. Please mark your calendars and plan to attend the next meeting now.
Insights and Intrigue: Spiritual Filmmaking 101 An all day in depth interactive workshop with veteran producer and director, Stephen Simon, designed for established and emerging actors, writers, producers, directors, and film students who wish to advance their understanding of the entertainment industry and receive direct career advice from an established industry professional. Topics of discussion will include: an overview of the industry, the challenges of filmmaking, the art of pitching, story development and available distribution outlets. Participants are encouraged to bring a scene from a script to workshop with the group.
Stephen Simon is the co-founder and President of The Spiritual Cinema Circle, www.SpiritualCinemaCircle.com, the niche DVD home delivery subscription service and President of The Institute for Spiritual Entertainment, a non-profit organization. In his 25 years industry experience, Stephen has presided over three major Hollywood production companies and produced and directed the independent film INDIGO starring Neale Donald Walsch slated for theatrical exhibition in January 2005 and produced the Academy Award® Winning WHAT DREAMS MAY COME starring Robin Williams and Cuba Gooding Jr., the classic SOMEWHERE IN TIME starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour and fan favorite BILL AND TED's EXCELLENT ADVENTURE starring Keanu Reeves.
W New York, Union Square
201 Park Avenue South
(at 17th Street), Studio 1
New York, NY 10003
Click here for an area map
Phone (212) 253-9119
Fax (212) 253-9229
Saturday, November 20, 2004
9:00am-4:00pm
Tuition: (breakfast included)
25 students max
$225 -- Register before 11/3
$250 -- Register after 11/3
$275 -- At the door
THE WORKSHOP IS NOW FULL, BUT CALL OR EMAIL MURIEL, muriela@nyc.rr.com, TO BE PLACED ON THE WAITING LIST IF INTERESTED.
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*Take Me To The River* @ Anthology Film Archives
Saturday, 6 November
1:00 PM @ the Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Ave (Second St)
tickets: http://www.smarttix.com/
Dont miss Take Me To The River 35mm premiere showcased in the Fourth Annual IAAC Film Festival: Indian Diaspora.
Take Me To The River is a documentary film of the Maha Kumbh Mela, a Hindu festival and pilgrimage which was the largest gathering in the history of the world. The film documents the event by immersing you in the midst of the madness emotionally, as well as visually and audibly. For this reason, the film was conceived and produced, specifically to be seen on a large screen as a 35mm print.
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Featured Filmmaker
David E. Baugnon of Writers Boot Camp was recently interviewed in the NY Daily News for his documentary Matisyahu.
Read the article here: http://www.nydailynews.com/10-25-2004/entertainment/music/story/245775p-210548c.html
or at his website: http://www.davidbaugnon.com
We wish David much luck in future film festival screenings!
BIOGRAPHY - 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. As a screenwriter, David is represented by Maura Teitelbaum of the Abrams Artist Agency.
Featured Filmmaker
David E. Baugnon
David E. Baugnon of Writers Boot Camp was recently interviewed in the NY Daily News for his documentary Matisyahu.
Read the article here: http://www.nydailynews.com/10-25-2004/entertainment/music/story/245775p-210548c.html
We wish David much luck in future film festival screenings!
Biography for David E. Baugnon: A native of New Orleans currently living in New York City, David is a fulltime filmmaker and screenwriter whose credits include the documentary Matisyahu, Special Jury Prize winner at the God on Film Festival in July 2004 and an official selection in over 14 film festivals, the documentary White Bait, screened at the New Orleans Film Festival 2003, the short comedy 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. As a screenwrite, David is represented by Steven Laitmaon of SJL Management.
* for further information please contact http://www.davidbaugnon.com
Call for ISE Talent Base
Attention Spiritual Filmmakers and Talent,
If you would like to be listed in an International Talent Database, please answer the questions below (copy and paste) and forward to amanda@ise-la.org. This information may be listed on the Spiritual Cinema Circle website in the future. Contact Amanda Robinson with questions about the list.
INTERNATIONAL TALENT DATABASE FOR SPIRITUAL ENTERTAINMENT
Whats your talent in the film making process?
NAME:
LOCATION OF RESIDENCE (S):
PHONE NUMBERS (S):
EMAIL ADDRESS:
WEB ADDRESS:
LIST YOUR TALENT (S), (primary talent first):
LIST ANY OTHER UNIQUE SKILLS OR INTERESTS?
LIST YOUR EXPERIENCE (S):
ARE YOU WILLING TO VOLUNTEER YOUR TIME ON A PROJECT?
LIST ANY EQUIPTMENT OR PROPS THAT YOU ARE WILLING TO DONATE OR LOAN
TO A PROJECT IN YOUR AREA:
Email completed form to: amanda@ise-la.org Questions? Call Amanda at (310) 770-0011
Other Announcements Submit your announcements and pertinent articles of interest to the Spiritual Cinema Community to Kat L'Estrange, kinc@efn.org by the 30th of each month to have them included in the next newsletter. If you wish to be removed from this list, please send an email to kinc@efn.org with "remove" in the subject line. If you know of others who might be interested in receiving a copy of this newsletter, please have them send an email to kinc@efn.org with "subscribe" in the subject line. Peace.
The Institute for Spiritual Entertainment, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. www.spiritualcinemacircle.com |
