Just when you think you’re full up on the back beats, world music, and crawfish pies that Jazz Fest has in store, this year’s Sync Up team and the crew at NOVAC want you to save some room for a little home-grown cinema. As an outgrowth of last year’s successful Sync Up conference, originally designed as an entertainment industry event to coincide with Jazz Fest, this year the conference will include a special component to celebrate Louisiana films and filmmakers at Sync Up Cinema.

Some of the films to screen are the much anticipated documentary Tchoupitoulas by brothers Bill and Turner Ross as well as the everyone’s favorite Academy Award-winning short, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by Louisiana’s own William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg. All of the films will screen on April 30th and May 1st in the Stern Auditorium at the New Orleans Museum of Art.  And put away those Brass Passes, guys because admission to Sync Up Cinema is free and no advance registration is required.  For a complete screening schedule click here.

Sync Up Cinema is made possible with support from: 

Louisiana Entertainment, NOVATOUR, NODE, audiosocket, Creative Allies, Toledano Entertainment and Arts Law, New Orleans Film Society, NOVAC, New Orleans Film Alliance, People’s Health, New Orleans Museum of Art, Scene Louisiana Entertainment Magazine, New Orleans Metropolitan Convention & Visitors Bureau, Inc., Court 13

WWLTV
Aired Monday, April 9, 2012
Interview by Mike Hoss
Produced By: Val Amedee & Dionne Butler

NOVAC’s Director of Programs Ashley Charbonnet sat down with Mike Hoss of WWLTV Morning News to discuss Making the Deal Film Financing Seminar and Networking Event presented by Baker Donelson and hosted by Loyola University College of Law’s Sports and Entertainment Law Society (SELS).  Joining Ashley is Rob Wollfarth, Of Council at Baker Donelson and Making the Deal Guest Lecturer. CLICK HERE TO VIEW INTERVIEW.

WWLTV
Aired Monday, April 9, 2012
Interview by Mike Hoss
Produced By: Val Amedee & Dionne Butler

NOVAC’s Director of Programs Ashley Charbonnet sat down with Mike Hoss of WWLTV Morning News to discuss Making the Deal Film Financing Seminar and Networking Event presented by Baker Donelson and hosted by Loyola University College of Law’s Sports and Entertainment Law Society (SELS).  Joining Ashley is Rob Wollfarth, Of Council at Baker Donelson and Making the Deal Guest Lecturer.

Making the Cut: Intro to Compressor & DVD Studio Pro  is a one day intensive that will provide the fundamentals of encoding, transcoding, and compression for projects like DVD authoring, readying videos for the web, or converting different video formats for editing and post-production. Once participants have a grasp on Compressor, Making the Cut instructor, Christopher C. Brown will take students through the ins and outs of DVD authoring using DVD Studio Pro.

Making the Cut participants will learn:

• Compressor Interface
• Common Codecs
• Compressing options based on your needs and outputs such as web and iphone upload, DVD and Blu-Ray disc
• Burning a DVD
• Creating Menus
• Creating Chapters

WHEN & WHERE: Saturday, July 21  from 10 AM – 5 PM at NOVAC training Center, 532 Louisa Street

TUITION COST: $75 for NOVAC Members & $125 for Non-Members, $50 Laptop Editor Price (Participants using their own laptop equipped with Compressor and DVD Studio Pro may participate at this price)

NOVAC Members Register Here.  New to NOVAC? Become a Member to save $50 instantly on this course or register here.

Have Your own Laptop equipped with Compressor and DVD Studio Pro? REGISTER HERE and instantly save $75 on the course.

Please be sure to review our rescheduling and cancellation policy prior to purchasing any NOVAC course.

Making the Cut:Make Your Own Damn Reel is a 2-day intensive, hands-on workshop designed to educate actors on the ins and outs of creating their own acting reels using both Final Cut Pro 7 and iMovie.  Taught by seasoned Final Cut Pro editor and reel wizard, Christopher C. Brown, actors will learn:

• The Final Cut Pro 7 interface
• Alternative workflows of iMovie and Final Cut Pro 7
• Logging and transferring media
• Getting the best quality footage from provided DVD’s and clips
• Introduction to transitions
• Generating Text for your reels
• Incorporating music into your reels
• Uploading your reel to the web
• And More…

Between the Facebook page updates, your latest twitter movie review, updating that Linkedin page with the latest shoot on your resume, and of course popping into kickstarter or IndieGoGo to donate an Alexander Hamilton to a buddy’s crowd sourcing effort there seems to be no time left for face to face networking.  That’s why NOVAC is bringing back an oldie but a goodie: social networking…in-person.

NOVAC’s 3rd Thursdays, are monthly networking events designed to connect NOVAC friends and members to other local filmmakers, future collaborators, likeminded artists, potential mentors and maybe even your next gig.  Hosted by partner venue, 12 Bar, current NOVAC members will receive drink specials starting at 6PM.  So, update your status that you’re heading over to NOVAC’s 3rd Thursday.  Just be sure to check in.

MAY EVENT DETAILS

WHEN: May 17th, 2012 (and every 3rd Thursday to follow)

WHERE: 12Bar, 608 Fulton Street, New Orleans, LA 70130 (map)

MEMBER SPECIAL: $2 Domestic, $3 Well Drinks

For more information about 3rd Thursdays email Director of Programs, Ashley Charbonnet at ashley@novacvideo.org. 

HOSTING SPONSOR

Whether you’s are an indie filmmaker with a project in development or a law student with a taste for IP and entertainment law, NOVAC may have just what you need to kick your project into gear. On April 14 NOVAC members, filmmakers and members of Loyola College of Law’s Sports and Entertainment Law Society (SELS) will come together at NOVAC’s Making the Deal, presented by Baker Donelson Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowiz, PC to learn the ins and outs of indie film financing in the current marketplace, and hopefully pick up a contact or two while they are at it.  Hosted by Loyola’s SELS Making the Deal will take place at Loyola’s law school campus from 10AM – 5PM with a networking event to follow.

Taught by seasoned entertainment attorney, author and lecturer John Cones, Making the Deal will cover producer packages, an overview of film finance, the relationship between film distribution and finance, investor financing strategies and more.

“It is absolutely essential,” says Cones, “for independent filmmakers to have a basic understanding of what their film finance options are, because almost all of them will, at one time or another in their careers, set out to become an entrepreneurial filmmaker and seek to find financing for a project.”

Cones has lectured extensively on investor entertainment financing and film distribution deals at seminars in Los Angeles, Houston, and Las Vegas as well as at the American Film Institute, UCLA extension, USC – Television Alumni Association and more.

Making the Deal will not only provide participants with critical information necessary to secure investors, but it will also connect local filmmakers to future entertainment attorneys so that together, they may package films for financing and distribution in the future. Featuring guest lecturers from the National Law Firm Baker Donelson, Making the Deal will also cover legal and other resources available to the growing film industry here in New Orleans.

NOVAC caught up with Making the Deal guest speaker and Baker Donelson of Council Rob Wollfarth who insisted ”programs such as [Making the Deal] are a good way to connect those in the industry, and those hoping to become a part of the industry, to local professionals who can provide the services they need and who are also interested in helping them grow the film business in New Orleans.”

Whitney Kelem, president of SELS is also excited about partnering with NOVAC on Making the Deal. “NOVAC is an organization that offers so much to the burgeoning film community and SELS is thrilled to be able to expose law students to issues of film financing, an area that many of them may not even realize is a potential source of legal work and that will give them an opportunity to begin thinking about alternative ways they can apply their legal expertise,” says Kelem.

Following the course, participants will mix and mingle at the followup networking event where they will have the opportunity to discuss their projects, diverse fields and how they may work together in the future.  Tuition for Making the Deal is $75 for NOVAC members and $125 for non-members.  For more information about Making the Deal, instructor John Cones or to register, click here or call the NOVAC offices at 504-940-5780.

So sign up and get cracking on those producer packages and financing strategies.  Isn’t it about time you made that deal?

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