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If you already subscribe to the daily email and wish to enter the contest, just send an email to RAMBOW CONTEST with CONTEST in the subject line.
The screening will take place at Regal Riviera Stadium 8 on May 14 at 7:30pm. Contest winner will be chosen at noon on May 13.
CLICK HERE for more information about Son of Rambow.
(Tickets courtesy of Paramount Vantage and Shakefire.com)
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Please email any photographs to: Michael Barnes - mbarnes@knoxvillechamber.com or Thomas Duncan – tduncan@knoxvillechamber.com.
Include with the photographs the county and address of where the photograph was taken or other location information, photographer and house / landowner contact phone numbers, and email addresses.
Please feel free to forward this to anyone you know who could possibly help…local photographers, real estate people, business people, government, etc…
Things are heating up for a location needed to help bring a movie project to East Tennessee. A trip by the producers and location people is expected to take place as early as the weekend of the 17th and 18th of May (no rush here).
Do understand: They are planning to severely damage or destroy this farm house. Negotiations for any compensation will be handled between the property owner and the producers. This is an independent made-for-TV film.
The other requirements for the house were copied and pasted from their emails and are included below:
1 - We'd need to be free to basically destroy it: Tear down walls/porch roofs/entire sections of the house and/or remodel it.
2 - The house needs to be two stories, but also fairly small and compact in a simple rectangle/square design.
3 - The ceilings of the ground floor would have to be pretty high and, likewise, the second story and the windows for the second story would have to be as high up from the ground as possible. ie Though it needs to be fairly small in terms of square-footage, we need a tall house, one in which people on the second story couldn't easily leap down from. (Or be really quickly lowered down on a sheet, in Bird's case.)
4 - The main room downstairs (as well as the stairs themselves) must be configured in a very specific way.
5 - The house needs to be in the middle of nowhere all by itself with no other signs of civilization in sight. It needs to be in an open field with woodlands facing the front the door. The road leading to it needs to be dirt. The road can't split off past the house to imply that other houses are nearby.
“The living room needs to at least resemble the diagrams, though of course, it doesn't have to be spot on down to the tiniest measurement. The most important things are that it's a big, wide, deep room with lots of floor space (comparable to the footage in the diagrams), that the stairs are in the room extending up along one wall, and that they disappear into the ceiling. (ie The top of them isn't visible from the floor of the room, unless you're standing right in front of the stairs.)
From the living room, Sade needs to leap out a ground floor window on the wall adjacent to the front door. If there isn't a window on the adjacent wall and there's instead another room on the other side of the wall, then we need to be able to tear down that wall and make the living room and that new room one big open area in order for the front door to have a window adjacent to it.
We might need to tear down entire walls, tear down the porch (there can't be a porch roof for Bird or Carter to escape out onto), make new windows, tear down stairs and rebuild them differently (and maybe in a different spot), etc. Stuff like that.
And no matter what house we get, we'll need to tear down a large portion of the entire front wall of the bottom floor, exposing the living room to the outside, so we can shoot into the room like it's a dollhouse. (We'll shoot this last, obviously. :)
So though we wouldn't exactly be bulldozing the entire structure to the ground, we'd certainly be leaving it in a pretty destroyed state. (Especially considering an entire portion of the front wall will be missing and the bottom floor will be open to nature.)
“Finding a house that fits the guidelines of what we need just became our biggest challenge, so we'll probably spend the greatest amount of time checking out houses during the trip”.
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The Pangea Day Mission & Purpose
Pangea Day is a global event bringing the world together through film.
Why? In a world where people are often divided by borders, difference, and conflict, it's easy to lose sight of what we all have in common. Pangea Day seeks to overcome that – to help people see themselves in others – through the power of film.
The Pangea Day Event
Starting at 18:00 GMT on May 10, 2008, locations in Cairo, Kigali, London, Los Angeles, Mumbai, and Rio de Janeiro will be linked for a live program of powerful films, live music, and visionary speakers. The entire program will be broadcast – in seven languages – to millions of people worldwide through the internet, television, and mobile phones.
The 24 short films to be featured have been selected from an international competition that generated more than 2,500 submissions from over one hundred countries. The films were chosen based on their ability to inspire, transform, and allow us see the world through another person's eyes. Details on the Pangea Day films can be viewed here.
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During the Boys of Summerville premiere, Brooks Benjamin mentioned that they would post an eBay auction for the "Summerville Welcomes You" sign that was used in the movie. During the premiere, it was signed by the cast and crew in attendance, and now... it can be yours forever!
And best of all... 100% of the final price will go to the charity: A PLACE TO BARK, which is a no kill animal rescue center in Portland, TN.
This place works on donations and isn't government funded, and can definitely use your help! We were hoping to leave the charity portion blank so the buyer could choose which charity he or she wants, but alas... eBay says we cannot... So we found A PLACE TO BARK and Lee Loo, Brook's and Jackie's wonderful German Shepherd mix (who makes a cameo appearance in the movie) agreed... it will be the perfect charity!
So, go to the eBay listing and place your bid now! You'll get to own a piece of Summerville, a piece of indie movie history, and help out our little furry friends in the process!!! Happy bidding, and please forward this email to everyone you know!
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Thanks for a great night Detroit!
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Out shooting for for Lexus of Knoxville. Doing a short film based on "It's a Wonderful Life". Thanks to the jib I was able to get a really nice shot from off the bridge.
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