If you've been over to MetroPulse.com lately, you may have noticed that we've begun assembling the great and wonderous MetroScope!
While the official launch is not until Thursday, we'll be adding videos over the next few days. There's lots of exclusive videos like Phil Hardison's music video for The Black Cadillacs and new original programming from Knoxville Films that are celebrating their world premiere on MetroScope!
Wander on over and take a look. Be sure to leave a comment and tell them Knoxville Films sent 'ya!
Click HERE--do it!
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Join Knoxville Films and the Metro Pulse as we celebrate the launch of the new
MetroScope Video Gallery curated by Knoxville Films! The party is on Thursday, May 22 from 6-9pm at Side Street Tavern in Homberg Place.
FEATURING LIVE MUSIC FROM JAYSTORM!!!
Side Street has a kick ass Happy Hour from 3pm till 8pm which includes $1.50 domestic draft beer, $2.00 Shiner Bock drafts, $3.00 house wines and $3.50 well drinks.
DIRECTIONS
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Macville Productions's RED arrived today. Look for more info in the next week about a RED workshop day in June where you can come play with the RED and better understand it's new workflow.
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Congratulations RIVR!!
RIVR Media, a Knoxville based production company, made Realscreen’s Global 100 list on March 7th, 2008 – the annual listing of the top 100 independent production companies
working in non-fiction.
The list was culled from broadcaster ratings: so ultimately it’s the audience that put
RIVR on this list. The top broadcasters from around the World gave Realscreen their
top-rated non-fiction shows from 2007 and Realscreen pared back to the producers of
each of those shows, and from that they created the list.
Agents, broadcasters and consultants have all used this list to find the brightest talent in
the industry, so it is a great achievement and it can be a great opportunity for business
development.
You may find Realscreen’s Global 100 list and press at www.realscreen.com
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The film and TV industry gets political
by Jim Ridley
After watching Big Cable remote-control the Tennessee legislature this session, while Big Liquor put a cork in legislation that would have permitted wine sales in grocery stores, it’s apparent that the clearest way to make your voice heard by lawmakers is through a bullhorn of money—by officially becoming a special interest. So move over, Big Tobacco…and say hello to Big Picture.
Read the full story from the Nashville Scene.
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There's only one day left to enter your email address to subscribe to the Knoxville Films daily email blast for a chance to win two tickets to the advanced screening of Son of Rambow!
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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