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Festival Line-up

All Sports LA Film Festival

4^th Annual from November 09, 2012 to November 11, 2012
Next Deadline: June 15, 2012

Submitting Category: Short Documentary

Fee: $25.00

Reason for this festival: Sports Themed, Short Doc Category, Accepts Students

Chicago International Film Festival

48^th Annual from October 11, 2012 to October 25, 2012
Next Deadline: June 22, 2012

Submitting Category: Short Subjects

Fee: $30

Reason for this festival: Docufest, Short Film Competition, Black Perspective, World of Competition (sports themed)

Cucalorus Film Festival

18^th Annual from November 08, 2012 to November 11, 2012
Next Deadline: June 20, 2012

Submitting Category: All Entries

Fee: $25 (FREE for local filmmakers)

Reason for this festival: Supports Local Filmmakers, It’s Cucalorus!

Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

Just held 15^th Annual April 12, 2012 to April 15, 2012 (Look into 2013 submission)

Next deadline: TBA

Submitting Category: Short Documentary

Fee: $40

Reason for this festival: Regional, Supports Short Documentary

San Francisco Black Film Festival

14th Annual June 15, 2012 to June 17, 2012

Next Deadline: May 15, 2012 (Look into 2013 submission)

Submitting Category: Short Documentary

Fee: $50 (Late Deadline)

Reason: Specializes in black culture

Praxis Film Festival

Just held festival January 21, 2012

Next Deadline: TBA (Look into 2013 submission)

Fee: FREE

Reason for this festival: Regional, Free, Loves UNCW students


Visions
Just held festival March 30, 2012
NExt Deadline: TBA (Look into 2013 submission)
Fee: $15
Reason for this festival: It's Visions, duh.

Crew Bios

Director - Anthony Muscolino

Anthony is a senior at the University of North Carolina Wilmington majoring in Film Studies and minoring in Psychology.  He has worked with TealTV as lead editor for two years, interned at Cine Partners, and completed a directed independent study working Dave Monahan’s documentary Grahamland.

Cinematographer - Josh Ludwig

Josh is a senior at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, majoring in Film Studies.  He recently was the cinematographer on a short documentary about the Duplin Winery at Rose Hill, NC entitled Passing It On, which was accepted in the Praxis Film Festival.  He was also recently camera operator for an art installation project on the university campus entitled “Face Age” directed by Dave Monahan.  Joshua is currently completing two              directed independent studies, one being Grahamland directed by Dave Monahan and the other Heart At Home directed by Lou Buttino.





Producer - Philip Varvaris

Philip is a senior at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, majoring in Film Studies.  He recently directed a short documentary on the Duplin winery of Rose Hill, NC entitled Passing It On, which was accepted into the Praxis Film Festival. He has also completed an internship with African Inland Missions' On-field Media department in Nairobi, Kenya.

Master Budget

Shooting Schedule and Equipment List

Shooting Schedule:

• February 17th -Interview Coach Lyle
• March 2nd - Interview 1st set of boxers
• March 9th-10th - NC Golden Gloves
• March 31st-April 1st - VA Golden Gloves
• April 13th, 14th, 15th - NC Azalea Festival

Equipment List:

• D5100, 60D,  AF100, CP 16
• Arri Kit, PAR lights, 2 soft boxes
• H4N audio recorder
• 3 XLR cables
• 2 wireless lav mics, 1 shotgun mic, headphones
• 2 tripods

Tag Line & Synopsis

"When it comes to amateur boxing, you learn about life first and boxing second."

Amateur boxing coach and trainer, Lyle Booker, has a good understanding that young men (and women) need to be taught respect & discipline early on in life before peer pressure steers them in the opposite direction. Living by the golden rule - "One should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself" - Lyle preaches to the kids that come to the gym that they need to learn to respect themselves before they step foot inside the ring. Out of the hundreds of kids he's trained over his lifetime he's had about four kids that just never bought in to his philosophies. One of his positive examples is Chris Cromartie, a 21 year old amateur boxer and manager at Wilmington Coastal Boxing. Chris has many motivations to make a successful career out of boxing, most importantly his son. However, if he never makes "big" he will still be a success to himself and Lyle because  he obtained the attributes to be a good person through learning how to box.

"Devotional Cinema" Response (Joshua)

The idea that film can be powerful and even scary is something that has stayed with me for most of my life. The beginnings of such a power began with my father and his collection of Star Trek episodes on VHS. Considered hokey by today’s standards, the story and action of certain episodes affected me on a visceral level back when I was child. While filmmaking technology has progressed by leaps and bounds since then, cinema itself still holds the same power that it did back when I was young. This is what inspires me in my own filmmaking, a singular experience that brings together unknowns and evolves them into something that is known.

There have very few films that have changed the way I look at the world and how it works. I can count on my hands how many films that have done this. The idea that Dorsky puts forth in his book regarding how cinema changes how one sees the world is something that is lost in today’s cinema. In my filmmaking I hope to broaden this idea and make it more accessible to the viewing audiences.

Too many films are on the extreme edges of what they wish to represent. One side is the experimental genre, which alienates a majority of the viewer public, and the other is the soulless moneymaker of big budget Hollywood. Through his view on how cinema can be viewed, it is my belief that films can go between these two extremes and can be both entertaining and enlightening, and be able to reach a broad audience. In my present and future filmmaking I hope to achieve this. I see the benefits that the two extremes can have. When put together they can create an experience that resonates and changes a viewer. Films have had and still have the power to change the way we view the world, it is my hope that my filmmaking can propel this change to both new and old audiences.