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screenings and confrences

FHTA FILMS LONDON BOUND
We’re please to announce that In Search Of directed by Zeke Zelker and I F*cking Hate You directed by Zak Forsman will be headed to London for a special FHTA screening. Both films will play during Power to the Pixel, a special digital innovation event held during the London Film Festival. Thanks to Wonderland for making the event possible. Congratulations to Zeke and Zak and as we have more details we’ll post them here.

BOSTON
On Oct 3rd and 4th FHTA and DIY DAYS will be staging events in Boston. If you happen to live in the Boston area and want to lend a hand or help spread the word please let drop us a line at info [@] fromheretoawesome dot com

Book of Caleb directed by Matthew Von Manahan, Ring of Blood directed by Javier Prato, and a special Boston premiere of Boston Smile Project directed by David Tames will be screening on Oct 3rd.

Here are the full details.

SPECIAL SCREENING of FROM HERE TO AWESOME FILMS
Friday, October 3, 2008
Tower Auditorium
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
621 Huntington Avenue, Boston
Directions Link: http://massart.edu/x474.xml
7pm to 9:30pm

DIY DAYS CONFERENCE
FREE DAY of Workshops, Panels and Roundtable discussions
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Trustees Room, 11th Floor Tower Building
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
621 Huntington Avenue, Boston
Directions Link:: http://massart.edu/x474.xml
10am to 6:30pm

For more info visit www.diydays.com

Screenings

The screenings in SF were fun. The movies that the audience selected were TO THE HILLS2, MEDITATE AND DESTROY, and IN SEARCH OF. Special thanks to CineGoGo for helping to support the screenings in Mint Plaza.

In the spirit of DIY, FHTA filmmakers are setting up their own screenings with other films from the festival. Here is a video from RING OF BLOOD filmmaker Javier Prato. He’s traveling the country and staging screenings of FHTA short films.

If you’re interested in providing a venue for FHTA films or would like to tell us about a venue that you think would be a good fit, we’d love to hear from you. info [at] fromheretoawesome dot com

IN OTHER NEWS

FHTA films will be hitting Joost and Amazon in the next week or so.

We’re working on setting up a special screening in Boston that will kick off the DIY DAYS event in October.

Finally, we are close to announcing which FHTA films will be headed to London all expenses paid.

FHTA update and DIY DAYS

Well the voting process is over and we are currently in a review period. FHTA experienced a large amount of traffic over the last month as the deadline approached. We’ve started to reach out to a number of the top filmmakers and will continue to do so this week. In order for FHTA’s showcased films to reach the widest audience possible they need to meet a number of clearance requirements. Clearance pertains to music rights, talent releases, location releases and all the other fun legal stuff needed to release films within VOD and digital outlets. We’re currently contacting filmmakers and requesting screeners. For more on the topic of clearance and the dreaded delivery process read this primer by producer Tani Cohen which she wrote for the workbookprojec.com

In addition to discovery and distribution, FHTA has a special FREE educational section entitled DIY DAYS. The DIY DAYS events are a joint effort between FHTA and Current TV and will consist of workshops, case studies, panel discussions, and screenings. LA and SF are locked and we’re working on events for Boston and NYC. All the activities will be recorded and “embedding and spreading” of the materials will be encouraged. There will also be some live streaming as well.

DIY DAYS are shaping up here’s a partial list of speakers:

Tommy Pallotta - producer of A Scanner Darkly and Waking Life
Mark Pellington - director of Henry Poole is Here, Arlington Road and Mothman Prophecies
Lance Weiler - The Last Broadcast and Head Trauma
Arin Crumley - Four Eyed Monsters
M dot Strange - We Are the Strange
Saskia Wilson-Brown - Current TV
Jon Reiss - Bomb It
Alex Johnson - digital media strategist / filmmaker
Christy Dena - cross-media strategist and designer
Matt Hanson - filmmaker and founder of A Swarm of Angels
Timo Vuorensola - director of Space Wreck and co-founder of wreckamovie.com

More details coming soon.