Archive for September, 2008

Silver Spring Stage’s One-Act Festival

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

silver spring stageI missed the 2008 Silver Spring Stage One-Act Festival when it went down in August, but I’m hoping to try and participate in it next year. I just added it to our “To Participate in” page for good measure. 

I found about it through the Washington Post (in that same article, I found about about Improvapalooza also – which I recently twittered about here.)

Here’s a picture from one of the plays Tea Exercise. I found this over on another Washington Post article about the One-Act Festival.

This is the page on the 2008 One-Act Festival from the Silver Spring Stage’s website.

I’m not sure what it takes to submit a script.  I saw back in 2006 they had a call for submissions, but didn’t see anything like that recently.  I just shot them an e-mail.  Let’s see what they say – I would like to submit a one-act script for their 2009 One-Act Festival. 

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DC Shorts Film Festival 2008

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

DC Shorts Film Festival Vote for Reel Expressions The Decision is Yours

Check out http://dcshorts.com/ for details. We recently added the DC Shorts Film Festival to our To Participate in page.

I checked this out with my wife Rida on Friday night, and we saw Showcase 5 and the best films on there were:

  1. Corner Delancey
  2. En Pos De Dios
  3. CU@ED’s
  4. Tough Crowd was good too and worth checking out.

The Washington Post had this article on the DC Shorts Film Festival 2008 on Thursday, September 11, 2008. Going through the article, “The List” seems pretty interesting described by the post as a “brief, brutal little story on interrogation.”



Rob Raffety’s Funniest Fed 2007 Documentary was also featured in this film festival (it was premiered at the DC Independent Film Festival – here’s its page on that site), but unfortunately, it had to be shortened and as a result, the stuff featuring me was removed. :-( .

Update: 9/15/2008:

  1. Rob Raffety’s Funniest Fed 2007 won the best local film award at the DC Shorts Film Festival, so congratulations to him
  2. Rob Raffety was also mentioned in the Washington Post here for his hilarious greeting (all filmmakers in the DC Shorts Film Festival have their own mailboxes which can be used to reach out to them)
  3. Nice little feature in the Washington Post on Jonn Gann, the founder of the DC Shorts Film Festival, DC Film Alliance, and DC Film Salon

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Source Festival

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

Source

I just added the Source Festival to our (newly created) “To Participate in” page on the R1i blog.

I first heard about the Source Festival in the Our Picks section of the Washington Post’s Sunday Source on June 26, 2008. They have 24 hour plays and one act plays. I’ve written a one-act play already (The History Lesson – which can be seen here on Google Video). I have wanted to finish writing one more called The Contractor. The Source Festival could be a good reason to do so.

Here are some links on this Festival:

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