Marrow: Viscera’s Bone Drive

It only takes a second to be swabbed for the bone marrow test and you might save a life. Then stay for some amazing horror shorts by women filmmakers.





Viscera and WiHM Love Women and Horror Right Down to the Bone

In association with Cella Art Gallery, Femme Fatale Art Show, and City of Hope, the Viscera organization will be rolling out the bloody carpet in North Hollywood, California on February 25th to host a charity bone marrow swab registration to cap off our 2012 celebration of Women in Horror Recognition Month. Come out to support and help raise awareness about bone marrow donation through the City of Hope organization.

Right now, someone in your own organization or community may have a life-threatening illness that is so critical the only hope for a cure is a bone marrow transplant.

Finding a matching marrow donor is not always easy, or even possible. There simply aren’t enough viable donors registered. Currently, only 2 out of 10 of those suffering from diseases like leukemia, lymphoma and other life-threatening diseases ever get the treatment that could save their lives.

You can help change that.

The Be The Match Registry at City of Hope is working diligently to diversify our Registry of bone marrow donors in order to help more patients find lifesaving bone marrow matches. When you join the Be The Match Marrow Registry, you can save a life. Every day thousands of patients need a life-saving transplant and are in search of a donor. With only 30% finding a suitable donor within their family, the remaining 70% must reach out to unrelated donors whose tissue type matches. Even with the Registry of millions there are still patients waiting and hoping to find that match. That’s where you can help. Come to the Viscera Marrow Event and be swabbed and registered by City of Hope. You could save a life.

This event is FREE but please RSVP to either the facebook event page or email Stacy Pippi Hammon at stacy@viscerafilmfestival.​com. It will include a very special screening of “Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest”. This was the last project Hammer horror icon Ingrid Pitt made, narrating her own story for a short animated film by an 11 year old boy, Perry Chen, under the mentorship of cartoonist Bill Plympton.

Marrow will also provide a carpet walk, food, open bar, femme fatale-inspired art, and a screening of horror films by women. Do it for charity. Do it for Women in Horror Month.

This event is sponsored by the new horror series Holliston, premiering on FEARnet April 3rd, 2012.

VISCERA FILM LINEUP

Adventure Girls by Jon Deitcher and Dara Jade Moats
Aftershock by Lori Bowen
Blood Bunny by Molly Madfis
Nursery Crimes by Laura Whyte
Candy by Sage Hall
Bon Apetit by Kate Shenton
I was a Tranny Werewolf by Lola Rock n Rolla
The Ghost and Us by Emily Carmichael
Doll Parts by Karen Lam
Together by Gigi Romero
The Party’s Over by Gigi Romero
Box by Nikki Wall
The Many Doors of Albert Whale by Marichelle Daywalt
7/29/1989 by Mae Catt
12/15/1996 by Mae Catt
Modern Grim by Kate Shenton
A Fever and a River by Rachael Deacon
The Key to Annabel Lee by Staci Layne Wilson
Belated by Valentines Lover by Ruby La’ Rocca
The Bride by Ana Almeida
Belle Nouveau by Cassandra Sechler
Gasp by Thomai Hatsios
The Room at the Top of the Stairs by Briony Kidd

MARROW EVENT SPONSORS

City of Hope
Cella Art Gallery
Femme Fatale Art Show
FEARnet
Kaci Hansen
Lyz Arts
Irene Langholm
Matt Orsman
StarFruit Productions
PlanetEtheria.com

For More Information Regarding the Organizations and Companies Above, Hit the Following Links:

http://www.viscerafilmfestival.co​m
http://www.womeninhorrormonth.com
http://www.cityofhope.org/Pages/​default.aspx
http://www.cellagallery.com/​Site_2/Home.html
http://www.fearnet.com/
http://www.mirthquake.net/
http://www.lyzarts.com/
http://http://​wilderwein77.deviantart.com​/
http://www.starfruitproductions.c​om/
http://www.facebook.com/​homicidalhomemaker?ref=ts&s​k=wall

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DISPATCH Premiere at Hollywood Film Festival

Well, it has been a long journey since our last Film Radar Indie Blog post, but DISPATCH is finally getting its moment in the sun. To kick off our DVD and cable distribution deals, DISPATCH is having its World Premiere at the Hollywood Film Festival; Sunday, October 23 @ 7pm at the ArcLight Theater in Hollywood.

In the year-plus since we completed DISPATCH, I have become more a lawyer than a filmmaker. But that seems to be par for the course these days in the truly-independent film world. If you are lucky enough (as we are) to get distribution for your film, that comes with a lot of baggage- contracts, music cue-sheets, insurance, key art, dubs, closed captioning, etc. Tasks that the distributors used to handle are now the responsibility of the filmmakers. The tough part is that we also have to incur all the expenses for these ‘deliverables’ while receiving little to no up-front compensation. So the business model for truly-independent filmmakers appears to be completely inside out. The vendors are billing us as if we are a big studio or a distributor; the distributors are only interested in taking our product if we practically give it away. And right here in the middle, we stand as lawyer/filmmakers, paying to have our films shown.

For example, we prepared for shooting by paying to get a title search report and copyright report. But nobody informed us that there is a 30-90 day expiration on this report. By the time the film was done and we were ready to license it for distribution, we had to go back to the clearance company and get another report (for an additional fee). This is required so that we could take out an E&O insurance policy. We then were informed by the insurance company that we needed an ‘opinion letter’ to clear the title, because apparently there were some short films that had the same name as ours. So, for several hundred dollars more, we got an ‘opinion letter’.

We’re still waiting to hear if we need to do a new sound mix (for several thousand dollars) with the dialogue stripped out (M&E mix) in order to comply with the delivery requirements of a major cable network that is going to license our film.

Don’t get me wrong. I am excited about this and all the other positive response we are getting for our work. We have had some really notable people say wonderful things about the film. And in addition to this major cable network (which we will be announcing later this year), in the coming months, DISPATCH will also be available to buy on Amazon.com. Unfortunately, in order to get on Netfilx, we need to have an unspecified number of people saving us to their Netfilx Queue- if we can even get in their database in the first place.

I am able to say that it was worth the work. I just don’t know that I will ever do it this way again. Next time I will get as many name actors as I can at the lowest price possible… or just shoot it true guerilla-style on a couple of DSLRs… or BOTH! But somebody still has to show me how to get my film shown on decent platforms without spending untold months and money to complete all these ‘deliverables’.

For details about DISPATCH at the Hollywood Film Festival screening on Sunday, October 23, 2011, and to watch the trailer, etc., please visit www.DispatchFilm.com.

Hope you can make it.

Steven Sprung
Writer/Director, DISPATCH
www.DispatchFilm.com
www.StevenSprung.com

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HOLLYWOOD HERITAGE AND PARAMOUNT GIVE HERITAGE MUSEUM A FACELIFT

HOLLYWOOD HERITAGE AND PARAMOUNT GIVE HERITAGE MUSEUM A FACELIFT

In keeping with the celebration of Paramount Pictures’ 100th anniversary, the motion picture production company is putting some loving care into the building where their company was born - the Lasky-DeMille barn. The 1901 Hollywood stable was built by Col. Robert Northam, and later sold to Jacob Stern. Stern was the owner when it became a film studio in 1912. It was later rented to the Lasky Company, which purchased the property. The Lasky Company merged with Adolph Zukor’s Famous Players Film Company and the Paramount Distributing Company to become Paramount Pictures Corporation. In 1979, Paramount donated the barn to Hollywood Heritage. Today it is the Hollywood Heritage Museum, operated since 1985 by Hollywood Heritage, a membership based non-profit, with an all-volunteer management and staff.

Paramount Pictures, along with the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Los Angeles County Preservation Fund, provided funds to prepare the building for a “new” coat of paint. The current painting of this California State Landmark returns the building to its original color scheme when Paramount was born.

Numerous researchers and historians both in and outside of the organization aided Hollywood Heritage in discovering the building’s construction date and color. Subsequent detailed paint studies taken from those remote portions of the building least changed in the last hundred years was conducted by Historic Resources Group of Pasadena, and confirmed descriptions in newspaper accounts of the building as “The Gray Lady” and leading it to be returned to a glorious gray once more (with a bit of dark green and white trim).

Paramount Pictures will provide both the paint and skilled labor to accomplish this restoration, which is anticipated to be completed by the end of March. “We are so gratified that Paramount Pictures has joined this restoration project, helping us to commemorate the building and the company’s history. As the sole link between early agrarian Hollywood and the entertainment capital it is today, this is an important landmark” said Hollywood Heritage president, Richard Adkins. Of equal importance is the donation by the Cecil B. DeMille Foundation of the refurbishing of the second story of the museum with new climate controlled storage and archival facilities.

Currently on display at the museum is an exhibit provided by Paramount Pictures and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Foundation of photographs and artifacts from 100 years of Paramount films. The museum which is located at 2100 N. Highland Ave. is open Wednesday through Sunday noon to 4 p.m. Admission is $7.00 and children under twelve are admitted free. Visit us online at www.hollywoodheritage.org

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