DarrylMiller
Mar 31, 2008 10:12AM

I guess we don't get informed about other's posts :(
The Pumelo Festival sounds great but.... I rarely check this page unless I have something to post. Likely I missed the deadline. Anyway here are my updates. I did not get into the top ten at TIFFG. Dark One was on shortlist for Byron Bay(one of the last 20films cut). Dark One was on the long list in Amsterdam( one of the last 100 cut) I have been busy creating and upgrading my web pages with much more material...Downloads,reviews,press.
DarkOne Blog http://icecubefactory.blogspot.com/
DarkOneTrailers http://darkonetrailers.blogspot.com/
Elaine Pain Bio http://elainepain.blogspot.com/
DarkOneSoundtracks+More
http://www.garageband.com/user/icecubefactory/music.html?|pe1|SMHcLXHdpu3JOQW6Z2 lnB508
DarkOneTrailer1
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-3357550396764949685&q=%22DarkOne+Tra iler%22&lr=lang_en&total=5&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=sear ch&plindex=0
DarkOneTrailer2
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-4343047609757632173
DarkOneTrailer3
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=6868921123137087684
DarkOneTrailer4
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-4541743904656442160
DarkOneTrailer5
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=3477951154177060171
DarkOneTrailer6
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=2900161980064675547&total=32&star t=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=6

PumeloFestival
Jan 15, 2008 08:37AM

We are impressed with your film. We organise 3 major film festivals in India. We wish to screen your film at 1 of our international film festivals. There are no submission fees payable for your film. Kindly visit http://www.pumelo.com. Final submission date - 31st January.

DarrylMiller
Jan 08, 2008 03:44PM

Happy New Year...New Dark One Blog updates at
http://icecubefactory.blogspot.com/
-Dark One CD Free http://www.box.net/shared/847hxa528t

DarrylMiller
Oct 20, 2007 08:43PM

Dark One has been selected to be included in the official program of DOK Leipzig Oct 29-Nov 4. This year is the 50th edition of the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film. DOK Leipzig is the largest German and one of the leading international festivals for artistic documentary and animated films. Out that out of a record 2,600 entries, only 120 animated and 190 documentary films will be screened. Dark one screens the first time in Leipzig on Halloween night... just before the witching hour.... All Hallows Eve....Oct 31 2007 at 10:15 pm in the Cinema Theater "naTo" (National Front). Come if you dare.... the 2nd showing is Nov 2 2007 at 2 PM in the Cinema Theater Filmeck, I believe.... I don't speak German.
Dark One is also now In consideration for Canada's Top Ten 2007 by the Toronto International Film Festival Group (TIFFG). Canada's Top Ten promotes and celebrates Canadian cinema through an annual initiative whereby some of this country's leading experts in Canadian cinema (film critics, academics and industry professionals) select the best Canadian films of the year. 100 films are in consideration.
Here is a new review summary at the NewYorkTimes.
http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/395705/Dark-One/overview
I have uploaded some cool posters, new pictures and links to the blog. I also added one more song from the Dark One Poetry/Soundscape audio CD. Check out the tunes...feedback is welcome. 7 songs of the total 17 songs are located at http://www.box.net/shared/847hxa528t
Check out the Dark One Blog Page for movie posters,new pictures, links and more at http://icecubefactory.blogspot.com Got to go get ready for Germany now.

DarrylMiller
Oct 01, 2007 11:52AM

The International Documentary Film Festival Jihlava has requested that Dark One be part of the new Documentary Film Center's archive, to be studied by students at FAMU, journalists, film professionals and the public. Jihlava discovers authorial documentary film, and follows it's traditional motto of Thinking Through Film. "A work of art voicing a unique experience, Connecting existence and essence, that arise and die out in each other. A writing that is overwriting a message to change the writing. Only in that way, the statement can be complete. The borders of film types and genres are transparent. Cinema is one film and one film is the whole of cinema, thousands of plateaus mirror one another. A film perceived as a documentary cares whether things exist or not. We cannot insist on names, exhausting everything that is supposed to be named. Thinking through film is neither a reason nor a principle, it is extension as a form. A film and a festival are two manifestations of the same, audience understanding being its state."
The festival Program Director of Jihlava would said they would provide me with the accreditation which will enable me to attend all our screenings and the other programs free of charge ! Jihlava not far from DOK Leipzig in Germany, and runs from Oct 23-28. More information about Jihlava can be found at.....
http://www.dokument-festival.cz/new_index.php?flash=yes

The new Documentary Film Center, THE INSTITUTE OF DOCUMENTARY FILM [IDF] is a non-profit training, promotion and networking centre based in Prague, Czech Republic, focused on the support of the EAST EUROPEAN creative documentary film and its wider promotion. IDF was established in 2001 by directors and producers of documentary film and its program has therefore been formed by creative personalities for creative personalities. The IDF programme is intended for filmmakers, independent producers and representatives of East and Central European televisions, as well as for festival selectors, journalists and the general public. IDF co-operates with the most prominent European associations and training programmes, commissioning editors and distributors, and enables East European authors to take part in the international cooperation. More information about IDF can be found at http://www.docuinter.net/en/index.php

FAMU - Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. (FAMU) is an integral part of The Academy of Performing Arts, which has been found after the World War 2nd in 1947. It is one of the oldest film schools in Europe, which kept its tradition even during the difficult time of communist regime. There are many influential filmmakers and scriptwriters among graduates from the school, many of them are known also within international context, e.g.: Stanislav Barabas, Oscar winner Milos Forman, Oscar winner Agnieszka Holland, Věra Chytilova, Juraj Jakubisko, Vojtech Jasny, Woody Vasulka, Lordan Zafranovic, Jan Sverak, Ivan Passer, Goran Paskaljevic, Magnum member Josef Koudelka, Jan Nemec, present Prague and National Rabbi Karol Sidon, Stefan Uher, and most of people working in the local film and TV industry either in artistic or production positions, as well as still-photographers in various media. The star-studded period form FAMU were the 1960s, but the school managed to retain a comparatively free atmosphere through also the politically repressive 1970s and 1980s. Many professors and graduates emigrated on the other hand, and while abroad, contributed significantly to the education of American cinema school students (especially Frank Daniel and Vojtech Jasny). Foreign contacts were maintained in those days through the International Centre of Cinema and Television Schools CILECT (Centre Interrnational de Liaison des Ecoles de Cinema et de Television) and through international graduate-film reviews at Karlovy Vary - as part of the International Karlovy Vary Film Festival. In November and December 1989 the students and some of the professors of FAMU made a significant contribution to the overthrow of the repressive Communist regime. The faculty is a founding member of CILECT, of the European League of Institutes of Arts (ELIA) , and of the European Association of Cinema and Television Schools GEECT (Groupement Européen des Ecoles de Cinéma et de Television). Works of its graduates have reaped many awards at international festival and have often been coproduced with and breadcast over domestic television networks.FAMU is one of three parts of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. The other schools are the Theater School and the Music School. The Academy is led by the rector (president) and his vice-rectors. There is also the Academic assembly as the top collective institution of the Academy and the Board of Advisors, both on the whole Academy level. This structure is analogically implemented also within each faculty, which is led by the dean. The school is devided into 10 departments: still photography, directing, documentary, scriptwriting, cinematography, sound design, animation, producing, and a recent interdisciplinary department - the Center of Audiovisual Studies. Integral part of the school is the FAMU Studio, providing complete professional facilities from digital Betacam and HDV to 16 and 35mm film for students´ work. There are 112 professors and instructors, 16 persons administration staff. The Academic assembly has 9 members. The Board of Advisors has 14 members, mostly academics from other universities. There is altogether 350 students in Bc, Mg and PhD study programs plus there is app. 80 international students, taking special study stays or a practical cours, every year. More information about FAMU can be found at http://www.amu.cz/?r_id=610