As usual, our regular MAF begins at 7:00 p.m., followed at 7:30 p.m. by June’s Making Movie Magic presentation on marking movie your movie script.

MAF Presents: “Marketing Your Script: The One Minute Pitch”
Tuesday, June 7 · 7:30pm – 8:30pm
Cellar Door restaurant below Downtown Ramada Plaza 213 W. Washington Street South Bend, IN 46601 (Free parking on 4 & 5 floors of the adjacent garage at the hotel)

Rose Waldschmidt will be presenting “Marketing Your Script: The One Minute Pitch”. Topics covered will include where to research production companies, different ways to construct a logline, and a template for creating the one minute pitch. For those would would like to test a logline or a pitch, please make sure it is no longer than one minute.

A University of Notre Dame graduate, Rose Waldschmidt is an actor and screenwriter. Some of her feature credits include Harvey Putter, Women’s Prison, and Trippin. She was a Scriptapalooza semi-finalist and in 2008, had a play accepted to the Indiana Theatre Association’s IT Works conference.

She serves as Treasurer and Chair of the Screenwriter’s group for Mid America Filmmakers. She formerly served as a board member for the IN Arts Grant Review for the Community Foundation of St. Joe Co. and Sponsor Chair for the River Bend Film Fest.

MAF is seeking local and regional short films for our next screening  at Merriman’s Playhouse on September 16 at 7 p.m. Admission is $5 at the door.  It is free to submit a film, simply fill out and mail in the entry form below with your DVD copy of the film.

Looking for shorts 30 minutes and under in all genres. Preference is give to MAF and local films, but regional are welcome (usually plenty of time during the event to show many films). The MAF screening committee will view and select the films.

New deadline is JULY 1.  Original deadline was June 1.

DOWNLOAD THE FORM: MAF Summer-Fall 2011 Submission Form

On Tuesday, April 5 at 7:30 p.m. Film and theatre actor Rodney Sciba will talk about acting in L.A., including how to prepare for the move, getting agents, networking, acting studios, commercials, extra work, typecasting and more. He is also doing two workshops at the River Bend Film Festival on April 2 in South Bend. More at www.riverbendfilmfest.org

Rodney graduated with a B.A. in Theatre from Indiana University South Bend in 1998 after appearing in 17 theatrical productions and a number of local independent films. After graduation, he moved to Los Angeles where he trained in camera techniques, commercials , scene study, comedy, improv and Meisner techniques. He has appeared in The X-Files, Fast & Furious, and the indie films The Vault, The Eliminator, and Harvey Putter and the Ridiculous Premise. He also writes, acts and directs theatre productions in L.A.

This free and open to the public presentation will take place at 7:30 p.m. immediately following our regular monthly Mid America Filmmakers meeting which begins at 7:00 p.m. You are welcome to join us for both. They are held at the Cellar Door restaurant at the Ramada Plaza at 213 W. Washington Street, South Bend, IN 46601

This is part a monthly series of filmmaking workshops.

At our Annual Screening & Staged Readings yesterday, six 3-5 minute scripts created by our screenwriters group were read aloud to the audience, who got to vote on with one should receive $100 from MAF and be made into a movie to premiere at next year’s  event. This year the writers chose two slips of paper from a hat:  one containing a profession, the other a fairy tale.

This year’s winner was Michael Kouroubetes and his hitman/Hansel and Gretel script “The H and G Job.”  Congrats to Michael, and also congrats to Tim Richardson who premiered the film based on his winning script from last year, Night of the Living Spuds,  done completely with Mr. Potato Heads.