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ADDY's for AVANTI
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 Avanti Video received a
National Technical Achievement Award for
producing a series on heart disease in
conjunction with JFK Medical Center in Atlantis
and recently added another ADDY award to the
company's collection of local, regional and
national awards for excellence. Winning this
award qualifies the entry to progress to the
National ADDY competition. The ADDY awards honor
excellence in advertising and cultivate the
highest creative standards.
 Avanti
recently created a set depicting a war room in
the year 2020, a creative component in the
production of the United States Air Force's
informational video to the Joint Chiefs of Staff
and Congress titled Joint Battlespace
Infosphere; Lifting the Fog of War. Lew
Pincus, Founder and Executive Producer describes
himself as a big vision person. "Exceeding
customer expectations is the mission of our
business," he said As a Yahoo preferred
provider, Avanti is leading Florida's
InternetCoast by producing live for-broadcast
launches for companies like Citrix and Ultimate
Software. The company also produced an Internet
broadcast of former Vice President Al Gore's
campaign speech to the AARP via satellite hookup
with interactive technology.
 "Our
strategic alliances with large Internet
providers, like Yahoo, allow millions of people
to sign on the Internet and view video on
demand," explains Pincus.
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Palm
Beach Maritime Museum & Currie Park
West Palm
Beach, FL
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The Maritime Museum
and Currie Park were afloat with Sea-Doo
watercrafts, cameras, lights and press in the
unveiling of the new line of Sea-Doo
watercrafts and its technologically advanced new
safety device.
Bombardier Recreational Products, maker of
the Sea- Doo Watercrafts, held a national press
conference at the Maritime Museum in
downtown West Palm Beach. A video news release was
sent via satellite to news stations across the
country. Hundreds of people flocked to get the
first look at the playful and safe new watercraft.
"We chose Palm Beach County because of the
beautiful setting provided by the Maritime Museum.
The extremely courteous staff at the museum made
the event a tremendous success," said
Bombardier's Public Affairs Representative Rob
Schuetz. Film Commissioner Chuck Elderd and TDC
Executive Director Charles Lehmann got a chance to
test-drive the powerful new watercrafts.
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Palm Beach Maritime
Museum
The Bombardier Press
Conference
TDC Executive Director
Charles Lehmann
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Student
Wins International Film Competition
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Julia Jehs, a Lynn
University Graduate Student won a German
screenwriting contest to film her new short film Blind
Date. Universal Studios of Germany
sponsored the event and is funding her 100-second
movie. Filming took place for three days in August
all over the County. "Carter Van Voris,
President of Ocean City Properties Ltd. was
extremely helpful in securing our Pineapple Grove
locations (Delray Beach). His assistance really
helped keep us on schedule. And on this little
budget, with this short of a film, timing is
everything," said filmmaker Jehs.
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SAG
Striving to Attract Working Directors to PBC |
The SAG Conservatory
will begin its fifth season on September 20, 2001
at the Palm Beach Community College Eissey Campus.
All members of SAG, EQUITY, and AFTRA are eligible
to attend.
Ilse Earl, Palm Beach Coordinator for the SAG
Conservatory, says that the focus this season will
be to bring in working directors from Broward,
Dade and elsewhere to meet the professional actors
and to have the directors see some of the great
facilities Palm Beach County has to offer. With
that in mind, Five Star Productions has
agreed to host the October meeting. |
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Commissioners
Strategize the FL Front |
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Options to combat
runaway production were the focus of the Florida
Film Commissioners meeting hosted by PBC last
month. Two major issues presented themselves in
force; deregulating talent agencies (a move FL SAG
Executive Director Hollis Bachellor condemned as
"Nothing could be more disastrous") and
countervailing tariffs to off-set international
incentives. The State Film Commission wants your
input so visit www.filminflorida.com and
email your comments/suggestions to film1@myflorida.com.
At the National Level, U.S. Senator Blanche
Lambert Lincoln (D-AR) with co-sponsors Sen John
Breaux (D-LA), Richard Durbin (D-IL), Mary
Landrieu (D-LA) and Sen Olympia Snowe (R-ME)
introduced the U.S. Independent Film and
Television Production Incentive Act of 2001.
This act would create a targeted wage tax credit
for low budget independent productions filmed in
the U.S. "Over the past decade, production of
American film projects has fled our borders for
foreign locations, a migration that results in a
massive loss for the U.S. economy," said
Senator Lincoln. "My legislation will
encourage producers to bring production back to
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Silver Beach
Productions, Wellington, was hired by the Travel
Channel to shoot a segment on volcanoes in the
Caribbean. They filmed for two days on the island of
Montserrat, located near Antigua in the West Indies.
Peace Now,
an inspirational music video bringing together shots
of undisturbed nature with music and live
performances, is currently in pre-production at Turtledove
Pond Studios in Jupiter, Florida. Producer Ron Kahn
says, "Peace Now is an interracial,
interfaith, intergenerational video for elders and
kids to watch together that does not preach."
Kahn's goal is to blend socially conscious messages
with a fun and hip attitude that will help viewers
gain inner peace and serenity.
Film Florida
Publishing Company is currently updating information
and accepting new listings and advertising for the
2002 PBC production guide. Recognized as the
industry leader, Film Florida Publishing Company launched
its first publication in 1990. For details and
further information, please contact 305-442-9444 or www.filmFlorida.com.
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Five Star
Productions won nine prestigious CINDY
awards for excellence in television and large
screen programming. With four gold, two
silver, two bronze and one honorable mention, Five
Star was honored out of the 3800 entries
from 33 countries for original television
programming on Today's Environment
and in sports animation for the Florida
Marlins, Florida Panthers and the Miami
Dolphins.
New Tribe
Entertainment recorded SkyDive America taking
1st place in the 6th World Games Freestyle
competition in Ogata, Japan. The
daredevil, high-flyers are raking in the
awards and medals across the world, drawing
more and more attention to the Western
community and Pahokee, WPB.
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Palm
Beach County Board of County Commissioners
Chairman Warren Newell,
Burt Aaronson,
Addie Greene, Karen T. Marcus,
Tony Masilotti, Mary McCarty,
Jeff Koons
Focus on Film September 2001
Volume IV Issue 8
editor: Jennifer Williams
masthead design: Wendy Meyer
If you would like to be included in this monthly publication, please
contact the Film Commission at 561.233.1000 or email
information to jwilliam@pbfilm.com.
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