SCENEPR need films…short, long, foreign,animated..whatever you got. We’ll be launching a WEEKLY screening/networking event in January. We have a cool new space for this event that people will absolutely love. Fantastic sound system, private to only us, and we’ll be serving up some popcorn!

And if you happen to have films, motion graphics or music videos about love, sex & romance, why not be sure to enter it for our 2nd Annual Love Actually which takes place February 14th (thats right…Valentines Day 2009).

So if you are a filmmaker or motion artist or know one looking for some love, send us a note and we’ll let you know where and how to forward your works.

You know, I was content with thinking that blax-ploitation send-up Black Dynamite was merely a very creative fake trailer (we’ve included the red-band version post-jump, just to stay safe). But every indication seems to suggest that Michael Jai White’s funky fight against The Man is a feature-length affair — and one that’s been accepted to the next Sundance Film Fesitval to boot.

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One of the big questions that has plagued cutie funny guy Michael Cera is whether he’ll be able to find a career outside of his bumbling, awkward, mild-mannered roles. While that question is currently left unanswered, we will get to see if the guy on the screen is the same guy backstage.

The Hollywood Reporter posts that he’s part of a “semi-secret” project called Paper Hearts. Why semi-secret? This sucker, which is being described as part-documentary and part-scripted comedy, has already been made and will debut soon at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. It seems this new film will follow his real-life relationship with Charlyne Yi (the stoner girl from Knocked Up, who you can see above), and like his recent Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, be greatly influenced by music.

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The success of Ray Harryhausen Presents; The Pit and the Pendulum, a short stop motion animated film produced by Hand Made Heroes Film & Television has resulted in a comic book deal with Bluewater Productions. When Bluewater President Darren G. Davis and Director Marc Lougee of Hand Made Heroes discovered they were both producing work independently under the Ray Harryhausen Presents banner, Bluewater immediately penned a deal with director Marc Lougee to further develop film & comic book cross-over properties.

Since it’s premiere hosted by Harry Knowles of Ain’t It Cool News at the BNAT Film Festival, The Pit and the Pendulum short film has screened in over 200 film festivals and comic conventions around the world including AFI Dallas and San Diego Comic-Con. Nearly 100,000 visitors logged into the film’s website within two days of the film’s premier in Austin, TX, and has continued to garner a global fan following.
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His exclusive short cut of Nick Broomfield’s feature film Kurt & Courtney talks about the controversy surrounding Kurt Cobain’s death and the conspiracy theories that tried to implicate his wife, Courtney Love. With some insights into Kurt’s early life, before Nirvana, Broomfield touches on some of the other factors that may have contributed to Cobain’s early and tragic death.

For more about the full length film, and director Nick Broomfield check out, www.nickbroomfield.com/home.html

As the convoy of 18 SUVs pulls to a halt on the narrow road above Sanjiang, Wenchuan county, Sichuan, the gleeful shrieks of an excited crowd float upwards through the autumnal mist. The vehicles have made the three-hour journey from the provincial capital Chengdu, spending two hours of it crawling through countryside affected by the cataclysmic earthquake in May.

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Three thousand miles from where Happy, Dopey and Doc line the walls of the Walt Disney Company’s Burbank studios, the animator Bill Plympton keeps an office in one of those south-of-Midtown Manhattan buildings full of anonymous-looking steel gray doors.

Behind them could be anything from vacuum cleaner dealerships to international drug cartels. But who cares? Clearly, more fantastic things are erupting down the hall at Mr. Plympton’s: Alien marriages. Nose hairs as long as the Nile. Dogs that dream of fire hydrants. And cinema created by pencil.

A lot of pencil

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You meet Mickey, you can’t help liking him. He rescues abused dogs! He cries a lot: over his stepfather’s supposed abuse; the loss of his brother to cancer and his dogs to old age; the failure of his marriage to the actress Carré Otis. He admits he destroyed his own career, because, as he puts it: “I was arrogant. . . . I wasn’t smart enough or educated enough” to deal with stardom. He is candid about the people he has crossed paths with: Nicole Kidman is “an ice cube”; Michael Cimino, the director of “Heaven’s Gate,” “is crazy” and “nuts”; and the producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr. is “a liar.”

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We’re hoping that the academy doesn’t screw up and NOT give a golden boy for the brilliant performance put by the late Heath Ledger. I saw the film when it came out and again later to make sure my enthusiasm for the film didn’t taint my view of his performance.

Both times, I walked out thinking…dude is kinda scary. That was enough for me. Sorry Jack, but the performance by Heath really was quite insane and left the earlier versions of Joker (save the original cause he was kinda creepy too..) in the dust.

Filmmakers & visual artists from all over the New York City are invited to screen their short films, motion graphics, music videos at SCENEPR’s Love Actually.

*WHAT IS LOVE ACTUALLY?*
*Love Actually* invites film industry folk, film fans and general audience to come an see brilliant short films about Love, Sex & Romance works, then take part in q&a discussion with the people who made the film go! This a must event for both filmmakers looking to promote their works as well as those people needing to valuable filmmaking advice.

The format is as such:
Pre-Mixer: 6:00-6:30pm
Films: 6:30pm-8:30pm
Discussion: 8:30-9:00pm (longer as time permits)
Post Mixer: 9:00pm-1am (Location TBA)

*TICKETS, INFO & SCHEDULE* (as available): http://love09.eventbrite.com

*I AM A FILMMAKER; HOW CAN I GET SCREENED?*
Anyone can submit work and there is no limit on how many pieces you can submit, though only ONE film per filmmaker can be used.

*FEE??*
No Submission Fee required.

*WHAT FORMAT??*
We currently accept only DVD format. If you are burning a consumer disc please write your Project Title, Your Name and Contact #/Email on the disc with a black Sharpie pen. Please TEST your DVD on several makes and models of players BEFORE sending it.

*LENGTH & GENRE??*
No Films longer than 20mins. Any genre and style is welcome. But the film must have a positive theme about Love, Sex & Romance.

*DEADLINE??*
First (Early) Deadline: Jan 3rd
Second (Late) Deadline: Jan 20th

*ADDITIONAL NOTES??*
Please…NO EXPRESS PACKAGES (Fed Ex, DHL, UPS, etc.)

*WHAT DO WE NEED TO SUBMIT & WHERE??*
Gather your DVD(s), Director/Cast Info, your URL (if any),and complete contact info (phone & email) and shuffle off to us at: SCENEPR, attn: Love Actually, 3079 Steinway Street, #R1, Astoria, NY, 11103

If you need further assistance after reading the information above or would like to be put on the SCENEPR mailing list contact us through our website at http://www.scenepr.com