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January 6th, 10:00pm

WISN Channel 12’s Terry Sater previews RDI Stages.

January 7th, Morning Show 6-9:00am

FOX6 WITI-TV interviews Scott Robbe. Scott is the current Director of FIlm Wisconsin.

Chances are these clips and stories will be available on each station’s website, but hey - nothin like that good ol Boob Tube!  Be sure to check it out though, the event is getting bigger by the day, and each broadcast should announce a few more surprises. This will be an event you don’t want to miss.

ReelChicago.com reports: “Wisconsin’s burgeoning film industry will get a giant boost when the state’s first and only independent stage rental complex, located in Milwaukee, opens with a gala party Jan. 8….” (more)

Thisismymilwaukee.com showcases a single video produced with a Champion Dynasty Grant from the Milwaukee Tourism Commission. Check out the video:

Most of the video does not appear to be shot in Milwaukee. Besides this awesomely strange clip, the only other thing on the website is a counter, which appears to actually be a countdown to January 16th, 2009, and a couple links to the designers website. Which makes one a little suspicious… why would they not post links to the Actual Milwaukee Tourism Commission website? Well, google tells me there is no Milwaukee Tourism Commission… In fact the only sites which refer to that entity are linking back to this video. After further exploration, an anonymous wiki was found at pbwiki.com The users have been posting new findings about this strange video daily. Granted, the users are probably a marketing team on Madison Avenue, but its a fun little mystery to follow. We’ll see where it takes us, eh?

It’s a bit late to enter this contest, but honestly, You’ve gotta love the pressure of approaching deadlines. Let us know if you submit anything, we’ll post it here, too.

http://www.bigstar.tv/film-contests/comedy-short

Jori Ketten, Originally from Milwaukee, sends home this letter with a video produced by a group of teens she works with.

Phase III Reflections: Daniel Bernard Roumain Residency from Community MusicWorks on Vimeo.

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Friends and colleagues:

I invite you to take a minute (well, 9 minutes and 34 seconds) to celebrate with me the voices of Kirby Vasquez, Josh Rodriguez, and Luis Ortiz.

Kirby, Josh, and Luis are Community MusicWorks musicians. They are also juniors in high school who took some time away from homework, practicing, performing, and all the other work that they do to create a short video project that you can view here:

http://www.vimeo.com/2355034

The video is a small window into Kirby, Josh, and Luis’s experiences working with world-famous Daniel Bernard Roumain (www.dbrmusic.com), a Haitian-American composer and violinist who visited Community MusicWorks in October.

While finishing the video yesterday, Kirby (who gave up 10 straight hours of her Saturday to edit) commented that she’s going to write her college essay about this project, and has repeatedly talked about the value of the production skills she has learned. In a pre-production essay, Luis wrote, “The whole experience was intense. I found out who I am, and who I am not. It was like a journey through the important things in my life.” Josh calls his time with DBR “a turning point in my love for music,” and says that working with DBR has inspired him to work harder toward his goal of becoming a music producer.

I hope to be able to share more CMW work like this project in the near future, and I hope that these projects continue to inspire students to think and act. I also hope that if you don’t already know about Community MusicWorks, this video might spark your curiosity. Visit http://communitymusicworks.org/profiles.htm#DBR to learn more about the DBR residency, and browse the rest of the site to see what else CMW is up to.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Jori

Jori Ketten
Communications and Evaluation Consultant
Community MusicWorks
www.communitymusicworks.org

Scott Robbe Stopped by the Creative Spurts office today. If you haven’t heard of Film Wisconsin, Please check them out at filmwisconsin.net They are key proponents for economic incentives for the film & television industry in the state of Wisconsin. You can check out the program here.

Watch for these guys in the news. The incentive programs are always in danger of being cut, and they are absolutely vital to the development of our local film industry! The mailing list form on their website isn’t functioning right now, so send them an email, and ask to be kept in the loop. - And tell ‘em Conduit sent ya’.