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_______________________________________________________________ Reviewed in ARTSCENE! ARLENE BOGNA and BARBARA BLATT By Suvan Geer (July 2008) [Click here to read the full article.] For more information click here or go to arlenebognafineart.com. _______________________________________________________________ [ TOP ] Arlene Bogna's photography exhibit made "The List" in Los Angeles Times! Los Angeles Times, "The List: Art Openings" Compiled by Grace Krilanovich, June 19, 2008. For more information click here or go to arlenebognafineart.com. _______________________________________________________________ [ TOP ] METROMIX has a preview! Art attack: Arlene Bogna's 'Safari Americana' By Kimberly Waid & Alie Ward, METROMIX (June 2008) [Click here to read the full article.] For more information click here or go to arlenebognafineart.com. _______________________________________________________________ [ TOP ] PHOTOGRAPHER & AWARD-WINNING FILMMAKER, ARLENE BOGNA’S SAFARI AMERICANA: SCENES OF DELIGHT PHOTOGRAPHS FIRST SOLO EXHIBIT AT GALLERY 825 IN WEST HOLLYWOOD JUNE 21 - JULY 18, 2008 For more information click here or go to arlenebognafineart.com. _______________________________________________________________ [ TOP ] ANOTHER TELLY WIN FOR PRODUCER ANTHONY FERRANTI Congratulations to writer-producer Anthony Ferranti for his recent Telly Award for his work on the “Eternal Sonata” video game trailer for Namco Bandai Games, which also recently won an Aurora Award. ABOUT THE TELLY AWARDS The Telly Awards is an international competition that has recognized the best creative work in video and film production. Started 28 years ago, it is the largest and most prestigious award of its kind. http://www.tellyawards.com ABOUT ANTHONY FERRANTI Anthony Ferranti is an award-winning writer/producer of entertainment advertising, promotions, & narrative. His clients include: Microsoft, Paramount Studios, The CW, FX, Walt Disney Parks & Resorts, Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc., Namco Bandai, THQ Inc., CBS, FOX, HBO and independent filmmakers. Tony takes projects from concept to completion creating Television commercials, trailers, EPKs, presentation pieces, webisodes and short films. He now lives in Los Angeles and works at one of the top Entertainment Advertising agencies. His work speaks to his generation and beyond with a quirky and clever sensibility. http://www.vistapointpictures.com/producing.html For more information contact: (310) 204-4665 _______________________________________________________________ [ TOP ] "CANVAS" SCREENS AT WORLDFEST AND WINS A REMI AWARD! "Canvas", the narrative PSA directed by Arlene Bogna for the charity A Window Between Worlds, was an official selection of the 41st Annual Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival and took home a 2008 Remi Award. This is the 4th award win for Canvas which has been screening at independent film festivals as a short film. WORLDFEST - HOUSTON FILM FESTIVALofficial selection WorldFest is one of the oldest and largest film & video competitions in the world, with more than 4,500 category entries received from 37 countries in 2007. http://www.worldfest.org ABOUT ARLENE BOGNA Arlene Bogna is an award winning writer/director. In 2007 she won the Platinum Aurora Award for Best of Show, a Telly Award, a Davey Award, and a Remi Award for the PSA "Canvas". Her feature screenplay "Earth Kids", which she co-wrote with Nicole Schubert, won 1st Place Best Screenplay at the 2007 KIDS FIRST! Film Festival as well as the Sponsor Award. http://www.vistapointpictures.com/arlene.html For more information, contact (310) 204-4665 or projects@vistapointpictures.com _______________________________________________________________ [ TOP ] TWO AURORA WINS FOR PRODUCER ANTHONY FERRANTI Congratulations to writer-producer Anthony Ferranti for his recent award wins. Anthony recently won a “Platinum Best of Show” Aurora Award for his work on the video game trailer for Sony Computer Entertainment’s “Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction.” He also won an Aurora Award for his work on the “Eternal Sonata” video game trailer for Namco Bandai Games, which YouTube viewer gaara20079 (aka Mandy) describes as "wow..... BEST TRAILER THERE IS!!!!!!" ABOUT THE AURORA AWARDS The Aurora Awards is an international competition designed to recognize excellence in the film and video industries. http://www.auroraawards.com ABOUT ANTHONY FERRANTI Anthony Ferranti is an award-winning writer/producer of entertainment advertising, promotions, & narrative. His clients include: Microsoft, Paramount Studios, The CW, FX, Walt Disney Parks & Resorts, Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc., Namco Bandai, THQ Inc., CBS, FOX, HBO and independent filmmakers. Tony takes projects from concept to completion creating Television commercials, trailers, EPKs, presentation pieces, webisodes and short films. He now lives in Los Angeles and works at one of the top Entertainment Advertising agencies. His work speaks to his generation and beyond with a quirky and clever sensibility. http://www.vistapointpictures.com/producing.html For more information contact: (310) 204-4665 _______________________________________________________________ [ TOP ] GET THE POINT! Check out The Point, our newsletter. This issue covers the The Hot List, HD Solutions, & Festival Screenings. _______________________________________________________________ [ TOP ] "CANVAS" SCREENS AT TWO INDIE FILM FESTIVALS "Canvas", the narrative PSA directed by Arlene Bogna for the charity A Window Between Worlds, will be screening at two upcoming indie film festivals that celebrate independent films and women filmmakers. You can read more about CANVAS in MOVING PICTURES MAGAZINE: [Click here for the article] INDIE SPIRIT FILM FESTIVAL official selection The Indie Spirit Film Festival is an annual event for filmmakers and film lovers alike, with a superb program of feature films, shorts, docs, animation and many other films from around the world. Indie Spirit is about filmmakers establishing a relationship with audiences, distributors, and other filmmakers. SCREENING : Saturday, April 26, 2008 The Independent Film Society of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO http://www.indiespiritfilmfestival.org SHOW ME SOMETHING REAL  official selection  A film festival honoring single mothers and women filmmakers, the Show Me Something Real Film Festival is designed to inspire and empower other women to be creative and expressive in their lives and for everyone to recognize the voices of women filmmakers. SCREENING : Monday, March 24, 2008 - 7:00 PM Regal Arbor Cinema @ 9828 Great Hills Trail, Austin, TX 78759 http://www.showmesomethingreal.com ABOUT ARLENE BOGNA Arlene Bogna is an award winning writer/director. In 2007 she won the Platinum Aurora Award for Best of Show, a Telly Award, and a Davey Award for the PSA "Canvas". Her feature screenplay "Earth Kids", which she co-wrote with Nicole Schubert, won 1st Place Best Screenplay at the 2007 KIDS FIRST! Film Festival as well as the Sponsor Award. http://www.vistapointpictures.com/arlene.html For more information, contact (310) 204-4665 or projects@vistapointpictures.com _______________________________________________________________ [ TOP ] "CANVAS" WINS 2007 DAVEY AWARD "Canvas", the PSA directed by Arlene Bogna for the charity A Window Between Worlds, has won a 2007 Davey Award. This is the third win for "Canvas", which has also won a Telly Award and a Platinum "Best of Show" Aurora Award this year. You can read more about it in MOVING PICTURES MAGAZINE: [Click here for the article] [more info below]   ABOUT THE DAVEY AWARDS The annual International Davey Awards honors the achievements of the "Creative Davids" who derive their strength from big ideas, rather than stratospheric budgets. The Davey is sanctioned and judged by the International Academy of the Visual Arts, an invitation-only body consisting of top-tier professionals from a "Who's Who" of acclaimed media, advertising, and marketing firms. IAVA members include executives from organizations such as Alloy, Coach, The Ellen Degeneres Show, Estee Lauder, Fry Hammond Barr, HBO, iNDELIBLE, Wunderman, MTV, Polo Ralph Lauren, Refinery, Sotheby's Institute of Art, Victoria's Secret, Wired, Yahoo! and many more. Award: Silver Davey Award http://www.daveyawards.com/ ABOUT ARLENE BOGNA Arlene Bogna is an award winning writer/director. In 2007 she won the Platinum Aurora Award for Best of Show, a Telly Award, and a Davey Award for the PSA "Canvas". Her feature screenplay "Earth Kids", which she co-wrote with Nicole Schubert, won 1st Place Best Screenplay at the 2007 KIDS FIRST! Film Festival as well as the Sponsor Award. Currently she is pre-production to direct a comedy she wrote called "Whoa Nelllie!" in which a young woman starts a different life after receiving some dire news. http://www.vistapointpictures.com/arlene.html For more information, contact (310) 204-4665 or projects@vistapointpictures.com _______________________________________________________________ [ TOP ] "EARTH KIDS " WINS 2 BEST SCREENPLAY AWARDS AT 2007 KIDS FIRST! FILM FESTIVAL FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA October 24, 2007 (PRLEAP.COM) Entertainment: Film News "Earth Kids", the family feature screenplay by writer/director Arlene Bogna and writer Nicole Schubert has won the 2007 Best Screenplay Award from the 2007 KIDS FIRST! Film Festival. The writing duo also received the Screenplay Award from festival sponsor Feature Films for Families, a film production and distribution company. Arlene Bogna and Nicole Schubert are currently working on their next feature script/project—a female action buddy comedy that Arlene is attached to direct.   About Arlene Bogna & Nicole Schubert: Arlene Bogna is an award-winning writer/director. In 2007 she won the Platinum Aurora Award for Best of Show and a Telly Award for the PSA "Canvas". Currently, she is in pre-production to direct a comedy she wrote called "Whoa Nellie!", in which a young woman starts a different life after receiving some dire news. http://www.vistapointpictures.com/arlene.html Nicole Schubert is an award-winning writer. She enjoyed another side of storytelling while working in the cutting rooms of numerous feature films for Dreamworks, 20th Century Fox, Paramount and Universal, among others. She is currently writing her first teen novel "How I Made Out With A Rock Star". http://www.vistapointpictures.com/nicole.html 2007 KIDS FIRST! Awards: The 2007 KIDS FIRST! Awards Ceremony was held at the Calamigos Ranch in Malibu, Ca. Also honored were children’s entertainer and book writer Mallory Lewis (Phonics 4 Babies), who received the 2007 KIDS FIRST! Palmer-Vision Award for her contributions to children’s programming, Carly Shroeder (Eye of the Dolphin) who won Best Emerging Actress, and Zach Mills (Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium) who received Best Emerging Actor. Winning the Best of Fest films were Charlotte’s Web, Paramount; Firehouse Dog, 20th Century Fox; Viola, James Marcus Haney; My Backyard Was A Mountain, Palmavejo Films and Phonics 4 Babies, Starz Home Entertainment. The Coalition For Quality Children’s Media (www.kidsfirst.org) created the KIDS FIRST! program to evaluate, rate and endorse feature films, DVDs, videos, CDs and TV for children. KIDS FIRST! Film Festival is an international festival that showcases new and classic children’s films, TV shows and DVDs from studios, independent producers and youth producers and travels to over 100 venues nationwide annually. http://www.kidsfirst.org/filmfestival/Best2007Winners.html For more information, contact (310) 204-4665 or projects@vistapointpictures.com Judy Sandra JS Media, Publicity & Development Email JS Media, Publicity & Development (323) 463-1536 _______________________________________________________________ [ TOP ] Read about us in MOVING PICTURES MAGAZINE! Click here for the article. Arlene Bogna's Canvas By RaeAnne Marsh (July 2007) [Click here to read the full article.] _______________________________________________________________ [ TOP ] DIRECTOR ARLENE BOGNA PAINTS A CANVAS THAT HEALS A PSA wins two awards and screens at a major film festival. Los Angeles, Ca: For the second year in a row, Arlene Bogna was again recognized by Women In Film at the WIF 2007 Crystal + Lucy Awards, an evening that celebrated the "Best of the Best". In the midst of her stirring acceptance speech for a WIF Crystal Award for excellence in film, Academy Award winner Renee Zellwegger graciously acknowledged, "I want to congratulate Director Arlene Bogna for her PSA for A Window Between Worlds, which won the Platinum Aurora Award for Best of Show." Flashback to last year. It was at the 2006 Crystal + Lucy Awards that Bogna's PSA, called Canvas first screened. The event planners were so impressed with her engaging story boards that they printed them in the Awards program booklet. Since then, Canvas has gone on to win two awards and has been accepted in the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, where it will be screened next month. Currently airing on broadcast television, Canvas was produced by the prestigious WIF PSA Program and co-funded by the LA Department of Cultural Affairs. The PSA describes and benefits the arts organization A Window Between Worlds, a national nonprofit with headquarters in LA that uses art workshops as a means to heal mothers and children who have experienced domestic violence. Besides Ms. Bogna's outstanding direction, the film was graced by the talents of Academy Award winning film editor Paul Hirsch (Star Wars) and more recently an Academy Award nominee for Ray. Composer Rob Simonsen (Surfs Up, Fractured, Breach) contributed the sensitive piano and cello score. Acting talents include Giselle Tongi as the mother, Manuel Jimenez Jr. as the boy and Anthony Ferranti Jr. as the adult male. Production began with Executive Producer Judith Parker Harris, Producer Erika Gardner, Associate Producer Claudia Zalokar, and writer Julie Nicholsen, and resulted in a 35 millimeter shoot with film provided by Kodak. For a PSA, Canvas has a unique narrative structure, telling the story of a battered woman who finds redemption through art and the process of art making. Says Bogna, "I'm very interested in complex female characters, and I didn't want to convey a stereotype. We began with the idea that art can heal, and we discovered that the true message is that the soul is beyond abuse." THE AWARDS The Aurora Awards is an indepdendent international competition designed to recognize excellence in the film and video industries. Award: Platinum Aurora Award for Best of Show The Telly Awards is an international competition that has recognized the best creative work in video and film production. Started 28 years ago, it is the largest and most prestigious award of its kind. Award: Bronze Telly Award THE FESTIVAL Founded in 1993, the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival is the largest film festival in the world and hosts events in New York and Los Angeles. Past NYIIFVF festivals have included the work of Abel Ferrara, Andy Garcia, Calista Flockhart, Selma Blair, Ewan McGregor, Dominique Swain, Busy Phillips, Cameron Diaz, Christopher Walken, Daryl Hannah, Eva Herzigova, Guy Pearce, George Clooney, Jennifer Aniston, Matthew Modine, Rod Steiger, Tippi Hedren, Tony Danza, Willem Dafoe and Executive Producer Vin Diesel. This year's festival takes place in New York City from July 19-26, 2007 at the Village East Cinemas, located at 181 Second Avenue at 12th Street in Manhattan. MORE PRAISE FOR CANVAS "Canvas so beautifully conveys the essence of A Window Between Worlds, how creative expression can bring healing and hope." Cathy Salser, Executive Director A Window Between Worlds "A thousand kudos to Arlene Bogna for this beautiful creation!" Roxanne Lane, PSA Production Program Coordinator Women In Film ABOUT: Vista Point Pictures Creatively Serving the Indie Filmmaker. Main Titles - Key Art - Visual Effects Contact: Arlene Bogna, Director Tel. (323) 841-7464 Email: projects@vistapointpictures.com www.vistapointpictures.com Women In Film Women In Film’s purpose is to EMPOWER, promote and mentor women in the entertainment and media industries. Contact: Roxanne Lane, PSA Program Coordinator Tel. (310) 657-5144 8857 West Olympic Boulevard, Suite 201 Beverly Hills, CA 90211-3605 Email: psa@wif.org www.wif.org A Window Between Worlds A nonprofit organization dedicated to using art to help end domestic violence. Contact: Cathy Salser, Executive Director Tel. (310) 396-0317 710 4th Avenue, Suite 5 Venice, California 90291 Email: info@awbw.org www.awbw.org Aurora Awards The Aurora Awards is an international competition designed to recognize excellence in the film and video industries. Tel. (801) 535-4339 299 South Main Street - 17th Floor Salt Lake City, UT 84111 Email: winaurora@aol.com www.auroraawards.com Telly Awards The Telly Awards honor the very best local, regional, and cable television commercials and programs, as well as the finest video and film productions. Tel. (212) 675-3555 19 W. 21st Street Ste 602 New York, NY 10010 Email: info@tellyawards.com www.tellyawards.com Judy Sandra JS Media, Publicity & Development Email JS Media, Publicity & Development (323) 463-1536 _______________________________________________________________ [ TOP ] PATRIOT JOHNNY SELECTED FOR BOULDER ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL Patriot Johnny, a 20 minute narrative film written and directed by Arlene Bogna, was selected by the 2007 Boulder Asian Film Festival. Patriot Johnny is a drama about a young soldier who cannot return to the life and love he left behind. [more] For more information, contact (310) 204-4665 or projects@vistapointpictures.com. .	Link to MOVING PICTURES Article (PDF) Link to "Canvas" Press Kit (PDF) Link to LA Dept of Cultural Affairs DCA Article (PDF) Link to AAC Article (PDF) Link to Women In Film Article (PDF) Link to "Canvas" Photo Gallery (PDF)
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