Trailer & Website Launched for “Plant a Wish: The Film”!
Joe and Sara, Founders/Filmmakers of "Plant a Wish"
Joe and Sara are really excited to share with the Noni Films & Media family that we have completed the first trailer for our original documentary based on the Plant a Wish project – a 50-state tree planting initiative started right here at Noni Films. The 50-state project is almost complete: the final “road trip” production schedule is being set for September 2011, with a historic, state-wide native tree planting event being planned in Hawaii on November 5th (Hawaii’s Arbor Day).
Enjoy the trailer below, and to follow the film’s progress, scoot over to http://film.plantawish.org – you’ll be able to read a summary of the film, learn how to make tax-deductible donations to help bring the film to completion and even request a screening of the finished film in your neck of the woods!
Noni Films & Wailuku First Friday Announce “I Love Wailuku” Video Contest
Noni Films is proud to present/sponsor the “I Love Wailuku” Video Contest, launching today at Wailuku First Friday. Noni Films was founded in Wailuku, with our first office beginning in a small duplex off of Muliwai Drive.
Express your LOVE for Wailuku using video, win great prizes!
Here’s how:
- Create a video 2-3 minutes in length that showcases your favorite things about Wailuku. (Must use the phrase “I Love Wailuku” at least once in the video. Bonus points for including Wailuku First Friday in your video.)
- Post the video to the Wailuku First Friday Facebook Page no later than midnight on February 28th. (http://www.facebook.com/WailukuFirstFriday) Note: you must click “Like” at the top of the page in order to become a fan of the page & to enter.
- Come to the March 4th Wailuku First Friday event to find out the winner! Winning video will be screened at Maui Thing at the event.
JUDGES ARE LOOKING FOR: Creativity, Originality, and a great “I Love Wailuku” theme.
ONE WINNER WILL RECEIVE: Flip Video Camera, Lunch with Brian Kohne, producer of “Get a Job”, Gift bag including gift certificates from several Wailuku businesses
Prize sponsors include: Connec, LLC, Malama Pono Productions, Cafe O Lei, Maui Thing, If the Shoe Fits, Maui County Employees Federal Credit Union, Sae Design. Visit Wailuku First Friday Facebook Page for Official Rules.
Filmmaker Summit at Slamdance – Attend for Free…Online!
Our filmmaker/instructor friend Harriette Yahr (of Maui Film School) has just kindly informed us of a a great opportunity happening in Park City this weekend — available all over the world if you have an internet connection…and it’s free!
Harriette is off to the Sundance Film Festival and will attend a Filmmaker Summit at Slamdance THIS Saturday, January 22nd, at 1:30p Mountain Time. (Yes, that’s TOMORROW….10:30am for us Hawaii residents.) Thanks to modern tech, we can all tap into the currents of indie cinema from the comfort of our computers via a live stream from the summit!!
The link to more information (and the live stream) is www.openvideoalliance.org/summit
According to the event’s info page, this summit covers filmmaking “Today, Tomorrow and the Next 50 Years”:
“The second annual Filmmaker Summit: a day of real conversation with innovative leaders, discussing the current state of our community, next steps and how each and every independent filmmaker can take better control of their creative destiny. It’s free to watch and free to attend in person, but you need to register. Presented by Slamdance, the Workbook Project, and OVA, with support from IndieFlix, Banyan Branch, and the Ford Foundation.”
We hope we’ll be joined by thoughtful and creative indie filmmakers for the online experience…it appears that there’s a live Twitter feed dedicated to the stream, which means we can all be interacting while we watch! (Be sure to follow us on Twitter – our handle is @nonifilms – and for extra credit, follow Harriette as well, at @filmworkshops)
Noni Films Wish List: “CrowdControls”
CrowdControls at Work for "Iron Sky" Film
A few months ago, while attending a Maui Film School workshop with Harriette Yahr, we learned about a new crowd-sourcing tool currently in the private beta phase.
CrowdControls is, according to the website, “a demand tool for filmmakers, musicians and other artists to find where audiences are located around the world.”
Wow, that is brilliant!! Marketed with the tagline “It’s like, you know the crowd? It controls”, you know the people behind it are mostly likely really smart, and really funny too.
We’re just beside ourselves with excitement about the implications this has for independent filmmakers and we can’t wait until we’re able to use it for the Plant a Wish tree planting tour and documentary film. As soon as it is available to us, you can bet we’ll be sharing it here!
