Meeting date: Tuesday, January 3rd, 2017 at 6:30 pm!! No admission fee! I. Board Updates - Board members share important updates and reminders regarding UIFN business. II. Announcements - members and guests share upcoming projects, shows, seminars, etc. Please keep all announcements brief. III. Guest Speaker: Dan Doyle Update your headshots for 2017! Dan Doyle of Dan Doyle Photography will share styles and tips of headshots used in the business. IV. Network Break - Bring your business cards and enjoy networking and catching up. VI. Video Submissions: Pending TBA The Upstate Independent Filmmakers Network Board: Steve O’Connor: President Carolyn Cocca: Vice-President Thomas Mercer: Membership Chair Shela O'Shea: Secretary Susie Griswold: Programming Chair Barbara Whitchurch: Media Chair Michael Camoin: Fundraising Chair Laci Lee: Web Chair Jay Glogowski: Treasurer
Where we’re located:
Upstate Independent Filmmakers Network meets the first Tuesday of every month at The Linda: WAMC’s Performing Arts Studio, 339 Central Avenue, Albany, NY from 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Check out the best independent film and media resource in Upstate New York. Visit our website at http://www.ui-fn.com. For more information, e-mail us at info@ui-fn.com.
February, March, April and May minutes coming soon!
Meeting date: Tuesday June 6th, 2017 at 6:30 pm!!
I. Board Updates - Board members share important updates and reminders regarding UIFN business.
II. Announcements - members and guests share upcoming projects, shows, seminars, etc. Please keep all announcements brief.
III. Guest Speakers: Author Ray O'Conor She Called Him Raymond - A True Story of Love, Loss, Faith and Healing, is the poignant and powerful story of Helen Gregg, the daughter of Irish immigrant parents raised in the miseries of Hell's Kitchen during the Great Depression, and Clarence Raymond Stephenson, an aspiring B-17 pilot from the struggling city of Ironton, Ohio.
Fate brought them together in New York City's Central Park in 1942. From the moment their eyes met, they knew their lives would never be the same. This captivating story tells of their struggles and romance, his heroic exploits as a B-17 pilot, and the tragedy that tears them apart. It is a lesson about faith, a love that could never die, and about a promise that had to be kept, no matter how long or how hard it might be to fulfill.
James Bradley, #1 NY Times Best Selling Author of Flags of Our Fathers, said it is a story that, "… touches the heart and stirs the soul."
Author Ray O'Conor abandoned his career as a bank CEO to write this story. A screenplay adaptation is under development. Ray has written weekly columns and opinion pieces for newspapers and published articles in regional magazines. He has been the subject of newspaper, television, and magazine stories on topics ranging from endurance sports and mountaineering, to writing, business and politics. Prior careers found Ray as a U.S. Border Patrol Agent and Special Agent with the Department of Defense. He now devotes his time to writing, public speaking and serving as the CEO of a not for profit community development company.
Ray's avocations are hiking and mountain climbing.
IV. Network Break - Bring your business cards and enjoy networking and catching up.
V. Video Submission: Faton Balaj will share his short "The Choise" (approx 7 mins.)
The Upstate Independent Filmmakers Network Board:
Steve O’Connor: President Carolyn Cocca: Vice-President Thomas Mercer: Membership Chair Sheila O'Shea: Secretary Susie Griswold: Programming Chair Michael Camoin: Fundraising Chair Jay Glogowski: Web Chair Michalina Scorzelli: Media Chair
Where we’re located:
Upstate Independent Filmmakers Network meets the first Tuesday of every month at The Linda: WAMC’s Performing Arts Studio, 339 Central Avenue, Albany, NY from 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Check out the best independent film and media resource in Upstate New York. Visit our website at http://www.ui-fn.com. For more information, e-mail us at info@ui-fn.com. Upstate Independents Film Network Meeting,Tuesday,June 01, 2017. Susie Griswold; Facilitator Approximately 35 members or more present. The meeting started on time at 6:30pm at The Linda in Albany.
Guest speaker Ray O'Conor Film showings: 1.) The Choice by Faton (Tony) Balaj 2.) A promo about "Scared to Debt" presented by Celeste Balducci Announcements:
UIFN will not meet on Tuesday July 4th because of the national holiday. An alternate date will be arranged with The Linda and announced.
Guest Speaker: Ray O'Conor Raymond shared how he uncovered a touching World War II love story in his own family and came to write and publish a book about it. He is now working with others on a screenplay and hopes that a movie can be made based on his book. He got the idea when his mother turned 80. On her birthday, she took him into a private room to show him a letter that was addressed to his mom from her first husband who was killed during the war as a B-17 pilot. This launched Ray on a mission to track down veterans and family members of his mother's first husband. He gathered so much interesting material he felt he had to quit his job and dedicate himself to writing a book about it all.
Raymond was very captivating telling his story. He is interested in help from UIFN members getting his book made into a movie. He has a website: Shecalledhimraymond.com
Film showings:
1.) "The Choice" by Faton (Tony) Balaj, edited by Jo Blakk. A film about love and tragedy. A man chooses his wife over guns and during a robbery, without any guns for protection, he saves his wife but he himself is killed. Filmed one day at his business and his home. NY Pizza in Latham, Columbia St. 2.) "Scared to Debt" online promo presented by Celeste Balducci. Documentary film in progress about student loan debt crisis; future stakes. After filming U.S. presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein, she offers a brief statement of endorsement. While the crisis cuts across ALL political parties and their respective constituents, this clip was targeted to the thousands of followers of Dr. Stein. Mike Camoin director/DP and also producing w/Cynthia Pooler Assoc. producer. John Bradley served as a grip/swing during filming.
Visiting us again after a long time out:
1.) From NYC, Christina Vincik, for two weeks and then she heads back.
2.) From California, Kevin Craig West for a project here in NY and the Premier Screening of Bumpin Uglies that he help support for Susie Griswold.
3.) Steven Philips with Kevin C. West
New attendees/guests: 1.) Shari Hoffman Simsek: 2.) Jason ? 3.) Charity Bukbee 4.) Lori Ponder 5.) Stephen Pelletier 6.) Diane Frederick
We adjourned at about 8:45. Some of the attendees continued to network and socialize at nearby restaurant “Salsa Latina”
Upstate Independent Filmmakers Network will not meet on July 4th! Happy Independence Day!
