MIAMI

 

(Please Contact Joanne Butcher, Executive Director, IFP/Miami Tel: (305-538-8242)

 

Tuesday night's Show Us Your Stuff presented a new twist on our monthly screening series. IFP/Miami had invited WOMPI (Women of the Motion Picture Industry) to come and show us their stuff. Caren Kamlet presented WOMPI to us. We learned about their service work throughout the year, their monthly meetings and their annual creation of PSA's for a non-profit organization.

Next we saw work by several WOMPI members, including Sylvie Rokab and Robyn Symon. Finally, we were treated to the extraordinarily accomplished PSA's made by the entire WOMPI membership! This year, these were directed by Emmy-Award winning, Sheila Duffy-Lehrman, based here in Miami with her company Tropic Survival Productions, one of IFP's corporate sponsors, and by Victoria Arias-Frasa, based in L.A. and Fort Lauderdale. The PSA's - in English, Spanish and Creole, were quite frankly, awesome.

Next we met Wilkenson Bruna and some of his cast and crew from Wind of Desire. Many IFP members who had been to see the IFP presentation of the premier of the movie had asked many technical questions which Wilkenson answered on Tuesday night. We think this may be the very first locally made movie shot on video and transferred to video. If anyone knows of a prior movie to use this fascinating process, please let us know.

And finally, we saw recent work by Leo Marini. Leo has moved on from being a fabulous IFP volunteer to working in the commercial world. Now he and his team are preparing to work on their own creative projects. Leo has made a specialty out of shooting digital video and creating a film look with the camera and the edit suite.

And finally, a special thanks to our sponsors: Kodak, BMI, and Tropic Survival Productions.

There will be no Show Us Your Stuff in December; see you all again in January. And if anyone would like to volunteer for the next SUYS, please let us know. We need 3 people for each event.

Thanks,

Joanne