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M.I.F.F. 1999
Melbourne Independent
Filmmakers
Festival
(Melbourne, Florida)
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The
1999 M.I.F.F.
was sponsored by...
Indian River Brewing Company.
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The
incredible 1999
M.I.F.F. was
just that!
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The
scheduled order was...
Reception
Welcome
The Amazing Colossal Director
Fireman Jim
The Amazing Mr and Mrs Berkowitz
The Ride
Will Work For Food
January Witch
Action News 13
The Lost Cowboy
Crisp
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The
Amazing Colossal Director
by Louis Lowy
Louis Lowy studied film at Miami-Dade
Community College and is currently
enrolled at the University of Miami Film Program. His film,
The Amazing
Colossal Director was the first place winner of the Wolfson
Media Center/IFP
Indie No Budget Short Film Competition and won inclusion in
the Ft.
Lauderdale International Film Festival.The project was shot
on Hi-8 Video and
super 8 film and includes archival 16mm footage.
Michael Gonzalez is the co-writer and DP of The Amazing Colossal
Director and
also studied film at Miami-Dade Community College. He is currently
working
for a Miami-based production company and recently completed
a shoot for
Playboy Magazine.
The
Amazing Colossal Director
...was shown
at the Henegar Center For The Arts September 18,
1999
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Fireman
Jim's Amazing
Rescue Rigs
by
Children's Safe Play Corp. and...
The
Multimedia Group, Inc.
"A Medical
Multimedia Production and Consulting Firm"
Bob Krissak received his B.A. in
Film Production at the University of Central
Florida
and has worked in various aspects of corporate/industrial video
production
since 1979. He started his own production company, The Multimedia
Group.
Inc., and is happy to provide medical multimedia services to
the local
physicians of Holmes Regional Medical Center. In 1998,
he produced Fireman
Jims Amazing Rescue Rigs, a childrens safety video
that received the
official endorsement of the Coalition for Quality Children's
Video and
recently received the highest level of national recognition
for non-broadcast
film and video productions, the
Silver Telly Award.
The Multimedia
Group, Inc.
"Fireman
Jim's Amazing Rescue Rigs"
...was shown
at the Henegar Center For The Arts September 18,
1999
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The
Amazing Mr and Mrs Berkowitz
by Abel Klainbaum
Abel Klainbaum majored in English
at Florida International University. He is
the
manager of the Alliance/IFP-South in Miami, a not-for-profit
organization,
dedicated to the advancement of artistic expression in film
and video. This
includes the operation of the Alliance Cinema, an independent
cinema
specializing in foreign, art, documentary, and independent films,
and the
Alliance Film/Video Cooperative, a public access media arts
center dedicated
to supporting independent filmmaking in Florida. He has made
many short films
including Apple Pickin which showed at the 1999 Anti-film
Festival on South
Beach. He teaches editing on the Media100 and has edited projects
for Doris
Wishman, Sergio Giral, and others.
...was shown
at the Henegar Center For The Arts September 18,
1999
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Directed Pat Martin
Patrick Martin graduated from Melbourne
High School and received his degree in
Finance from the University of Florida. He has been involved
in many film
projects and is a co-founder of 3 Boys Productions. He
has called himself
Gasman and has vowed to continue to push the low-budget
envelope of
filmmaking. A talented musician who cut his chops in rock and
roll with his
band, The Truth Hurts, Martin has composed soundtracks for other
productions
including Under the Bridge and Crisp. His film, The Ride, is
an
autobiographical sketch that premiered at the 1999 Anti-Film
Festival on
South Beach and was selected for the 1999 West Palm Beach Independent
Film
Festival. He is the co-director of Crisp.
The Ride
...was shown
at the Henegar Center For The Arts September 18,
1999
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Will
Work For Food
by Eric Steinberg
Eric Steinberg
graduated from Orlando College with a degree in film and video
production. Born in America, he grew up above the Arctic Circle
in northern
Norway. His short film , Blue Roads, won a bronze award at the
1998 Florida
Motion Picture and Television Association Crystal Reel Awards.
He currently
works as a production
Specialist at Time Warner Communications in Melbourne. His film,
Will Work
For Food, was shot on 16mm and makes its festival premiere Sept.
18th.
...was shown
at the Henegar Center For The Arts September 18,
1999
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January
Witch
by Christine Jones
Christine Jones is a Wiccan.
She fought a first amendment battle in the early
1990s and won on behalf of religious freedom for all Wiccans.She
was the
last student of the most famous white witch, Sybil Leek.She
has been a
working resident of Brevard since 1980. Her latest project is
an
autobiographical film entitled January Witch. She can be contacted
via e-mail
at
eurimonme@aol.com
Original Soundtrack Link
...was shown
at the Henegar Center For The Arts September 18,
1999
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Action
News 13
by Tom Mumme
Thomas Mumme got his AS in Film
and Video Production from Phillips College,
Melbourne in 1994. Since then he has been a freelance
Camera Operator /
Assistant and has worked on such feature films as Men In Black
and The
Devils Own. Over the past five years he has won 12 Crystal
Reel Awards
including a Silver award for best videography in the statewide
competition
for his 15 minute dramatic video, Help Wanted. His production
company, THE
ATTIC, is world premiering Action News 13, which he directed
and was shot on
both Digital Video and 16mm film. To contact THE ATTIC, log
onto
http://theattic.8m.com/
.
...was shown
at the Henegar Center For The Arts September 18,
1999
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The
Lost Cowboy
by Anthony Miller
Anthony Miller
spent his high school years in the rural backwoods of Wakulla
County, Florida before moving to Boston, Massachusetts to attend
Emerson
College. He was awarded his Bachelor of Science in Film by acclaimed
director
Spike Lee.
Homesick for Florida, Anthony moved to Viera and founded the
successful Space
Coast Filmmakers, a nonprofit cultural arts group dedicated
to independent
filmmaking.His film, The Cowboy, is making its festival premiere.
He is now
organizing The American Digital Arts Festival, to be held at
the Henegar
Center on May 19-21, 2000. More information on that event can
be found at
www.digitalartsfest.com
or email Anthony at spacecoastfilm@yahoo.com
http://www.digitalartsfest.com/american/index.htm
...was shown
at the Henegar Center For The Arts September 18,
1999
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Directed by Terry Cronin and Pat
Martin
Crisp
Terry Cronin is a graduate of Melbourne
High School and a local dermatologic
surgeon who did his residency at the University of Miami. He
is best
remembered for his early work in film including local favorites,
The Attack
of the Moss Monster, Psycho in a Box, and Afternoon of the Dead.
In 1998,
Cronin, Bob Lizek, and Pat Martin founded 3 Boys Productions
and premiered
his 16mm film, Under the Bridge, at the Henegar Center which
went on to show
at the 1999 Anti-Film Festival on South Beach and the West Palm
Beach
Independent Film Festival. His latest film, Crisp, co-directed
by Pat Martin
is the first part of a trilogy of short films which will makeup
the body of
the feature, The Religion of Vitamins. Believing the more,
the merrier,
this film marks their second attempt at what they call Fiesta
Filmmaking.
This film is shot entirely on digital technology
...was shown
at the Henegar Center For The Arts September 18,
1999
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