Monthly meeting for December is Monday 12th at 6:30 pm.

The Last Meeting Of The Year! (And What A Year It Was)

The monthly meeting for December, the last meeting for 2011, will be Monday, December 12, from 6:30 to 8:00 pm, at the Chico Branch of the Butte County Library, located at 1108 Sherman Ave., at the corner of Sherman Ave. and E. 1st Ave. (map below)

Holiday cookies and punch will be provided.

 
Also...

Have you signed up with the Open Filmmaker Alliance yet? If not, go there now and do so.

After you join, you can see all of the projects currently in development and in various stages of production (mostly local (-ish)) and join those projects to receive information and updates. If there is something you would like to do on the project, you can contact them and make inquiries.

You will find projects there like Paul Hildebrandt's recently-completed 30-second TV commercial entry for the Doritos Crash the Super Bowl contest, the zombie-themed "Day Of The Dorito", and currently in-development and in-production short films by Shawn Dyer and Heidi Moore ("WURMS") and Joshua Siegel ("Toxin"), among many others.

btw — The official premiere date for Shawn Dyer's recently-completed short film, "Fly", is Saturday, January 21st at 2 pm at the Pageant Theatre.

Congratulations to all of our filmmakers this year, and those who worked with them, actors and crew and others, and to the very successful premiere of the first annual Show Us Your Shorts Film Festival (which will be receiving a new name shortly due to trademark issues, so watch for that — as if this year's festival wasn't wonderful enough, next year promises to be bigger and better – they have already started work on next year's fest, so contact them if you want to help out and be a part of what will undoubtedly soon be seen as one of the best short film festivals on the west coast).

Let's see if we can duplicate all these successes in 2012. (or triplicate them)

Merry Xmas and Happy Holidays and Season's Greetings and Happy New Year to everyone.

CiAO meetings are now held once a month, usually near the middle of the month, on varying days of the week to give everyone a chance to attend when they can, a maximum of two hours in length, sometime between 6:00 pm and 9:00 pm. The meeting location is the Chico Branch of the Butte County Library, located at 1108 Sherman Ave., at the corner of Sherman Ave. and E. 1st Ave. See map (click to see larger version).

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The Consortium is a varied group of people interested in independent film and other related areas. Including all areas of indie film production, film in general, other productions of various kinds, multimedia, watching and appreciation. There tends to be an emphasis on indie films and filmmaking, particularly nano-budget, micro-budget, and small-budget filmmaking. All are welcome to join us, whether you are a writer, director, producer, actor, crew person, cinephile, or any other interested party. (suggested age range: mature teen through adult)

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