META is a new trade organization in the entertainament, technology, Media, Technology and Arts industries composed of top level, influential executives, including writers, producers, distributors, actors, technology experts, artists,  and those who are catalyzing positive change through media.

META inspires the development and promotes the distribution of media arts that incorporate positive values,self awareness,  and social change.

META offers you menbership access to a Media Resource Online Bank, Networking Events, Funding and Distrubtion Resources, Work Opportunities, Events Listings, Training Programs and much more.  Join other like-minded industry professionals to meet and network, experience industry education, and trade secrets where you can submit, share and pitch your projects in any stage of their evolution!

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Cynthia H. Stringer, master professional coach and META Executive Director, Sharon Hart, META website content creator, co-founder of META, and Dr. Norm McVea, META affiliate member, have launched Coherent Coaching Institute, a new company that offers personal and professional coaching and healing arts practitioner training programs, plus energetic products for reducing stress and increasing vitality and wellbeing. The Institute's method is leading edge combining HRV Biofeedback & EFT. It also offers multi-media sound and video energy applications. Attend a FREE Teleclass by sending an email to:

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AFFILIATE NEWS:


MICHAEL STILLWATER's first foray into filmmaking, Shining Night: A Portrait of Composer Morten Lauridsen- was the Best Documentary winner at the DC Independent Film Festival, 'a heartening rarity'- Terry Teachout, Wall Street Journal;  and 'a masterpiece' - Kay Pollak, film director, Oscar-nominated 'As It Is In Heaven'; Honorable Mention, Los Angeles Movie Awards.

The Bay Area premiere is June 9 & 10/ San Francisco (with choir performance) and San Rafael Theater. Lauridsen, a National Medal of Arts recipient, has been called 'the only American composer in history who can be called a mystic', was given the title Master of Choral Music by the National Endowmen for the Arts.  For trailer, visit http://innerharmony.com/songwithoutborders/trailer.html

Congraulations, Michael!

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Worldwide Web--Award-winning poets Carolyn Howard-Johnson and Magdalena Ball announce the winner and runners-up of their first-ever contest for cover art for the new addition to their Celebration series of poetry chapbooks. The winner is META Affiliate member, JACQUIE SCHMALL.

Jacquie developed a style she calls “rainbow geometry.”

After spending time in theatre productions, and on film sets, she was compelled to paint a series of watercolors reflecting the powerful energy of women in the process of co-creation. The selected painting it one of them; it will be reflected in three iterations on the cover.

Jacquie can be reached at: jacquiefilm@gmail.com


MEMBER MEDIA FORUM - FILM REVIEW by member, Don Schwartz

 

Bravo!: Common Men, Uncommon Valor

Ken and Betty Rodgers' riveting documentary, "Bravo!", begins with three lines of text: "This is not a pro-war film. This is not an anti-war film. This is a film about what happened." During the next two hours the viewer is propelled through a 77-day siege of 6,000 Marines by at least 20,000 North Vietnamese soldiers.

It is 1968. A leadership decision is made to entrap as large a number of North Vietnamese fighters as possible. The battleground: Khe Sanh combat base. The bait: 6,000 Marines, additional military units, an ammo dump, two HQ bases, and an airstrip. The North Vietnamese take the bait, the two fighting forces become mutually entrapped.

Through heart-breaking, jaw-dropping, tearful interviews with 15 survivors, through archival footage and stills, audio recordings made during and after the siege, and through accurately-created sounds of battle, we experience this eleven-week siege as lived by the men of Bravo Company, First Battalion, 26th Marines. These 120 Marines, in their late teens and early twenties, comprise the Company placed at the end of the airstrip, next to the ammo dump, between the First Battalion headquarters and the HQ of the 26th Marine Regiment-in the cradle of prime military targets.

The survivors describe the battles, the deaths and woundings, the fear, and the heroic actions. They speak of their time in the trenches under constant bombardment. The quiet on-camera presence of these men, their voices, their faces, their eyes, their tears, and their words-all scream as powerful a statement about the nature of war as any still photos or moving images of battle, as any of the finest or grittiest Hollywood war films. Approximately sixty Marines of Bravo Company are killed, many wounded, and all the survivors' minds are seared by this journey through Hell.

"Bravo!" is an astounding motion picture, made more so by the fact that this is Ken and Betty Rodgers' first film-one that looks, feels, and sounds as if it were produced by seasoned filmmakers. An instant classic, "Bravo!" is a timeless portrayal of this ageless / undying / everlasting / perpetual human activity called war.

 

Please visit Cinesource Magazine to read Don's full-length interview with actress turned filmmaker Cassie Jaye. Here is an excerpt:

"Don Schwartz: Why the moves behind the camera and to Marin?

Cassie Jaye: The main reason I went behind the camera was because I never felt fully fulfilled acting. I never acted in a film that spoke about what I wanted to put out in the world. And so that's what began "Daddy I Do". I wanted to do something that was personal to me. In my acting career I was probably in about eight horror films, died eight times. I've done a lot of films, they were fun to work on, but I wasn't telling the story I wanted to tell. The move to Marin was a collision of a lot of things-a breakup, the high price of living in L.A., I wanted something different. I was going behind the camera, and I was working a lot with my family who live here. I was editing with them, doing all my post production up here, so it just made sense to be up here. I thought it was going to be a Summer in the Bay Area, and I ended up loving it, never moved back."

 

META NEWS Opportunity Listings Contact Information will be found in the Resource Section of the website.
 

Michael Weiss Productions which is the Country's largest publisher of books about film production is looking for new authors for their new book line "Divine Arts" which
Contact Info in the Resource Section.

Check Indiegogo or film funding. Also, check out film financing

Try internet marketing to attract grants for documentary filmmaking. The web helps you to gain access to a lot of viewers for a small price. Advertise on Craigslist, promising credits at the end of the film.

Creative Capital Foundation
Creative Capital is a national organization designed to support artists pursuing innovative approaches to form and content in the media, performing and visual arts, along with emerging arts fields.

CALL FOR ENTRIES:

for the "15-MINUTES OF FAME" film festival! They are looking for films that are 15-minutes or shorter. Details on the Resourse pages. z