Second Cinema @ “25 to Survive” Rally

Second Cinema was on location to shoot our ‘opens, closes, film intros’ and to support “25 to Survive” today at the Legislative Building in downtown Raleigh, NC. We spoke to numerous filmmakers, educators, and supports at the event and feel that the turn out was a success. Below are two photos of Hilary at work.

Host Hilary Russo interviewing Dan Brawley (Cucularous Film Festival Director)

Hilary interviewing NC Film director Aaron Syrett

May 2008

This month we headed back to The Carolina Theatre for two outstanding interviews, Mr. Aaron Syrett, of the NC Film Commission, and Nic Beery of Beery Media and we screened Nic’s short film entitled, Nightlife.

We first had the pleasure to sit down with North Carolina Film Commission Director, Aaron Syrett. He talked about film opportunities in the state, explained what his department does, and how you can get involved. Watch the interview below or click on the VodPod clip to the right to watch BONUS footage from the interview not seen on the show, in which Mr. Syrett discusses the NEW NC Film Data Base.

After sitting down with Mr. Syrett, we spoke with our friend Nic Beery of Beery Media.

We screened the trailer for The Mad Tea Party Documentary: Post-Modern Parlor Music during our first break. When we returned, we spoke with Nic about the film and how he will be releasing the film in ten minute chunks via YouTube.

The First in the installment is listed below, but enjoy them all here.

For the remainder of the show we focused our attention to his short film Nightlife, which we screened in it’s entirety. Watch the Nic Beery Interview below, and make sure to check the VodPod panel for bonus Beery footage!

NIGHTLIFE

NightLife takes a look at a day in the life of a woman named Medea who doesn’t know where to find love. We begin just as she has run out of gas and must walk to the nearest station. As the afternoon rolls into night, things go from bad to worse and we discover more about how Medea got into this situation.

NightLife is a 12 minute short shot in High Definition that is circling the Festival circuit throughout 2008.

The cast includes Melissa Lozoff, Mike Harris, Kelly Davis and Selena Lauterer.

Click HERE to watch a Quicktime of the cell phone scene.