Moment of Clarity...update!

Louise and I entered “A Moment of Clarity...” in the 6th Annual Montana CINE International Film Festival. While our film was not selected to screen during CINE’s festival week, it was recognized by the preliminary review panel with an Honorable Mention for Creative Approach.

Huzzah!

Update time!

Sarah works for NHNZ Ltd (Natural History New Zealand) in Dunedin and has finished her first episode as Story Producer for Animal Planets Orangutan Island!!! And has recently returned from a trip with the Department of Conservation, The Royal Society and the Royal New Zealand Navy to the Subantarctic Islands where she was shooting a short film - watch this space!

Louise has spent the last few months in the UK, Thailand and Japan and after a brief stop at home her next stop is India where she'll help Uni students in Ladakh to show their world through film.

Diploma film breaks America!!!

"A Moment of Clarity..." has been accepted into the 2008 American Conservation Film Festival!
Their mission is to promote outstanding films and the arts that educate and inspire people to become engaged in conservation. The American Conservation Film Festival is an annual event held in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, a vibrant arts community 70 miles west of the nation's capital. The ACFF features films from a diverse group of conservation filmmakers from around the world.
Hurray!!!

Diploma Film hits Canada!

We have just found out that "A Moment of Clarity" has been selected for screening in the 9th annual Planet in Focus International Environmental Film & Video Festival, which takes place October 22nd-26th in Toronto. (http://www.planetinfocus.org/)

Thats our 4th festival! AND our Canadian Premiere!

Help us get to Wildscreen - and own your own copy of the movie!

Taken during the editing experience - yes we had gone mad!

"A Moment of Clarity..." DVD includes:

a gallery of the film-making process, directors' commentaries, a trailer, a recycled-card, hand-made cover (save the trees), music video, our love and a shocked, yet flattered, expression of gratitude...

And we will be putting all the money we make from sales to getting us to Bristol (all the way from Dunedin - it costs a lot!) for the Wildscreen International Film Festival in October...

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****Wildscreen Nomination!!!! ****

"A Moment of Clarity..." has been selected for a Jury's Special Selection for Screening at the International Wildlife and Environmental Film Festival 2008 Wildscreen! We are both stoked and cannot believe that we have gotten into such a prestigous festival!

Louise on location - and just a little cold!

I (Sarah), now work as a production assistant at Dunedin’s NHNZ Ltd., and Louise, who works as an assistant director at Wellington’s Red Sky Film & TV Ltd., made the film in 2007 while we were students at Otago University Natural History Filmmaking and Communication course.

Sarah enjoying the editing process

Our 24 minute documentary will be screened at the film festival which will be held in Bristol from October 19-24. Organisers say entries have increased dramatically this year with a wide range of films submitted from 44 countries.

We both think that the nomination is “amazing” for us and our supporters, including people directly involved such as Alison Ballance, Ben Truman, Chris Miller and the Department of Conservation without whom the film would have been very different.

The nomination means the film is also eligible for the highly sought after Judge’s Choice Award and is up against prestigous filmmakers.


Lu - "It's a bonus to have a New Zealand specific film make the final selection. Taking the risk of going slightly off the beaten track for a natural history film paid off for us in the end. I am still in disbelief about the nomination and have my fingers crossed that we will be able to head over and meet other filmmakers.”

We are now attempting to raise the funds needed to attend the festival.


The Wildscreen Festival was founded by Sir Peter Scott in 1982 and has been organised every other year for the past 25 years. It attracts hundreds of delegates from around the globe who work in film, television and the press, as well as those actively involved in working to conserve the environment. The main components of the Festival are the Panda Awards and a trade show. The Festival is organised by UK-based charity Wildscreen, which runs a number of initiatives

that use the power of film and photography to inspire conservation.

Portions of this article have been taken from press release, from Michelle Budge, NHNZ Ltd.

To contact us for more info please email us at salufilms@gmail.com

SCINEMA 2008 FESTIVAL OF SCIENCE FILM

This is our second festival to be accepted into, knocking our socks off to say the least!


http://www.csiro.au/scinema/images/scinema04.wmv


Dear Sarah and Louise,

After receiving a record number of entries for SCINEMA Festival of Science Film this year, it has taken us a little while, but we have finally come up with a program for our 2008 Festival.

I am pleased to announce that your film A Moment of Clarity has been selected for Official Competition in SCINEMA 2008 Festival of Science Film.

Your film will be assessed by our Jury of science and film industry peers, Chaired by Wilson Da Silva, Editor of Cosmos Magazine, and winners will be announced on the closing night of our Festival, August 24.

Your film has further been selected to screen as part of our travelling film festival. While venues are still being confirmed, in 2006 our travelling film festival screened in 90 cities around Australia, New Zealand and the UK to an audience of over 10,000.

Information about the festival will go up on our website www.csiro.au/scinema soon, and an announcement will be made about our competing films for 2008.