GreenScreenAdventures

"Green Screen Adventures"

http://www.greenscreenadventures.tv 

We feature stories and drawings by students in second through eighth grade using sketch comedy, story theatre, game shows, original songs, puppetry and more.

Since our debut in 2007, we have featured stories written by almost 1,000 elementary school students!

Do you want to get involved?

Write. Submit. Watch.

SMART STUFF FOR KIDS

…BY KIDS

There are no limits to your imagination...
Just possibilities created by you!

Your stories come to life in our STORY THEATRE.

Your reports – on science, history, or literature – become lively BRAIN GAMES.

Your persuasive writing – debates and essays – are featured on PUPILS’ COURT.

Your recipes, nutrition information, or stories about family dinners, are told by our FOOD FOLKS puppets.

Your poems, journal entries, or short stories become breaking news on NEWSFLASH.

Your drawings or story illustrations appear in the art gallery – simply BEYOND WORDS.

Your poems or stories become the lyrics to a song or adapted into interpretive dance in a segment called RHYTHM AND WRITING.

Your mysteries unravel on DETECTIVE McMYSTERY.

Your journal entries become part of the adventure on JOURNAL JOURNEY.

And... you can learn about...

traditional storytelling to celebrate culture and family in SPINNING TALES

or take a stop at IMPROVISATION STATION and learn out-of-the-box improv games.

Submit YOUR writing and drawings to Green Screen Adventures.

EDUCATIONAL GOALS

• To encourage children to be enthusiastic about writing and reading
• To help students build a foundation for writing, critical thinking, and problem solving
• To promote character development as the cast demonstrates cooperation and mutual respect
• To provide educators with innovative and entertaining ways to enhance student learning

In addition to academic skills, Green Screen Adventures focuses on the five Cs:
Creativity, Curiosity, Confidence, Citizenship, Compassion.

Or Sign Language/ASL: Type search sign language or ASL - there are many children stories included ASL or any other stories young kids would love to participate and submit it to us. We'll perform a story from their work. We enjoyed reading young kids stories. If you happen to know anyone who would love to submit their stories, send it to us. 

Many Thanks

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: SAG Offers Indie Filmmakers Low-Budget Advice

SAG’s David White says indie films are “an incubator of creativity today when big budget film economics often make new ideas a riskier business.”

The Screen Actors Guild stands ready to help independent producers get their projects before the cameras, guild executives said Saturday at a panel devoted to indie filmmaking at the annual Produced by Conference.

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SAGIndie national director Darrien Michelle Gipson focused on SAG’s variety of low-budget agreements: “You can get the best actors you ever imagined for $100 a day,” she remarked, patting fellow panelist William Mapother on the back as she did so.

SAG deputy national executive director Ray Rodriguez pointed to a variety of online resources offered by the guild, including SAG’s new online Production Center at SAG.org/Production-Center. That resource was highlighted at the beginning of the panel by SAG national executive director David White, who played a video demonstrating the site.

Mapother also had a digital resource to share: His company, Slated, is in beta testing on an online marketplace for film financing.

Stories of luck and perseverance were also on display Saturday at the SAG-sponsored panel in Burbank.

For writer-director Dito Montiel, the key to making his debut film, “A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints,” was the trust reposed in him by “an actor who just got out of jail” – his description of Robert Downey, Jr. – and by producer Trudie Styler,“who was crazy enough to give me a chance writing and directing.”

Actor-writer-director Clark Gregg cited insanity of a different kind as helping out with the making of his “Choke,” a Sundance Special Jury prize winner that is probably the only movie in existence centering on a sex addicted colonial theme park worker. In Gregg’s case, locations were an issue and, to his delight, he managed to find a county in New Jersey with the necessary facilities: “an insane asylum and a schlocky zoo.” The unnamed county was “very helpful,” he added – making for an appropriate anecdote at a show co-sponsored by the Association of Film Commissioners International.

The panel was introduced with remarks by SAG national president Ken Howard, who said “SAG values independent films and filmmakers like you” and by White, who also highlighted independent film, calling it “an incubator of creativity today when big budget film economics often make new ideas a riskier business.”

The annual Produced By Conference is in its third year, and this time is being held in conjunction with the AFCI’s Locations Show, with several dozen panels and speaker events, as well as about 200 exhibitor booths. The two-day-event, held this year at Disney Studios in Burbank, concludes Sunday.

Email: jhandel@att.net

Twitter: @jhandel 

A Union Advocate "The Audition" by ACTRANational

New Study: Few Characters with Disabilities on TV

     A new report released by GLAAD shows that scripted characters with disabilities represent only one percent of all scripted series regular characters. Check more information on AFTRA.org website http://www.aftra.com/21CC0463F7DC4511A69DCB33E65866F3.htm

"The Audition", a video about accessibility, was created by ACTRA's Diversity Committee. Help spread the word by sharing this great video.

Produced By ACTRA National
Produced under an ACTRA Toronto Union Advocacy Production Agreement
Co-producers Patricia McKenzie & David Sparrow
Diversity Committee Chair Jani Lauzon
Written & Directed by David Sparrow
Starring: Sprit Synott, Jeff Parazo, David Sparrow, Wayne Robson
DOP: Marie-Lyssa Dormeus
Editor: Marie-Lyssa Dormeus
Set Support: Barbara Larose, Christine Webber
SPECIAL THANKS to ACTRA National Staff, Rob Turi and Vistek

For more info visit www.actra.ca

CriticalNexusTheMovie

Tirf Alexius will direct "Critical Nexus" a thriller written by Todd Heller and scheduled for production on April 19, 2011 - shooting for 28 days through the end of May, 2011. Principal photography will take place primarily in the Chicagoland area-employing a cast of nearly sixty Chicago-based union and non-union actors.


It's the first of four feature films being produced by Driven Entertainment and Dwarfgoat for the 4Features Film Co. Be sure to become a fan: Http://www.facebook.com/DrivenEnt to stay up to-date on "Critical Nexus". The release date: Fall 2011

Plot Outline	When a 16 year old girl’s video blog is seen by the wrong man, everyone’s sordid past comes into focus. Katie had no choice but to kill the man who tried to rape her, and now when girls who look like her are being brutally murdered, she has no choice but to run. She’s looking for answers on the road to Las Vegas, which she understands is the capital of both marriage and suicide. In her mind, she equates that fact to her own feeling that sex and death are inextricably intertwined. Now she wants to get to the bottom of it once and for all.
Starring	Kiley B. Moore & Karmann Bajuyo
Directed By	Tirf Alexius
Screenplay By	Todd Heller
Produced By	Tirf Alexius, Hugh Grady, Remoh Romeo, Chad Meyer, Lanre Sarumi & Angelica Acebedo

Meet the Crew: Ron Rehana, Director of Photography Ryan Marshall, Second Unit DP Andy Sparesus, Second Unit DP Daniel Tegler, Production Sound Mixer Tamra Neil, Key Costumer/ Set Dresser Jan Kaschner, Costume Designer Laura Darner, Costume Supervisor Nicole Rogers, Makeup Artist Jill Heiberger, Makeup Artist Beth Oneill, Production Designer Michelle Webber, Wardrobe PA Osama Siddiqui, Wardrobe PA Meet the Cast: Alexander Avak Alexxa Stiefel Angelica Acebedo-Frint Anne Gallagher Anne's daughter Antonio Coke Beth Oneill Bruce Spielbauer Bruno Robert Chad Meyer Charles Ashana Charlie Gadd Danny Glenn David Kushnir David McNulty David Perry Estefania Odio Peterson Grant Kaske Harold Dennis Hugh Grady Iracema Huerta Jan Kaschner Jean Benoit Jeff Celeste Jeff Helgeson Jen Laforte Hoos Jennifer Sall Jill Heiberger Julian Sergi Kai Robertson Karmann Bajuyo Kathleen Lawlor Katie Cheely Kevin Lingle Kevin Wesley Kiley B. Moore Kristin Broadwell Kyle Lieberum Lanre Sarumi Lola Reech Mackenzie Edmond Marco Garcia Mark Vallejo Matt Labotka Michael Edmond Michelle Webber Monique A. Banks Nikki Mufoleti Osama Siddiqui Preston Tate Jr. Rebecca Hermes Regina Daniels Remoh Romeo Ron Lipski Tamra Neil Tirf Alexius Tjax Malek-I Todd Heldt Walt Sloan Yusef Williams

Website	http://www.criticalnexusthemovie.com http://www.Driven-ent.com

ASL Music Video: Time of My Life with Rosalee and Russell Harvard

Be sure to crank up your volume because this music video is sure to make you wanna dance!

Remind you of Dirty Dancing (rocks!)

Sean Forbes Ft. Marlee Matlin "Let's Mambo" (Deaf Singer/Signer)

After watching Sean Forbes Featured with Marlee Matlin, I was impressed on how they performed and danced. This should be broadcast more about what we can do - this is one of a good example about our community. Want to know more of his work, check out his youtube, Sean Forbes.