Casting Call on Saturday!

A message to all members of Indie Q

Audition Call from (Subli)minal Gaming: We are seeking male and female talent, of all ages, for film and voice over acting for our video game project, Bit-Chaos. Audition will be held on Saturday, March 19 at 2:00-5:00 pm. Flying Star Downtown 723 Silver Avenue Albuquerque, NM 87102 For more information contact (Subli)minal Gaming at: jobs@subligaming.com or 505-489-4817

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Play the Genre Game!

See if you can beat my record!!!!

http://quizlet.com/4711644/genre-studies-flash-cards/

Summer Training Opportunity--very cool!

Hispanic Youth Institute Applications Now Available

Are you a high school student interested in learning about college and career opportunities? The Hispanic Youth Institute inspires students like you to achieve a college education, pursue a professional career, and invest in your community as volunteers and leaders. You will participate in college and career workshops, connect with local Hispanic professionals, meet college admissions officers, interact with near-peer mentors, listen to inspirational speakers, and compete for scholarships. Throughout the on-campus experience, you will build your confidence and receive practical tools to help you along their pathway to college. The Hispanic College Fund will then work with you year-around.

The Hispanic Youth Institute currently serves high school students in Arizona, Dallas, Maryland, New Mexico, Virginia and three locations in California (Central Valley, Los Angeles, and Silicon Valley).

To apply to the program, visit www.hispanicyouth.org and select the region where you live.

NM Application: http://www.hispanicfund.org/programs/high-school-hispanic-youth-institute-/regions/new-mexicoAPPLICATION DUE MARCH 31!

SBA Practice

From “A Western is a Western is a Western”, by Stuart J. Kobak. http://www.filmsondisc.com/features/western/western.htm

Accessed March 3, 2010.

There are elements that must be found in a film to label it a Western. It is fair to insist that a Western have a reasonable amount of action and at minimum a modicum of shoot-em-up. Conflict resides in the guts of all Westerns. We need good guys and bad guys, although the differences can sometimes be blurred. Capturing a sense of the great outdoors is fundamental precept of the greater number of Westerns. Often a chase is the driving force behind a Western's plot. A changing way of life is frequently the focus of genre treatment and pioneers are found as unsung heroes.

There is really no firm description that can lasso the genre. No Western will have each and every element in evidence. Not all Westerns are created equal and all are not equally Westerns. When enough of the essential nature of the genre is present in a film, it isn't too great a stretch to call it a Western. Western or Eastern, Adventure, or Drama: the mere labels do not make the reality of a film. The sum of its elements alone determine in what genre it most comfortably fits. After all, a Western is a Western is a Western. 


Give me the frontier spirit, boots and spurs, broad brimmed hats, horses and Indians, six shooters, repeating Winchesters or bows and arrows and the spirit of the Western spreads out its sweeping vistas before my eyes. When the hero and bad man face off in typical genre confrontation, I could care less if the shoot-out takes place in Tombstone, Alaska, or Australia. As long as the essential Western spirit rears up against a purple sky, its a Western for me. I don't care if the frontier is the East Coast of America or the West Coast or whether it's 1765 or 1875. The Western genre is defined by Pike Bishop uttering the fateful "We want Angel," that precipitates the Boschlike carnage at the climax of The Wild Bunch; or it's Ethan Edwards' refrain "That'll be the day," in Ford's master work The Searchers.