Also performing is the electro-ambient redgreenblue. redgreenblue is music that evokes the romance of travel and wanderlust of living. Using keyboards and drum controllers, redgreenblue’s performances are sonically rich and visually absorbing, engaging the eyes, the ears and the imagination.

Joining redgreenblue will be Natalie Wilson, lending vocals to rgb’s performance.

The Parkside Lounge

317 East Houston, New York, NY 10002
This is an early show with the music going on at 7:00. The cover is $5.

The Etiquette of Sexting, a film proposed by Avery Pearson, Kyle Welton, and Adam Risbridger, took home the Grand Prize. The Grand Prize, valued over $100,000, is designed to provide the winner with the tools necessary to make their proposed feature film.  Sponsors include Canon, Redrock Micro, Media Services, Ataboy Studios, konsonant/, RocketHub, and Daryl Eisenberg Casting.  The competition and online voting were hosted on BigVisionEmptyWallet.com.

The judging panel included Russell Carpenter – Academy Award-Winning Cinematographer, Titanic; Maureen Ryan – Producer, Academy Award-Winning Documentary Man on Wire, Project Nim; Heather Matarazzo – Actress, Welcome to the Dollhouse (Independent Spirit Award); Rik Cordero – Award Winning Commercial, Film and Music Video Director; Alexander Buono – Academy Award Nominated Producer and Cinematographer, 10-year veteran Saturday Night Live; June Diane Raphael – writer and star of upcoming feature Ass Backwards, writer Bride Wars.

“We would like to first and foremost like to thank Dani Faith Leonard, Alex Cirillo and the entire Big Vision Empty Wallet Team for providing us with this amazing opportunity to realize our dream film project,” said writer/actor Avery Pearson.  The team plans to work on the project this summer with support from BVEW’s co-founders Alex Cirillo and Dani Faith Leonard.

Throughout the judging process, the public was invited to watch the Top 10 pitch videos and cast votes for their favorites.  Stranger Comes submitted by Morgan Faust won the online voting portion and received prizes furnished by Media Services and Ataboy Studios.

“The quality of the submissions we received was incredible, it was so inspiring to see all of the great ideas BVEW Members pitched,” says BVEW Co-Founder Alex Cirillo.  “The winners should be proud, they beat out some really stiff competition.”

“We were thrilled to team with Canon and our experienced judging panel, and being named one of the Top 25 Festivals Worth the Submission Fee by MovieMaker our first year doing the competition was really validating for us,” says BVEW Co-Founder Dani Faith Leonard

About Big Vision Empty Wallet:

Big Vision Empty Wallet is a membership organization, founded in 2010 by Dani Faith Leonard and Alex Cirillo.  BVEW creates opportunities for the best independent artists to showcase their work.  BVEW’s members are made up of the best undiscovered artists, as well as seasoned pros working in film, theatre, visual arts, media, music, and the performing arts.  Find out more at BigVisionEmptyWallet.com.

Contact info@bigvisionemptywallet.com for more information.

Blending comedy, horror, and science fiction with a sharply choreographed fight show, we aim to thrill and enthrall you with a production unlike anything you’ve ever seen before! Happily After Tonight is about to take NYC by storm, and you can help us! Help us fund this project to get our dream show on stage! This most definitely ain’t your Parents F$%kin’ Fairy Tale…

Featuring a gift cast of actors, which include Michaela Alyse Tomcho as Alice (workshop production of Wonderland), Benjamin Gooch as Charming (USA’s White Collar), Megan Hartig as Snow White (the upcoming The Longest Swim), Asher Bailey as Hatter (workshop production of Spring Awakening), & Mateo Moreno as Loup (most recently seen in The Rocky Horror Show & in American Opera Projects reading of Cities of Salt). More casting will be announced soon!

The Creative team is equally impressive! Written by Mateo Moreno (the feature film Days and the short films Surrender, Avenue A, & Deadbeat). Directed by Mateo Moreno and Alexis Black, with fight choreography also from Black (The Ninja Cherry Orchard, Happily After Tonight workshop version, A Christmas Carol, Vixens En Guarde). Costumes by Julz Kroboth (worked on the Broadway productions of Wicked, The Lion King, Spamalot, Newsies as well as Lady Gaga’s Monster Ball European Tour and the Happily After Tonight workshop production). Art Design by Stephanie Layton (The Battery’s Down, League of Broadway Super Friends, Happily After Tonight workshop).

For more information, visit:

Official Facebook page

Official Kickstarter page

or email Mateo Moreno or Alexis Black at HappilyAfterTonight@gmail.com for further information.

The purpose of Big Vision Empty Wallet’s National Film Pitch Competition is to find the next great feature film and GET IT MADE!  Our Grand Prize, valued over $100,000 is designed to help our winner collect all of the tools necessary to make their proposed feature.   VIEW ALL PRIZE INFORMATION HERE!

Stay tuned!  Our Grand Prize Winner will be announced on May 1st!

Read MovieMaker’s entire list HERE.

Think (iT) Film Assembly is currently accepting submissions for the Think (iT) Short Film Screening Series #1.

Send your contact information and link to a film no longer then 15 minutes to info@thinkitfilm.com

Deadline for submissions: Midnight on April 30th.

The screening will take place on May 13th in downtown Manhattan and will include a Q+A with the filmmakers as well as an opportunity to network with other filmmakers in attendance.

Facebook page: www.facebook.com/ThinkitFilmAssembly

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“I am incredibly honored and thrilled by the audience response in Sarasota. This award is a fantastic launching point for us to take our very funny and sweet movie to new audiences around the world,” said Martin Snyder. “I could not be more grateful to Alison and my producers, my co-­‐writer Marnie, our stars Jonny and Mickey, Paul our cinematographer, and the entire cast and crew for this wonderful experience. Big thanks also to everyone at the Sarasota Film Festival for putting on an amazing fest and treating us like friends.”

ABOUT MISSED CONNECTIONS: Josh (Jon Abrahams) is a cocksure techie working in a corporate I.T. department when he meets Lucy (Mickey Sumner), an up and coming executive looking for Mr Right. When Lucy encounters a handsome stranger outside of the office, she decides to place an ad in an online Missed Connections site in the hopes of finding true love. But when Josh intercepts the message and, with the help of his friends, undertakes a plot to steer Lucy into his own arms, things get complicated in a hurry. Missed Connections is lighthearted and fun, a truly independent comedy for the age of online romance.

Written, Directed & Produced by Martin Snyder

Starring Jon Abrahams & Mickey Sumner

Co-­‐Writer: Marnie Hanel

Producers: Alison Palmer Bourke and Kathy Lindboe

Executive Producers: Tom Conigliaro, Jeff Gorski, Jacqueline Huggett

Cinematographer: Paul McCarthy

For more information on the film, and info on upcoming festivals and news, check out The Missed Connections Facebook page.

Mary & Louise, a new project from BVEW Member Amy Staats, is one of three finalists in LA Comedy Shorts 2012 Short Script Competition.  They are currently planning to shoot in June, and have one week left in their fundraiser, posted on BVEW’s RocketHub page!

There has been additional successes for their creative team as well!  In the last few months Here’s What I Like: Fashion and Flowers has  been screened at the 2012 Winter Film Awards, Garden State Film Festival, and Brooklyn Girl Film Festival.  Amy is also in the semi finals for the NextTV Acting/Directing Talent Search.

Check out the Mary and Louise website HERE.

SUPPORT THIS PROJECT!

Check out the film trailer HERE.

Jody Christopherson is a performer, writer. She is the editor and creator of New York Theatre Review , an indie theater blog she began in 2010 while working under Brook Stowe as a script selector and developer for the NYTR print editions. Jody’s writing has been featured on; Big Vision Empty Wallet , One Producer in the City, nytheater.com’s Indie Theater Companion . Jody is a member of the Independent Theater Bloggers Association for which she is the coordinator of the Patrick Lee awards for off-off Broadway and a Co-Founder of Floating Train Productions. As a theater maker she has been awarded grants from Philadelphia Shakespeare, Bowery Arts and Sciences, commissions from Blue Box productions and the Exquisite Corpse Festival. Her work as an actress has been seen at: Ensemble Studio Theater, the Humana Festival, Classic Stage Company, the Bushwick Starr, Bowery Poetry Club, Philadelphia Shakespeare, Nebraska Rep, Here Arts Center and more. Jody holds a BA in acting from University of Nebraska Lincoln and was an acting apprentice at Actors Theater of Lousiville where she continued to develop her writing and performance skills.

Read Jody’s first piece for the Huffington Post HERE.

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