Winning in Taos

The Astronomer's Sun picked up its 14th film festival award in Taos, NM, USA this last weekend.

The shortz event was held at the Harwood Art Museum and featured a fantastic range of New Mexico, US and International films with filmmakers from across the State, the US, France, Poland, and S. America in attendance.

With some excellent animation in competition we did well to win the BEST ANIMATION award.

This was a jury prize with special mention for the film's editing.

Next New Visions Screenings

Alamogordo:
Saturday, March 12th, 6pm
Where: NMSU-A
2400 N. Scenic Drive
Rohovec Theater
Alamgordo
NMSU-A campus

Las Cruces:
Monday, March 14th 2011, 08.30am
at Creative Media Institute
New Mexico State University
Director, Creative Media Institute
New Mexico State University
Milton Hall, 172

Wed. directions to screening

http://www.iaia.edu/about/directions/

Link to tonights screening

Workshops - New Visions State Service

WORKSHOPS by INDEPENDENT PRODUCER/DIRECTOR
PETER M. KERSHAW, DUCHY PARADE FILMS LLC

Script to Screen.
We’ll look at the journey from script to screen through the eyes of the main artistic creatives behind the production of short films - the screenwriter, Independent producer and the director. We’ll give an overview of these roles and how they relate to each other when you prepare to produce a short film. The presentation talk will work with an open format to allow for questions and answers from those attending, and will draw upon the films shown at the public screenings.

The places may fill quickly with students, but if you are interested in attending the talk, please enquire of the individual contact listed for each workshop.

Carlsbad: NMSU-C
Saturday, February 26th 2011, 3.30pm till 5pm.
Where? NMSU-C campus 1500 University Dr,
Instructional Building, Room 153
Contact: Cynthia Niedland 575-234-9412
Screening of short films follows at 6pm.

Santa Fe: IAIA
Thursday, March 3rd 2011, 09.30am
Where: IAIA, Institute of American Indian Arts
83 Avan Nu Po Road, Santa Fe NM 87508
Contact: J. Carlos Peinado, 505.424.5717
Screening of short films the night before at 6pm March 2nd.

Las Vegas:
Wednesday 30th March, 4.00pm
Where: Highlands University in the Media Arts West Building, 901 University Ave., Las Vegas, NM 87701
Contact: Kerry Loewen, 505-454-3312
Workshop starts at 4pm followed by short film screening at 5.30pm

Espanola:
Wednesday 20th April, 4.00 pm
Where: Northern New Mexico College
Nick Salazar Center for the Arts Theater
921 Paseo de Oñate
Española, NM 87582
Contact: Mateo Pumphrey, 505-747-5402
Workshop starts at 4pm followed by short film screening
at 6pm.

Synopsis of films for NM screening.

Synopsis of films

Screening program will vary but will be drawn from the following films:

Cinema of Horror
(UK) Peter M. Kershaw, Producer/Director & Writer – Comedy/fantasy.
Three students drift through the genres of their favourite Asian flicks. Their arguments take them into an array of comic fantasy scenarios, from Bollywood song-and-dance spectaculars through to blood-soaked bullet-fests and creepy night-time terrors in this entertaining comment on the perils of modern European and North American filmmaking.
Rating: Mild language and comic violence.

The Palace
(Netherlands) Ruud Satijn, Writer/Director - drama
Two teenage girls experience their first night club adventure. A pace and atmospheric film.

High Voltage
(Hungary) Daniel Erdelyi, Writer/Director - drama
Christmas. In a world of energy ownership a young couple from beyond the fence scavenge for metal with dangerous consequences in this cinematic film.

Cyphers
(USA, NM) Debrianna Mansini & Lori Romero, Producers/Writers – web drama
Eco drama about the power of corporations who control our most fundamental needs, food and water. Web drama offers a new outlet & possible future for short films.

411-z
(Hungary) Daniel Erdelyi, Writer/Director - drama
A large barge drifts like its captain down the Danube with disastrous outcome.

Dancing Worm
(Lithuania) Ignas Jonynas, Writer/Director – drama
When the understudy for the opera clown is called upon to stand in, his personal problems lead him on a different dance in an evocative colorful theatrical world.
Rating Some violence and shows drug taking.

Wilfred
(UK) Peter M. Kershaw, Producer/Director & Writer - drama
Inspired by the poetry of World War One poet Wilfred Owen, the film combines live-action and animation to tell a stylistic story about artists’ reaction to war. Winner of Royal Television Society Awards.

The Astronomer’s Sun
(UK) Peter M. Kershaw, Producer - Animation
Henry, accompanied by his mysterious mechanical bear, visits an abandoned observatory to confront memories of his past and follow his father on a journey into the unknown. A magical journey about relationships and what it is to be human. Winner of 13 Best Film & Audience Awards.

Who are Duchy Parade Films?

WHO ARE DUCHY PARADE FILMS?
Duchy Parade Films LLC was set up in Santa Fe, New Mexico in September 2010 as an independent production company to produce and distribute film & media projects. Previously, (from 1997 to 2010) Duchy Parade Films had been a UK limited company. Peter Kershaw has worked in the film & television business for over twenty years.

The sole owner of Duchy Parade Films is Independent Producer & director, Peter M. Kershaw.

OUR MISSION STATEMENT The creation of high production value imaginative, entertaining short films that will lead towards the production of narrative Feature Films here in New Mexico.

Screening in New Mexico - New Visions

New Mexico Screenings 2011

All New Mexico Screenings all are free and open to the public.

Carlsbad: NMSU-C Saturday, February 26th 2011, 6pm
Program starts at 6:00pm in room 153.
Where? NMSU-C campus 1500 University Dr,
Instructional Building, Room 153

Santa Fe: Public screening
Wednesday, March 2nd 2011, 6pm.
at IAIA, Institute of American Indian Arts
83 Avan Nu Po Road, Santa Fe

Las Cruces: Monday, March 14th 2011, 08.30am
at Creative Media Institute
New Mexico State University

Truth or Consequences:
Thursday, March 24th 2011, 7pm
Where: The Lee Belle Johnson Recreation Center
300 S. Foch
T or C, NM 87901

Las Vegas:
Wednesday 30th March, 5.30pm
Where: Highlands University in the Media Arts West Building, 901 University Ave., Las Vegas, NM 87701

Espanola:Wednesday 20th April, 6pm
Northern New Mexico College
Nick Salazar Center for the Arts Theater
921 Paseo de Oñate
Española, NM 87582

Farmington: Friday, April 15 from 6:30 - 8:30pm
San Juan College
4601 College Boulevard
Farmington, NM 87402
Contact: Luke Renner, Assistant Professor Digital Media Arts and Design
(505) 566-3792