Statement of Purpose
The purpose of this Request for Proposals (RFP) is to retain a qualified service provider who has the capability to perform the tasks described in the Scope of Work and within the established time schedule. The Maine Legislative Council is the management arm of the Maine State Legislature, a branch of State Government. Among its numerous responsibilities, the Legislative Council is responsible for providing orientation of legislative services, functions and Constitutional and statutory responsibilities to newly-elected and returning Legislators at the beginning of each legislative biennium. As part of its orientation program, the Maine Legislative Council shows a video to Legislators on the fundamental aspects of legislating and legislative functions. The Legislative Council is seeking a firm to produce an updated video.
The service provider will be required to make available qualified personnel, knowledgeable about the legislative process, and sufficient resources to complete the project on time and within budgeted legislative resources.
Proposal Duration
The Bidder shall guarantee proposal terms through March 9, 2012.
Proposal Submission
Interested bidders must submit a sealed proposal. Proposals will be accepted until 3:00 PM on February 10, 2012. Proposals must be delivered to the address below. The Legislative Council assumes no responsibility for delays caused by any delivery service. Postmarking by the due date will not substitute for actual proposal receipt by the Legislature. Late submittals will not be accepted.
Office of the Executive Director
Attn: Legislating Maine RFP
Maine State Legislature
210 State Street, 115 State House Station
Augusta, ME 04333-0115
For further information, contact the Office of the Executive Director, Maine Legislature at
207-287-1615.
Allen Baldwin, who last year released the film “Up Up Down Down,” and then co-created the mini film festival “Damnationland” has been named the new producer at Portland 48 Hour Film Project. Best wishes to Allen and another great year for the 48 Hour Film Project!
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Saturday, November 5th, 10:15 - 1:15pm,
First Congregational Church • 55 Elm Street, Camden, ME 04843
Panel: “Building the Next Community Media Portal” --
A powerful new communication model has been developed in Maine by a group of filmmakers, software developers, educators and linguists. It was created to save a dying language, Passamaquoddy, by using documentary film and software to link vocabulary with direct experience in the context of traditional activities. So many more community needs can be addressed with the creative use of media and the internet. Entrepreneurs, creative professionals, technologists, policy makers, social advocates, and any interested persons are invited to participate in this workshop. We will present video case studies and help facilitate attendees to brainstorm their own community documentation needs with feedback from an interdisciplinary panel.
Admission $10. MFVA Members Free. Annual Membership $25 professional; $10 students Light lunch included.
The Panelists:
Alexa Mills
Alexa is the Community Media Specialist at MIT’s Community Innovator’s Lab. Her work includes Predatory Tales, the true stories of predatory lending scams in Lawrence, MA; and a series of shorts about organizing to protect the environment from the coal industry in eastern Kentucky. All projects use various media to express a community’s perspective on an issue.
Gustavo Aguilar
Co-Artistic Director of TUG, a documentary production and artist/performance collective; a champion of contemporary new music/improvisation he has performed at major music festivals throughout the world. Asst. Professor U Maine Farmington, Experimental Performance.
Ben Levine
One of Juice’s keynote speakers, Ben is responsible for developing an interactive tool that combines documentary film and the internet to help save the Passamaquoddy language, a National Science Foundation project that is now morphing into saving dying languages in Mexico. In Maine he has created a series of documentaries to help inspire Young Parents Learning best practices about raising their children.
Mohammed Dini is a Somali community leader in Portland where he was the first African immigrant to run for the Maine legislature in 2010. He recently founded the African Diaspora Institute and Diaspora Rise! which uses web and social media platforms to foster cross cultural dialogue and to amplify voices often missing from traditional media.
Andrew Jawitz is an ethnographic filmmaker in Portland, ME. He works in collaboration with the African Diaspora Institute striving for media justice by building empowered intercultural networks through participatory media production. His current work addresses social issues such as transportation equity (CarFreeMaine) and immigrant empowerment through interactive media.
Gaelyn Aguilar, Ph.D., is a cultural anthropologist and visual enthnographer. She received a Fulbright Fellowship to research dance and the cultural politics of national identity. Gaelyn’s latest project includes Ah, Raza! The Making of an American Artist (a portrait/performance set along the U.S.-Mexico border) Co-artistic Director of Tug, she is currently Asst. Professor of Anthropology at UM Farmington.
Louise Rosen, moderator of the panel, is an international distributor of cultural and social issue documentaries through Louise Rosen, Ltd. Projects her company has represented have gone on to win Oscars, Emmys, Sundance and others. Louise has gained a reputation as Maine’s most astute moderator through her work with Points North Documentary Forum and the Maine Film & Video Association.
The MFVA strongly encourages its members and friends to attend the entire JUICE 3.0 Conference as it is an excellent opportunity to meet some of Maine’s most active business and social issue entrepreneurs. The conference features twenty keynote speakers including: Roxanne Quimby, Angus King, Chris Jones, Bettina Doulton, Eliot Cutler, Gino Bona, John Bielenberg, Amy Applebaum and MFVA member Ben Levine among many others. Discount tickets are still available. Volunteer opportunities still exist for further discounts to conference admission. Check the Juice website for ticketing and discount opportunities. http://www.juiceconference.org
For more information go to: http://jhwildlifefilm.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/2011-winners-announced/
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Why are we celebrating risk? Risk is the catalyst for change.
We tend to celebrate, to honor, things that remind us of milestones, comfort and of success. Anniversaries, holidays, birthdays; events and times we’ve experienced something that has made an impact on our lives. But all those events started because of a risk that was taken. A risk, an action, that may have led to loss or gain. We may celebrate a victory, but that victory came at the risk of losing. We may celebrate an anniversary, but that anniversary came at the risk of choosing one road over another. We tend to celebrate the good effects of what risk can bring, but often times cringe when we hear the word “risk”.
It’s time to change that around and start celebrating what actually brings about the reason for a celebration. So we’re reaching out and asking you – how do you visualize risk? What does a life look like when risk is celebrated? Where does risk lead us? Who do you see taking wise risks? How can risk be celebrated?
Please enter a 60 -120 second film, due by October 15th.
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1. Film must be directed and/or produced by a female filmmaker
2. The story/topic of the film should feature women, or be about an
issue of concern to women
3. The film was released in 2009 or later, with preference given to
films that are released in 2011 or to be released in 2012.
Deadline for entry is November 1, 2011. Visit the link below to view details and download an entry form.
http://www.womenactionmedia.org/2011/08/23/submit-to-the-2012-wamboston-film-festival/
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The St. Lawrence Arts Center is currently accepting submissions from women filmmakers interested in showcasing their work as a part of a new event: The Bluestocking Film Series - Films by Women. The series was conceived by filmmaker Kate Kaminski and is a collaboration between Gitgo Productions and the St. Lawrence. Because women filmmakers are underrepresented in the filmmaking industry and largely misrepresented in forms of media worldwide we are thrilled to create a series within Maine that supports women filmmakers and provides them with a state of the art venue to showcase their craft. The USM Women and Gender Studies Program and the Maine Film and Video Association are co-sponsoring the event.
Guidelines for Submission:
1. Short films of all categories not exceeding 15 min. in length will be considered.
2. The director of the film must self-identify as a woman and any co-director must also be a woman.
3. The film must pass the ‘Bechdel Test for Women in Movies’ http://bechdeltest.com/
4. A nominal submissions fee of $5 is requested and will go towards promotion of the series
5. Submissions will be accepted on DVD either by mail or drop-off to St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress St., Portland ME 04101 - c/o Whitney McDorr, Theater Manager
6. Deadline for submission is Friday, October 7th at 5:00 pm
For more information on the Bluestocking Film Series please contact Whitney McDorr at whitney.mcdorr@stlawrencearts.org or by telephone at 207-347-3075 or Kate Kaminski at gitgo_productions@yahoo.com.
The St. Lawrence Arts Center features unique, eclectic, arts and cultural activities while preserving a distinctive National Historic Landmark that has served Greater Portland since 2001. The building, originally a church constructed in 1897 in the Romanesque, Queen Anne Style, is home to many performing arts organizations.
Jazz legend, Marian McPartland, now 93, is documented in this film that explores her life and career as a pioneering woman jazz musician, composer, and host of NPR’s Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz.
For more info: http://www.miff.org/program/2011/
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June 25 5PM to 8:30
Maine College of Art
Portland
Screening of clips from Works in Progress from
Kate Kaminsky, Sharyn Paul Brusie and Lauren Shaw
with commentary from panelists
Louise Rosen, David Berez and Veronica Young
Meet and Greet starts at 5 PM
Works In Progress showing starts at 6 PM
Meeting free to MFVA members
$10 at the door for non-members
Free to MECA students
Memberships are $25 per year and support the community building efforts of the MFVA
The 48 Hour Film Project, the oldest and biggest timed filmmaking competition, is returning to Portland, Maine!! In this wild, sleepless weekend, you and a team will make a movie--write, shoot, edit and score it. From scratch. In 48 hours. On Friday, June 10th, you’ll get a character, a prop, a line of dialogue and a genre, all to include in your movie. By Sunday, June 12th, the movie must be complete. Each completed film is guaranteed a screening at the Cinemagic Westbrook in the following week.
To be part of the 48HFP, register online at:
http://www.48hourfilm.com/portland_maine
The 2011 48 Hour Film Project in Portland, Maine is sure to be a the most fun you have ever had making a film! Don’t wait! Register now and get the early bird discount!
A Chemical Reaction
Director Brett Plymale has received notification of three Emmy nominations for the film A Chemical Reaction about the first town in North America to ban lawn and garden pesticides.
The film, shot and edited during 2008-2010, had its broadcast premiere on Maine Public Television in November of 2010 making it eligible for the regional Emmy Awards, which will be presented on May 14. The film will be up for “Best Documentary,” “Best Editing,” and “Best Videography.”
“Being nominated by New England’s chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is a great opportunity to draw more attention to this important story,” said Plymale, who has been nominated several times previously for Emmys. “From the moment we started shooting this film I felt honored to be a part of this amazing story and this recognition really goes to all the people out there standing up for what they believe in.”
The award ceremony will come just nine days after the 20th anniversary of Hudson, Quebec’s, historic ban on lawn and garden pesticides. Sued by ChemLawn (now TruGreen), the town fought back all the way to the Canadian Supreme Court — where it won in an historic 9-0 decision in June of 2001.
Twenty years from the ban and a decade from the court decision, Hudson’s story still stands as probably the most epic example of the power of community activism anywhere in North America.
Protecting the Nature of Maine
Richard Kane of Kane-Lewis Productions (http://www.kanelewis.com) was nominated for a New England Emmy Award Tuesday evening, April 12, 2011 in Boston by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences at the 34th New England Emmy Award Nomination Party. Kane was nominated as Producer, Director, Director of Photography and Editor of the documentary Protecting the Nature of Maine which was nominated in the Outstanding Environmental Program category for its 2010 broadcast on Maine Public Broadcasting Network’s MPBN Community Films series produced by Laura Schenck. See http://www.mpbn.net/Television/MPBNCommunityFilms.aspx The Emmy Awards ceremony will be held on May 14, 2011 in Boston.
Stephen Pace: Maine Master
Richard Kane received a second New England Emmy nomination last Tuesday evening for the latest episode of his Maine Masters’ series http://www.mainemasters.com on the abstract expressionist painter Stephen Pace of Stonington, Maine and New York City. The documentary, nominated in the Outstanding Arts/Entertainment Program category, was co-directed by Paul Koronkiewicz of New York. Co-producers included Koronkievicz, artist Robert Shetterly, and art author Carl Little. The series sponsor is the Union of Maine Visual Artists http://www.umvaonline.org
Please join us at the Nickelodeon on May 4 for the second installation of Rated Local, a showcase of new badass short works from Maine filmmakers. You will witness some amazing and thrilling new work from some of the state’s talented moving picture artists.
Rated Local embraces all genres, and this screening includes comedy, suspense, experimental, music video, documentary, and skateboard video. The filmmakers include Jay Brown, Walter Ungerer, Jeremiah McDonald, Nicholas Brennan, David Camlin, Petra Simmons, Marc Bartholomew, Mo Twine, and Derek Kimball.
Organized by Portland’s Eddy Bolz, David Meiklejohn, and Allen Baldwin, Rated Local is strong evidence of the rapidly growing film community in Maine. Bring your badass self out!
Rated Local: short works from Maine filmmakers
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Nickelodeon Cinemas | 1 Temple St | 207.772.9751
7pm & 9pm | $5
New addition to film line up – short doc by Maine filmmakers!
The Lighthouse: Against the Grain – Directed by local filmmakers Dovid Muyderman with Kate Kaminski and Betsy Carson will be shown before the feature film Simon Konianski Wednesday, March 30th at 5:00 p.m. at the Nickelodeon Cinemas.
For more information got to:
www.mjff.org