sacfilm - Blog 2.0 - California Film Foundation2024-03-29T10:37:32Zhttps://californiafilm.net/profiles/news/feed/tag/sacfilmThe Best Horror Movies of 2022 So Farhttps://californiafilm.net/profiles/news/the-best-horror-movies-of-20222022-10-07T01:03:57.000Z2022-10-07T01:03:57.000ZJohn Bordeauhttps://californiafilm.net/members/JohnBordeau<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10836179860?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>With all of the horrors Americans are facing daily — a gun crisis, attacks on women’s rights, a Supreme Court hell-bent on legislating back to the olden days — it can be a difficult to engage with the artificial terror of scary movies.</p><p>Fittingly, many of the year’s best titles tapped into this anger and fear. Themes of environmental decay (“Crimes of the Future”), the oppression of women (“Men”), toxic internet culture (“Scream”), surveillance (“Watcher”) and sexual repression (“X”) loomed large, linking fantastical scares to very real fright.</p><p>Some high-profile titles have yet to come out, including Michael Myers’ return (“Halloween Ends”) and festival favorites such as Mark Mylod’s “The Menu” and Luca Guadagnino’s “Bones and All.” But until then, <em>Variety</em> has ranked the best horror of the year so far.</p><p>12. Fresh</p><p>11. The Cursed</p><p>10. Men</p><p>9. Scream</p><p>8. Speak No Evil</p><p>7. X</p><p>6. Watcher</p><p>5. The Black Phone</p><p>4. Ressurection</p><p>3. Nope</p><p>2. Barbarian</p><p>1. Crimes of the Future</p><p> </p><p>By William Earl for <a href="https://variety.com/">https://variety.com/</a></p></div>City of Sacramento offering grants for film and TV productionshttps://californiafilm.net/profiles/news/city-of-sacramento-offering-grants-for-film-and-tv-productions2021-11-02T22:32:59.000Z2021-11-02T22:32:59.000ZPrecious Bautistahttps://californiafilm.net/members/PreciousBautista<div><p><img src="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1606188476311-f943475a7e1f?ixid=MnwxMjA3fDB8MHxzZWFyY2h8MXx8c2FjcmFtZW50b3xlbnwwfHwwfHw%3D&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&w=1000&q=80" alt="Sacramento Pictures | Download Free Images on Unsplash" width="829" height="553" /></p><p>SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The first of three rounds is now open for those interested in receiving a grant for a film or television production project in the city of Sacramento.</p><p>Sacramento Film + Media will award four $5,000 grants during each of three grant rounds between the period of Oct. 15, 2021 through May 15, 2022.</p><p>Two grants will be made to applicants with budgets over $100,000.<br /> Two grants will be made to applicants with budgets $100,000 or below. <br /> One additional grant of $2,500 will be awarded per round for 75% of post-production done locally.<br /> The application window is open now for round one and applications are due by midnight Nov. 30.</p><p>Eligible productions that could receive a grant through the program include feature length films, short films, episodic television, television pilots, television movies/miniseries, documentaries, docuseries, commercials, music videos, and unscripted television. </p><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}9761860654,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9761860654,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9761860654?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="504" height="401" /></a></p><p>"The program is open to productions filming at least 50% of the project in the Sacramento region with at least two locations in the City of Sacramento," a press release about the program reads. "It is also open to productions where 75% of post-production is done locally." </p><p>Below is the deadline for rounds two and three:</p><p>Round 2: Dec. 1, 2021 through Feb. 15, 2022.<br /> Round 3: Feb. 16 through May 15, 2022.<br /> Applicants are asked to submit for projects that will begin physical production within 180 days from the award date.</p><p>Funds for the grants come from the City’s Measure U fund. </p><p> </p><p>Article by <a href="https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/sacramento-grants-film-tv-productions/103-ea8651ea-42e3-474b-b2e5-3d13e87a0265" target="_blank">Gilbert Cordova</a> for ABC10</p></div>Jean Hale, Actress in ‘In Like Flint’ and ‘Batman,’ Dies at 82https://californiafilm.net/profiles/news/jean-hale-actress-in-in-like-flint-and-batman-dies-at-822021-09-27T23:41:36.000Z2021-09-27T23:41:36.000ZPrecious Bautistahttps://californiafilm.net/members/PreciousBautista<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}9614603072,RESIZE_930x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9614603072,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9614603072?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="571" height="434" /></a></p><p>Jean Hale, who tussled with James Coburn’s character in the spy spoof In Like Flint and portrayed the hatcheck-girl accomplice of David Wayne’s Mad Hatter on TV’s Batman, has died. She was 82.</p><p>Hale died Aug. 3 of natural causes in Santa Monica, her family announced Monday.</p><p>She was married to Emmy winner Dabney Coleman — the two met while studying acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York — from 1961 until their 1984 divorce.</p><p>The glamourous Salt Lake City native appeared in other films including Taggart (1964), The Oscar (1966) and The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1967) and on television on Perry Mason, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Bonanza, The Fugitive, Hawaii Five-O, McHale’s Navy, My Favorite Martian, Hogan’s Heroes, The Wild Wild West and Mod Squad. </p><p>In the Fox CinemaScope film In Like Flint (1967), Hale’s Lisa Norton works for an organization made up of female business executives who brainwash women (through the use of salon hairdryers that transmit subliminal messages!) into trying to overthrow the male-dominated world. Coburn’s superspy Derek Flint attempts to stop them.</p><p>Also in 1967, Hale showed up as the moll Polly, who helps the evil Mad Hatter in his effort to steal Batman’s cowl for his collection, in the season-two two-parter “The Contaminated Cowl” and “The Mad Hatter Runs Afoul” on ABC’s Batman.</p><p>Hale was born in Salt Lake City on Dec. 27, 1938, and raised in Darien, Connecticut. Her father, Stanton G. Hale, was a major corporate leader of Mormon heritage, and great-grandfather Solomon Hale owned a ranch with Brigham Young.</p><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}9614603897,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9614603897,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9614603897?profile=RESIZE_584x" width="178" height="301" /></a></p><p>Hale modeled for the Conover Agency and the Huntington Hartford Agency and studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse, where she learned from Sydney Pollack and Martha Graham alongside such fellow students as Coleman, James Caan, Jerry Weintraub, Jessica Walter, Christopher Lloyd and Brenda Vaccaro.</p><p>She attended the University of Utah, where she majored in ballet, and then Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York.</p><p>In the early ’60s, Hale was spotted by Sandra Dee’s agent Len Luskin walking down Fifth Avenue in New York, and that led her to sign a seven-figure contract at 20th Century-Fox. She made her film debut in the 1963 horror film Violent Midnight.</p><p>In 1984, then known as Jean Hale Coleman, she started the production company Coleman-Tanasescu Entertainment with Gino Tanasescu before branching out on her own in 2000. That year, she acquired film rights to the 1999 book Two Toes — The Coyote Legend of Green River, written by her uncle Preston Q. Hale and based on his experience as a young trapper during the Depression in Utah.</p><p> At the time of her death, Hale was working on a script called “Being Jeannie” based on the true story of a woman who impersonated her in the 1960s, married 10 men across Texas and Oklahoma and stole their money.</p><p>Survivors include her three children with Coleman, Kelly, Randy and Quincy.</p><p> </p><p>Article by <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/jean-hale-dead-in-like-flint-batman-1235021468/" target="_blank">Mike Barnes </a>for The Hollywood Reporter</p></div>Sacramento names new creative economy managerhttps://californiafilm.net/profiles/news/sacramento-names-new-creative-economy-manager2021-09-27T23:29:38.000Z2021-09-27T23:29:38.000ZPrecious Bautistahttps://californiafilm.net/members/PreciousBautista<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}9614598866,RESIZE_930x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9614598866,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="710" alt="9614598866?profile=RESIZE_710x" /></a></p><p class="content__segment combx meterwall__content">Sacramento has a new lead for its public arts and film efforts, with the recent hiring of Megan Van Voorhis as the city's first culture and creative economy manager.</p><p class="content__segment combx meterwall__content">The city announced that it hired Van Voorhis on Tuesday afternoon. Her employment with the city is expected to start by mid-September.</p><p class="content__segment combx meterwall__content">Van Voorhis will oversee the city's Office of Arts and Culture, which offers grants for artists, arts organizations and creative businesses. Her responsibilities will also include the Sacramento Film Office, which launched in January to lure more film and media companies to the city, and to promote movie production as a potential source of tourism. Van Voorhis will also oversee the city's arts education, equity and arts programs for youth and its public art program.</p><p class="content__segment combx meterwall__content">“Megan's understanding of the arts and how creative ecosystems improve our city’s quality of life make her uniquely qualified for this position," said Assistant City Manager Michael Jasso, in a prepared statement. “With her experience and skills, I know that Megan will help our creative businesses to flourish and grow to strengthen Sacramento’s creative sector.”</p><p class="content__segment combx meterwall__content">Van Voorhis is currently the CEO of Arts Cleveland, a nonprofit in Ohio. During her 17-year career at Arts Cleveland, she launched several arts and culture initiatives, established a collaborative marketing database for major arts and cultural organizations and helped create a dedicated local public-sector revenue stream to support arts and culture, according to the city of Sacramento.</p><p class="content__segment combx meterwall__content">Van Voorhis holds a bachelor's of fine arts in dance from Ohio State University and a master's in business administration from Case Western Reserve University, where she received the Holmes Fellowship in Regional Economic Development.</p><p class="content__segment combx meterwall__content">“Megan will provide a great new perspective for the Sacramento arts and culture scene,” said city Convention & Cultural Services Director Jody Ulich, in a written statement. “Her extensive experience in developing and executing art, culture and creative economy programs with a focus on diversity, equity and inclusion will help further develop the cultural and creative life of our city.”</p><p class="content__segment combx meterwall__content">The creative economy manager arrives as Sacramento's arts organizations have been hit hard by the pandemic. Last month the city began taking applications for $7.5 million in relief grants for creative economy organizations, and other relief efforts from both the city and local nonprofits have been aimed at helping artists, theaters and musicians who are not able to work due to the cancellation of events.</p><p class="content__segment combx meterwall__content">“The Office of Arts & Culture plays a critical role in supporting, promoting and advancing the arts throughout Sacramento,” Van Voorhis said, in a written statement. “I look forward to working with staff and the creative community to further the arts and culture goals of the city.” </p><p class="content__segment combx meterwall__content"> </p><p class="content__segment combx meterwall__content">Article by <a href="https://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2020/08/11/sacramento-names-new-creative-economy-manager.html" target="_blank">Felicia Alvarez</a> for Sacramento Business Journal</p></div>NY Gov. Cuomo Teams With Kathryn Bigelow, Morgan Freeman, Others on National Face Mask PSAs.https://californiafilm.net/profiles/news/ny-gov-cuomo-teams-with-kathryn-bigelow-morgan-freeman-others-on-2020-07-16T23:57:51.000Z2020-07-16T23:57:51.000ZElla Christiansenhttps://californiafilm.net/members/EllaChristiansen<div><h2><span style="font-size:10pt;"><strong>The "Mask Up America" campaign will include eight TV spots, produced by Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Jane Rosenthal and featuring stars such as Robert De Niro, Ellen Pompeo, Kaitlyn Dever, Jamie Foxx, John Leguizamo, Rosie Perez, Anthony Mackie and Jeffrey Wright.</strong></span></h2><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}6940059285,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}6940059285,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="6940059285?profile=RESIZE_584x" width="468" /></a></p><p>As numerous states grapple with increasing numbers of new cases of the novel coronavirus, there's been a concerted effort by numerous political officials, health experts and even Hollywood stars to encourage people to wear face masks in public to slow the spread of COVID-19.</p><p style="vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in 0in 6pt 0in;">New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who signed executive orders in April requiring New Yorkers to wear masks in public and while taking public transportation, has been a vocal proponent of wearing masks. After a particularly rough experience with the pandemic, with as many as 11,000 new cases a day in April, New York has seen the number of daily new cases decline since then and stay below 1,000 a day for the past month.</p><p> </p><p style="vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in 0in 6pt 0in;">Now Cuomo has joined forces with Tribeca Film Festival co-founders Jane Rosenthal and Robert De Niro and Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow as well as Hollywood stars like Morgan Freeman, Ellen Pompeo, Jamie Foxx and Rosie Perez on a national mask campaign, featuring eight TV public service announcements.</p><p> </p><p style="vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in 0in 6pt 0in;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}6940064662,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}6940064662,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="6940064662?profile=RESIZE_584x" width="461" /></a></p><p>Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow (above) is one of many involved in PSA production.</p><p>The "Mask Up America" education and awareness campaign to urge all Americans to wear a mask will also feature De Niro, Kaitlyn Dever, John Leguizamo and Anthony Mackie.</p><p>Two spots, narrated by Freeman and Jeffrey Wright, debuted today, with more 30-second spots to roll out throughout the month of July, with some spots available in English and Spanish and for radio. The PSAs will be available in partnership with the Ad Council for use by broadcast and digital media outlets and air in donated media time and space throughout the country.</p><p>"New Yorkers suffered gravely when this pandemic hit our state and as we see other states battle the surge of COVID-19, we want to be sure all Americans know what we know here — that it is essential to wear a mask in order to protect one another," Cuomo said in a statement. "We can only beat this virus if we are united as one, not divided by ideology or politics. In that spirit we worked with the best and most creative team to deliver this vital message in multiple ways and in different voices — I wear a mask to protect you and you wear a mask to protect me. It is simple as that. Mask Up America."</p><p>Ad Council CEO Lisa Sherman added, "With cases of the virus continuing to rise across the country, we are proud to partner with Governor Cuomo's office on this critical message and inspire all Americans to wear face coverings."</p><p>Several states that have seen coronavirus spikes have recently passed legislation requiring people to wear face masks in public, but other governors have resisted statewide orders. President Trump has <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/01/trump-says-coronavirus-masks-are-good-but-doubts-national-mandate-is-needed.html">objected to the idea of a nationwide mask mandate</a>, with the president himself frequently refusing to wear a face covering in public.</p><p>The campaign also launches as Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp recently said that local mask requirements, like the order issued by Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, would not be enforceable.</p><h1 style="margin:0in 0in 6pt 0in;"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Article by: <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hollywoodreporter.com%2Fnews%2Fcuomo-teams-kathryn-bigelow-morgan-freeman-national-mask-psas-1303462%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1pF-ImrqKKQbxAK37-1SK4Nnmd4WmckqctGTfX6su--dfsIM1NA1IpSaw&h=AT0a84Vaym7aIp0Oxc6i4G03NLwuZIfhaOt7h5DAwxHhI4NRi3SORbMuHVMYyDdXL3kRwbnBpJqp6E61sfZ3mspLfCZCF3CW55kDBTLm3hru_3vOoprukjEYOXV8Kqn2G_A" target="_blank">Hilary</a></span><a style="font-size:12pt;" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hollywoodreporter.com%2Fnews%2Fcuomo-teams-kathryn-bigelow-morgan-freeman-national-mask-psas-1303462%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1pF-ImrqKKQbxAK37-1SK4Nnmd4WmckqctGTfX6su--dfsIM1NA1IpSaw&h=AT0a84Vaym7aIp0Oxc6i4G03NLwuZIfhaOt7h5DAwxHhI4NRi3SORbMuHVMYyDdXL3kRwbnBpJqp6E61sfZ3mspLfCZCF3CW55kDBTLm3hru_3vOoprukjEYOXV8Kqn2G_A" target="_blank">Lewis</a><span style="font-size:12pt;"> for the Hollywood Reporter.</span></h1></div>