Joshua Tree, CA – Shakti Fest returns for its sixth year May 13 – 15 at the Joshua Tree Retreat Center, in Joshua Tree, CA. Organized by Bhakti Fest who lead the way in conscious festival events, Shakti Fest is unique as a springtime celebration of the divine feminine spirit, described in Hindu philosophy as the ‘dynamic force which moves the universe’. The festival features world famous yoga teachers, Kirtan music stars, wisdom workshops, and a healing sanctuary.
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The Golden Pitch Festival at the 2011 Screenwriting Expo Connects Writers and Producers September 16-18
On September 15-18, 2011, the Screenwriting Expo returns for its 10th year bringing with it the Golden Pitch Festival, a unique opportunity for screenwriters to pitch their scripts to top Hollywood executives, for three of those days.
Golden Pitch Festival producer and Creative Screenwriting Magazine publisher Bill Donovan notes, “In one room we will have up to 60 of Hollywood’s A-list producers, development executives, agents, and managers all looking for new material. No other event offer writers better access to the people and companies capable of setting their writing career in motion.”
Pitch your screenplay to top producers at the Golden Pitch Event
Many Golden Pitch Festival participants are top names in the industry, including studio, network and cable development executives as well as agents and managers. These confirmed executives have studio deals and/or have produced several major motion pictures, television shows or Movies-of-the-Week. Executives seeking features of all budgets, MOWS, as well as hour and half-hour television formats will be hearing pitches. Literary agents and managers are from the top companies representing elite screenwriting talent and making deals that grace the pages of The Hollywood Reporter and Variety every day are involved. Each year, the Golden Pitch event also includes several execs from script-hungry smaller companies that writers might otherwise overlook; all of these companies are actively seeking great scripts. That’s why they attend.
Some of the companies committed to this year’s Golden Pitch Festival include Phoenix Pictures (Black Swan, Shutter Island), Platinum Studios (Cowboys & Aliens), Suntaur Entertainment, The Radmin Company, Starz Network (“Torchwood,” “Spartacus”), Zero Gravity Management, Destiny Pictures, Madhouse Entertainment (Country Strong, “Burn Notice”), Magnet Management, Pantheon Entertainment, Towerhill Entertainment, PB Management, Varsity, 617 Films, Intrigue, Overbrook Entertainment (The Karate Kid, “Hawthorne”), Laurence Mark Productions, Whitewaterfilm, Convergence, Farah Films, Occupant Films, Gallagher, Sunrise, Media Talent Group, Archetype Management, Kaplan Perrone (Knowing), Bohemia Group, Mutual Films and many more.… Read More
LA Press Club and KPFK Present a Reading by Maria Armoudian of her Upcoming Book Kill the Messenger: The Media’s Role in the Fate of the World
“Rich in contemporary world history, Kill the Messenger is exactly the book the world needs to read in our perilous times.”
— Robert W. McChesney, coauthor of The Life and Death of American Journalism
July 25, 2011 – Los Angeles, CA – The Los Angeles Press Club and Los Angeles’ Pacifica radio station KPFK 90.7 FM present the official launch of public official, political scientist, radio host, and journalist Maria Armoudian’s upcoming book Kill the Messenger: The Media’s Role in the Fate of the World. The event occurs at 7:30pm August 11, 2011 at the Los Angeles Press Club, in the Steve Allen Theater at 4773 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles 90027, and features a discussion by the author followed by a Q&A.
With the book set for release on August 23, by noted independent publisher Prometheus Books, Kill the Messenger is a timely tome, particularly in light of recent revelations about the Rupert Murdoch News Corp empire.… Read More
Contact Summit Announces Innovation Awards To Three Projects Presented During October 20 New York City Event
New York City – July 13, 2011 – In addition to the exciting participants signing on for the upcoming un-conference the Contact Summit, noted author, public intellectual and Contact creative director Douglas Rushkoff has announced that $10,000 will to be awarded to each of the three most compelling and achievable ideas presented at the Contact Bazaar on October 20, 2011, in New York City. The $30,000, staked by an anonymous donor, will encourage presentation of innovative networking and technology solutions to our greatest collective challenges at the Contact Summit.… Read More
Quirky Cat Behaviorist Jackson Galaxy Returns to Rescue Owners from Their Hellish Cats
Jackson Galaxy with one of his cases
ANIMAL PLANET PREPS TO GO CLAW TO CLAW WITH NEW SEASON OF MY CAT FROM HELL
July 6, 2011- Silver Spring, MD – Following the spring success of the three-part miniseries MY CAT FROM HELL, Animal Planet triggers a second season with six one-hour episodes set to air in the first half of 2012. The series is a fan favorite among feline lovers and especially resonates with female viewers, bringing in a healthy audience for the network’s Saturday night pet-programming block.
MY CAT FROM HELL features Jackson Galaxy, a cat behaviorist who’s tough on the outside but sensitive on the inside – especially when it comes to cats and their owners. Galaxy applies 15 years of feline experience and proven training techniques to help exhausted, distraught cat owners improve their relationships with their hellish cats. Armed with his guitar case filled with cat toys and training aides, Galaxy explains the reasons why these cats are causing their owners headaches and then immediately works with the owners and their cats with the goal of curbing the cats’ diabolical habits and rescuing their owners from nightmare situations.… Read More
Kill the Messenger: The Media’s Role in the Fate of the World By Pacifica Syndicated Radio Host Maria Armoudian Arrives on August 23
Political scientist, noted radio host, and journalist, Maria Armoudian will be releasing her first book Kill the Messenger: The Media’s Role in the Fate of the World on August 23, 2011. Published by provocative, progressive and independent publisher, Prometheus Books, Kill the Messenger’s forward was written by author and political leader, Senator Tom Hayden.
The book emerged from Armoudian’s studies into the causes of genocide, war, peacemaking, democratization, and the protection of human rights and the environment, while she was working on her Ph.D. at the University of Southern California, as well as during her work as a broadcast journalist and public official. Looking across conflicts and policy successes and failures, she found that media (and media professionals) were among key factors in determining political outcomes, including matters of life and death.
Written in five parts, Kill the Messenger shows how media fomented rage and genocide in Rwanda, the Holocaust and the Bosnian war; how they helped bring peace in the Northern Ireland Conflict and the war in Burundi; how media contributed to democratization and the protection of human rights in South Africa, Taiwan, Mexico, and Senegal, and how they aided both the destruction and rebuilding of democracy in Chile. In its final case study, Kill the Messenger explores the media’s role in the fate of the world, as journalists disentangle the issue of climate change for the public.
Early reviews of the book have been stellar including:… Read More
Buzz on Rushkoff’s CONTACT SUMMIT – October 20 in NYC – Builds as More Participants Come on Board
Excitement around upcoming un-conference The Contact Summit continues to build momentum as more participants sign on for this innovative event that seeks to take social media back from being merely a marketing discipline and return to it the spirit of optimism and infinite possibility that will allow users to tackle truly world changing endeavors.
The Contact Summit, scheduled for October 20, 2011 at the historic Angel Orensanz Center in New York City intends to release the potential of peer-to-peer networking that has been retarded by government-enacted “blackouts,” the privacy policies of Social Web providers, the policies of central banks and the loss of real net neutrality.
Conceived and facilitated by Douglas Rushkoff, Contact will bring together technologists, artists, activists, businesspeople, funders, and other stakeholders in the networked future to hatch new ideas, develop and nourish exciting existing concepts, connect collaborators, and forge an ongoing community for innovating social media and beyond.… Read More
Rhino Charity Pop Up Store Announces Concert Lineup
The Rhino Records Rhino really cares.
Los Angeles, CA – May 12, 2011 – Rhino Records Pop Up Store, one of the most anticipated events in Los Angeles this Spring, is pleased to announce their lineup of in store concerts. Some of the top names expected including Bob Forrest’s Thelonious Monster, Vicki Peterson Little Willie G, Susanna Hoffs, Matthew Sweet, and much more.
Sure to recapture some of its original glory, Rhino Records, the legendary Westwood storefront that provided music lovers with a place to commune, find great deals, and hear rising music stars from 1973 to 2005, is popping up again just blocks from the original location from May 27 to June 12, 2011 at 10952 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90025, to raise funds for The Recording Academy’s popular music community services charity MusiCares.… Read More