Thursday, August 6, 2009

Festival in the Park

This is via Scott Pacitti:

MTA Unified Auditions participants are cordially invited to participate in the Festival in the Park Theatre Stage...

I recently participated as both a theatre company (Actor's Crib, Inc.) and a performer in the recent MTA Unified Auditions.

Thank you for sharing your talents with me and the other theatre companies. I enjoyed them immensely.

I am sending this email to you to invite you to one again share you talents.

I am the organizer of the Festival in the Park 2009 Theatre Stage (Thursday, September 24 - Sunday, September 27 at Freedom Park in Charlotte.) This will be the first year of this stage at the 45 year old Charlotte Festival.

I have created this stage to highlight the talents of our theatre community and present them to the over 100,000 patrons of the festival.

If you are interested in performing (as a solo artist or with other actors or as a member of an acting company,) I need you to respond IMMEDIATELY.

When I hear from you I will email you a few questions for me to better be able to schedule you and or your group.

For more information on Theatre in the Park please visit www.festivalinthepark.org

I look forward to enjoying your talents again at the Festival in the Park 2009 Theatre Stage.

Scott Pacitti
704.301.1564
Actor's Crib, Inc.
the Chuckleheads
www.actorscrib.com
www.thechuckleheads.com

Shout Out for Service!

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Based on our experience, we thank Mr. Wood and his business for both professionalism and kindness.

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Tuesday, August 4, 2009

NC Film Community: Take Note/Action!

Hello film people!

Please take FIVE minutes out of your day right now and PLEASE EMAIL ONE OF THESE REPRESENTATIVES FROM OUR AREA BELOW! You can email one or all of them, but I suggest doing one at a time, addressing them by first name, and make it personal.

The NC Film Office just sent out urgent news that we need to email them today! (see full email below) Tomorrow will do no good! You can make it short and sweet, but tell them why film is SO IMPORTANT for you and your family and why they should vote to expand the film incentives. Again, it can be SIMPLE and let your sincerity come through.

House of Representatives List from our area: (email one or all, but make it personal! Full list is below if you want to email more.)

Pryor Gibson
Pryor.Gibson@ncleg.net

Tricia Ann Cotham
Tricia.Cotham@ncleg.net

Johnathan Rhyne, Jr.
Johnathan.Rhyne@ncleg.net

Becky Carney
Becky.Carney@ncleg.net

Martha B. Alexander
Martha.Alexander@ncleg.net

Kelly M. Alexander, Jr.
Kelly.Alexander@ncleg.net

Mitchell S. Setzer
Mitchell.Setzer@ncleg.net


Below is a sample email of something I would send. Of course you need to write your own -- but just so you get the gist.:

Dear Becky,

Happy Tuesday! I hope you are doing well today. I am a film producer and actress living in Charlotte, North Carolina and I am writing to ask you to please pass the Senate Bill 943 for Expanding the Film Credit. This is so important to me and my family because I want to keep working in this state and not have to go to other states to find work, like I have been doing lately because the film incentives they offer are more competitive than ours.

Not only does the film industry support me and my family, but it brings in the sought after 'creative class' that cities need right now - young, talented, passionate, energetic individuals and their spouses, friends, and children who are committed to a quality lifestyle and making the community a great place to live and raise a family. As a member of the Charlotte Film Community - a group of 327 people in Charlotte that work in the film industry and meet together monthly to create new work, I can see how important the film business is to these people and their families. I cannot stress enough how important it is that North Carolina remain competitive with film incentives so we don't waste all of the years we spent building up a quality film base here -- including crew, directors, producers, agents, actors, writers -- just for us to possibly loose these quality people to another state!

I respect your position and thank you in advance for helping the film community be able to stay here in North Carolina so we can continue to live and work in the state that we love! Please pass Senate Bill 943!

Kindly,

NAME
PHONE NUMBER

(via Maggie Sargent)

NC Film Community: Take Note

Just received this form film office.
Subject: NC Film Office Updates - SPECIAL EDITION!

This week’s FYI:

NC’s Legislature is very close to adopting a budget and adjourning this session. Senate Bill 943 [Expand Film Credit] has still not passed! If there is any part of you that wants SB 943 passed--for the sake of NC’s motion picture industry, your families and livelihood in North Carolina--please EMAIL your House Representative THIS MORNING. A list of emails is below.

THIS MORNING ask your Representative to support and vote for SB 943. Not sure what to say? In a SHORT email, tell your Representative who you are, why SB 943 is important to you and ask for their VOTE. Remind them that in the wake of competition for films, other states have everything to gain and North Carolina has everything to lose.

North Carolina needs your voice now more than ever. But PLEASE KEEP YOUR EMAILS SHORT! I guarantee you, long emails will not be read. Folks, these folks are tired!

Please act THIS MORNING; tomorrow will be too late.

Confused? Have questions? Email or call me. Thank you, Sallie (919.733.9900)