Archive for September 12th, 2007

APPLE AND SPRINT WILL HAVE supporting roles at the Project Accessible Hollywood (PAH) digital film festival next month in Los Angeles.

Dubbed PAH-Fest Hollywood, the festival takes place Oct. 7-13 and offers amateur moviemakers, as well as those who have never picked up a cell phone camera, the chance to tell their story, digitally.

Organizers plan to set up Apple production stations at director Christopher Coppola’s L.A. movie studio, Ears XXI. The workstations will have the latest iMovie 08 software, running on either iMac or G5 computers equipped with Apple products, such as Garage Band or Logic for mixing audio tracks.

It’s part of the YourTech competition, where people are welcome to bring in recently shot footage or home movies not more than two minutes long, digital photos, or any kind of digital media to create either a self portrait or story about someone else in their life. “We don’t want people to become intimidated with the technology, so we help them tell their story,” Coppola says.

Sprint is expected to provide cellular phones with cameras for the Cellphone Art competition that allows moviemakers to use either their video enabled phones or ones from Sprint for the day. Participants will have up to five hours to create an uninterrupted one-take, one-minute movie on a topic that will be announced the day of the competition.

Others on board are Birns & Sawyer, the oldest production equipment rental house in Hollywood; Apple specialist Mac Hollywood, and several local restaurants such as Kabuki Sushi, Chan Darae Thai restaurant, Fabiolous Café, and Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, according to Nicholas Paine, Ears XXI executive producer.

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