[Hidden-tech] National Tech Networker will be at Hidden Hollywood - 1/2 price table tops for HT members

[Rich Roth]

Subject:
National Tech Networker will be at Hidden Hollywood - 1/2 price table
tops for HT members
From:
Amy Zuckerman <az at a-zinternational.com>
Date:
Fri, 7 May 2010 00:29:40 -0400


* A nationally prominent technology futurist and strategist, John Kelly,
will be visiting from Berkeley and available to chat with any of you who
attend Saturday's Hidden Hollywood day-long exhibition hall and then
evening program starting at 8 p.m.*

John can connect you to every geek group that lives and breathes that SF
Bay area, and far beyond. You can learn about the HUB and Betsy
Burroughs networking group - a mini Hidden Tech.

And then there is the fabulous network of companies clustered in
Eastworks. The most cutting-edge of cutting edge digital artists, et al
. . .including Lara Radwell, Jason Turcotte, AltaSoft, and many others.
Just drop your card under their door on the 2nd or 3rd floor if they are
not available.

The program is great as anyone who as ever attended a Valleywood program
knows. There's that Hollywood razzle-dazzle combined with very important
information on how to get work and contracts in the industry. And the
tech side is right around the corner and up the road to the Berkshires.

Tinseltown is right here - films made are among the most famous!

When you see Eugene Mamut's fabulous video on all the films with tech
made in Berkshire County be prepared to have your socks knocked off. You
can also work with this Academy Award winner and learn a bit out making
animation.

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*You can have a third of a table for about $25. The entry for the day is
about the same, but you need to check those great forms that Jeff Lander of
Appillistic made to be certain.


*Hidden Hollywood Program and Ticket Information*

The doors open at 10 a.m.

The exhibition hall opens at 11 a.m. and will remain open until 10 p.m.
All exhibitors will be responsible for their possessions. Eastworks has
room for at least 150 -- 200 table top exhibitors based on three people
sharing an eight-foot table. There are ample electrical outlets.

Animation and Claymation workshops featuring Eugene Mamut , owner of the
Animagic Museum in Lee, Mass. are scheduled at 10 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.

Tickets for the evening show will be available for purchase at the west
side lobby (see Yourway Gourmet sign in window), starting at 7 p.m. See
online registration and ticket purchasing at either www.eastworks.com
<http://www.eastworks.com/> (scroll down the right side and click on
events), and www.a-zinternational.com <http://www.a-zinternational.com/>

 *Half Price Deals for tables and Evening Program Tickets*

Exhibitors and attendees are urged to purchase tickets or table space as
soon as possible as space is limited to 145 in the main performance room.

 

Valleywood ® Productions is offering all businesses and organizations
half-price tables if they come in with proof that they have visited an
Eastworks customer, restaurant, retail establishment or the building
office, or if they have proof of visiting businesses and organizations
such as the Greater Amherst Chamber of Commerce or Franklin County
Chamber of Commerce.

Yourway Gourmet and the Apollo Grill, both Eastworks tenants, plus Zoe's
Fish House on Rt. 9 in Hadley, are also participating in the half-price
offer. Yourway Gourmet will be open until 6 p.m. on Saturday; the Apollo
Grill is open for dinner.

 

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*PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS:*

    * *Day-long Animation/Claymation Workshops*
    * *Evening lecture on the Hollywood Industry*
    * *A cinematic presentation and lecture on western Massachusetts
      digital artists*



*DATE:* Saturday, April 24 - repeat performance on Saturday, May 8

*LOCATION:* EastWorks, 116 Pleasant St., Easthampton, Mass.

*TIME:*

    * Claymation/Animation Workshops 10 a.m.; 1 p.m., 3 p.m.
    * Evening program in Eastworks performance space - 8 - 10 p.m.

*ONLINE TICKET PURCHASE*
<http://a-zinternational.com/conferences/HiddenHollywood2010/registration.html>


*THE EVENING PROGRAM WILL FEATURE:*

    * Guest speaker Larry Jackson, former Senior Vice President of
      Production for the Samuel Goldwyn Company, Executive Vice
      President of Acquisitions and Co-Productions at Miramax Films, VP
      In Charge Of Production at Orion Pictures, Production Manager for
      (and mentored by) the legendary Orson Welles, and independent
      producer and director. He is currently the developer of the
      iArtHouse.com downloadable film library.
    * Eugene Mamut, co-owner of the Animagic Museum in Lee with Irina
      Borisova, and recipient of the 1986 Academy Award for Science and
      Engineering for work on 'Predator.' He will highlight the
      accomplishments of regional digital artists serving the film
      industry with a half hour film.
    * Clips from regional animation, special effects, video games
      developers and authors whose work has turned into film.
    * A Q & A will follow.

*ABOUT HIDDEN HOLLYWOOD:*

Hidden Hollywood will reveal the fact that the special effects for films
as famous as "2001: A Space Odyssey," featuring Doug Trumbull's ground
breaking, pre-computerized special effects, were produced in western
Mass. There is a total of at least 60-plus highly skilled digital
artists making animation and special effects throughout western Mass.
There films, featured at The Animagic Museum in Lee, Mass., owned by
Eugene Mamut and his wife Irina Borisova (google Eugene Mamut and the
Animagic Museum), include:

"9 to 5"
"Star Wars"
"Dirty Dancing"
"Predator"
"Surrogate" (just released)
"Chicken Run"

Enjoy this short film that illustrates the amazing special effects and
animation work taking place in this region. It features Jackson,
Skateboard Dude, the lead character in "2030: A Day in the Life of
Tomorrow's Kids" by Amy Zuckerman and James Daly (2009, Dutton and
Penguin Young Readers), as well as The Animagic Museum in Lee, Mass.,
The Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield, Mass. and the Berkshires in its fall
splendor.

*The Animagic Museum*
<http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=SuperTigrik#p/u/0/9LzreQs0BPU>

*ABOUT VALLEY ® PRODUCTIONS:*

Valleywood ® Productions programs are designed to promote regional
digital artists, inform the public of the amazing and sometimes famous
digital artists, producers/directors, film distributors,
animation/special effects masters, video game producers and support
service companies that now permeate all of western Massachusetts and the
Rt. 91 Corridor up to Albany, southern Vermont and New Hampshire.

As always, these programs have an economic development, business
networking and educational purpose. This is the following: promote our
region to the world; assist people of all ages to learn about careers in
the digital arts, and provide entrepreneurs and opportunity to rub
elbows with some of the most famous, or esteemed Hollywood talent and
experts. Amazingly, thanks to advanced communication technology, they
all maintain residences in this region.

*Media Contacts:*

* *

*Valleywood ® Productions: Amy Zuckerman, 413-253-4124 (office);
413-548-0030 (cell) Voice mail to office line only*

*New Britain, Ct. -- Tom Menditto -- 860-827-2275 (office); 860-614-0232*

*Eastworks -- Jennifer Gabrielle, 413-527-1000, ext. 214*

 

*NEW BRITAIN PUBLIC SCHOOL MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS PRESENTING AT
HIDDEN HOLLYWOOD THIS SATURDAY*

* *

*The First of Many VALLEYWOOD ® Productions Fundraisers in the Works to
be Held at Eastworks*

* *

Plans Underway To Raise Money for Schools, Social Services and All
Municipal Services Throughout the Rt. 91 Knowledge Corridor, The
Berkshires and Albany

/ /

/Easthampton, Mass, / /5/6/10/* *-- Tom Menditto, District Coordinator
of Science, Technology & Applied Education at the New Britain, commonly
called STEM ED, is bringing 20 students from the New Britain, Ct. public
middle and high schools to present their highly recognized science and
technology projects at this coming Saturday's Hidden Hollywood day and
evening-long program.

 

Menditto made the decision to front the price of a bus and lunch for his
students, many from economically-strapped families, to bring them 40
minutes up Rt. 91 to showcase their projects. He said he was eager to
join forces with western Massachusetts school districts -- and the UMass
STEM Institute founded and run by Mort Sternheim -- to bring attention
to this funding issue.

The New Britain public school students, who come from Roosevelt Middle
School Academy, the House of Art, Letters and Sciences (a middle
school), and the New Britain High School, will be exhibiting the work
they have done developing advanced robots, a display of their biodiesel
remote operating vehicle that works in a tank of water, and a video shot
of students' recent visit to the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston
where they learned all about NASA's space efforts.


Amy Zuckerman, Valleywood ® Productions owner, producer and director, is
providing the New Britain contingent at least three tables gratis in an
effort to boost Menditto's efforts. This is part of an ongoing
initiative with her BrainTrust Alliance is to raise awareness of the
need to raise funds to support STEM ED curriculum in the Connecticut and
Massachusetts public schools. The BrainTrust is made up of a top team of
national media and STEM ED topic experts, as well as academics (see
5/8/10 media package).

 

The BrainTrust is Already Helping School Districts from New Mexico to
the Knowledge Corridor

 

"I feel very gratified to be able to help kids from New Britain and all
over this region get the education they need to become the scientists,
engineers and computer experts of the future," said Zuckerman, who is
founder of the Hidden Tech Network of virtual companies and author of 
(with Jim Daly) "2030: A Day in the Life of Tomorrow's Kids" (Dutton/
Penguin Young Readers), released in March of 2009 specifically to
promote STEM ED.

 

The invitation to Menditto came in the process of developing a number of
programs she and the BrainTrust Alliance, which she founded, is
developing on an entrepreneurial basis to augment his fundraising
efforts. " I was astounded to learn from Tom that his school district
has not funded science and technology curriculum for five years. It was
even more shocking to learn that Connecticut has apparently dropped all
requirements to fund some of the most important subjects that are needed
today to build a competitive, 'green' United States economy.

 

"I have heard this is the same throughout Massachusetts as school
districts, scrapped for cash, are relying on garnering federal STEM ED
funds to back STEM ED learning," Zuckerman added. According to
Zuckerman, teachers and administrators like Menditto and faculty who are
promoting STEM ED funding, "are the real heroes of our day. It's

because of them we may some day live in the world I depict in my book
"2030."

 

*Fundraiser Planned to Take Place at Eastworks in October to Raise funds
for western Massachusetts and Connecticut STEM ED Programs -- A Model
for Other Organizations, Social Service Agencies, Municipalities, etc ...*

 

Already in the works to take place at both Eastworks and in New Britain
is a program that Menditto and Zuckerman have designed called OCTOBER
NIGHT after the feature film by that name. The film tells the story of
high school students from a small, one-company mining town who win a
major award for the rocket they developed. They defy pressure from
parents to become miners, which Menditto agrees is very similar to the
efforts his students must make to overcome "stressed" backgrounds and go
onto win awards for their science and technology projects.

 

"As I walked the halls of Will Bundy's truly extraordinary rehabbed,
mixed use, 550,000-square-foot factory, which dates from 1920, I started
to see the potential to collaborate with arts organizations, social
service agencies, schools, municipal departments of all kinds, business
and literary networks -- whomever needs to raise funds. Hey, isn't that
everyone?" she asked. "These efforts fit right into Will's ongoing
efforts to build a business and residential community that is helping
build the digital and virtual economy -- a mini Hidden Tech network."

 

She calculates that organizations willing to coordinate a program with
her Valleywood ® Productions crew -- she is still hiring -- can make
upwards of $50,000 for one weekend if they team with many like-minded
organizations to develop and promote the event.

 

"There is room in the building for at least 50, eight-foot tables. The
Easthampton Fire Department, one of the best I've ever encountered in 36
years of news coverage and 20 years as a global trade expert and content
packager, allows 1,000 people in the building at any given time. Do the
math. Fifty tables at an average rate of $150 each, plus 1,000 times $20
entrance fee makes for a lot of money to help the elderly, the schools,
municipalities, the arts and others."

 

In recent months Zuckerman has had informal discussions with the
following western Massachusetts, including The Berkshires individual
business owners, business, arts and social service organizations about
the potential that Eastworks holds for fundraising:

The Franklin County Chamber of Commerce

Greater Amherst Area Chamber of Commerce

Amherst Chamber members

Board members from the Arena Civic Theater

David Oppenheim, director of PACE, a well-known theater and arts center
in Easthampton

The Information Technologies Program housed at the UMass Fine arts
Center in Amherst, including the director of animation and digital arts

The Western Massachusetts Small Business Development Center of western Mass.

Hidden Tech

The Regional Technology Council

Economic Development Council of western Mass.

The Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield (trying to reach execs)

The Mount in Lenox

The Berkshire Historical Society at Arrowhead

The Edna St. Vincent Millay Society museum at Steeple Chase

COMMUNITY AND STATE COLLEGES: Holyoke community College, Greenfield
Community College, STCC (Springfield Technical Community College),
Westfield State College have all been invited to display at Hidden
Hollywood.

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