Slammed Film

[Rosalyn Pomposo]

CentralFlorida Film Slam is an unrated, independent film showcase and competition open to all regional filmmakers and students. Showcase your own work or come see the work of other local filmmakers on the big screen at Enzian Theater!

The 1985 film was a success both with critics and the box office, and it was followed by two sequels. Back to the Future was directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale. It stars Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, and Crispin Glover. It is rated PG.

Set at the turn of the century, Meet Me in St. Louis follows the Smith family in months leading up to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. The 1944 musical debuted standards like The Trolley Song, The Boy Next Door, and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.

Slammed was a potential film based on the book of the same name, written by Colleen Hoover. The movie rights for the Slammed series were sold in 2013. On May 2013, Colleen Hoover announced that she had had lunch with the producers, and the project was being developed, the screenplay was almost completed, so they would begin approaching studios with the project.[1]

RTG Features have partnered with Heartland Film to launch the first annual event, which will take place February 16-18, 2024 at Living Room Theaters in Indianapolis. There will be a mix of world premiere titles, recent festival circuit favorites and iconic films.

World Champions and bench warming besties Sydney Colson and Theresa Plaisance are determined to become the faces of the WNBA, despite the fact no one asked them to. This buddy comedy series follows Syd and TP on their quest to become the most famous basketball players on earth through a mix of stunts, interviews, hijinks and a complete lack of shame.

Championship-winning coach Pete Bell runs the cleanest program in college basketball. But when he finds himself on the brink of his first losing season, Bell decides he must make a risky trade to protect his job: under-the-table dollars for talent.

Handle With Care: The Legend of The Notic Streetball Crew chronicles the rise, fall and rebirth of The Notic, an upstart streetball collective from Canada in the early 2000s. While their creative basketball moves brought them global fame as teenagers, it set them at odds with the status quo in a battle involving self-expression, race and rejection. Driven by a twenty-year quest to finish their mixtape trilogy, the documentary charts how the group of friends from Vancouver played outside the confines of the NBA yet still left an indelible imprint on the game forever.

Registered teams will have 72 hours to write, shoot, edit, and submit their film before the final screening and awards ceremony. Prizes will be awarded in multiple categories in two competition brackets: Family Fun or Competitive. Click here for more information, including a full schedule!

Slam is a 1998 American independent drama film directed, co-written and co-produced by Marc Levin and starring and co-written by Saul Williams and Sonja Sohn. It tells the story of a young African-American man whose talent for poetry is hampered by his social background.

Raymond "Ray" Joshua (played by Saul Williams) is a young man growing up in the Southeast, Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Dodge City, slang for a real Southeast D.C. neighborhood.[A] Despite his innate gift for poetry and his aspiration to be a rapper, he finds it difficult to escape the pressures of his surroundings: violence and drug dealing. While participating in a drug deal gone wrong, Ray's close friend Big Mike is shot.

Ray is caught by the police and sent to the District of Columbia Department of Corrections' central detention facility. He is arraigned for possession of a controlled substance at the H. Carl Moultrie Courthouse and bail is set at $10,000. When his public defender explains his options ("cop out" and plead guilty), "rock" (stand trial), or "cooperate" (serve as an informant), Ray despairs, particularly as he is being pressured to participate in a drug culture "inside" very similar to what he was a part of "outside".

Ray takes no sides, unwilling to believe that his options are limited to the choices he is being presented with. When threatened with violence in the prison yard, he retaliates with words, speaking the truths that he's witnessed in the form of a poetic rap meant to show the other inmates how their power and energy is being diverted into petty struggles with each other, rather than being directed toward the system that is keeping them down. In prison, he participates in the writing class of teacher Lauren Bell (Sonja Sohn), whom he comes to respect and admire. She advises him to pay more attention to his talents.

On the outside, he also reunites with Bell, and is welcomed into her circle of friends at a poetry reading at her home. They wind up spending the night together, despite her reservations about the future. The next day, she urges him to settle his legal troubles by agreeing to serve a year or two of prison time, rather than fighting the charges and potentially being put away for much longer.

CIFF runs a student film slam program. The short film programs include Animated Cinema, Black Cinema, Cultural Cinema, Chinese Language Cinema, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Accessibility Cinema, Feature Films, French Language Cinema, Inspirational Cinema, German Language Cinema, and Spanish Language Cinema. Their short film programs include not only world language classroom-appropriate programs but also for other classes and courses offered in our schools! You can find additional information on their website.

As soon as reservations are open for the film slam, I make one for my upper-level students to ensure I secure the date I want. The cost is $5 per student (unless you are coming from a Cleveland Metropolitan or Akron Public School). I know this can be a stretch for some families, so I always stress to my students to speak to me if they need help with their ticket cost.

CIFF usually takes place in late March or early April. CIFF posts resources for all the short films for teachers on its website. We usually spend a few days in class discussing predictions, directors, countries of origin, etc, to prime students for the experience. Upon returning, we discuss their favorite films, the accuracy of their predictions, cultural perspectives, products, and practices, etc.

On the day of our field trip, we pile onto the bus and head to the Allen Theater at Playhouse Square! When I began taking students to CIFF in 2016, it was held at the movie theater at Tower City. However, it has been moved to Playhouse Square within the last few years.

The program begins promptly at 9:45am and lasts until approximately 11:15-11:30am. Occasionally CIFF brings in a director from one of the films to speak to students or there is a professor from Cleveland State who leads a Spanglish Q&A session with students about the films they just viewed.

I can not express how amazing the CIFF Student Film Slam is! It is a bargain at $5 a student, it brings culture and language to life, it sometimes brings students to Cleveland and/or Playhouse Square for the first time, they provide quality teacher resources, and it just gives us so much to discuss in class before and after the experience.

If you need any assistance making the CIFF Film Slam a much-anticipated field trip by your students, please do not hesitate to contact me at bha...@oberlinschools.net.

These are the highest grossing film adaptations of video games, but despite raking in hundreds of millions at the box office, most of these films failed to make a mark with critics, a trend that major studios have repeatedly tried to reverse for decades.

Adapting popular video games into film can be a successful financial strategy for film studios, thanks to the established fanbases the games already have, but almost all of these films struggled to impress critics.

The Sedona Poetry Slam has reached the final slam of the season before the summer break Saturday, June 8. Performance poets will bring high-energy, competitive spoken word to the Mary D. Fisher Theatre starting at 7:30 p.m.

Open Slam

To compete in the slam, poets will need three original poems, each lasting no longer than three minutes. No props, costumes nor musical accompaniment are permitted. The poets are judged Olympics-style by five members of the audience selected at random at the beginning of the slam.

Email foxth...@yahoo.com to sign up early to compete or by the Friday before the slam or at the door the day of the slam. For more information, visit sedonafilmfestival.com or foxthepoet.blogspot.com. For a full list of slam poetry events in Arizona, visit azpoet.com.

Early screenings are granted to critics on the condition that they embargo their reviews until a certain date, even if the reviews are good. Often the filmmakers are still tinkering with the product at the time of the screenings, and early reviews may be based on a version of the film that audiences will never see.

The impressive viewing figures are a boost for Disney, which has had a lackluster performance at the box office this year, as many expected hits underperformed, including Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny and Haunted Mansion.

As a result, Disney is on track to not have at least one movie in the top three earners of the year. It is the first time that has happened since 2009 at the international box office and 2011 domestically.

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