Archive for the Film Category
FROM 0 TO 90 Updates!
We have a donation offer going up today – for $20 Melissa will feature your product, brand, website, twitter account or cause in her next update (Thursday). Donate today and be mentioned!!!! Check out these two updates below on the post process for From 0 to 90:
Watch video live on Vpype Live Broadcaster
Watch video [...]
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Vidly Test #vidly
Check out the above test from Vidly.com – a twitter enabled site that allows users to tweet HD quality video!
Peace,
Melissa
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Reel & Fundraising Updates
I’ve been reaching out to find work and to help fundraise for the different documentary projects I’m invovled in – please check out first contact email below:
I’m a filmmaker, who mostly focuses on editing. I have a strong webisode, narrative and documentary editing background and would be very interested in any freelance or full time [...]
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Fundraising Through Crowdsourcing
I am raising funds for my documentary, From 0 to 90, through a couple of crowdsourcing sites:
Kickstarter:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/multo/from-0-to-90-obamas-first-90-days-documentary
IndieGoGo:
http://www.indiegogo.com/From-0-To-90-Obama%27s-First-90-Days
This will be an interesting test of both sites and their ability to push donors to my project. I’d love to be able to pay my editor and pay for my time directing/writing. There’s the composing, the sound mix, [...]
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Blog Action Day 2009
Today is Blog Action Day 2009 for Climate Change. With so much to do and so much to change, I’d like to make my post about sustainability, the Lifeline and positive action. I’ve been a part of the Lifeline project since May 2009 and its been lifeline changing, in many ways. I’ve always been an [...]
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Updates!
Just finished a bunch of backed up work:
- Stephanie Courtney EPK
- Chocolatina iSi Webisode (oohYum.tv)
- bio reel for Emily of the Lifeline
- more shoots & edits on All The Ladies Say
- fun shoot with Chris in the cemetary
This summer has been hectic, with moving, paring my life down, prepping for the trip, editing and shooting. [...]
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Incredible Updates!
Great things are happeing. The documentary I’m working with Rokafella and Kwikstep is really coming together and the press is starting to notice:
Check us out on NY1!
Also prepping for The Lifeline – the incredible journey ahead of me, planning furiously, and editing our intro reels.
Finishing up old projects, getting small gigs, clearing out my life [...]
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ALL THE LADIES SAY Screening
“All The Ladies Say” Screening
B girls get down!
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Time: 4:00pm – 10:00pm
Location: Bronx Museum
Street: 1040 Grand Concourse
Phone: 7186816000
Web: www.bronxmuseum.org
The BronxMuseum will host Full Circle’s film screening/launch for [...]
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Day 90 – Obama Doc Needs YOU!
Hi:
I have been shooting for the last several months, covering President Obama’s
first 90 days in office, for my documentary “From 0 to 90″. This entire
documentary is groundbreaking for several reasons:
1. EVERY interview has been sourced through social networks – Facebook,
Twitter, Friendster, Myspace, Hipster, Tribe, Tribe Hollywood, Massify,
dating sites, Craigs List, etc.
2. We are not focusing [...]
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From 0 to 90 – A Barack Obama Joint
From 0 to 90 is the working title of an interactive documentary, produced by Melissa Ulto. With interviews in person and online, Ms. Ulto seeks to cover the first 90 days of Barack Obama’s presidency, both nationally and internationally.
From bail outs to Iraq, Obama has a hard road ahead as president. Will the problems he’s [...]
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“The Fall” in love…
I saw “The Fall” tonight, and fell in love with filmmaking all over again. The magic of storytelling and moving pictures is fully alive in this movie. I watched in awe and joy, the same way I watched movies as a child. I was in wonderment, thrilled, laughing, crying, charmed and wowed. [...]
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Announcing Online.tv Studios!
Our Reception Area
For the past six months, I’ve been working on the creation and launch of Online.tv:
Online.tv is a complete digital video solution provider for the web video era. Online.tv combines the world’s largest network of online specialty HD video channels, online third party video super-distribution, advanced scalable technology solutions for video and [...]
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Busy Girl…
IDTag.com Web Commercial
Images from Online.tv Stock Video shoot
So I’ve been super busy lately. Lots of great stuff to report, including a commercial for IDTag.com; and lots of great productions coming out of my new venture, Online.tv. More to tell about Online.tv once the summer rolls around and we launch. Until then, keep [...]
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Mandatory Service WINS at Tribeca Film Festival!
I am thrilled to announce that a film I was Director of Photography for, “Mandatory Service”, received the award for BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival:
http://www.tribecafilm.com/filmguide/Mandatory_Service.html
About the film:
The cultural impact of the militarization of Israeli society has both challenged and stifled the cultivation of creativity in the country. Mandatory Service asks a [...]
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Mandatory Service at Tribeca Film Festival
Mandatory Service
(Mandatory Service)
In English, Hebrew, Arabic [...]
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Art Seen Shoot
Gregg LeFevre & Andrea Grant
I shot the pilot for Art Seen this past Saturday, with host Andrea Grant and guest Gregg LeFevre. Gregg is a public works bronze artist and urban textures photographer, focusing on the decaying billboards around the city.
I’ll have more updates soon about the new Online.tv venture I’m a part of, with [...]
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UrbNews.tv Pieces on Huffington Post
Two more pieces about the 2008 election are now online on the Huffington Post. Check them out here!
Peace,
Melissa
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Cinema Eye Awards 2008
Festival Founders rock out with their docs out!
I shot press stills and interviews for the Cinema Eye Awards – the first awards show totally for documentaries. Sponsored by IndiePix, the event was a raging success, and really inspired me as a documentary filmmaker. It had me fired up to keep going, and [...]
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Art & Apathy @ Tribeca Film Fest
The Art & Apathy Project was selected for inclusion in the next Tribeca Film Festival. Directed by Jessica Habie, this film addresses the militarized conditions artists struggle to create under in Israel and Palestine, and the complexities of occupations. I was one of the DPs for this project, and it was my [...]
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UrbNews.tv Piece on Huffington Post
A piece I directed, edited by Vince Wallace, was picked up by The Huffington Post. Featured on the front page, you can see the full article here.
Peace,
Melissa
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Obama Piece
I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be – that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand. And so beyond the vision of battling races and an impoverished earth, I catch a dreaming glimpse [...]
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The Vintage DJ Film
Multo.com is currently editing a short dance film featuring The Vintage DJ and his dancers. There are a series of great stills up on the Multo.com photo page up now!
Stay tuned for the edit!
Peace,
Melissa
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Broadway.tv Up!
Broadway.tv is up and running! Please check out the features and reviews. The video production was done by Multo.com.
Peace,
Melissa
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The Art of Love & Struggle at The Pan African Arts & Film Festival
The Art of Love and Struggle will be screening at the Pan African Arts and Film Festival 02/11/2008 – 1:10pm, 02/13/2008 – 10:20pm, in Los Angeles, at the AMC Magic Johnson Crenshaw 15, 4020 Marlton Avenue.
Purchase tickets here!
Please do come out and support this fantastic film, which was a huge labor of love, celebrating these [...]
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Funny Video – One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other…
Check out the three most hilarious videos of the past month for me:
The Landlord – A MUST SEE!!!
Which one of these is not like the others? And why does that make it EVEN FUNNIER?!?!?!
Peace,
Melissa
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The Art of Love & Struggle on Film Baby
Smokifantastic dancing away…
Great news! For those of you interested in purchasing the beautiful and moving documentary, The Art of Love & Struggle, you can now get it at Film Baby!
This was an absolute labor of love, between director Jessica Habie and I. We slaved into the wee hours to get this in the can and [...]
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The Might Humble Blueberry – Festival Circuit
Lizzie White looking down on the good work…
Great news! Updates on the progress of MHB on the festival circuit! MHB was accepted to the Independents Film Festival and the Gloria Film Festival this past fall. Nancy O’Mallon was a great director to work with and the result of our joint efforts continues [...]
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Gravel Spot Update
Featured Video on Gravel Site
The spots I directed and edited are getting great feedback online. From the reviews of viewers, to the amount of views on YouTube.com, the spots seem to have hit a nerve. They are also currently being broadcast in New Hampshire on WMUR and MCAM. And one of the [...]
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Pixel Parked…
My lens and me…
I was planning to head out to Pittsburg for NYE, but I’m all blocked up, and a 6 hour train ride would do me no good right now. So happy new year from my cozy chair, soy cocoa in hand.
Peace,
Melissa
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