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Sharon Perpignani

Poe Project in Sacramento, cash prizes

The Poe Project is a creative filmmaking contest and writing competition based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Presented by the Capital Film Arts Alliance (CFAA) & the Sacramento Public Library. http://goo.gl/VhMrz This has been great fun so far. Lots of people looking for cast/crew. Some people with scripts looking for producers and/or directors. The person submitting the film does have to reside in Sacramento, Placer or Yolo counties, be a member in good standing of the CFAA and have a library card from one of the above counties. They have $3000 in prizes so far. The major competitions are for short (<13 mins) films or feature-length screenplays. The short film contest is broken down into several categories. There prize for the best short film is $750! They even have prizes for best college student film and best high school student film. This is a great community event. The people are very helpful and friendly, and not very competitive at all given that it's, well, a competition. Check us out!

Sharon Perpignani

Maybe you could start a similar thing out there, with a local library or something? If you go to the link I posted you can see more about it. Just as exciting as the film festival is everyone reading the same works, too, and discussing them. I wish you were here, too, I could use some help with storyboards!

Sharon Perpignani

Thank you Karen, I just may take you up on that. If I can ever get to my storyboards. Networking is exhausting. :-)

Ashley Kennedy

That sounds interesting. I'm a big fan of Poe, he is my favorite poet & I've been reading "The complete tales and poems of Edgar Allan Poe". I'm also a poet/writer and I love Poe's work.

Sharon Perpignani

Too bad you're not here in Sacramento, you'd love it. Just for fun you might want to check out CFAA The Poe Project on Facebook. There's a Poe historian there and he's always posting good info. Great job on the crying mother audition by the way, hope you got the part!

Ashley Kennedy

Thanks, I actually got the evil spirit role instead.

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