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Food and Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, GöteborgInternational Film Festival, Hollywood Songcrafting Seminar, Annie Awards,Highlight January's Media and Entertainment Networking EventsThe same Australian acting techniques that launched the careers of Russel Crowe,Cate Blanchett and Hugh Jackman can be sampled when the Australian Institute ofDramatic Arts offers several sessions in selected cities, including Hollywood,through January 10. Tucson Slow Food and Film Festival is an extended weekend ofclassic food films, culinary events and cultural discussions that combinescreenings of feature films, documentaries, shorts and animation with paneldiscussions about the cuisines, cultures and traditions shown on the screen, alongwith culinary events at restaurants, all happening in Tucson, through January 11.For the Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab, writers selected through a year-round staff search/outreach receive feedback and help with their projects at thePark City facility from January 9-14.The Slamdance Film Festival, running this year from January 15-23 in Park City, isbest known for its annual film festival. But Slamdance will now also serve as ayear-round showcase for the discovery of new and emerging musical talent, inaddition to the recently formed online venture with INDIEROAD.NET, a websitecreated by a team of veteran entertainment and business executives to address thelack of robust distribution options available to promising new talent in theindependent film field. From January 15-25, Sundance Film Festival, organized byactor Robert Redford in 1981, continues its festival, held primarily in Park City,and dedicated to the support and development of emerging screenwriters anddirectors of vision, and to the national and international exhibition of new,independent dramatic and documentary films. The International Film FestivalRotterdam offers a quality selection of worldwide independent, innovative andexperimental cinema and visual arts, and will be running this year, January 21through February 1.Interaction is encouraged for audience members during the run of the Children'sFilm Festival Seattle, to sharpen their critical eyes through workshops withprofessional actors, directors, writers, technicians, and producers, during therun of the festival from January 23 to February 1. Göteborg International FilmFestival, opening January 23 through February 2, functions as a meeting place forthe Nordic film industry and has become an integral link for new Nordic film,hosting about 200 specially invited buyers, distributors and festivalrepresentatives from all over the world. Steve Seskin and Pat Pattison willpresent a Hollywood Songcrafting Seminar in Los Angeles, January 24 & 25, sharingtheir knowledge and passion for writing songs. Honoring excellence in the field ofanimation, Annie Awards will be presented in the categories of animated theatricalfeature, television production, television commercial, short subject and videogames, and the people who have worked in these areas, January 30 in Westwood.The above events are only a sample of what is fully listed. Complete details areon the "Media, Entertainment and Performing Arts Industry News and Events" page atactorschecklist.com/news.html. Video and podcast versions of this news summary arealso available at popular video sites around the Web like MySpace, YouTube, DailyMotion, as well as on The Actor's Checklist podcast blog atactorschecklist.com/loudblog, a great place to get your iPhone, ipod or Apple TVdownload from. The Free Home Video Showcase athttp://www.actorschecklist.com/video now serves as an archive for all past videopresentations. This month on video you will again see an interesting array ofperforming artists from the indie sector on video. Newly introduced this month toThe Actor's Checklist website is Google Friend Connect technology where visitorsmay now sign in with their Google, Yahoo, AIM or OpenID account. You areencouraged to explore the entirety of the site for instances of Google Friend
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