Delray Beach Film Festival, Global Sound Conference, Pangea Day, Cannes Film

Festival, Drama Desk Awards, Durango Songwriters Expo, are Some Highlights in
May's Media and Entertainment Industry Career Networking Events

Digital Hollywood Spring '08 celebrates new talent in the "New Social Digital
Media Landscape," when it meets May 5-8 in Hollywood, holding events like the VIP
opening day dinner hosted by Tim Chang, featuring Damon Wayans, Tyrese Gibson,
and Chuck D, and a poolside reception hosted by Microsoft Media Center. A new
award takes shape as Deutsche Telekom and fmx 08 join forces to honor new
concepts, cutting edge developments and forward thinkers, shaping the future of
digital entertainment, through the "fmx 08 - Deutsche Telekom Digital
Entertainment Awards" to be presented May 5-8 at the 13th International Conference
on Animation, Effects, Games, and Digital Media in Stuttgart. Delray Beach Film
Festival makes its third annual start from May 6-11, offering independent short
and feature-length films, such as Stella Oliveros' biographic retelling of events
in her life in Pretty In Red (May 9 at 4 pm), and documentaries, panels and
workshops, concerts, screenwriter and filmmaker contests, actors, and parties, all
taking place in the Delray Beach village set by the sea. The Blues Foundation
presents its 29th Blues Music Awards May 8 in Tunica. The event brings together
blues performers, industry representatives and fans from all over the world to
celebrate the best in blues recordings and performances from the previous year.
The Global Sound Conference, May 9-12 in Marina del Rey, brings together a lineup
of doctors, scientists, musicians, and media visionaries from the music, film and
television industries, pioneers in the areas of Music Therapy and Ethnomusicology,
all exploring the ways that sound affects our lives, and to address how this
knowledge can create harmony in our world.

Pangea Day plans to use the power of film to bring the world a little closer
together. Starting at 18:00 GMT on May 10, locations in Cairo, Kigall, London, Los
Angeles, Mumbai, and Rio de Janeiro will be linked for a live program of films,
live music, and speakers, to be broadcast in seven languages worldwide through the
Internet, television, and mobile phones. One way to locate a Pangea Day event in
your area is checking a Google map (http://www.pangeaday.org/attend_map.php)
specially set up for this occasion. The Indie Film Jam once again screens selected
films in the heart of Downtown Orlando during the Florida Music Festival 2008
weekend, May 14-17, offering independent filmmakers networking opportunities as
well as industry panels designed for educating, enlightening and gaining insight
into the world of filmmaking. It's well known that the Cannes Film Festival,
founded in 1939, is one of the world's oldest, most influential and prestigious
film festivals held annually in the resort town of Cannes - this year from May 14-
25- in the south of France. Fairly new to the format, the Cannes Short Film
Corner, presents films from all over the world, which, for the most part have not
yet been released, such as Parisian director Vince Bosco, and the world premier
screening his latest film, LYA (www.myspace.com/lyalefilm). Meeting in New York,
May 16-18, the sixth annual Broadway Sound Master Classes (BSMC) provides
attendees with an in-depth exploration of the current trends in Broadway theatre
sound design and reinforcement -- from the artistic process to new technology.
Sound designer Abe Jacob leads a faculty of sound professionals covering topics
such as theatrical sound design, optimization and reinforcement, working with
digital audio consoles, and more. Quite closely related to the BSMC, the 2008
NYU/ASCAP Foundation Film Scoring Workshop in Memory of Buddy Baker, happens in an
adjacent venue, May 16-23.

During the Fifteenth Annual Hollywood Filmmaker Conference, Power Pitchfest is a

major component to the conference, that will happen in Los Angeles, where you have
an opportunity to sell your script or book to buyers; and/or submit your script or
short to agents and managers in attendance. Reba McEntire returns to host the 43rd
annual Academy of Country Music Awards that will be broadcast live from Las Vegas
on May 18. The organization of theater critics, writers and editors honors
excellence in all areas of New York theatre, including Broadway, Off Broadway, Off
Off Broadway and not-for-profit theater, with the annual Drama Desk Awards,
happening on May 18 in New York. Content owners, viral video creators, online
marketers, enterprise corporations, broadcast professionals, ad agencies,
educators and others are expected to attend Streaming Media East, May 20-21 in New
York, to see and hear the latest online video technology, as well as, to discuss
the business models that are coming of age. Actress Charlize Theron, director
Stuart Townsend, and other special guests are expected to attend Seattle
International Film Festival's opening night with the premiere of "Battle in
Seattle," a dramatization of the events when Seattle was host to the WTO
conference, putting the SIFF into gear for a May 22 opening, continuing to June
15. The 12th Annual Durango Songwriters Expo, co-sponsored by BMI, is a blend of
music business seminars and workshops, song listening/critique sessions, live
songwriter showcases, and a live hit-writer concert to close the event. It's also
notoriously known to limit its registration to 200 attendees, seeking to amplify
its importance as a vigorous networking and relationship-building opportunity.

The above events are only a sample of what is fully listed. Complete details are
on the "Media, Entertainment and Performing Arts Industry News and Events" page at
http://www.actorschecklist.com/news.html. Video and podcast versions of this news
summary are also available at most popular video sites around the Web like
MySpace, YouTube, Bit Torrent, as well as on The Actor's Checklist at
http://actorschecklist.com/loudblog/ a great place to get your iPhone, ipod or
Apple TV download from. The Free Home Video Showcase at
http://www.actorschecklist.com/video serves as an archive for all past video
presentations. This month on video you will see trailers and sample clips of
Ghanian hip hop recording artist, mixing reggae and rap, Akwabazi Filanzy
(www.myspace.com/akwabazi). Parisian based actor, filmmaker and musician who will
be featured in the Cannes Short Film Corner, Vince Bosco
(www.myspace.com/vincebosco), with the world premiere of LYA. Winner for the Best
Foreign Film in the Miami Underground Film Festival, 'Marta's Sex Tape,' from
director Anthony Rivero Stabley (www.MartaSexTape.com). The Actor's Checklist now
lets you check the latest musical artists song releases on Apple's iTunes, updated
on an hourly basis, at: http://www.actorschecklist.com/resources/itunes.php