Busking beatboxer in Grassmarket, Edinburgh Fringe Festival

From You To You Tube: A Filmmaking Summer Camp For Young Adults, is a workshop in New York running till August 14, with another session closely following, from August 17-28, teaches concepts of tale and structure, how to use a camera for your own shoot, the basics of film editing theory and technique, and how to compress your final product down to a size to share on the web. Chicago’s annual Lollapalooza 2009 music festival gets going again this year, August 7-9, and as part of Citi’s sponsorship of emerging artists at this year’s festival you’re invited to take part in a grassroots music-meets-art installation that allows you and your friends to take away a prized photographic memento of your time at Lollapalooza. Also, there will be chances to win VIP passes, stage passes to the PlayStation® Stage and even chances to win PS3®/PSP® system prize packs. The Florida Writers Association partners with UNF to start a three-day conference from August 7-9 in Jacksonville, with a full day of writing workshops for each day. Sunday afternoon’s schedule includes a marketing panel and a workshop featuring the UNF Writers Conference Book & Film Deal Connection, an opportunity for attendees to submit their work to agents, book editors and film producers after the conference closes. The Black Harvest International Festival of Film and Video is Chicago’s annual showcase for films that tell tales, raise questions, or touch on issues that relate to the black African, African American, and African diasporic experience, and it will be hosted this year in Chicago, August 7 through September 3.A Media Leaders Meeting in Austin, a monthly “experiential mixing event” on August 11, brings together leaders in media, marketing, advertising and entertainment to discuss current events and new thoughts. The LatinVision Hispanic Business Networking Event, an exclusive gathering of U.S. Hispanic and Latin American professionals, entrepreneurs and business owners in a relaxed atmosphere that facilitates networking, holds this month’s New York meeting on August 13, with an exclusive VIP after party to follow in the far west Chelsea district. A San Jose workshop for YouTubers who already shoot their own videos and post their content online takes place August 14, focusing on how can implement a successful video marketing strategy in this relatively new and rapidly changing field. The International Odense Film Festival is a small and documentary film festival that takes place every year in August, screening international small fiction and small documentaries as well as Danish small fiction and Danish small and feature length documentaries. Games Convention Developers Conference (GCDC), GDC Europe, hosted this year in Cologne, August 17-19, encompasses learning, networking, and inspiration via the GDC’s conference content quality and access to the industry leaders driving innovation in games across the globe. GDC Europe focuses on Business, Game Design, Production, and Programming for games. In addition, this three day conference will emphasize timely content and topics in Serious Games and Mobile Games in Europe and worldwide today.bitfilm09: Hackin’ Hollywood starts with a three day event of indoor and outdoor screenings, a workshop for the creative industry, an opening reception, and a public open air screening in a park in the centre of Hamburg. National Alliance for Media Art & Culture Conference 2009 is for media and visual arts leaders, practitioners, researchers, technologists, advocates, scholars, students, funders, and policymakers to share experiences and pool  knowledge among attending conference members, and across networks within the arts, media and culture fields, at sessions running August 28-29 in Boston. MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, August 26-30 in Edinburgh, celebrates success in the TV industry and is committed to the development of new talent. The Festival carries over 60 individual sessions covering the most vital issues facing the industry, from policy to programme making, alongside plenty of fun sessions as well. Each year London International Animation Festival 2009 focuses on a specific animation technique. So in 2009 they take a close up look at sand animation. This involves an animator placing and moving coloured sand, salt and other powders on a light box and using hand brushes, air brushes and an array of other tools to make thousands of textured pictures that make up the finished film. To showcase this technique, they place together a programme, running August 28 through September 6, which mixes recently released sand animations carefully blended with a collection of classics from the last 25 years.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. Video and podcast versions of this news summary are also available at well loved video sites around the Web like MySpace, YouTube, Daily Motion, as well as on The Actor’s Checklist podcast blog. Follow the posting of the news summary on Twitter at: twitter.com/actorschecklist. This month on the video news summary you will again see a dynamic array of artists in performance of film and music. These videos are now available on the Free Home Video Showcase which now serves as an archive for all past video presentations but without the audio news narration. The Actor’s Checklist is proud announce the return of the photo gallery which you can visit to upload valuable head shots or other photos of your choice, make profiles, and use your pictures or others found on the gallery as ecards which you can email to friends and associates with messages

Information and tickets: www.edinburgh-fringe.com

Me at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Watch part 1 first www.youtube.com

Sarah Millican on The Edinburgh Festival Show Comedian Sarah Millican, winner of the 2008 If.comedy award for best newcomer, talks to Lauren Laverne on The Culture Show’s “The Edinburgh Festival Show” about her first solo stand-up show “Sarah Millican’s Not Nice” and what it’s like sharing your secrets with paying audiences with Lauren Laverne. (28/08/08)

www.myspace.com Filmed at the Bongo Club, Edinburgh during Fringe Festival ’09.

www.festivalpreviews.com More dance party than performance, more energy than Red Bull, more havoc than a car crash. An energetic and very entertaining show of music, acrobatics, beat-boxing, master scratching and drumming displays. The video is only a taster. They’re on at Underbelly’s Pasture. See the full collection of video clips at www.festivalpreviews.com

deek jackson live at edinburgh festival 2009

Armando Iannucci, the BBC producer/writer/director of The Thick Of It, talks about his proposal for a HBO-style pay-TV BBC channel as well as forthcoming movie In the Loop and what he thinks ancient collaborator Chris Morris should do next.

Borat at the Edinburgh Festival 1/2