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Showing posts with label Latest and Best. Show all posts
Singer Eye'z stops by Artists expression
Singer, performer and our very favorite talented artist Eye'z stopped by Artists expressions for a quick yet energetic interview over the labor day weekend, including a live performance on the show!
Now you might wonder why she was at Artists expressions - it was to talk about her latest single "Sugar", oh yeah, as sweet as Eye'z herself!
In the conversations, she dives into a little bit of her background as an artist growing up in a musical family in Oakland Ca. As always, Eye'z has an amazing sense for clothing and this time was no different, she was in a bright gold tasseled dress whilst she performed her song "Sugar" live and mesmerized everyone around. The interview episode aired on labor day weekend and now is available on YouTube as well. Here's the video for ShowBiz Blog readers.
And exclusive to ours and Eye'z fans, here are some behind the scenes photos:
music.apple.com/us/album/sugar/1735271589?i=1735271595 and more at us.7digital.com/artist/eyez-1/release/sugar-38729517?h=01
The future of the action thriller is female!
Women are rarely leads in action films, and behind the camera, women direct fewer than 6% of movies in the world. When it comes to action movies, that percentage drops to something minuscule, but the team at Enlightenment Productions want to change that!
The Artemis Protocol is an all female action film that’s unique in it’s genre. A meaningful, gritty thriller about influential women running a rogue organisation of female operatives. The story moves from militia camps in West Africa to the slums of Eastern Europe and has an underlying theme of finding out who you are in a world that often prefers you to conform, finding the courage to live with integrity when integrity might not be popular.
Enlightenment Productions has released three award winning feature films and one hard-hitting documentary. Their first, ‘I Can’t Think Straight’, became a cult success and won 11 awards. Their second, ’The World Unseen’, garnered 23 awards worldwide, including 11 SAFTAs) Most recently, Despite The Falling Snow, has won Best Production at it’s first outing at a UK festival.
Support The Artemis Protocol on Kickstarter at or visit the website artemisprotocol.com.
Interview with Douglas Vermeeren - the movie maker!
Interview with Movie
maker, Douglas Vermeeren by Yahoo freelancer Stan Romero
We at ShowBiz are always excited and thrilled to share the latest and the best in ShowBiz. In this edition of articles about the talented Douglas Vermeeren, we share a recent interview excerpt of his.
The following is an excerpt from a recent interview with movie
director/producer Douglas Vermeeren in regards to his upcoming movie Creepy
Zombie. Douglas Vermeeren is the director and producer behind several hit
documentaries in the personal development and inspiration genre.
For more information about Douglas Vermeeren and his films go to:
www.DouglasVermeeren.com
and for more information about Creepy Zombies specifically go to: www.CreepyZombies.com
Stan Romero: Thanks for taking the time to talk with me.
Douglas Vermeeren: It’s good be with you.
Stan Romero: so,why did you want to become a filmmaker?
Douglas Vermeeren: As long as I can remember I enjoyed movies.
Like many filmmakers of my generation I was profoundly affected by the films of
George Lucas and Steven Speilberg. I still remember the first time I saw Star
Wars when I was 5. My Dad took our family to a drive in movie theatre and it
was magical. Another movie that profoundly influenced me was Richard Donners
Superman. To me it was larger than life. I remember as a young boy thinking
that these were nearly document ion of real life events. In other words I thought C3PO and Superman
were real people. As I grew older and realized these were movies I really
wanted to be part of that word.
Stan Romero: What was your first movie experience?
Douglas Vermeeren: There were really two major events I think
that could be considered my first experience. My first was when my grandpa gave
me his old 8mm movie camera. It was then that I first began to think about how
a movie was created and what it was like to be behind the camera. The second
was my first time to the set as a background extra. I was still in elementary
school and I loved everything about it.
Stan Romero: When did you start making your first productions?
Douglas Vermeeren: In middle school and high school I looked for
every opportunity to bring video into my school assignments and book reports. I
regularly signed out the schools audio Visual equipment. The librarian joked
that most students couldn’t get at the gear because I had a
permanent booking on it. Looking back it was probably true. I was shooting all the time and a close group
of friends and I tried to create our own projects.
Stan Romero: What was your first somewhat professional effort?
Douglas Vermeeren: While in college I created a short that I
entered into a small community film festival. It was well received but family
obligations kept me away from the awards ceremony and although we won a prize I
still to this day don’t know what we won. Upon my return and
hearing that we were recognized for our efforts encouraged me to go deeper into
my film studies.
Stan Romero: No doubt The Opus was a big moment for you. How did
that project come about?
Douglas Vermeeren: I actually am still very involved in personal
development and still publicly speaker from time to time. I recognized that
this was a genre that many people were very excited about and I had a lot of
connections in that world. I decided to make my first major movie because so
many elements just lined up.
Stan Romero: What did you learn from your first film?
Douglas Vermeeren: There were so many things that I found I didn’t
know. Some mistakes were very expensive. For example, I made a lot of mistakes
in raising money. I didn’t follow correct procedures and ran
into some trouble with the securities commission. (In the end I had to pay a
big fine.) I also hired a lot of people based on their enthusiasm rather than
their skill set and had to pay a lot of money to fix mistakes or reshoot entire
parts of the project. But overall I learned a lot here that made the entire
experience worth it. While there were a lot of bumps in the learning curve the
movie was very well received and so far has been translated into more than 23
languages worldwide and picked up as a book.
Stan Romero: What it easier for your next two films, The
gratitude Experiment and The Treasure Map? And why?
Douglas Vermeeren: It was much easier. I guess if I were to share
advice with any upcoming filmmakers the thing that I learned was if you do a
great job on your first film distributors and audiences are excited to see what’s
next. It’s kind of like that idea that you only get one change to
make a good first impression. The Opus did that for me.
Stan Romero: So now you are shifting to a completely new genre. A lot of people are talking about this dramatic switch from inspirational films to the exact opposite with horror. What inspired you to movie into the horror genre?
Douglas Vermeeren: I believe that people watch films to some
extent to feel emotions they don’t normally experience every day. They
felt that in the inspirational films I created and I believe they will feel
that in the horror film I am currently working on. It will be a fun ride. In
addition, I guess its kind of a wink to my high school friends who made movies
with me then. We would watch horror movies every weekend and we saw absolutely
everything in the video rental store. We then went out and tried to duplicate a
few things in our own films. I guess its a chapter in my life that I hadn’t
yet found closer with. So this time I get to do it with a reasonable budget and
experience.
Stan Romero: So what’s next after this?
Douglas Vermeeren: I haven’t decided yet. Our
office has received a few scripts and I’ve written a few as well. I don’t
know that it will be in the horror genre. I have a feeling that it will be more
of an action adventure or sci fi.
Stan Romero: Thank you for being with us today.