Buster Keaton Sails into Carrboro, NC

Buster Keaton Podcast from nic beery on Vimeo.

This is a podcast from a recent sold out screening of the 1928 Buster Keaton classic film, "Steamboat Bill, Jr." Carrboro, NC is fortunate to be the home of a monthly film series called "Century Center Cinema". They show silent, classic, foreign and documentaries. They are always wonderful movies and when silent's are shown, the music is improvised on the grand Piano by Erich Lieth.

This podcast features nuggets of good Keaton info by International Buster Keaton Society member Laura Nigro. Also included are scenes from the film and music by Lieth.

Century Center Cinema is a co-production of The Town of Carrboro and www.BeeryMedia.com and is curated by Nic Beery.

Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Seeks Volunteers

January 18th, 2010

Full Frame Documentary Film Festival seeks volunteers for 13th annual event.

The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, NC will hold it’s 13th edition on April 8th-11th. This world-class event attracts filmmakers and film lovers from around the world to our area. This year is promising to be our best festival yet.

We are presently seeking volunteers to help out in many areas including ushers, ticket takers, box office, photographers, drivers, IT support, set-up and tear down, and outreach.

The sign-up is once again online. Visit http://www.fullframefest.org/volapp.php
to fill out the brief form that allows you to fill out your area of interest and availability.

Requirements are that you must attend two pre-fest meetings in the evening (in March) and work 3 five-hour shifts during the festival.

Benefits are many. You get to see world-class films, network with others who share your love for film, help in your community, free t-shirt, free snacks, and the satisfaction of volunteering.

The sign-up period is open now, and we anticipate our volunteer quota will fill-up rapidly, so don’t delay.

Again the sign up location online is http://www.fullframefest.org/volapp.php

For more information, contact Volunteer Coordinator Nic Beery at Volunteer@fullframefest.org

Robot Monkey Head and National Inclusion Project featuring Clay Aiken

Robot Monkey Head from John Hadfield on Vimeo.

John Hadfield, a buddy from Clown College, had Ish and I come up to Newark, Delaware over Halloween weekend and we shot this crazy music video. Great people, great food, great fun. From what John tells me, it already has been seen online in over 35 countries. That's a lot of countries! More info on John and his cool live shows here http://johnhadfield.net/

National Inclusion Project from nic beery on Vimeo.

This is the National Inclusion Project Capital Campaign video that BeeryMedia.com produced this summer. Ish and I traveled to Boston and Raleigh for the shoots. Jay Manley did the terrific instrumental music. It premiered at the October 17th "Champions' Gala" and I am happy to report that NIP and Clay Aiken raised over $250,000 for the foundation.

Thanks to Kristy Barnes, Clay Aiken, Gerry Aiken, and Aaron, it was great working with you and getting to know you. Much continued success to NIP!

A November to be Thankful

Well we did it! I really didn't expect it to happen so soon, but EVERY SHORT we made this year has won an award. Yep, Our Doc MELTING OF THE GLOBE won the Audience Award for Best Doc at The Secret City Film Festival.
http://meltingoftheglobe.com/

Then, FRAME, our coming of age short narrative (female version) won Best Drama at The Seguin Film Festival.
http://beerymedia.com/Site/Frame.html

And to finish off, our newest short, the other coming of age short narrative (male version) BEN PICKLE, won Best Short at The Ava Gardner Film Festival.
http://beerymedia.com/Site/Ben%20Pickle.html

So, I'm thinking, nothing else can happen, right? Well last Friday night I get the call...in Nashville they announced the nominees for this years regional EMMY's. Yes sir ree, we snagged a nom for Sarah Huck's Choking Game PSA. We were honored to help her produce this important spot.



Lucky us. Doing what we love and finding audiences all over the world.

Thank you all who voted for our little, sweet films. Happy Thanksgiving everybody!

Just your normal October 'round here.

It's been quite a nice ride this summer and fall. We just wrapped the Clay Aiken National Inclusion Project Gala. It was an extraordinary time, producing two videos profiling special needs children and creating a very emotional video on the need for inclusion. Videos will be forthcoming in the coming weeks.

On the indie film scene, our short, FRAME, continues to do well on the international festival circuit. Film festival submissions continue to go out. we even have begun to get requests to submit from festivals. A good feeling for sure. Frame will be seen this weekend in Seguin Texas for example. If you haven't seen it, here it is, in its entirety, for you to enjoy online;

Frame from nic beery on Vimeo.

Now, the other little something we have been working on is ready for your eyes. Ben Pickle, the story of one boy, one summer day and one incredible imagination. Again, here's the whole thing, the Sweet Gherkin cut;

Ben Pickle - The Sweet Gherkin Cut from nic beery on Vimeo.

We are in the process of getting film festival submissions out on this one as well. Discussion for a sequel has already begun. It's exciting because big film industry names such as Spike Jonze, Tim Burton, Chris Jones, and Robert Rodriguez have all shown no interest in this film.

I hope you enjoy these two beautiful pictures. Very different, but similar in many ways.

Cheers,
Nic

Sunday Delima

I have been asked by IMDB to post trailers or complete films online. I like this idea, folks can watch my shorts right there. The delima is, where do I put my films? YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, IMDB? All of these, some of these...

At this moment I am leaning towards posting my shorts everywhere people want them. Vimeo is my site of choice, best quality, easiest access. But YouTube has the longest reach to the world, most people, like it or not, still go to YouTube first.

Then there is the cool factor of faceBook. Friends can comment and it really spreads like wild fire. So I like that too.

Vimeo and IMDB have a hip factor. Then there are specialty sites like Shooting People, Ticklebooth, Squiglebooth...oh my.

Here's my Veronica Always page on IMDB - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1519441/
Here's my Mad Tea Party page on IMDB, I posted the "Meet Lora Pendleton" portion of the doc on there - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1519419/