Month: August 2024
First Fridays Art & Sound at the Station
First Fridays Art & Sound at the Station
Friday, September 6, 2024
This exciting new series will showcase local artists, musicians, and craft vendors in a vibrant celebration of creativity and community. Enjoy an evening filled with art, live music, and unique crafts.
With an all-female leadership team, each of us is deeply dedicated and passionate about women’s rights – on and off screen. We are incredibly proud to run a small, and mighty female-centric film space with hopes of bettering the present (and future) for all women in film, from their childhood dreams to their professional goals.
Join us! We are grateful for your support, in whichever way works best for you.
Shoot, edit, score, win!
The Asbury Park Reporter
by Brenda Hamlet - August 8, 2024
The Asbury Park Arts Council (APAC) 3 Week Film Challenge is now underway from August 5 – 26. The AP’N3 Film Challenge is the only film making event in Asbury Park and is open to the entire community. Contestants who accept the challenge are required to create a 3-minute movie, with an original script, shoot it, edit, and score it in three weeks.
Michael Sodano, Board President for APAC says, “It is still not too late to enter the challenge. All you need is a $30 entry fee, discounted for students and non-profits. So far, we have thirty-five people taking part in the challenge.”
APAC provides each contestant with a production package available to download from August 5th at 10 a.m. (See link below). The production package includes a theme, line of dialogue, a prop, and a scene-specific Asbury Park location. The film must be shot entirely in Asbury Park and uploaded to the website no later than Monday, August 26th at 6 p.m.
“This is a challenge that stretches our imagination and those of the participants,” says Sodano. “Most of the participants are first time film makers, so once they have a film under their belt, they can use it whatever way they want. Last year the Second Prize winners went on to enter their short with the Jersey Shore Film Festival and it won Best Comedy Short. Another filmmaker entered their short into the Garden State Film Festival and it won Best Short.”
The top ten winning entries will be screened at the Premier Event taking place at the Jersey Shore Arts Center on Sunday, November 3, 2024. A selection of AP’N3 entries will also be screened on APTV, the local cable channel, and on the YouTube channel of the Asbury Park Arts Council.
Sodano says the judging panel is made up of experts and cinephiles. “We have teachers, professional filmmakers, others involved in film who evaluate the films on a number of standpoints.”
APAC is a 501(c) nonprofit organization established under the guiding promise that the arts have been — and will continue to be — critical to the overall health and development of our community. The board members include: Carrie Turner, Michael Sodano, Jenn Hampton, Bob Ellis, and Paul McEvily. This year they have hosted Asbury Park’s Got Talent, Filmmakers Meetup, Connor Kane Photography Show, Asbury Park Panel and Mural Tour, a Black History Month art event at Asbury Park Library, Music Mondays pop-up at Springwood Park, Sewer Plant Mural Project, Lake Street Light Pole Beautification, and For Artist’s Sake Lectures.