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P&P’s SPOTLIGHT GOLD AWARD
SPOTLIGHT FILM AWARDS gives “THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM – A MUSICABRE” the SPOTLIGHT GOLD AWARD Spotlight Film Awards just announced the winners of its 2022 awards. My musical short film Edgar Allan Poe adaptation, “The Pit and the Pendulum … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Notes in the News, Poe Musicabres
Tagged a musicabre, adaptation, Award, Awards, bio, certificate, Edgar Allan Poe, excellence, film, Filmmaker, gold, short story, Spotlight, The Pit and the Pendulum
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P&P HOLLYWOOD GOLD AWARDS
Hollywood Gold Awards bestowed the Silver Award for Horror to “The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” as well as an Honorable Mention for its Original Score
Posted in Cinema Scope, Notes in the News, Poe Musicabres
Tagged Awards, filmmaking, gold, Hollywood, Honorable Mention, horror, musicabre, Original Score, Silver, The Pit and the Pendulum
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INDIEDANCE AWARDS
“The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” wins two awards from Indiedance Film Festival 2020 Yesterday I was informed via a recorded zoom call that Indiedance film Festival 2020 awarded “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” with a Gold Award for … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Art is Alive, Award, film, gold, horror, Indiedance, monitor, musicabre, musical, on set, short, Silver, soundtrack, Special Interest, The Tell-Tale Heart, winner
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CLASS 1-3’s FIRST GRADE OPERA – involving a magic carpet and a family transformed into chameleons
NYC’s schools closed due to the COVID 19 pandemic the week the three first grade classes at the Brooklyn Children’s School were scheduled to perform their operas, which the children had written and composed themselves. I still held … Continue reading
Posted in Notes in the News, The Teaching Artist
Tagged brooklyn, chameleons, Children's School, Covid 19, dungeon, first grade, gold, magic carpet, magic potion, Opera, school closure
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Tell-Tale Director Award
I received a directing award from the So You Think You Can Act competition. It feels a bit odd typing that, but it’s true; So You Think You Can Act recently added a directing category to their competition, and I … Continue reading
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Tagged Award, directing, excellence, gold, outstanding, So You Think You Can Act, SYTYCA
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VERSAILLES – Reflections in the Hall of Mirrors
Paris provided a wealth of imagery and perspectives for me to share – it’ll probably take me a year to process it all in blog post sized bits (here the first one two three four five posts). Why, alone the long … Continue reading
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Tagged art, gold, Hall of Mirrors, mirrors, photography, reflections, statues, Versailles
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