Click above to get descriptions on our films.
Thanks to those who joined us at our Premiere.
Entering the Booth by Travis Sarah Silcox
Email: silcoxt@scc.losrios.edu
Walk in Mid-town and you are surrounded by stories in need of telling...let's listen.
Kindred by Scott Howe
E-mail: scotthowe@sbcglobal.net
or Web site: http://www.kindredthemovie.com
Dr. Chen questions her abilities as a doctor. History teaches her one person can make a difference.
Checkmate by Jessica Vasquez
E-mail: trogdor2211@hotmail.com
Plan every move and know what's coming at you life is nothing like that.
Home-School by Stephen Thomas Darmstandler
E-mail: sdarmstandler@yahoo.com
Mr. D knows Blake has potential but learning doesn't stop at the classroom door.
Being Lisa by Becca Louisell
E-mail: Be_outside@yahoo.com
or Web site: http://www.beinglisa.com
Finding yourself takes courage. Loving another is complicated.
Lisa and Jason explore the possibilities.
Bedrock by Mary London
E-mail: marylondon@comcast.net
Inherit a rock? Crystal remembers her Aunt and the many blessings
to be found along the American River
Relationships by Keven Nguyen
E-mail: scKNL6ht@aol.com
Peter and Michael are best friends. One helps the other find true love
but looking and finding are not the same.
The Sac Effect by Jeff McPhee
E-mail: jeffocamera@yahoo.com
L.A. Attitude vs. the Sac Effect? Charlie finds love in all the wrong places.
Capital Women by Suzanne Jones
E-mail: allthewritestuff@yahoo.com
or Web site: http://capitalwomen.applause4you.com
Equality? Mary Margaret questions the role of women in turn-of-the century Sacramento.
Wheel of Knowing by Michael Sewell
E-mail: pastoractor1@aol.com
Sam's memory is slipping and Melanie struggles to love him as a daughter should.
Nearly out of options? what now?
“A Place Called Sacramento”
Overview and Timeline PCS Workshops 2008
For the ninth year, Access Sacramento launches “A Place Called Sacramento” (PCS), a scriptwriting and short film production project for local writers and producers. PCS challenges local scriptwriters to write ten-minute scripts about the people, places, and events that make our community such a unique place to live (entry forms below and on-line at www.accesssacramento.org). The deadline for script submission is noon Wednesday April 16, 2008 in the Access Sacramento office.
To assist in the writing and production of the scripts, a series of workshops are held at the Coloma Center throughout the Spring providing professional training in PCS scriptwriting, production planning, acting for the camera, low budget production, and post-production techniques. Details are available on the web site: www.accesssacramento.org (Click on Quentin to get more Film Festival information.)
All script entries are reviewed by a panel of local professionals and ten are selected. These ten scriptwriter/producers are then introduced to actors and production teams at our “Cast and Crew Call” Wednesday, May 21, 2008. Production teams are formed and the ten films are produced during the Summer months. Finally, after weeks of hard work and great fun, friends gather at the World Premiere to a packed house at the CREST Theatre on October 5, 2008.
To view the ten films completed for the 2007 PCS film festival, go to the web site www.accesssacramento.org. In the eight years of PCS, 79 short films have been created. Access Sacramento is a nonprofit organization dedicated to using community media to build better communications between individuals and groups in Sacramento County. With our television studio, radio and television production equipment, media lab, mobile production truck, and other gear, we train and manage volunteers and share their work on cable radio and television channels 17 & 18.
CONTACT: Ron Cooper, Executive Director
Access Sacramento
4623 T Street, Suite A
Sacramento, CA. 95819
(916) 456-8600 #112
www.accesssacramento.org
Timeline for PCS Workshop Events and Deadlines
• Announce 2008 Call for Scripts...Monday
February 4, 2008
• Workshop “Writing a Winning Script” Saturday March 8 (9 AM – Noon)
Learn from past PCS writer experiences. What does “script format” mean? Why is writing dialog so important? Mentoring helps you craft a winning entry.
• Workshop “Writing a Practical, ‘Do-able’ Script” Sat. April 5 (9AM – Noon)
Basics on equipment and personnel needed to produce a digital film. Helps you prepare your production “team” should your script be selected. “Keep it simple”.
• PCS Script Deadline… Wednesday April 16 (Noon) Acc/Sac Office
• PCS Script Judging… April 16-May 14
• Workshop “Acting for the Camera” Saturday
April 26 (12:00- 3:00)
A workshop with professional Sacramento acting teachers designed to help new filmmakers select and work with actors both professional and beginners..
• Cast and Crew Call…Wednesday May 21
(6:00 PM – 8:30 PM)
Join with hundreds of interested cast and crewmembers to meet the selected screenwriters and hear their stories. You can help make a movie! Production teams are formed and interested actors create a PCS “audition tape”.
• Workshop “PCS Production Planning” …Saturday June 14 (9 AM – Noon)
The ten teams gather to receive further instructions, production tips, and share ideas. Participants invited shall include key members of each production team.
• Workshop Post-Production/Editing … Saturday July 12 (9 AM- Noon)
As final editing approaches, learn some tips from the experts. Finalize your formatting, credits, and other questions needed to meet the deadline.
• Deadline for Final PCS Films… Tuesday September 2(Noon Acc/Sac Office)
Hard deadline, no excuses.
• 2008 PCS World Premiere… Sunday October 5, 2008 (1:00 PM)
All completed films premiere on the Big Screen at the Crest. Invite your family, friends and strangers you want to impress… a great show about… a place called Sacramento!
NOTE: Workshops request a $5 donation to help with the expenses of the teachers and guest speakers. The “Cast and Crew Call” is free of charge to all interested.
Thanks to those who joined us at our Premiere.
Entering the Booth by Travis Sarah Silcox
Email: silcoxt@scc.losrios.edu
Walk in Mid-town and you are surrounded by stories in need of telling...let's listen.
Kindred by Scott Howe
E-mail: scotthowe@sbcglobal.net
or Web site: http://www.kindredthemovie.com
Dr. Chen questions her abilities as a doctor. History teaches her one person can make a difference.
Checkmate by Jessica Vasquez
E-mail: trogdor2211@hotmail.com
Plan every move and know what's coming at you life is nothing like that.
Home-School by Stephen Thomas Darmstandler
E-mail: sdarmstandler@yahoo.com
Mr. D knows Blake has potential but learning doesn't stop at the classroom door.
Being Lisa by Becca Louisell
E-mail: Be_outside@yahoo.com
or Web site: http://www.beinglisa.com
Finding yourself takes courage. Loving another is complicated.
Lisa and Jason explore the possibilities.
Bedrock by Mary London
E-mail: marylondon@comcast.net
Inherit a rock? Crystal remembers her Aunt and the many blessings
to be found along the American River
Relationships by Keven Nguyen
E-mail: scKNL6ht@aol.com
Peter and Michael are best friends. One helps the other find true love
but looking and finding are not the same.
The Sac Effect by Jeff McPhee
E-mail: jeffocamera@yahoo.com
L.A. Attitude vs. the Sac Effect? Charlie finds love in all the wrong places.
Capital Women by Suzanne Jones
E-mail: allthewritestuff@yahoo.com
or Web site: http://capitalwomen.applause4you.com
Equality? Mary Margaret questions the role of women in turn-of-the century Sacramento.
Wheel of Knowing by Michael Sewell
E-mail: pastoractor1@aol.com
Sam's memory is slipping and Melanie struggles to love him as a daughter should.
Nearly out of options? what now?
Overview and Timeline PCS Workshops 2008
For the ninth year, Access Sacramento launches “A Place Called Sacramento” (PCS), a scriptwriting and short film production project for local writers and producers. PCS challenges local scriptwriters to write ten-minute scripts about the people, places, and events that make our community such a unique place to live (entry forms below and on-line at www.accesssacramento.org). The deadline for script submission is noon Wednesday April 16, 2008 in the Access Sacramento office.
To assist in the writing and production of the scripts, a series of workshops are held at the Coloma Center throughout the Spring providing professional training in PCS scriptwriting, production planning, acting for the camera, low budget production, and post-production techniques. Details are available on the web site: www.accesssacramento.org (Click on Quentin to get more Film Festival information.)
All script entries are reviewed by a panel of local professionals and ten are selected. These ten scriptwriter/producers are then introduced to actors and production teams at our “Cast and Crew Call” Wednesday, May 21, 2008. Production teams are formed and the ten films are produced during the Summer months. Finally, after weeks of hard work and great fun, friends gather at the World Premiere to a packed house at the CREST Theatre on October 5, 2008.
To view the ten films completed for the 2007 PCS film festival, go to the web site www.accesssacramento.org. In the eight years of PCS, 79 short films have been created. Access Sacramento is a nonprofit organization dedicated to using community media to build better communications between individuals and groups in Sacramento County. With our television studio, radio and television production equipment, media lab, mobile production truck, and other gear, we train and manage volunteers and share their work on cable radio and television channels 17 & 18.
CONTACT: Ron Cooper, Executive Director
Access Sacramento
4623 T Street, Suite A
Sacramento, CA. 95819
(916) 456-8600 #112
www.accesssacramento.org
• Announce 2008 Call for Scripts...Monday
February 4, 2008
• Workshop “Writing a Winning Script” Saturday March 8 (9 AM – Noon)
Learn from past PCS writer experiences. What does “script format” mean? Why is writing dialog so important? Mentoring helps you craft a winning entry.
• Workshop “Writing a Practical, ‘Do-able’ Script” Sat. April 5 (9AM – Noon)
Basics on equipment and personnel needed to produce a digital film. Helps you prepare your production “team” should your script be selected. “Keep it simple”.
• PCS Script Deadline… Wednesday April 16 (Noon) Acc/Sac Office
• PCS Script Judging… April 16-May 14
• Workshop “Acting for the Camera” Saturday
April 26 (12:00- 3:00)
A workshop with professional Sacramento acting teachers designed to help new filmmakers select and work with actors both professional and beginners..
• Cast and Crew Call…Wednesday May 21
(6:00 PM – 8:30 PM)
Join with hundreds of interested cast and crewmembers to meet the selected screenwriters and hear their stories. You can help make a movie! Production teams are formed and interested actors create a PCS “audition tape”.
• Workshop “PCS Production Planning” …Saturday June 14 (9 AM – Noon)
The ten teams gather to receive further instructions, production tips, and share ideas. Participants invited shall include key members of each production team.
• Workshop Post-Production/Editing … Saturday July 12 (9 AM- Noon)
As final editing approaches, learn some tips from the experts. Finalize your formatting, credits, and other questions needed to meet the deadline.
• Deadline for Final PCS Films… Tuesday September 2(Noon Acc/Sac Office)
Hard deadline, no excuses.
• 2008 PCS World Premiere… Sunday October 5, 2008 (1:00 PM)
All completed films premiere on the Big Screen at the Crest. Invite your family, friends and strangers you want to impress… a great show about… a place called Sacramento!
NOTE: Workshops request a $5 donation to help with the expenses of the teachers and guest speakers. The “Cast and Crew Call” is free of charge to all interested.
- 2008 "A Place Called Sacramento" Film Festival Script Submission forms
- Who is "Quentin Sacramento"
"Quentin Sacramento" is the mascot for "PCS". He has done films such as "The Good, The Bad, and the Sushi", "Butch Cassidy and the Sunfish Kid", "Gone with the Swim", and "The Maltese Scallop". He is currently working with James Cameron on "Aquaman". Quentin currently is residing in a plastic Castle in the Hollywood Bowl. Many thanks to his founder/creator, 'FUJITAKE' (Artist). You never know where he might slide in or flop up on stage. But rest assured if the event has something to do with "A Place Called Sacramento" he's bound to show up. To view any of the films from this year or the past just go to the appropriate link below.
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is a production of Access Sacramento, Ron Cooper Executive Director. You will find here Windows Media Player streaming video versions of each of the videos presented at the Crest Theater on Sunday October 7th, 2007. Congratulations to the nominees and the winners. The videos are in the same order here that they were presented at the Crest Theater. Please click on any link below to watch that video.
Viewers Choice #4
The Sac Effect by Jeff McPhee
E-mail: jeffocamera@yahoo.com
Checkmateby Jessica Vasquez
E-mail: trogdor2211@hotmail.com
Entering the Booth by Travis Sarah Silcox
Email: silcoxt@scc.losrios.edu
Relationships by Keven Nguyen
E-mail: scKNL6ht@aol.com
Being Lisa by Becca Louisell
E-mail: Be_outside@yahoo.com
Viewers Choice #3
Bedrock
by Mary London
E-mail: marylondon@comcast.net
Viewers Choice #5
Kindred by Scott Howe
E-mail: scotthowe@sbcglobal.net
or Web site: http://www.kindredthemovie.com
Capital Women by Suzanne Jones
E-mail: allthewritestuff@yahoo.com
or Web site:http://capitalwomen.applause4you.com
Viewer Choice #2
Home-School by Stephen Thomas Darmstandler
E-mail: sdarmstandler@yahoo.com
Viewers Choice#1
Wheel of Knowing by Michael Sewell
E-mail: pastoractor1@aol.com
- View 2005 -2006 "A Place Called Sacramento" Videos Online
- Access Sacramento
- Past Festivals
- Crest Theatre & Environs
The Crest Theatre is located at 1013 K Street,
between 10th and 11th on the K Street Pedestrian Mall. Safe and convenient parking is available
at 10th and L streets (1/2 block from the Crest theatre). This is a city lot and tickets are validated at the Crest Box Office.
The site that the Crest Theatre sits on has housed a theatre since 1912. The first, the Empress, was a vaudeville theatre which opened in 1913. The second, The Hippodrome, was originally a vaudeville house which converted to a motion picture theatre in the late 1920's. In 1946, the Hippodrome interior was demolished and the Crest was built inside the Hippodrome building shell.
Detailed directions are available on the Crest Website. http://www.thecrest.com/