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titled “Wedding Day (Love Divine),” was licensed for the
WNBC show “I Do,” which aired in the summer of 2008.
“I am so excited to be a part of the FirstCom Music family,”
says Allison. “This is the perfect opportunity for me to share
my love of music with others and to help make the jobs of
corporate producers a little easier.”
//www.firstcom.com
“MR. BACH COMES TO CALL” FILM NOMINATED FOR TWO
EMMY AWARDS
The latest film from The Children’s
Group, “Mr. Bach Comes to Call”,
has earned two Emmy Award
nominations (Mid-Atlantic region):
one in the Children/Youth/Teen
Program or Special category
and the other for Director Maria
Erades (GreenTreks Network).
Based on the award-winning
and best-selling “Classical Kids”
recording, “Mr. Bach Comes to
Call” captures a special friendship
between a great composer and
a young girl. After the dramatic send-off of Bach’s music
into space aboard the Voyager II, Mr. Bach unexpectedly
arrives at the house of Elizabeth, a present-day child who is
awkwardly practicing Bach’s famous “Minuet in G.”
The 54 minute live-action drama is based in part on historical
fact and features more than twenty beautifully-performed
excerpts of Bach’s best-loved works by The Bach Choir of
Bethlehem and Bach Festival Orchestra. “Mr. Bach Comes
to Call,” a co-production of Classical Kids, The Bach Choir
of Bethlehem, GreenTreks Network and Touchstone Theatre,
was released on DVD on Apr. 24, 2007 to critical acclaim.
//www.natasmid-atlantic.org
MINNEAPOLIS-BASED PUNY DRAWS GREAT GIG: SEASON
TWO OF NICKELODEON’S “YO GABBA GABBA!”
PUNY is about to go big time with the pre-school set.
The Minneapolis-based interactive, animation, and design
company has once again been tapped to provide design
and animation to Nickelodeon’s critically acclaimed
preschool music series “Yo Gabba Gabba!” The smash
hit live-action magazine show, embarking on its second
season, was one of 2007’s top-rated programs among
pre-schoolers, and has already gained a substantial cult
following among sans-toddler twentysomethings as well.
PUNY’s creative contributions to the show’s debut season
have earned them an expanded role in “Gabba-land” for
2008.
Nominated for an Emmy, Television Critics Association
award, and named one of the “Top Ten New TV Shows”
of 2007 by Time Magazine; “Yo Gabba Gabba!” provides
PUNY with a respected forum for their work. The program
features original animation, life-size and larger-than-life
characters, eclectic music, and special guest appearances.
“Christian Jacobs and Scott Schultz created this amazing
show and created a dream job for us,” said Shad Petosky,
PUNY’s President and Creative Director. In addition to once
again producing a variety of animated segments for the
TV series, PUNY has been entrusted to meet the challenge
of translating the eye-popping fun and excitement of “Yo
Gabba Gabba!” to the web, as they design and re-launch
an all new YoGabbaGabba.com for the fall.
//www.punyentertainment.com
BIG TEETH’S FALL ‘08 NIBBLE
With the days of summer waning fast, Big Teeth doesn’t
want to take up much of your time, so rather than a full
on “bite” here’s a little “nibble” to keep you up with a few
goings on with the teeth.
Big Teeth Productions is sponsoring local indie filmmakers
in partnership with the Midwest Independent Film
Festival. “The Midwest Independent Film Festival is the
nation’s only film festival solely dedicated to the Midwest
filmmaker, presenting audiences with regionally produced
independent cinema.” For more information on upcoming
films or Midwest indie cinema visit their website (www.
midwestfilm.com).
Big Teeth is now represented on Facebook. Join and keep
track of what’s happening with them. Mention the word
“nibble” and receive an honorary Big Teeth title in the
group.
//www.bigteeth.tv
STORYIST SOFTWARE BEGINS NEW CHAPTER WITH THE
INTRODUCTION OF STORYIST® 1.4
Storyist Software, a developer of creative writing tools for
Mac OS X, announced the release of Storyist 1.4, an update
to its popular story development tool for novelists and
screenwriters. Storyist 1.4 incorporates many user-requested
features, including a new formatting inspector window, the
ability to read and write additional formats, enhancements
to import and export functions and new text tools.
“Our writers are a diverse group,” says Steve Shepard, CEO
of Storyist Software. “We listened carefully to their requests
and expanded the software’s capabilities accordingly. The
result is a tool that works even more effectively with a variety
of workflows.” In addition to standard word processing
features such as spelling and grammar checking, Storyist
includes a page layout view with support for headers,
footers, and style sheets. It also provides unique features
such as customizable Story Sheets to help writers refine story
ideas, a Project Manager that keeps all writing organized
and accessible, Wiki Links that allow writers to link their notes
together and Project Templates to get writers up and writing
quickly.
//www.storyist.com