Annalisa Parent, owner of Parent Studios, Colchester, was recently selected by the Vermont Professional Photographers’ Association as Most Promising Newcomer at their annual convention. She was also awarded the Creativity Plus plaque, awarded to the image maker displaying the most creativity in any category at the discretion of the judges, for her print “Boston in the Rain.” All of her prints entered in this year’s photo competition earned a ribbon and the honor of being hung in the print gallery at the convention. She has operated Parent Studios since 2003, photographing weddings, portraits, and events. Parent’s award-winning work is available for view and purchase at www.parentstudios.com.

Annalisa will be the official Still Photographer for Champlain Motion Pictures’ feature film production, shooting in June. Please join us in congratulating her on her achievements!

We have opened up a SonicBids drop box to begin our search for music for our upcoming film. Unless you volunteered to play at our fundraiser, this is the only method we will be using to consider songs for our movie.If you are not yet a Sonicbids member and want to submit online, visit http://www.sonicbids.com/IndieFeatureLicensingOpportunity and sign-up for the Sonicbids Combo Package (includes your submission AND a discounted Sonicbids membership). If you are already a Sonicbids member, log in to your Sonicbids account and visit the Promoter Drop Box to submit.

Champlain Motion Pictures is proud to announce that Jayson Argento’s acclaimed independent feature, Finding Providence will be shown at Merrill’s Roxy Theatre in Burlington, VT. With the generous support of the Roxy, CMP is hosting this event in order to help support the production of its upcoming feature film, slated for principal photography in June.

Finding Providence is a full-length feature film written and produced in Vermont by Colchester resident Jayson Argento It features a fascinating cast of Vermont-based talent and a multitude of Green Mountain locations. The film is the launchpad piece for Argento’s new company, Champlain Motion Pictures.

All those interested in supporting the local arts and the Vermont film industry are encouraged to attend. The filmmakers and many of the stars of the film will be in attendance at the showing.

Tickets for the screening are available from www.champlainmotionpictures.com. Purchase of a ticket will entitle the bearer to $5 off a copy of the DVD at the theater!
Synopsis:

In the ten years since the disappearance of his girlfriend, obsessive Tom (ERIC RONIS) has been unable to move on with his life. As the affections of the beautiful Gwyneth (LOGAN HOWE) begin to lead him out of his past, the disappearance of another local girl draws him back in. Determined to find the missing girl, against the better judgment of Curtis (JAYSON ARGENTO), his best friend and roommate, Tom is driven into an investigation based on suspicion and circumstance; one which threatens to destroy his friendship, his love, and his sanity. An intimate story of mystery, redemption and romance, FINDING PROVIDENCE shows us how the past can haunt us and love can heal us.

Press Reviews:

“Ronis is outstanding as Tom, a nebishy everyman teetering on the brink of recovery and madness.”
- Steve Ouellette, Press Republican

“Finding Providence is a nice little romantic thriller – or is it a thrilling romance?”
- Jim Lowe, Times Argus
Purchase Tickets:

www.champlainmotionpictures.com

Our friends at Late Night Saturday with Tim Kavanagh have just informed us that their Roxy Reels segment will be doing a review of Jayson Argento’s film Finding Providence.  The segment will be recorded on May 1st at Champlain College (it is free to attend the taping!) and will air on WCAX-TV on May 3rd at 11:30 PM.  Be sure to tune in!

We are pleased to report that our fundraiser at Club Metronome went well.  There were a lot of great bands, even more great people and some great support for our community was passed around the room.  It was fun, too!

Because we are geniuses, we completely forgot to organize a still camera for the event.  So we’ll have to wait to get some frames from the video to post online.

Don’t forget to come audition this Saturday!

Saturday April 12th. 10:30 AM to 5:00 PM at the Fletcher Free Library in Burlington VT. If you are busy all month in JUNE auditioning would be silly. Just show up and sign in and we will call you into the room in the order you arrived. there will be a maximum number of people that we will be able to audition in that amount of time. If you show up and the list is full and we are not accepting anyone else on that day, we might have auditions again at a later time. Show up at 10:30 AM to sign in.

Roles available for all walks of life

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From the Writer & Director of Finding Providence
comes Champlain Motion Pictures newest feature film project and the proud announcement of major talent under contract: FEAR ITSELF (Working title)
to be directed by Jayson Argento
and featuring Larry Holden in a major supporting role

SHOOTING IN JUNE!

The other night we finally got the chance to test out our home-built dolly kit. We had this on set for the Nowhere Found music video, but we didn’t end up using it because we were on a very smooth concrete floor that allowed for wheeled tripods to be used just fine.

These pictures are from the Kisa Productions project we helped out on. Pictured are Steve Maas, Jim Reid, Harry Goldhagen, Colleen Alexander and Jayson Argento. At some point we hope to post some footage from the shot we did. The dolly will definitely find extensive use in our own projects when the time comes. This was a great chance for us to help out on another project and to learn how to improve our equipment.