(as posted on ECR – http://www.electriccityr.com/index.php) Hello, my name is Craig Cirelli, CFP Board Member and writer, producer and director of “Barrage” – a short film for the upcoming Community Film Project’s CFP Shorts series, which kicks off early this summer at Endless Mountain Theater. “Barrage” is one of ten short films taking part in [...]

The Community Film Project is making plans for a June Screening Room event, and we need your help! If you have already completed a film, or would like to show a clip or trailer of a film you are still working on, we would love to show it to your fellow CFP members. This event [...]

The 15th Annual Philadelphia Film Festival kicks off next Thursday, March 30 and over its 12 day run will present several free workshops and discussion panels for filmmakers and film lovers as part of their “Set In Philadelphia” programming track. For screenwriters, the Festival offers two workshops- Marketing Your Screenplay – April 1, 11:00am to [...]

For those of you that are hooked on MySpace, the Community Film Project now has an account in their film section. Our main web site will always be the hub of activity and communication, but we just couldn’t be left out of this craze. It will also promote the growth of the CFP and its [...]

Michael Keaton says he’ll star in a movie for just $100.00 a day. But your script better be really good. “”It’s so hard to get anything as well written or as challenging, or a cast or director this good, so I just had to do it,” Keaton explains in a CNN interview as to why [...]

Time Magazine is running a feature story this week on the future of digital filmmaking, with lots of quotes from directors like Kevin Smith, Robert Rodriguez, Michael Mann, M. Night Shyamalan, Steven Spielberg and some guy named George Lucas. Beyond the changes in technology with digital cameras, the article looks at how distribution and projection [...]

On Thursday, March 9, check out Jim Bone in the Morning on WBSX-97.9X at 7 AM for your chance to win FREE tickets to the WISHBONE Premiere. Be sure to tune in and listen for Timothy M. Gaer and Kevin M. Hayes of Archon Films as well as screenwriter Michael Fasciana, Robert Fredrick, and actor [...]

Next Sunday, March 12, Endless Mountain Theatres in Dickson City will present a screening of the locally-produced film Wishbone. When a young woman receives a mysterious artifact called the “wishbone” from her aunt as a housewarming gift, her friends begin to disappear. Is there a connection? Wishbone is from director Tim Gaer of Archon Films [...]

In preparation for this Sunday’s 78th Annual Academy Awards ceremony, CFP President Jeff Fowler visited the Kodak Theatre to oversee final arrangements for the big event.

If you’re like the rest of us, you probably haven’t seen any of the Academy Award nominated live action short films. But the folks at iTunes have now made them available to you for just $1.99 a pop. Check it out at www.itunes.com.