The 1st CFP Short, “Memories In Tact” premieres Friday June 2 at Endless Mountains Theatre–just prior to the premiere of the Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston comedy “The Break-Up”. Pass this Bulletin out to your friends–we look forward to seeing you at EMT this week!

Tune in to WVIA-FM (89.5 fm) this Thursday, June 1st at 11:30 am to hear CFP Board member Rich Drees and Endless Mountains Theatres guru J.W. Colwell talk to the delightful Erika Funke about the CFP’s exciting Short Film Series which will be kicking off this weekend! It’s all part of the stations’ Arts Scene” [...]

Pre-production has begun on Kickball! The Movie. This new film by Scranton native Blake Monahan will pay homage to the sports underdog/comedy films of the 1980′s with a punk rock flair. Take one part “Porky’s”, one part “Slapshot”, and add a dash of “SLC Punk” and you have “Kickball! The Movie.” The film will be [...]

On Saturday May 20 at 10 AM, the Greater Scranton Film Office (310 Spruce St, Suite 302) will host a casting call for a film that will be shot in July 2006–in the Scranton area. The film is written and directed by Scranton native Matt Weiss. Matt is a recent college graduate who will be [...]

Hey who wouldn’t like to make a movie with Steven Spielberg? Heck, most of us would probably be thrilled if we were just on set to deliver him a sandwich from the craft services cart. But now the FOX Network is giving 16 filmmakers a chance to compete for a $1 million development deal with [...]

According to screenwriter Michael Fasciana, the CFP project Wish Bone just signed a contract to receive worldwide distribution from Maxim Media. Wish Bone was written by Fasciana and produced by Timothy Gaer and Archon Films. Gaer’s work is also featured in two of the films (Red/Blue and Grim Interview) in the CFP Summer Shorts Series [...]

Wyoming Seminary will hold its fourth annual Student Film Festival on Saturday, May 20th, at 7PM in the Buckingham Performing Arts Center on Sprague Avenue in Kingston. All CFP members are invited to be judges at the event (you can also come just to watch, if you would prefer). The festival itself will run about [...]

This summer the Endless Mountain Theaters in Dickson City will be hosting a unique opportunity for local filmmakers short films to be shown before this summer’s new blockbusters. Each short ranges from three minutes to five minutes in length. The series of shorts began with a creative meeting held at Dunkin Donuts in Scranton on [...]