RIPFest #6

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, please:

Raw Impressions Inc. presents
RIPFest #6: Movie Musicals
7 films created in 16 days

New York, NY: Raw Impressions, Inc. will produce seven short films for the sixth installment of its RIPFest Film Festival. All films will be movie musicals and will be shown in New York on Monday May 23 & 24 at 8:00PM & 9:30PM at the Anthology Film Archives (32 Second Ave. at 2nd Street) and in LA on May 23 (only) at 7:30pm at Laemmle Monica 4.

RIPFest is a guerrilla filmmaking process wherein professional filmmakers who have never worked together are given sixteen days to collaborate on and create original ten-minute works from scratch. The theme for the films is "Without Thinking". Raw Impressions, winner of the 2004 Larson Award for Artistic Vision in Music Theatre is the only non-profit company in the world to have a regular program designed to create Movie Musicals. For RIPFest #6, half the films will be created in NY the other half in LA. All films will be shown on both coasts at each screening.

Raw Impressions has attracted some of the industry’s top talent looking for a creative challenge that the commercial world cannot provide. This year the participants include artists with careers in television, film and Broadway. Including: Writers: Matt Prager (“South Park”), Joy Gregory (Joan of Arcadia, Felicity) Christopher Shinn (On The Mountain, Playwrights Horizons), Brendan Milburn (Striking 12!), Val Vigoda (Groovelily); Composers: John Given (Emmy Award-Winner for Disney's Aladdin series), Jeff Blumenkrantz (2003 Tony-Nomination for Original Best Score), Michael Roth (B’wy: Brooklyn Boy), Jenny Giering (The Mistress Cycle); Choreographers: Susan Marshall (MacArthur ‘Genius’ Award), Marlies Yearby (Rent); Directors: Lonny Price (B’wy: A Class Act), Sean Mewshaw (Last Night starring Frances McDormand), Daniel Kay (Way Off Broadway – on IFC this fall), Benjamin Meyer (What Are You Having? - on IFC); Performers: Thursday Farrar (Aida in Aida), Eliza Jane Schneider (South Park ), Rita Gardner (created Louisa in The Fantasticks), Joe Cassidy (Jean Valjean - Les Miz), Tracey Miller (Hairspray), Steven Hack (Grease- film), Dana Snyder (Aqua Teen Hunger Force), Kenna Ramsey (Rent), Jacques Smith (Lion King). Participants subject to change.

Raw Impression’s RIPFest #6
Monday, May 23 & Tuesday, May 24 at 8:00 & 9:30PM in NYC
Anthology Film Archives is located at 32 Second Ave. @ 2nd St.
Laemmle Monica 4 Theatre is located at 1332 2nd Street, Santa Monica, CA
Monday, May 23 at 7:30PM ONLY

Tickets are $10 and available at www.smarttix.com or by phone (212) 868-4444.
Your coverage is appreciated. Mr. Rodwin and the creative and productions teams are available for interviews.
Please contact Springer Associates PR at 212. 354.4660

RIPFest #6 - The Process
Saturday, May 7, 2005: 6 teams are announced, a writer, producer, director, composer, editor, DP, actors (2-5) and a crew. They’re given the guidelines to create a new film on the following schedule:
∑ 2 days to write a first draft script ∑ 2 days for rewrites and vocal recording ∑ 2 days for pre-production
∑ 2 days to shoot the film ∑ 8 days for post production ∑ 16th day the films are premiered.

About RIPFest and Raw Impressions, Inc.
RIPFest is a production of Raw Impressions, Inc. RIPFest Executive Team: Christopher Tiné, Executive Producer, Erik Bryan Slavin, Creative Director, Bruce Kennedy, Co-executive Producer. David Rodwin is the Producing Artistic Director of RIPFest and all of Raw Impressions, Inc. founded in 2001 by David Rodwin and Patrick Mellen,

Raw Impressions, Inc. is a not-for-profit committed to inspiring artists to be prolific with excellence. We also create opportunities for artists to take risks and work with new collaborators. Lastly, we premiere the work we commission after supporting it through a speedy development process free from commercial pressures-so our artists can just be artists.

RIPFest films have been seen in dozens of festivals from The Paris Underground to The Mill Valley Film Festival, as well as broadcast on Showtime. In addition, they also have a live theatre division Raw Impressions Music Theater (RIMT).

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