Creating Urban Legends...

The Urban Mediamakers Association has announced the Urban Mediamakers Film Festival (UMFF) 2005 celebrating cultural diversity in independent filmmaking. Held October 14-16, 2005 at the Sheraton Buckhead Hotel, UMFF 20005 continues the Urban Mediamakers' goals of celebrating independent filmmaking, as well as all media that play an integral part of a film or video project - animation, film, music, print, television and video. UMFF 2005 brings a strong Atlanta vibe that encompasses the city's signature of being a 'melting pot' of cultures -- Blacks, Whites, Latinos, Asians, Indians, and Native Americans.

This year, we're focusing on Independent Film Financing and Distribution, and providing winners with tangible awards -- cash and prizes -- to continue their independent journeys.

To bring more of the general public to view independent media, we're offering all-day FREE independent film screenings on Saturday, October 15, 2005.

The UMFF 2005 features music video and film competitions (short- and feature-length, Writer's Row sponsored by ABC and The Walt Disney Studios, networking, workshops, independent filmmaking case studies of Hustle and Flow, Garden State, A Diary of a Mad Black Woman, and Big Ain't Bad independent films. The festival will provide workshops on Basic Film Financing and Selling Your Film: The Distribution Strategy.

FREE Information Seminars will feature Gorilla Software for independent filmmakers and FrameForge Software providing an excellent tool for storyboards.

Festival Passes

Full Festival Pass -- $65 General Admission and includes all festival events at the Sheraton Buckhead Hotel.

Full Student and Urban Mediamakers Members Festival Pass -- $45 Admission and includes all festival events at the Sheraton Buckhead Hotel.

Single Event tickets are available at each event.

Friday, October 14, 2005

UMFF Independent Music Video Competition and Networking Event
$20 per person, $10 for Urban Mediamaker members and students

Saturday, October 15, 2005

Workshop #1: Basic Film Financing -- $15 per person, $10 for students and Urban Mediamakers member

Workshop #2: Selling Your Film: The Distribution Strategy -- $15 per person, $10 for students and Urban Mediamakers member

Independent Film Case Studies -- $15 per person, $10 for students and Urban Mediamakers member

Indie Awards -- $20 per person

Sunday, October 16, 2005

UMFF Sunday Brunch -- $10 per person

Register online, in person, or using snail-mail. For more details, call 404.460.2793 or e-mail at umff2005@yahoo.com.

UMFF 2005 Presents Tyler Perry and Craig Brewer with the Ossie Davis Independent Filmmaker's Award

This year, the Urban Mediamakers are proud to honor Tyler Perry and Craig Brewer with the Ossie Davis Independent Filmmaker's Award during the Indie Awards celebration on Saturday, October 15, 2005 at the Sheraton Buckhead Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia. The Ossie Davis Independent Filmmakers Awards acknowledges an individual for their pioneering work as an independent filmmaker. With the success of Tyler Perry with A Diary of a Mad Black Woman, along with his theatrical plays, and Craig Brewer with Hustle and Flow, his first film that Hollywood, each exhibits the spirit of Ossie Davis -- producing film projects that are entertaining while at the same impacting society universally with a message that stands the test of time.