For Release: 2009-07-20 11:20:00
The new KET series Reel Visions: Spotlight on Kentucky Filmmakers offers Kentuckians the chance to display their filmmaking talents. Each half-hour program features several short films produced, directed, written or edited by Kentucky filmmakers. Reel Visions airs Mondays, beginning Aug. 3 at midnight/11 p.m. CT on KET KY and Sundays, beginning Aug. 9 at 1 a.m./midnight CT on KET1.Films airing on Reel Visions in August include Bill Santen's "Portrait Studies," an innovative approach to storytelling based on life in rural Bourbon County, and "Fast Love," in which filmmaker Josh Flowers visits fast food drive-thrus to pose an important question to complete strangers. Also, a man experiences a "dark night of the soul" and comes face-to-face with his demons in Bently Tittle's "Brand New You," and Appalachian native Bruce Parsons turns the lens on his own family in a heartbreaking mini-documentary titled "I Know You."
KET is currently accepting submissions for the next series of Reel Visions programs. Those wishing to participate should send their art films, experimental films, documentaries, narrative films, animations or student films, along with contact information, to Reel Visions, KET, 600 Cooper Drive, Lexington, Ky., 40502. The deadline for submissions is Oct. 1, 2009. Short films must not exceed 27 minutes in length, and acceptable formats include DVCAM, DV, Mini DV, DVC PRO or DVD.
Reel Visions: Spotlight on Kentucky Filmmakers is a KET production, produced by Kelli Burton. Nancy Carpenter is executive producer. More information about KET programming and education services, as well as how to support KET, can be found at www.ket.org.
Contact: Amanda Stroud
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