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[LISTEN] Arts on Fire – Paul Schermerhon Discusses Insomniac Film, Flash Fiction Contests

WRFA Radio — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 17:27:57 +0000

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Originally airing Friday, June 9, 2017.

WRFA public affairs director Jason Sample talks with Paul Schermerhorn and Lily Grice about the Insomniac Film Competition and Flash Fiction Contest, both of which are being sponsored by Chautauqua Tonight.

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[LISTEN] Arts on Fire – Insomniac Competitive Film Festival

WRFA Radio — Tue, 19 Aug 2014 20:59:18 +0000

Originally airing Friday, August 15, 2014. Don Hill, Barry Meyer and Eric Basile stop by the WRFA studio and talk with Jason Sample about the 2014 24-Hour Insomniac Competitive Film Festival, taking place the weekend of Aug. 22 through Aug. 24, with a screening to take place Sunday Aug. 24 at 2pm at the Willow Bay Theater in Jamestown, NY.

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Encore Presentation of Insomniac Halloween Film Fest is Wednesday Night

WRFA Radio — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 11:58:20 +0000

Image from The Last Halloween, one of the films being featured in the 2013 Insomniac Halloween Film Fest.

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Image from The Last Halloween, one of the films being featured in the 2013 Insomniac Halloween Film Fest.

JAMESTOWN – Insomniac Halloween Film Festival shorts will screen for the public Wednesday October 30 at 7pm at Reg Lenna Center For The Arts in Jamestown. Admission is free.

Six original shorts will be screened, all incorporating themes and characters relating to Halloween. The shorts were all produced in less than two weeks by local filmmakers – Gary Peters Jr., Eric Basile, Barry Meyer, Ian Eastman, Nigel Eastman, Lars Benson, David Kum and Joe Tanksley – the latter four, all students in the area.

Due to the graphic nature of some of the films it is recommended that children under the age of 13 should not attend or be accompanied by an adult.

The Insomniac Competitive Film Festival will return in the summer of 2014 and open to filmmakers throughout the area.

Reg Lenna Center For The Arts is located at 116 East Third Street in Jamestown.

JHS Student Receives Award from Regional Film Festival

WRFA Radio — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 13:50:59 +0000

Nigel Eastman, student filmmaker, accepts his laurels from Jeff Clark, the executive director of the Boonies International Film Festival.

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Nigel Eastman, student filmmaker, accepts his laurels from Jeff Clark, the executive director of the Boonies International Film Festival.

WARREN – A young filmmaker for the area has received a prestigious award from a regional film festival.

Jamestown High School Junior Nigel Eastman won the Best High School Film award at the 2013 Boonies International Film Festival in Warren, Pa. His short film, Jiffy, was screened at the Warren Public Library and the Struthers Library Theatre during the festival. He also participated in a question and answer session about the Insomniac Competitive Film Festival for which the short was originally created, and awarded, “best soundtrack.”

Eastman, who plans to major in film making in college, was previously awarded third place for his short, Common Sense, at the Western New York Media Art Show held at the University of Buffalo and attended the New York State Summer School for the Arts at SUNY Oswego. He attended Jamestown High School’s Videoworks program – a joint collaboration with Ed Tomassini and the Reg Lenna Center for the Arts – in his freshman and sophomore years.

MORNING NEWS: Return of Insomniac Reception is Tonight

WRFA Radio — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 12:06:02 +0000

JAMESTOWN – Fans of the cinema are invited to attend an opening reception tonight in Jamestown. The Return Of Insomniac (view Facebook page) is an exhibit taking place in the 3^rd on 3^rd Gallery in Jamestown, starting tonight and running through Nov. 9. An opening reception begins at 7 p.m. The shorts created for the Insomniac Competitive Festival will be screened along with student-created film projects from Falconer, Sherman and Jamestown Schools. The two rooms of the 3rd On 3rd Gallery will be transformed into mini-cinemas. The Return Of Insomniac features short films by Cody DeLong, Eric Basile, Barry Meyer, Don Hill and Paul Schermerhorn.