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Meet the Filmmaker: Noah Mittman, “T.I.T. JAM 2014”

“T.I.T. JAM 2014”

www.SnowmanFilms.net

Q: Why did you become a filmmaker?

NM: When I moved to Denver in 2007 and starting training parkour, filming came hand in hand with the training.  I made fun videos with my friends showing our flips and antics as we explored Denver through the years.  This allowed me to experiment a lot and find my style with filmmaking in a fun and creatively free environment.  Fast forward to present day and I am making a living as a filmmaker full time and still trying to uphold the spirit of experimentation and fun through my personal projects and as much of my client work as possible.  One of my favorite quotes that embodies my attitude towards filmmaking is, “You don’t stop playing because you grow old, you grow old because you stop playing.”

Q: What are we going to see at the EFP? Has it screened elsewhere and what are your plans for it?

NM: We are watching the 2014 event video from a parkour event in Colorado Springs that happens every summer.  Its called T.I.T. JAM.   T.I.T. Jam is a week long fundraising campaign to raise money and awareness for Breast Cancer. Tranquil Movement (my parkour team), National Breast Cancer Foundation and parkour practitioners from all over the globe join forces every July to perform, climb and flip their way to a cure.  Whether you are a practitioner, business owner or simply want to show support, there are plenty of venues for all to enjoy.

Here are some numbers for the 2014 event:
Number Of Athletes: 120
Back Flips For Bucks: $1,650
Online Donations: $710
Merchandise Sales: $180
Revenue From Venues: $1,470
Total Donation: $4,010

Here is more info on the other years and the other year’s videos, click the “Previous Jams” tab on the page:
http://www.tranquilmovement.com/tit-jam.html

I plan on filming at this years event, July 23-August 1.  Will be filming a web series this year for the event, lots of planning to do still.  Looking forward to another great year with friends, over 100 international world class athletes, and raising money for breast cancer!

Q: What else are you working on?

NM: Currently myself and a business partner are working on releasing a few online video tutorial courses made for beginners to learn fun fitness through Ninja Warrior obstacles and parkour.  That’s all I can say at the moment as its still in development, writing this on May 2nd.  Keep an eye out for Ninja Warrior From Scratch coming May 20th!  Very excited for this project.

Q: Tell us one weird thing about you and/or your movies?

NM: My brain works in images and ideas more than characters and stories.  I guess my personal style fits into the experimental genre and I’m excited to weave these ideas into longer, broader projects in the future.

Q: Where can people go to find out more about you and your work?

NM: To find out more and attend T.I.T. JAM 2016: http://www.tranquilmovement.com/tit-jam.html
Get immersed in the parkour culture and hear from a bunch of experts giving TED Talk style lectures!

Snowman Films:
www.SnowmanFilms.net
FB: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialSnowmanFilms/
Instagram: @snowmanfilms for lots of bts photos and video
Snapchat: @noahmittman for daily happenings

Q: Is there anything you’d like to say about The Emerging Filmmakers Project?

NM: Friggin love you guys. Group hug!

“T.I.T. JAM 2014” will be screening at the May 2016 Emerging Filmmaker’s Project at the Bug Theatre.

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Meet the Filmmaker: Noah Mittman, “Taming Dragons”

Taming Dragons | www.snowmanfilms.net

Q: Why did you become a filmmaker?
NM: I became a filmmaker because expressing my view of the world visually makes me happier than anything else on this planet. If I have a camera in my hand its rare to see me without a smile.

Q: What are we going to see at the EFP? Has it screened elsewhere and what are your plans for it?
NM: We are going to see Taming Dragons, my personal favorite of my recent work. It has screened at Open Screen Night at the Oriental Theater and at Galaxy Fest in Colorado Springs. I plan on submitting it to as many film festivals as possible in 2015 and see where it takes me.

Q: What else are you working on?
NM: Currently I’m working on a lot of client projects, just came out with a brand video for Erico Motorsports, a downtown Denver motorcycle shop. Also keep an eye out for the Brave American Hero clothing commercial. Its going to be an action sports montage featuring a talented collection of sponsored athletes including myself doing some parkour action.

Q: Tell us one weird thing about you and/or your movies?
NM: With the risk of sounding Michael Bay-ey, I heart slow motion. I think it adds a massive cinematic element when used correctly. You will see its use heavily in Taming Dragons.

Q: Where can people go to find out more about you and your work?
NM: www.snowmanfilms.net

Also I’m active on Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, and Vimeo. Here’s a bunch of links:
Vimeo.com/SnowmanFilms
Facebook.com/NoahJumps
Facebook.com/OfficialSnowmanFilms
Instagram.com/Noah_Mittman
Instagram.com/SnowmanFilms
YouTube.com/TheSnowmanFilms
Twitter.com/Noah_Mittman

Q: Is there anything you’d like to say about The Emerging Filmmakers Project?
NM: As always you guys bring the Colorado film community together and let us party and watch stuff like we love to do. Keep up the hard work, keep showing great films, and thanks again for showing Taming Dragons!

Taming Dragons will screen March 19th at The Emerging Filmmakers Project.

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January 2015 Lineup: EFPalooza Film Festival!

The 2015 EFPalooza is a three-day film festival celebrating local independent film as The Emerging Filmmakers Project draws close to screening it’s 100BEST-OF-EFP (1)0th film since it began in 2002. The event will showcase the work of more than 40 local filmmakers, featuring favorites from the last 12 years as well as several EFP premieres.

Filmmakers will be in attendance to take part in a spirited ‘talkback’ with the audience. Hosted by The Emerging Filmmaker’s Project and The Bug Theatre, all proceeds from the event will go towards a great cause – improving the Bug Theatre, an incredible venue and a staple of the Denver independent film community.

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The line up for the 2015 EFPalooza Film Festival includes the following movies:

Thursday – 8:00pm – January 2015 Emerging Filmmakers Project

Trailers for EFPalooza 2015 (04:00)
Being Evel (preview) – Daniel Junge (04:00)
Beyond the Brick: A LEGO Brickumentary (trailer) – Daniel Junge (01:20)
She Dances Free Volume 1 – Jeremiah Zentz (03:41)
A Union Station Symphony – Johnny Morehouse (03:21)
A Game of Numbers – Michael T. Scott (03:24)
Blood – Peter Wigand (11:00)

[intermission]

Monkey – Richard Corso (29:44)

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Friday – 7:00pm – Friday Night Shorts!

The Denver Actor Project – Brad Stabio (23:49)
Square – Lauryn Guerrieri and Ian Kellett (03:26)
Metamorphosis – Alan Wartes (03:21)
Man Gurgles Mouthwash (and Then Dies) – Leon Welling (1:52)

[intermission]

Faith – Lewis Leslie (02:52)
Cannot Be Defied – John McSween (07:59)
Dink – Jamey Hastings (25:09)

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Friday – 9:00pm – Comedy Block!

Jean Claude Van Damme’s Damn Van (trailer) – Bradley Haag (01:29)
Campus Cops – Alex Brisson (08:16)
Middle Age Women Gone Wild – Nancy Fingerhood (5:45)
Don’t Help Me, Help the Bear – Noah Mittman (05:02)
Social Assassin – Michael T. Scott (04:31)
Guns, Drugs, and Synergy – Matty O’Connor (13:00)
Pitch Perfect 237 – Cook St. Productions (06:47)

[intermission]

A Special Presentation by The Nix Bros

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Saturday – 3:00pm – EFP Premieres!

Endless Taiga – Jose-Luis Fernando Rodriguez (22:38)
Interrogation Room 4 – Bree Katz (03:00)
Family Valued – Nathan Westlake (09:44)
Unredeemable – Luke Ostermiller (12:04)
The Silver Moonlight – Evgueni Mlodik (44:21)

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Saturday 5:00pm – Blast from the EFP Past!

Clark’s Edible Cupcake Liners – Wendy Duncan (02:00)
The Low Road, Baby – Mark Roeder (04:00)
SwannLove – Condom Style Denver – Swann Christopher (04:33)
Motorcycles & Mayhem – Sean J.S. Jourdan (09:47)
The Other Raul – Raoul Vehill (10:22)
The Man Who Could – Drai Lloyd (03:24)
String Theory – Sophia Rose, Adrianna Veal and David Quakenbush (03:30)

[intermission]

Web of Lies – Kathryn Gould and Nelson Goforth (10:12)
Memphis Psychosis – Kris Hipps (11:00)
Mom Says – Christine McQuillen (09:00)
Breach – Eileen Agosta (04:59)
Aquaphobia – David Quakenbush (03:12)
Served – Patrick Sheridan (04:09)

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Saturday – 7:00pm – Saturday Evening Shorts!

So Dark the Sky – Kendra Fleischman (03:04)
Eggshells – Eileen Agosta (11:37)
Owen – Jon Berndt and Fanci Berndt (06:21)
The Wolves – Kate Lowell (12:30)

[intermission]

Cockroach – Brian McCulley and John Crockett (00:47)
Paper
– Rich Weimer (01:33)
The Character – Michael Bilker (05:05)
Traveler – Ron Hurley (32:57)

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Saturday – 9:00pm – Closing Night Shorts!

Read Between the Signs – Clayton Garthe (04:36)
Angels of Anbar – Elvis Leon (05:59)
Juice – “Monster” Midian Crosby (04:36)
Mirror, Mirror – Patrick Sheridan (04:35)
Automaton – David Quakenbush (23:00)

[intermission]

Jean Claude Van Damme’s Damn Van – Bradley Haag (40:00)

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Lineup subject to change!

EFPalooza 2015 takes place January 15th, 16th, and 17th at The Bug Theatre (3654 Navajo Street, Denver, CO 80232), with screenings at 8:00 p.m. on January 15th, at 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. on January 16th, and at 3:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m., 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. on January 17th.  Tickets are $5 a block or $10 a day, or a full festival pass can be purchased for $15, and are available online or at the door. To learn more visit the EFP website at www.efpdenver.com and The Bug Theatre’s website at www.bugtheatre.org.

The Bug Theatre and EFPalooza 2015 are supported by the Scientific & Cultural Facilities District, The Scen3, Patsy’s Inn Italian Restaurant, Pretty Monkeys Media, FreshFilmNews.com, Plan 9 Studios, Twelve Monkeys Dancing Films, Nebulus Visions Multimedia, Monster Makeup FX, Rocket House, LLC Film Acting Academy of Denver, and cool cats everywhere.

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Meet the Filmmaker: Noah Mittman, “Don’t Help Me, Help the Bear”

Don’t Help Me, Help the Bear | Facebook.com/OfficialSnowmanFilms

Meet Noah Mittman.  Noah is a local filmmaker who last screened at The Emerging Filmmakers Project in August, where he showed Your Own Medicine – Behind The Scenes, a piece documenting the creation of the Your Own Medicine – One Man Show music video.  Eileen spoke with him in advance of his next screening at the October EFP, where he’ll be showing a music video called Don’t Help Me, Help the Bear.

EA: Why did you become a filmmaker?

NM: I have been in love with films since I can remember. Going to the movies was always a treat for me as a child and I didn’t have a tv growing up so every time I got in front of a screen I was glued. I remember seeing my first behind the scenes featurette with a helicopter dropping off the side of a building and I thought, this is what I want to do with my life. I got my first mini dv camcorder junior year of high school and now here I am. I feel very blessed to be able to call this my profession.

EA: What are we going to see at the EFP? Has it screened elsewhere and what are your plans for it?

NM: I am showing “Don’t Help Me, Help The Bear”. Its a ridiculous and funny music video I was hired to make for the band Kitty Tooth Salad. A man fights a bear in the woods, enough said haha. It has screened at Open Screen Night and The Indie Film Underground V Festival. I would like to submit it to other festivals and see where it goes from there.

EA: What else are you working on?

NM: I am currently working on a clothing/action sports commercial for Brave American Hero, I just finished my newest parkour film entitled Never Broken, a few stunt projects with my talented team Punch Drunk Action Services, and lots of content for the new parkour/circus/stunt/dance gym I am a part of, Urban Acrobatics.

EA: Tell us one weird thing about you and/or your movies?

NM: In the spirit of the halloween EFP, I am terrified of snakes. Probably shouldn’t keep telling people that.

EA: Where can people go to find out more about you and your work?

NM: I am very active on Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, and Vimeo. Facebook.com/OfficialSnowmanFilms Instagram: @noah_mittman Youtube.com/TheSnowmanFilms Vimeo.com/SnowmanFilms

EA: Is there anything you’d like to say about The Emerging Filmmakers Project?

NM: I love EFP. You guys allow the talent in Colorado to have a place to show our work and that is invaluable. The Q&A after connects us filmmakers with our audience and that is a needed gift of feedback so we can better ourselves. Its always a fun night with lots of laughs, not to mention free beer(well done).

Don’t Help Me, Help The Bear will screen October 17th at The Emerging Filmmakers Project.

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October 17th, 2013 Lineup

October 17th, 2013 at 8:00 p.m. $5

In celebration of the Halloween season, The Emerging Filmmakers Project (EFP) presents a night of scary short movies and trailers!

Parody Rises (trailer) – Alexander Rhodes-Wilmere (2:02)
Divine Intervention (trailer) – Colin Floom (2:26)
Mythica Teaser – Ed Vorhees (1:50)
The Locals – AEC (5:38)

Petrified – John Hartman (11:00)
Reel Nerds Podshow S:1 Ep. 2 “Extra-terror-estrial” Bradley Haag (8:48)
Mirror, Mirror – Patrick Sheridan (4:35)

Don’t Help Me, Help the Bear – Noah Mittman (05:02)
A private screening by John McSween

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August 15th, 2013 Lineup

August 15th, 2013 at 8:00 p.m. $5

A Sneak Peek at Colorado Independent Women of Film
Independence Day (trailer) (2:00) – Margaret Norwood
Mom Says (Part One) (2:00) – Christine McQuillen
Sarah and the Meanies Red Rocks Ampitheatre 2013 (3:00) – Drai Lloyd
Trauma (preview) (1:00) – Eileen Agosta
Memphis Psychosis (11:00) – Kris Hipps

EFP Program One
Your Own Medicine – Behind The Scenes (11:00) by Noah Rowland Mittman
Your Own Medicine – One Man Show (music video) (4:56) by Eyal Fill Filkovsky

EFP Program Two
Reign of the Vampire (teaser) (3:55) – Jimmy Lee Combs
The Good Neighbor (19:45) – Ted Cox (with Heath Heine)

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July 18th, 2013 Lineup

July 18th, 2013 at 8:00 p.m. $5

Amazing Grace (music video) (3:45) by Davon Johnson
and Peace 2 U (music video) (6:53) by Davon Johnson
Trash Can Warrior (5:30) by John Hartman
Doors (4:48) by David Quakenbush
Denver Street Eats (10:00) by Josh Kyle
The Beauty of Details (5:34) by Jonathan Fulton
Your Own Medicine – Behind The Scenes (11:00) by Noah Mittman
Your Own Medicine – One Man Show (music video) (4:56) by Eyal Fill Filkovsky

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