billsimmon.com » film & video http://billsimmon.com Vermont filmmaker, writer and media educator, Bill Simmon Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:03:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Award http://billsimmon.com/2007/10/16/award/ http://billsimmon.com/2007/10/16/award/#comments Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:43:04 +0000 billsimmon http://billsimmon.com/2007/10/16/award/ This past weekend my recent film about political blogger Steve Benen, Digital Pamphleteer, won the James Goldstone Award at the Vermont International Film Festival. The film is a short documentary about Steve and his blog and about political blogging, in general. The award, presented annually by the Vermont Film Commission to “an emerging Vermont filmmaker,” is named after the late Vermonter, James Goldstone, who directed the pilot episode of Star Trek back in 1966, among other things. I am very honored by the Commission’s recognition.

]]> http://billsimmon.com/2007/10/16/award/feed/ 3 Teaching at CCV this fall http://billsimmon.com/2007/08/13/teaching-at-ccv-this-fall/ http://billsimmon.com/2007/08/13/teaching-at-ccv-this-fall/#comments Mon, 13 Aug 2007 04:06:51 +0000 billsimmon http://billsimmon.com/2007/08/13/teaching-at-ccv-this-fall/ I’ve just been hired to teach an intro to film production class at the Community College of Vermont this fall.  The class will be on Thursday afternoons from 3-6 pm.  This will be a return to teaching after a few years break.  I’m looking forward to it.

]]> http://billsimmon.com/2007/08/13/teaching-at-ccv-this-fall/feed/ 1 Well what do you know… http://billsimmon.com/2007/07/14/well-what-do-you-know/ http://billsimmon.com/2007/07/14/well-what-do-you-know/#comments Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:07:49 +0000 billsimmon http://billsimmon.com/2007/07/14/well-what-do-you-know/ I’ve got an IMDb page. One of the actors in a film I made called The Perfect Goodnight Kiss is trying to up her own IMDb cred and so she added it, and as the writer/producer/co-director on the film, I now have a page too. Now I just need someone to make me a Wikipedia page and I’ll be famous!

“Things are going to start happening to me now!”
–Naven R. Johnson

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]]> http://billsimmon.com/2007/05/23/the-pants/feed/ 0 Feeling Minnesota http://billsimmon.com/2007/05/17/feeling-minnesota/ http://billsimmon.com/2007/05/17/feeling-minnesota/#comments Thu, 17 May 2007 01:33:05 +0000 billsimmon http://billsimmon.com/2007/05/17/feeling-minnesota/ I just got the go ahead today from the E.D. at VCAM. I will be attending the national Alliance for Community Media conference in Minneapolis in July. I believe that I will be participating in a panel discussion about videoblogging while there. The last national ACM conference I went to was in Tampa two years ago. They’re always in the summer so I’m glad it’s in a northern state this time. I’ve never been to Minneapolis but I hear it’s a nice city and I have a good friend who works for the University of Minnesota, so I’m hoping I’ll get to see her while I’m there. w00t!

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