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My Letter to Mayor Martin J. Chávez - City of Albuquerque

2008-08-26T07:02:00.000-07:00

Hi Mayor
My name is Michael Palombo
I'm am mailing you on this personal note, I feel I know you a little bit, after standing next to you
on stage, as Will Hartman received his award, for wining the Duke City Shoot Out this year.
It was strange for me to be up there. My life has not been a typical one, the odds have been extreme
for me. I moved here from Louisiana with my mom and step dad, almost 30 years ago. My step dad was not a good guy and he brought us here as fugitives.
growing up in New Mexico was tuff as an outsider. to say the least, I got in some trouble when I was young
but it's in my past. I've moved on to become a good father and a good person, with the help of family, friends, and fans
I've survived as a Water Color Artist and Glass Blower for the last ten years. see my work here at http://abqartreview.com/palombo/
In the desire to take my art to the next level from photo to video, I have become an aspiring filmmaker, and started my own
production company MELON MOUNTAIN/melonmountain.com. This has also prompted me to become Internet savvy with online video distribution
and get involved with distribution networks, and also become a hub for video distribution with my website BIG WINDOW VIDEO a sister
site, you have heard of The filmmakers Channel; see our press release article in the Alibi. Where we offer
you, your own streaming video channel, with no buffer, full screen for free and for just 12$ a mouth you can have pay pal pay/per/view function.
what this means to a Indy filmmaker is no more pushing DVD’s from the trunk of their car, no more spending money putting gas in the car, no more driving to
the post office and spending more money to ship it. and the end user has to wait for it, not anymore! in fact a filmmaker can better market himself online
and reach his audience direct and a bigger audience at one time. all this has pushed me to start a campaign on Green video distribution, no more DVD's
in the landfills of New Mexico, or anywhere.
Personal online video libraries and video sharing is the future,
Video search is now part of the main search results on all major search engines.
Consumers search for real estate, restaurants, destinations, events, and products based on video availability.
Imagine a site without color pictures today…impossible.
Soon, that same standard will hold true for video.
I want help New Mexico lead the way, in the way video is distributed and in the way New Mexico is viewed via the Internet
our businesses can have low quality video production and distribution/broadcasting, or we can have high quality for our
video business directories and our personal website videos, and most of all, our Indy filmmakers, while we are doing all this! we are promoting a greener New Mexico, wow that was a long introduction, I really wanted to just say thanks for everything
your doing, and let you know I’m doing something I think will make
for a greener world. Thanks again Michael

TWO TIME WINNER OF THE DUKE CITY SHOOT OUT

2008-08-08T07:34:00.000-07:00

Triumph of The Will

Will Hartman became the first two-time winner in Shootout history Saturday when his zombie comedy "Food For Thought" took the Palm de Grease for Best Picture at the ninth annual event. Hartman won the Palm last year for "Easy Pickins." His lead in the film, Elaine Hendrix, also won Best Actress.

Albuquerque writer Christopher Boone won the Audience Award for his comedy, "Preschool's A Bitch," starring Vic Browder and Julia Thudium.

The entire list of award winners and the films will be posted online Sunday.

Saturday'a Gala Premiere was highlighted by an appearance by Bryan Cranston, the lead in AMC's hit TV series "Breaking Bad." Cranston welcomed the crowd, and co-stars Dean Norris and Aaron Paul later gave out awards. Another co-star, Steven Quezada, emceed the event.

Palm de Grease "Food For Thought" -- Will Hartman

Audience Award -- "Preschool's A Bitch -- Christopher Boone

Best Actress -- Elaine Hendrix -- "Food For Thought"

Best Actor -- VIctor Izay -- "Assassin Emeritus"

Best Cinematography -- Aaron Lieber -- "The Baker's Road Killing"

Best Editor -- Cyndi Trissel -- "Preschool's A Bitch"

Best Art Direction -- Ned Lathrop -- "Mantrap"

Best Soundtrack -- , -- "Preschool's A Bitch"

Bohica -- "Mantrap"

Volunteer of the Year -- Paul Gallegos
WATCH DUKE CITY FILMS HERE AND VOTE

WINNERS DUKE CITY SHOOT OUT

2008-08-03T20:15:00.000-07:00

I'm proud to announce the Winners of the DUKE CITY SHOOT OUT
seeing that I was on the winning team FOOD FOR THOUGHT look for it on IMDB
here or some photos I took of the start and finish.

NEW MEXICO 48 HOUR FILM COMPETITION 2008

2008-07-25T11:39:00.000-07:00

See our film for the 48 hour film competition
Breaking In, by Key Vision Voice
Thanks to the sponsorship of the Duke City Shootout, this is a FREE screening.
http://www.keyvisionmedia.com/breakingin.htm
To find out who the award winners are, plan on attending the:

BEST OF NEW MEXICO 48HFP
SCREENING AND AWARDS CEREMONY
Friday, August 1, 8 p.m.
Grand Ballroom at the Hyatt Regency Hotel
330 Tijeras NW

Thanks to the sponsorship of the Duke City Shootout, this is a FREE screening.

Here are the Best Films of New Mexico 2008

All the Right Tools, Heuvos en Fuego
An Easter Story, Los Chupacabros
Basket Case, Lost Film
Breaking In, Key Vision Voice
Down the Road, Heatstroke Productions
Home, Worldwide Strikeforce Films
Homeland, Ultimatim
Las Vegas New Mexico 1875, ARK Film Productions, LLC
Spared, Fireborn Films
Tinkerin', The In-famous El Guapo
Water Torture, Make Film, Chop Wood

Please forward this email to your team members so that they can come out and see
this year's "Best of New Mexico" 48HFP. Plus, don't forget to invite your
family, colleagues and friends to attend the screening.

JUDGES AWARDS
After the screening, the judges' work begins. A panel of 3 distinguished judges
has been selected.

They are:

Tracy Mercer, Vice President of Development for Morgan Freeman's Revelations
Entertainment
Jon Bowman, Executive Director, Santa Fe Film Festival
Jerry Barron, Mission Control, Inc.

The judges will select the Best New Mexico Film of 2008, as well as awards for
Best Directing, Best Script, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Acting,
Best Music, Best Sound Design, Best Effects, Best Use of Genre, Best Use of
Character, Best Use of Prop, and Best Use of Line. The judging criteria are
listed here <http://www.48hourfilm.com/filmmakers/judging.php> .

The New Mexico winning 2008 film will go on to compete against films from 69
other cities across the world for the best film of 2008. Last year the New
Mexico winning team, Trifecta Plus, came in 3rd in the world and screened at the
Cannes Film Festival.

VIDEO GALLERY

2008-07-03T11:19:00.000-07:00

MICHAEL PALOMBO

Michael Palombo-Artest, business owner, producer Actor , and Filmmaker

Michael Palombo Started his carrier with visual arts in 1995,
getting his degree in advertising art, from The Art Center of Albuquerque. After working in that field. Michael soon realized, there was no glory in letting other people/corporation take all the glory,

So Michael launched into visual arts with watercolor paintings,
And glass blowing. gaining local notoriety with the cover of The Range Cafe's menu, hanging is works at the Range for a number of years. some of is art as sold for thousands of dollars.

His art has allowed him to be successfully
self employed for the last 8 years, as a glass blower, and water color artist. You can see his works, on his gallery site. http://www.freewebs.com/glassforever/
Michael has evolved is art into the world of film and video,
With the start of a small production company in the July 2007, Melon Mountain Productions. Where Michael has produced a handful of short videos, With the help of his partner Rob Ellis.
And has been involved in a number of outside productions
Including, 2007 Duke City Shoot Out.

Michael has recently teamed up with Thefilmmakerschannel.com
And has built a sister site big-window-video.com.
These are deferent videos I've help produce

MORE VIDEOS
http://www.youtube.com/user/kelseyannemusic
http://www.youtube.com/user/conceptotambor
http://www.youtube.com/user/beadmanglass
http://www.youtube.com/user/michaelfilmmaker

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My Letter to Mayor Martin J. Chávez - City of Albuquerque

TWO TIME WINNER OF THE DUKE CITY SHOOT OUT

WINNERS DUKE CITY SHOOT OUT

NEW MEXICO 48 HOUR FILM COMPETITION 2008

VIDEO GALLERY