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NY LifeRaft Notice - Overcoming Career Sabotage Panel Event

Are your fears getting in the way of your auditions?  Is it difficult to find the time to work on your acting career?  Join the SAG Foundation on Wednesday, April 4th for LifeRaft Event "Overcoming Career Sabotage" and learn how to stay at the top of your game by recognizing the mental traps that challenge your focus and waver your confidence.

The panel will be led by Michelle and Robert Colt of Acting Success Now with special guests including Casting Director Brette Goldstein, Casting Director David Cady, Actor and Acting Teaching Harry O'Reilly, Author Brian O'Neil and Paul Michael, Owner of The Network.

Date:  Thursday, April 4th
Time:  7:00 - 9:00 pm
Location:
Screen Actors Guild
360 Madison Avenue.

Seating is limited.  RSVP Required.  Union members (SAG/AFTRA/Equity) can register to attend and bring a guest HERE. This is a no-cost event.

Funded by grants and donations, the non-profit Screen Actors Guild Foundation’s free programs assist, educate and inspire actors toward their fullest potential in career, life and community. Celebrate the actor – support the SAG Foundation!  www.sagfoundation.org

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NY Conversations Screening of DETACHMENT + Q&A with Academy Award Winner Adrien Brody - RSVP Today!

Join the Screen Actors Guild Foundation for a New York Conversations Screening of DETACHMENT followed by a moderated question and answer session with Adrien Brody on Thursday, March 15th.

Director Tony Kaye's (AMERICAN HISTORY X) long-awaited film DETACHMENT stars Academy Award® winner Adrien Brody as Henry Barthes, a substitute teacher who conveniently avoids any emotional connections by never staying anywhere long enough to form a bond with either his students or colleagues. A lost soul grappling with a troubled past, Henry finds himself at a public school where an apathetic student body has created a frustrated, burned-out administration. Inadvertently becoming a role model to his students, while also bonding with a runaway teen who is just as lost as he is, Henry finds that he's not alone in a life and death struggle to find beauty in a seemingly vicious and loveless world.

Kaye has molded a contemporary vision of people who become increasingly distant from others while still feeling the need to connect. DETACHMENT features a stellar ensemble cast, including Academy Award® winner Marcia Gay Harden, Christina Hendricks, William Petersen, Bryan Cranston, Tim Blake Nelson, Lucy Liu, Blythe Danner, James Caan, and newcomers Sami Gayle and Betty Kaye.

This event will be moderated by David Fear, Film Editor, Time Out New York

SAG Foundation Voice-Over Summit 2012 - Registration Open to Union & Non-Union!

The 2012 SAG Foundation Voice-Over Summit benefiting the Don LaFontaine Voice-Over Lab is set to launch on February 21st and features a series of exclusive discussions on the Art and Future of Voice-Overs.  The series will take place in the SAG Foundation's Actors Center in Los Angeles and boasts participation from top leaders in the voice-over field. 

Staying true to the SAG Foundation mission, this series offers an opportunity to educate and inspire actors with special access to professionals in the Voice-Over community and related fields.  Proceeds from the 2012 Voice-Over Summit will benefit the Don LaFontaine Voice-Over Lab in Los Angeles and help it continue to be a ground-breaking technological and educational facility.

Charity Auction Gets Romantic with 1920s Items from Midnight in Paris

Fellow Lost Generation romantics, get ready to bid in style.  The SAG Awards Auction—benefiting the non-profit Screen Actors Guild Foundation— just added three packages with high-falutin' 1920s props from Woody Allen's celebrated film, Midnight In Paris.  Pour a Tom Collins, picture F. Scott Fitzgerald on your right and Pablo Picasso on your left, and transport yourself to the City of Light with...

SAG Foundation, FIND, IFP & NYIT AOB Partner for 2012 NY Film Independent Spirit Awards Screenings!

The SAG Foundation together with Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Los Angeles Film Festival and the Spirit Awards, today announced an expanded partnership for the 2012 Film Independent Spirit Awards Screening Series in association with Independent Filmmaker Project, and the NYIT Auditorium on Broadway. Under this agreement, the four organizations will come together to host the 2012 New York theatrical screenings of Film Independent Spirit Award-nominated films. 

The exclusive, members-only theatrical screening series will be held at the NYIT Auditorium on Broadway, an event space at New York Institute of Technology, in New York City from January 9 to February 10. This marks the 25th consecutive year that IFP members have voted to help determine the winners of the Spirit Awards and the third consecutive year the SAG Foundation has teamed up with Film Independent. 

“We are thrilled to be working with these incredible organizations in support of the Spirit Awards,” said Jill Seltzer, Executive Director, SAG Foundation. “This partnership maintains the Foundation’s commitment to actors, and celebrates this year’s achievements in independent film.” This expands on the existing relationship between Film Independent and the SAG Foundation, which previously centered around the SAG Foundation’s Actors Center hosting press screenings for the Los Angeles Film Festival.

SAG Foundation Congratulates 2011 SAG Award Nominees

The SAG Foundation congratulates SAG Award nominees for 2011, with special thanks going to those actors who have generously participated in the Foundation’s national speaker series Conversations over the past year.

Featured guests include such current SAG Award nominees as the cast of The Help (including individual nominees Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer), The Artist (including individual nominees Jean Dujardin), the cast of The Descendants, the cast of the cast of Boardwalk Empire, the cast of Glee, the cast of Modern Family (including individual nominees Julie Bowen and Eric Stonestreet), A Better Life’s Demián Bichir, My Week with Marilyn’s Kenneth Branagh, Warrior’s Nick Nolte, The Closer’s Kyra Sedgwick, and Suits’ Patrick J. Adams.

Inviting well-known, working actors to share their experiences with audiences of their peers, Conversations has an impressive track record of drawing guests who have enjoyed subsequent award recognition, in nominations as well as wins. Past seasons have included the casts of Glee, Breaking Bad, Dexter, House, Weeds, Lost, The Office and many more.

We wish the best to all of this year’s nominated actors, and look forward to events with many more!

Funded by grants and donations, the non-profit Screen Actors Guild Foundation’s free programs assist, educate and inspire actors toward their fullest potential in career, life and community. Celebrate the actor – support the SAG Foundation!  www.sagfoundation.org

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NY Conversations Event with Steve Guttenberg - Registration Open!

Come see Steve Guttenberg, star of dozens of blockbuster films, in a two-hour, career-focused Conversations Event at the NYIT Auditorium on Broadway in NYC. 

This star of over 50 films (including four successful series: “Police Academy,” “Three Men and a Baby,” “Short Circuit” and Ron Howard’s “Cocoon” and their sequels) is sure to provide insight into what it takes to be an actor in the biz. The event will occur this coming Monday, December 19th at 7:00pm. 

SAG Foundation Announces Los Angeles Events

The SAG Foundation Conversations program has teamed up with a slew of talented individuals to bring you both screenings and Q&A's all open to BackStage Readers (RSVP info at bottom)!

From a Father-Daughter (Jeremy Sisto & Jane Levy)  comedy to a connection between church-goer and drunkard (Olivia Colman & Peter Mullan), the films being screened in thsi series offer insight to all types of actors. Make sure to RSVP soon as seats fill quickly.

SAG Foundation: Screening of FLY AWAY followed by Q&A

The SAG Foundation proudly presents: FLY AWAY Screening followed by a Q&A with Writer/Director Janet Grillo and cast members JR Bourne & Reno! This Mother-daughter story is one you won't want to miss (and open to BackStage readers as well as union members!!).

Date: Wednesday, November 16

Time: 7:00pm (Check-in 6:15)

Location: 
NYIT Auditorium on Broadway
1871 Broadway (Between 61st and 62nd Streets)
New York City
www.nyit.edu/aob

Post "True Blood" Q&A with Janina Gavankar

Video: Back Stage at the SAG Foundation Presents--Janina Gavankar, Star currently on HBO's hit show "True Blood."

 

Moderated by: Zino Macaluso

She will be sharing her tips regarding how young Hollywood is using and can best use social media.

Already a favorite of the devoted fans of her two earlier series, The L Word and The Gates, Janina now plays Luna on True Blood. She is a shape-shifter, which pretty much describes Janina in her real life.

In addition to her starring roles in three series, the three-quarters Indian, one-quarter Dutch beauty has appeared in Stargate Atlantis, Grey's Anatomy, The Cleaner, Dollhouse, NCIS  and Three Rivers.

But there’s also Janina the Geek, who not only writes program code for friends, but who was also the first celebrity to sign up with Twitter. She is so technologically creative that she is regularly asked to be on panels at conferences educating the entertainment industry on the practical application of multiple new digital platforms. Follow her on twitter @Janina.

Event Type: Conversations
Title: True Blood
Date: Tuesday, October 11th 2011
Time: 7pm
Location:  SAG Foundation Actors Center
                        5757 Wilshire Blvd, Mezzanine
                        Los Angeles

Like what you see?  Additional videos from the SAG Foundation available here!

Funded by grants and donations, the non-profit Screen Actors Guild Foundation’s free programs assist, educate and inspire actors toward their fullest potential in career, life and community. Celebrate the actor – support the SAG Foundation!  www.sagfoundation.org

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