http://mattcampagna.com Matt Campagna: Mercenary Media Visionary Sun, 08 Aug 2010 20:00:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My on-going VideoBlog, as much for me as it is for everyone else... I'm aiming for bi-daily updates, as they come, and I'll be as forthcoming as possible. Some networks and deals are best not spoken about directly until the ink is dry, if you know what I mean, but ... http://mattcampagna.com/?p=16 WINNER: Vistek Best Feature MIFF2010: Beast of Bottomless Lake Photo Courtesty of AnnieGmovies.com   The Examiner was on-hand at MIFF2010 and rocked a great article about the indie films and stars that were showcased at the festival: "Harrelson says “independent filmmaking helps characterize cultures by relaying different ... http://mattcampagna.com/?p=35 MIFF's VIP Gala is always one of MIssissauga's biggest nights for Glitz and Glam, and so the Mississauga News found its way onto the Red Carpet to snap some paparazzi shots of a few of the people behind MIFF2010. Here's an excerpt: "Mississauga actor Austin MacDonald and Toronto singer Hilary Weaver ... http://mattcampagna.com/?p=34 Irene Kuan and Will Lam from CheapDateIdeas.ca made it out to the MIFF2010 Gala and it turns out, along with being filmmaker-friendly, MIFF is also date-friendly. Here's an excerpt: MIFF, the Mississauga Independent Film Festival is in full swing for 2010, running from July 7th to July 11th. From drama to ... http://mattcampagna.com/?p=33  My brother and I were profiled on BlogTO.com as Toronto filmmakers worth paying some measure of attention to... in fact we were compared to the Coen Brothers. Now THAT puts more than a little bit of pressure on the Campagna Brothers to represent Canada!  Here's an excerpt  --  You guys really seem ... http://mattcampagna.com/?p=32 Following in the footsteps of YourGREEKNews, another web series I direct (and this time co-host) is making the jump from the web to TV. Which is NOT to say that YourGeekNews.com will have any less content on it -- on the contrary, once the TV version hits its full stride, ... http://mattcampagna.com/?p=31 When Mark McAllister from Global News called me up asking for my opinion on Avatar's trampling at the 2010 Oscars, Jeff and I were more than happy to give our two cents along with some fun film pundits like Cameron Bailey from the Toronto International Film Festival. ~M@ http://mattcampagna.com/?p=30 The-Questionaire.com is a really funky website that interviews celebrities like Henry Rollins, Veronica Belmont and Amanda Congdon to get some off the cuff and casual straight talk from some absolutely fascinating people, so when staff writer Dotan Schachter got a hold of me a few weeks ago to answer 20 ... http://mattcampagna.com/?p=29 I find it pretty amazing that small business owners that know about Twitter don’t know how to use it to help make a difference in their business.  Or don’t know that it can. Citibank just got the results back from a study they commissioned where nearly two thirds of the people they ... http://mattcampagna.com/?p=28 Humility is something that not everyone in the entertainment industry keeps an eye on, and while I was chatting with a journalist friend of mine last night, she mentioned that she thought I had done a good job staying gounded. That was news to me, but it made me think ... http://mattcampagna.com/?p=27