NEW YORK-(16 August 2003) Workhouse Publicity invites you to join us for the first annual Home Movie Day designed to celebrate America’s home movies. Whether it’s on 8, Super8 or 16 millimeter, Home Movie Day honors the celluloid movies of your community. The founders of Home Movie Day know that the amateur film heritage of your neighborhood, city and sate is a rich one and their goal is to project those films on the big screen for all to see.

What Can I Do? Where?
It’s simple: rifle through your attics, dig through your closets, call up Grandma, and dust off your family’s home movies. Next, contact your regional representative listed below, and bring an 8mm, Super8mm, or 16mm home movie to the nearest HOME MOVIE DAY event on 8/16 to see your life’s work projected. Will you bring “Christmas 1979?” Footage from your hometown July 4th parade? An animal sequel to the Indiana Jones dynasty? If you bring it, Home Movie Day will show it.

WHY?
Because it happens in communities across the country, HOME MOVIE DAY screening events renews focus on local heritage and family history, taking us back to a time when Main Street was bustling and the beehive hair-do was all the rage. Home movies are the essential record of our past, with images of people we may know or may resemble and they are amongst the most authoritative documents of our times gone by.

HOME MOVIE DAY will also provide a splendid opportunity for audiences everywhere to learn about the long-term benefits of film versus video. Veteran Motion picture archivists will be on hand to tell you how to properly store your films and plan for future use. Did you know that your original films can long outlast any video OR digital transfer? Don’t throw away your film! Check out the website for updates & more information www.homemovieday.com. Press who wish to obtain credentials must send a request on media outlet letterhead. Requests should be faxed to Workhouse Publicity at (212) 334-1919 or sent via email to Devon Mack at mack@workhousepr.com. If you have additional questions please contact us directly at Workhouse Publicity at 212. 334. 8006 or visit www.workhousepr.com

REGIONAL REPS:
YOUR NAME HERE!
Rochester, NY: Chad Hunter (585) 271-3361 ext.240 chunter@geh.org
Tennessee: Brad Reeves stymiedc@yahoo.com
Los Angeles, CA: Snowden Becker (310) 440-7527 sbecker@getty.edu
New York, NY: Katie Trainor (914) 773-7663 ext 15 ktrainor@burnsfilmcenter.org
Maine: Dwight Swanson (207) 469-1119 dwswan@hotmail.com
Santa Fe, New Mexico: Brian Graney (505) 476-7953 bgraney@rain.state.nm.us
Ohio: Susie Busamm 585-506-9094 Shoob716@aol.com
Nebraska: Paul Eisloeffel pje@nebraskahistory.org
New York, NY: Andrew Lampert Haikuking1@hotmail.com

NEW YORK CITY:
Home Movie Day 8-16 2003
Schedule from Anthology Film Archives

3:00-6:00PM NATIONAL HOME MOVIE DAY
From Bar Mitzvahs to babies on bearskin rugs, student films to studies of plant life, if it is on 8mm, Super 8 or 16mm, we want to see it. Sorry, no video. All work MUST be screened on film. Please contact haikuking1@hotmail.com or trainorkatie@hotmail.com to participate or just show up with your film on the day of the show. For more information about this event please visit www.homemovieday.com. And for yet further details, check out Anthology Film Archives web site www.anthologyfilmarchives.org

6:30PM NATIONAL HOME MOVIE DAY

HOUSE SHOW: FILMS FROM THE COLLECTION OF KELLY COPPER
Home movies of a family who created elaborate holiday dreamscapes using stop-frame animation, masks, props, and pet birds in a sort of ballet of domesticity. A masking tape title affixed to the film can says this work is called "The House Show". Artist Kelly Copper calls it "mysterious and inspiring...the best thing I've ever found in a flea market."

8:15PM NATIONAL HOME MOVIE DAY: ACROSS THE U.S.A

ART AS LIFE (LIFE AS ART)
Blurring the line between documentation and deconstruction, these films beautifully illustrate the aesthetics and allegories of home movies. Expect to see films by Stan Brakhage, Adrienne Jorge, Ken Jacobs, Peter Kubelka, Jonas Mekas, an expanded cinema performance by Bradley Eros and more.