I am very excited that today I get to announce the “All-In Film: Charity Poker Tournament” that I conceived to take place during the NAB show in April (National Association of Broadcasters). Last fall when attending and shooting at the “Blogs with Balls” conference they held a similar tournament and it was a blast, so I am (not so subtly) taking their model and running with it. This promises to be an awesome event. It will take place on Monday, April 12th at the Hard Rock Casino’s very swanky Poker Lounge. This will be a great way for industry folks to meet-up and we have a few celebrity filmmakers that will be in attendance. Philip Bloom (DP and DSLR guru), Rodney Charters (DP of “24″), Shane Hurlbut ASC (DP of “Terminator: Salvation), and Kevin Shahinian (mind blowing wedding concept filmmaker) are all coming to headline the event. Basically I took this opportunity to see if I could gather as many of my film heroes in one room and have a poker game. None of this would have come together without the amazing help from my Twitter friends, and partners in organizing the event, Rob Imbs and Justin Carlson. None of us have met in person, but know each other well on Twitter and it has been a great partnership and they both have come through in a HUGE way for making this event happen.
In addition to cash prizes to be won by the winners of this 150-person event we have literally thousands of dollars of prizes donated to us by companies such as Redrock Micro, Zacuto, Tiffen, SmallHD, Jag35, Schneider Optics, and Letus. Like seriously amazing prizes like a new Steadicam Merlin or 4 HD monitors. And we are going to have MANY opportunities to win these prizes, so it will really give people of all skill levels an opportunity to win. And on top of that, some of the proceeds from this event are going to the American Red Cross’ efforts in the Haiti earthquake relief!
Can you tell I am excited? I am. So if you are going to NAB this year, I highly suggest you signup for this event. All details can be found at www.allinfilm.org.
Thanks!
