Harvey O has a legacy of story telling that trails back better than 50 years, and he is coming to LightStand to shed some light on the whole of the process.

Monday, July 26th 7:00 pm @ 309 N. Main St Royal Oak , MI 48067

Come out for a LightStand reunion and time of engaging one of the Detroit areas best story tellers.

Collect your questions about writing, production, and the film making process for this free night of opportunity!

HKO media

The Wiki of Harvey O

The Detroit News has described producer and story consultant Harvey Ovshinsky as "one of this country's finest storytellers." Harvey's work, which spans the universe of print, broadcast television and radio, digital storytelling, as well as primary, secondary, and university education, began in the turbulent '60s and continues full force today.

FILM & VIDEO PRODUCTION: Harvey Ovshinsky and HKO Media have been awarded broadcasting's highest honors including four CINE Golden Eagle Awards, a national Emmy, a Peabody, a duPont - Columbia University Award, an Iris Award from the National Association of Television Programming Executives, and the American Film Institute's Robert M. Bennett Award for Excellence.

In 2004, the Detroit Docs International Film Festival celebrated the life and work of Harvey Ovshinsky, with its first ever Career Achievement Award. "From his early days of radio to later years of television and now documentary film and video," Kerry Burke of Metro Times wrote, "Ovshinsky's career is a colorful and fantastic voyage, at times brave and visionary."

SCREENWRITER: Harvey wrote the Movie-of-the-Week script PJ AND THE DRAGON, represented by Creative Artists Agency (CAA) and optioned to Longbow Productions. He wrote the award-winning, feature-length script THE KEYMAN, as well as the treatment for the children's drama NOAH AND HIS TOTALLY AWESOME ARK. Harvey also wrote the treatment for ALL-AMERICAN GIRL, a Movie-of-the-Week for NHK (Japan Broadcast Corporation) and was creative consultant for Longbow Productions' Movie-of-the-Week script SWEET & DARROW. He was a contributor to a chapter on screenwriting in the Film and Video Career Directory published by Gale Research, Inc.

1st Place

Team #24, Scallywag Entertainment, “The Fall of a Sparrow”

2nd Place

Team #23, Gillissie, “Fracture”

3rd Place

Team #16, Wing It, “You”

Honorable Mention / Best Direction

Team #11, Group Therapy, “Walk Off”

We are looking for folks from within the SuperHouse community who have a few skills around video production, like kids, and dont mind a drive to down town Detroit to help us out with a summer film project for Detroit youth.  We are looking for people to teach on any aspect of film making, mentor a team of youth through the process of making a short film, and otherwise be involved in this project.

If you or someone you know would be intersted in helping out with this project, do let me know!

We are wrapping up our 2010 screenwriters session of Project LightStand.  We had an excellent turn out this year with over 20 screenwriters participating and producing new or revised short scripts ready for the next step!

And what is the next step?

Well, any writer who likes his work would like to see it come to life, be produced and come to a screen near you!  This is the next step for Project LightStand.  It's called "The Pitch".  We want to give our writers a chance to pitch their scripts to capable producers and directors in the Metro Detroit area.  If you are a producer looking for a quality short screenplay (20 pages or less) to turn into a finished film project ready for screening, then this is your opportunity!

E-mail us if you are a Director or Producer interested in having our writers pitch you their screenplays!

We are planning to have another pitch session in July along with several guest speakers focused on getting your film produced!

The 2010 Detroit Windsor International Film Festival is almost upon us...

As a sponsor of the DWIFF, SuperHouse has a small stockpile of comp tickets... if you are intersted in checking out a film for free, let me know and we will hook you up on a first come first serve basis.

The film line up is arriving and there are some pretty great selections in place already, home grown and all about Detroit!  Check out this great Doc on Urban Farming in the D.