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Best Director at the Couch Film Festival, 2021

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Bruce David Janu, the director of This Sacred Place: The Story of Old Lynn Concerts has won the Best Director Award for documentary features at the Couch Film Festival. The festival is a quarterly event held in Toronto, Canada.  It is an IMBD-eligible event, meaning award winners can list their awards in the penultimate movie database. This Sacred Space was nominated for both the Best Documentary Award and Best Director.

The Couch Film Festival Selects This Sacred Place

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The Couch Film Festival in Toronto has selected This Sacred Place: The Story of Old Lynn Concerts as a Semi-Finalist in the Documentary (60-120 Minutes category). Plus, a nod for Best Director for the 60-120 minute film category, as well. Unfortunately, due to new Covid restrictions, they had to cancel all public screenings. Still, the films will be judged and winners announced on March 31.

Bare Bones Film Festival, here we come!

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This Sacred Place: The Story of Old Lynn Concerts was selected for The Barebones Music & Documentary Festival in Oklahoma. The festival runs May 13 -15, 2021 in Muskogee, OK.

Color Correcting "This Sacred Place"

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The setting was stunning: an old rural church in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. Built in 1883, the Old Lynn Church had hosted many performances over the last 100 years. But for the last two decades, it was home to some of the world's most renowned singer-songwriters.  This Sacred Place: The Story of Old Lynn Concerts tells this part of the Old Lynn story.  As a concert venue, the sound is spectacular in this church. There is something warm and comfortable about the way the sound envelopes the audience, bouncing here and there off the walls and the tin ceiling, providing a pleasant reverb. In terms of lighting----well, that proved to be a bit of a challenge. This was apparent especially as the light from the early evening that was coming in through the stained glass began to change, darkening the room.  Lighting is crucial to any endeavor at story-telling; a live concert is no different. "White Balance" is necessary to adjust the camera's sensors to the light in or...

This Sacred Place --- No. 2 Streamed movie at DMOFF

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For this week, This Sacred Place: The Story of Old Lynn Concerts was in the top 10 of the streamed films for the festival this week. It landed at the number 2 position! Keep streaming!  You can view the film at this link:  https://www.dmoffest.com/post/this-sacred-place-the-story-of-old-lynn-concerts