PRESS CONFERENCE AT THE FLORIDA HOUSE INN october 23, 2007

The Amelia Island Film Festival Media Conference was held on Tuesday October 23, 2007 at the Florida House Inn in Historical Fernandina Beach, Florida.

We were able to announce the Corporate Sponsors for the Film Festival that we have on board to date:

First National Bank of Nassau County
The Hampton Inn & Suites-Harbor View Historic District
Quality Image Printers of Jacksonville
Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation

Also today the AIFF Official Logo Design was unveiled by ELIZA HOLLIDAY of Fernandina Beach as selected by AIFF Jury Panel of local graphic designers and artists.

And finally today the AIFF Schedule of Events was announced be begin on September 25-October 1, 2008 including a proposed joint-venture with the Amelia Island Book Festival next year entitled the AIFF-AIBF Screenwriters Institute.

Our next Sneak Preview will be next Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at the Palace, Downtown Fernandina Beach at 7:15 featuring CRAZY LOVE plus several shorts for our Halloween Spooktacular.

Eliza S Holliday has a business in lettering, logo design and illustration and also teaches brush lettering and expressive writing for calligraphy groups, private retreats, community colleges, through mail tutorials, and, most recently, workshops on expressive bookforms for librarians and schoolteachers throughout the southeast.

She has been exhibited widely, appears in many publications on calligraphic art and is author of several instructional manuals, including (as co-author) Brush Lettering: An Instructional Manual of Brush Calligraphy.

She is currently working on editions of fine art painted books with poetry and collaged paper sculptures and believes that creative writing and thought is enhanced by lettering with abandon.

You can visit her website at www.letterist.com.