Hollywood comes to Indianapolis

The annual Heartland Film Festival kicks off a 10-day run in Indianapolis today. This year’s festival features a record 87 films from around the world.

Heartland Truly Moving Pictures
is a non-profit organization that seeks
to recognize and honor filmmakers
whose work explores the human journey
by expressing hope and emphasizing
the best in human spirit.

The Festival will award cash prizes totaling $200,000 to winning dramatic, documentary, short, and student films at the Crystal Heart Awards ceremony on Saturday, October 17th. Audiences rate movies and vote for their favorites throughout the Festival and Audience Choice Awards are presented at the end of the Festival.

The Heartland Film Festival awards ceremony

“We’re excited about the number of opportunities film lovers have to experience the Festival this year,” said Jeff Sparks, Heartland Truly Moving Pictures President and CEO. “If someone has never attended the Festival before, this is definitely the year to give it a try.”

Over the past year, Brainstorm partnered with Heartland Truly Moving Pictures on the architecture, design and development of their Truly Moving Pictures website and we’re proud to be a 2009 Premier Level sponsor of the Festival.

Her love of
chicken and waffles

Our latest list of inane musings from the Brainstorm office white board:

Top 20 Reasons We Like Margo

1. She can call Goldie Hawn Mom, and get away with it
2. She sits funny
3. Her love of chicken and waffles
4. She always smells good
5. Bubbly personality
6. She makes random outbursts!
7. Denies ever being married
   to a Black Crowes band member (see #1)
8. She’s shorter than me
9. Her outgoing nature
10. She listens to me ramble all day
11. She’s a good superb stellar designer
12. She can talk and work at the same time
13. She talks to herself more than I do
14. It makes Jenni us all happy to have her here
15. Post-It note® reminder to herself: No candy No candy NO CANDY
16. Cute as a Kate Hudson button,
    sweet as a Kate Hudson pie (see #1)
17. Even her name is fun
18. She breaks into spontaneous song
19. Her smile :)
20. Because she limited herself to adding only 2 items to this list.
21. She won’t take offense at this board

See the entire board

Some of us made waves at The Indiana State Fair this year.

Watched Ed blush
while listening to DNR demo on
birth control for geese

Our latest list of inane musings from the Brainstorm office white board:

Top 20 Fun Things Brainstormers Saw/Did at the State Fair

1. Watched Ed blush while listening to DNR demo on birth control for geese
2. Got a “family” picture taken
3. Draft horses (Finally, something bigger than Bob!)
4. Week-old goats
5. And plenty of weak old goats of the human persuasion
6. Picked up a Purdue football schedule. Go Boilers!
7. 1,500 lb cheese sculpture
8. Fried Pickles
9. Got zits from eating fried food!
10. Plowed into Bob’s back
11. Grateful Barb didn’t force us to watch dog being spayed (ewww…)
12. Recording Joellyn’s Facebook video on touching boars (World’s Largest!)
13. Ate and ate and ate and…
14. Watched Bob on #13
15. Opened the exit doors at the top of the Ferris Wheel
16. Released our aggression on the bumper cars
17. Watched the world go by
18. Goats trying to help themselves to food from the coin-op food dispenser
19. Got a pink pig pencil topper
20. Won a piggy bank for Denita Jana
21. Fresh Ice Cream straight from Ice Cream Cows

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Think back.
What’s your favorite holiday memory?
We’re sharing ours at BCause08.com.

Just B Cause

For every visit to Brainstorm’s interactive memory-filled holiday site we’ll donate 25 cents to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, up to $5,000.

Visit www.BCause08.com today.

Holiday Greetings

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Who’s Who?

What do BBDO, New York; Disney, Paris; Greenpeace; the BBC; and Brainstorm all have in common? Each won a Best in Show Award from the 2008 W3 Awards, a global competition for website and online content designers, creators, and promoters, judged by the International Academy of Visual Arts.

“In a competition pitting over 3,000 competitors, including Fortune 500 companies and international marketing agencies, we’re pleased to finish in the top 1 percent,” said Brainstorm’s president, Bob Blass.

What’s What?

Brainstorm also won a Gold Award for Visual Appeal for the site, Camino a la Universidad (The Road to College). The site brings interactive life to a research report on Latino’s post-secondary access and success by University of Texas at San Antonio professor Dr. Raymond Padilla.

“Brainstorm created a beautiful, culturally relevant, sharable way to interact with decades of research data without diminishing its depth and substance,” said Teresa Detrich of the Lumina Foundation, sponsor of the research and website.

This is Brainstorm’s third W3 Award, including a Silver Award in 2007 for a website promoting Community Health Network’s North Hospital.