NEWS: MVPA Award Nominees Announced (Updated)

Nominees have been announced for the 14th annual MVPA Awards. Radical Media's Chris Milk leads all directors with seven nominations, including nods for Director Of The Year and Directorial Debut. Other multiple-nominated directors include Francis Lawrence, Marc Webb, Jake Scott, Sophie Muller and Spike Jonze.

The MVPA Awards are scheduled for May 12, 2005 at the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles.

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Nominees for 2005 MVPA Awards

Director of the Year

BOOKED: Billy Corgan - P.R. Brown, director

Ex-Smashing Pumpkin/Zwan frontman Billy Corgan gets set to make his solo debut with a unique film/video project directed by P.R. Brown. The video for "The Future Embrace" will be culled from a longer piece which will serve as a sort of tour documentary, but filtered through Corgan's altered consciousness and laced with allegorical messages.

artist:  Billy Corgan song: "The Future Embrace"label:  Reprise  director(s):  P.R. Brown production co:  Anonymous

NEW RELEASE: Low "Death Of A Salesman"

Low "Death Of A Salesman" Sub PopMarc Gartman & Chris Bacigalupo, directorsMarc Gartman & Chris Bacigalupo, producersCritical Hit Productions, production companyDescription: What starts as a simple acoustic performance by Low's Alan Sparhawk gets strange when a team of scientists show up to measure what happens when they hit him repeatedly in the face. An inspired match for a song with lyrics like these: "They said music's for fools / You should go back to school / The future is prisms and math / So I did what they said / Now my children are fed / 'Cause they pay me to do what I'm asked."

BOOKED: Breaking Point - Mike Piscitelli, director

A unique camera trick allows director Mike Piscitelli to constantly alternate the background between four exterior locations while Breaking Point's performance remains constant. The performance is intercut with shots of teenagers skateboarding, hanging out and having fun.

artist: Breaking Pointsong: "Show Me A Sign"label: Wind-Updirector(s): Mike Piscitelliproduction co: Partizan