Filmmaking Workshops and Panels
One of our missions is to educate our community about the art of film and filmmaking. This year, we are excited to offer several new workshops and panels, as well as a few perennial favorites. Come out and participate in some illuminating sessions, chock full of insight, laughs, demonstrations and anecdotes. Audience participation is encouraged. Regular workshops (Filmmaker Panel and Mick LaSalle's are only $5 per person, at the door. Special workshops (Movie in a Day Marathon and Alan Arkin's Master Class) are specially priced and participants must register ahead of time. Film passes cannot be used for these two special workshops. See details below.
We apologize! The 3-D workshop previously announced has been cancelled. We hope to offer it next year!
Indie Filmmaker Panels
Saturday, March 13 and Saturday, March 20 (both weekends)
11:00am -12:30pm
Holiday Inn Express, San Luis Obispo MAP
$5 at the door (free to Movie Star, Patron and Mogul pass holders)
Join visiting filmmakers for a stimulating discussion as they share stories of success, anguish, the challenges of financing, production, marketing and much more. Participants will be announced on our website before the panels. A Q &A will follow the panel discussion.
Mick LaSalle on "The Beauty of the Real: Great Roles for Women"
Sponsored by Vina Robles
PLEASE NOTE NEW DATE/TIME: Saturday, March 13, 1:00-2:30pm
Holiday Inn Express, San Luis Obispo MAP
Enjoy the wonderful wines of Vina Robles before and during the following workshop.
Hollywood stopped making films for the women's market during the 1960s, when women joined the work place and stopped going to matinees. Since then, the reigning American box office stars have all been men, and actresses and their vehicles have become marginalized. However, the French cinema has always been interested in women's stories. And right now, something is happening in France that has never happened anywhere, except once, in Hollywood in the 1930s. France has at least two dozen top-tier actresses (of all ages) doing the best work of their lives, making the kind of women's films that America once specialized in, but making them for our era.
In a 90-minute discussion, San Francisco Chronicle film critic Mick LaSalle previews his upcoming book, The Beauty of the Real. The discussion will include clips from recent films, some of which have never been seen in an American theater, as well as audio from his exclusive interviews with these actresses. At a time when Hollywood is squandering an entire generation of female talent, the modern-day Hepburns, Davises, Crawfords and Garbos are in France, making three movies a year. This is your chance to meet them.
Mick LaSalle is the author of Complicated Women: Sex and power in Pre-Code Hollywood and Dangerous Men: Pre-Code Hollywood and the Birth of the Modern Man. He was the co-author and associate producer of the Complicated Women documentary, which aired on Turner Classic Movies in 2003. The Beauty of the Real will be published by Stanford University Press in the fall of 2011.
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Special Master Class: Improv Workshop with Alan Arkin This workshop isn't about being clever, or funny, or reinforcing techniques that the participants already have. It's about remembering how to be authentic. It's about utilizing improvisation as a method for self-exploration. That doesn't mean giving up having fun, or forgetting about creating wonderful and imaginative scenes, but it does mean having the courage to start over again from the beginning each time we go on stage, and letting the characters dictate where the work wants to go. It means functioning in a group situation so that we are supporting the work of the other participants and not just making points. It means making a conscious connection between our work in the scenes and our own emotional lives. It means reconnecting with the important work of play. And it also means having a hell of a good time. --Alan Arkin Mr. Arkin, our 2010 King Vidor Award recipient, was one of the founding members of Chicago's improv revue, Second City. $75 per person. Limited to 21 participants, age 18+. All participants must pre-register. Sorry, this workshop is not free to pass holders. Space is limited, so register early online. Click here to REGISTER. |
Special Festival Competition: Movie in a Day Marathon Is it possible to make a movie in a day, from initial idea to final edit? This event is a fun and exciting challenge for filmmakers of all ages. Participants will start out at SLOIFF HQ where they'll be placed in teams of four, in two age categories. (You can also register as a team.) Filmmaker Ryan Johnson will share professional tips, and teams will find out which downtown SLO landmarks and other elements must be used in their films. After thirty minutes of brainstorming, teams will be turned loose with their cameras until 2:00pm. Then back at HQ they'll edit their short films and add music. A panel of judges will choose two winning films. All films will be screened at a downtown theatre, and prizes awarded, on the last day of the festival (March 21). $35 per person includes an MDM T-shirt. All participants must pre-register. Sorry, this event is not free to pass holders. Space is limited, so register early! Click here to REGISTER. |
2010 Summer Youth Filmmaking Workshops
Sponsored by the San Luis Obispo County Community Foundation
and the Avalon Foundation
The 2009 Summer Youth Filmmaking Workshops were another big success! Thanks to all who participated.
The SLOIFF will be offering 2010 Summer Workshops so stay tuned for details, to be posted in April 2010.
Watch the 2009 Behind-the-Scenes Quicktime Video (4 min)
Watch the 2008 Behind-the-Scenes Quicktime Video (3 min)
Watch the 2008 Behind-the-Scenes Windows Video (3 min)
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS
Aaron Metchik is a UCLA film school graduate with nearly a decade of experience writing, directing and producing short films. In the summer of 2007, Aaron directed his first professional feature length feature film, which is currently in post production in Los Angeles. The son of a passionate teacher, Aaron enjoys mentoring others and has taught classes and workshops about filmmaking, music video production, and acting at high schools, middle schools and elementary schools. He teaches an ongoing acting class in Shell Beach, one for young students and one for adults, and looks forward to having another opportunity to teach young people about filmmaking, and help them develop their talents.
Alan Fraser teaches video production and photography at Arroyo Grande High School in the Regional Occupation Program. He also teaches film courses at Allan Hancock College. His film NEXT TIME won best picture awards at the Hollywood and Long Beach Film Festivals. It was released by Vanguard Entertainment on DVD. His script, THE PROCESSIONAL was a semi-finalist for the Nichol Fellowship. Alan also specializes in still photography and has volunteered his time and talents, along with his wife Shari, as the SLOIFF's in-house photographer for the past three years.
Ryan Johnson is a professional videographer and filmmaker and owns his own production company, New Rule Productions. Based in Santa Maria, he has spent 19 years producing TV programs, informational video programs, TV commercials and independent features. He has worked with young people on an anti-smoking video campaign and has been making films for as long as he can remember. Ryan has recently created a new TV series, THE SKEPTOLOGISTS, currently in development and was the creator, executive producer and director of the AMERICAN DRAGSTER series on ESPN. He has also recently developed a company called SMASHProps, which specializes in Special Effects Breakaway props for the feature film and theatre industries.
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