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The 10-Page Workshop - a Screenwriting Workshop with Gordy Hoffman
Workshop
has participants submitting ten pages from an existing script or work
in progress. We review all elements of story on display in the ten pages
along with the technical aspects of effective screenwriting as a craft.
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Reprise is a film about friendship, madness and creativity, about love and sorrow, great ambitions and the often unpleasant clash...
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The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
Shot in the summer and fall of 2006 in the Eastern war zones of the Democratic Republic of Congo, this feature-length documentary...
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The Red Balloon + The White Mane
Bring your children and share with them this newly-restored version of the 1956 classic about a little boy and the red balloon that follows him around the streets of Paris.
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A blind boy and an elderly gentleman learn that the definition of family must sometimes be flexible...
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After the Fall documents two American journalists’ trip to (and unexpected expulsion from) Vietnam to cover the 30th...
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Trying
to Get Good: The Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon
Who
is Jack Sheldon? You may remember him as Merv Griffin's trumpet-wielding
sidekick, or the indelible voice on 'School House ...
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No Budget? No Problem. - a workshop with producer Mark Stolaroff
Mark Stolaroff,
a no-budget professional, will offer first-hand knowledge of production,
post-production, marketing, and distribution. Clips from micro-budget
films illustrate specific tricks and state-of-the-art techniques used
by the most resourceful filmmakers.
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A young man arrives in Strasbourg, France, in search of a woman he met and fell in love with six years ago...
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Prepare to be entertained by the inspiring members of Young @ Heart,a New England seniors citizens' chorus that has delighted...
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Eddie Adams photographed 13 wars, Six American Presidents, and every major film star of the last 50 years. History would be changed...
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Evaristo and Luis Antonio Lerma Batista have graduated from boarding school. Though 12-year-old Evaristo...
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In his directorial debut, Chris Eigeman delivers an uncompromising thriller about a poker-playing, pool-hustling young mother (Famke...
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The party to celebrate Tunde Ibirinde's graduation is the backdrop for a far more momentous occasion: the return of estranged father Dipo...
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Love Lost and Found - Romance Shorts
According to 1980s pop music, love either lifts us up where we belong, or it bites. These seven shorts from five nations pretty much run that gamut...
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Souvenirs + The Quest for the Missing Piece
An unemployed film director hears strange things from his father: while serving in the legendary Jewish Brigade in the WWII...
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Take occurs over two days - one day in the present and one day in the past. Ana (Minnie Driver) drives through the desert to witness the...
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Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story chronicles the last great American showman, filmmaker William Castle, a master of ballyhoo...
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Future Imperfect - Science Fiction Shorts
These SciFi/Fantasy shorts from five different nations represent what the genre can be when filmmakers use their minds...
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Making
Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women
Over
lunch, contemporary comediennes Judy Gold, Cory Kahaney, Jackie Hoffman
and Jessica Kirson discuss the challenges of being ...
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