I am being bombarded with entries to the festival, but I want to make sure your film is in the mix. If you have a film ready to be submitted, please let me know. I need to have everything in THIS WEEK. I published September 15th as the deadline, but if you need a day…

Our final workshop of the series was all about creating social media posts to help get the word out about the upcoming festival. Thanks to Angelina Purvey, Kaitlyn Judd, Raymond Miller and Will McNeille for helping to support our efforts and being the social media gurus! I am asking for your help to drive traffic…

What a great workshop we had this past Saturday. Thanks to Carl Laur and Will McNeill for sharing their editing prowess with all the attendees. I loved looking around the room seeing everyone diving into their projects and learning best practices! Next week, Saturday September 6th, 11am-1pm, we’ll meet in FRONT of the library since…

This Saturday’s workshop is going to be really fun! We’ll have a few of our filmmakers on hand to talk about the editing suites that they like to use, and then demo how to put a scene together. Then we will break into small groups to use some sample clips to build a scene. If…

The workshop was so fun today! After reviewing some basics of camera work and storyboard creation, we broke into small groups to make a film. The assignment was to tell a story in one minute, which is a real challenge! We started by brainstorming the story we wanted to tell, then put that right into…

The workshop this Saturday is going to be a fun, hands-on opportunity to make a film! After reviewing some basics of camera work and storyboard creation, we will break into groups to write, shoot and edit a one minute film, all during the workshop. The inimitable AJ Meininger will be back to help lead this…

What a great workshop we had today! Michael Bouyer, owner of Bouyer Productions, guided us through best practices for shooting and editing a film on a smartphone. Here is a link to his materials. Thanks to everyone who attended. It was a great group, and it was exciting to hear about some of the projects…

I’m looking forward to seeing you at this coming Saturday workshop! Most of us will be shooting our films on our smartphones, so we are very lucky to have Michael Bouyer, owner of Bouyer Productions, join us to guide us through best practices for shooting and editing your film. Michael has taught adult school classes…

How is your film going? Do you need help getting your ideas in order? Do you have questions about the process and how to begin? This Saturday, July 12th, Matteo Farinacci will lead us in a discussion about Developing a Narrative and how to transform that into a film. We will also be doing some…

Thanks to everyone who showed up today for AJ’s compelling workshop! AJ took us through the elements of creating a personal narrative, talking about the importance of starting with a Log Line, which is a one sentence description of your film. You can find the deck from AJ’s presentation HERE. This will bring you to…