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Young Filmmakers
Who has the Write Stuff? WoMEn + FiLM: Diversity Through
Workshop Screening
the Decades – a Panel
Doctors keep them stashed in drawers, lawyers The diverse professionals – actors, directors, and S
Each summer the Denver Film Society provides
dream of selling theirs, and legions of fledgling producers – on this year’s WOMEN + FILM panel
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a unique opportunity for aspiring filmmakers to
scribes hope they’ll discover the secret to fashioning will discuss, among other things, how their artistic
immerse themselves in the world of moviemaking.
them from scratch. We’re talking about screenplays, choices are influenced by social issues, how they get
Over the course of two weeks, participants learn not
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seen by many as gateways to a creatively satisfying their films made, and what changes they foresee in
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only how to watch and interpret film but also how to
and lucrative career in movies. Taking a cue from the future of their industry. Independent and for-
plan, write, shoot, and edit their own short works.
Peter Hanson’s documentary Tales from the Script, eign filmmakers seem to be making great strides in
The shorts in this 38-minute package, which comprise
our panelists will examine their calling with all its depicting diversity in all its forms, so why do women
a free screening, were made during the summer 2009
frustrations, triumphs, and rewards. They’ll tell today comprise only 16 percent of all directors,
workshop.
us about the potential gaps between script and executive producers, producers, writers, cinematog-
Lights, Camera, Failure! directed by Ivy Buchanan,
screen. They’ll consider the writer/director relation- raphers, and editors working in Hollywood – down
Jess Culp, Teddy Hamstra, Laurel Klafehn,
ship, citing examples from their own experiences. from 19 percent in 2001?
Patrick Lynch, Anthony Nguyen, Ry Feder Pruett
Most of all, they’ll let us know whether having the
write stuff is enough to get a screenplay off your
Panel:
Sucks to Be You, directed by Garen Chucovich,
desk and into the theater.
Anna Sophia Robb, 2009 SDFF Rising Star Award
Reed Robertson, Eugene Vessels, Aaron Wolfe
recipient; Sarah Siegel-Magness, producer, Precious;
Have You Scene? directed by Jaleel Herbert,
Panel: Eva Sánchez López, director, One for the Road; Emily
Bryce Hubenthal, Robert Scott
Steven Peros, director, Footprints; George Kunstler, director, William Kunstler: Disturbing the
Hickenlooper, director, ‘Hick’ Town; Hue Rhodes, Universe; Dixie Carter, actress, That Evening Sun;
Blood is the Almighty Sin, directed by
director, Saint John of Las Vegas; Peter Hanson, Robin Bronk, producer, PoliWood, and executive
Hank Desroches
director, Tales From the Script director, The Creative Coalition
Unshelved, directed by Mark Naff, Johan Sigg,
Moderator:
Moderator:
Nicholas Walker, James Weber
Robert Denerstein
Karina Longworth, freelance film and new media
Escape, directed by Luis Angeles, Salvador Flores,
critic/blogger for Spout.com and cofounder/former
Brenda Ontiveros
editor of Cinematical.com
Sponsored by:
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