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2 • September 2018 • UPBEAT TIMES, INC. “Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.” ~ Roy T. Bennett


From left: Zak Orth, Brooke Tansley(Executive Artistic Director Folklight Film Club), and Hugh Grant in a moment between takes of the romantic comedy Music and Lyrics. Folklight Film Club is a wine club-inspired membership experience around making a movie. Members attend unique events, get behind the scenes, and influence the movie being made. It’s the world’s first farm-to-table film.


Sonoma County, CA. ~ Up- beat


Times friend Brooke


Tansley wanted to let Upbeat readers know that membership enrollment is now open for Folklight Film Club, a new So- noma County-based film pro- duction company that’s created a wine club-inspired member- ship experience around making a movie. You get to go to cool and unique events, see a glimpse


SIGMOND


I SURE COULD USE A LITTLE COMPANY...


behind-the-scenes, and get the opportunity to actually influ- ence and inspire the movie be- ing made.


Nine events include a panel discussion with the cast and filmmakers, a concert of the original soundtrack, member- made short films, a festival of member shorts, and the Red Carpet


Premiere. Members


also get creative say in the film - such as inspiring the story and


casting a role. In addition, a very limited number of mem- berships for people who wish to learn filmmaking through weekend intensives with Hol- lywood professionals and gain on-set experience


are also


available. “We’re making the world’s first farm-to-table film - where local people are the farm and our team of Holly- wood professionals is the chef. We’re


... continued on page 14 In: “Think Green” colorized from 2001


I AGREE! WE’LL START OUT WITH TWO EMPLOYEES!


TWO WHAT?


HI I’M PHIL!


WHAT’S GROWING ON BUDDY?!


First UP!


FOLKLIGHT FILM CLUB TAKES LOCALS BEHIND THE SCENES OF MAKING A MOVIE!


~ First Facts & Trivia ~


Canada alone houses more lakes than that of the rest of the whole world combined.


One of the most popular quotes in pop culture is Darth Vader’s “Luke, I am your father.” Darth Vader actually says, “No, I am your father.”


Walt Disney was not a fan of Alfred Hitchcock, and wouldn’t let him film at “the happiest place on Earth” aka Disneyland. It was Because Hitchcock made the movie “Psycho.”


Sylvester Stallone likes authenticity. When he was filming Rocky IV, he told Dolph Lundgren to actu- ally punch him. Michael B. Jordan did the same when he filmed the Rocky spin-off, Creed, and even got knocked out at one point.


I surround myself with good people who make me feel great and give me positive energy. Ali Krieger


By Paul Andrew Doyle


IT’S GONNA BE OK SIGMOND...THINK GREEN, THINK GREEN!


OOH! I LOVE PUNS!


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