EVENTS
march, 2019
9mar10:00 am- 3:00 pmFight 4 Film Fight Choreography Workshop Vol.2
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This workshop will cover fight choreography, expected skills, stunt basics and dynamic on-screen principles. Learn the keys of camera angles and acting within the stunt.
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This workshop will cover fight choreography, expected skills, stunt basics and dynamic on-screen principles. Learn the keys of camera angles and acting within the stunt.
Time
(Saturday) 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
12mar6:30 pm- 8:00 pmAdaptation- Turning Novels to Screenplays and Vice-Versa
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Gain expert professional insight
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Gain expert professional insight on the creative and business best practices for adapting a novel into a screenplay and a screenplay into a novel from a publisher, an agent, a novelist and a playwright/screenwriter. RSVP: https://gpfo.ticketleap.com/adaptation/
Our panel:
Bruce Graham, playwright/screenwriter/actor
Liz Moore, writer of fiction and creative non fiction
David Borgenicht, CEO and owner of Quirk Books
Jess Dallow, Brower Literary & Management
In this panel event, some of the many questions covered in addition to the audience Q&A will be:
- Does an author automatically get to write the first draft script adaptation of his book when a producer options it?
- When should a screenwriter decide to adapt one of their original scripts into a novel (reverse adaptation) — rather than write another original screenplay?
- Are ‘book ‘genres the same as ‘film’ or ‘TV’ genres? When a book gets adapted into a script, can its ‘genre’ change?
- What will it do for the screenwriter’s career? How does an author-turned-screenwriter decide what elements of a story ‘stay’ and what must ‘go’ when adapting their novel/non-fiction book into a script?
- How should an author who adapts her own books promote herself—as a novelist or a screenwriter? If she’s ‘both’, will she dilute her career path?
- Publishers don’t always make an issue of securing dramatic rights to works they are acquiring—why does Quirk, and what do you do with them?
- What can authors and publishers do to give their works the best shot at making it onto a big or little screen?
- How can a publisher ensure that the author stays as involved as he/she wants to in the process of adapting their works?
About our panelists:
Bruce Graham is a playwright, screenwriter actor and educator. Bruce will serve as our as host. began his career as a playwright at the Philadelphia Festival Theatre for New Plays (PFT) in 1984 with Burkie. Graham became playwright-in-residence at PFT and later served two years as Artistic Director. He has received grants from the Pew Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and was a past winner of the Princess Grace Foundation Statuette. He won the Rosenthal Prize for Coyote On A Fence. He has won consecutive Barrymore Awards for Best New Play (Something Intangible and Any Given Monday) and Chicago’s Jefferson Award for The Outgoing Tide. He is the first American playwright to be invited two years in a row to the Galway Arts Festival, which produced The Outgoing Tide and Stella and Lou.
Liz Moore is an American author. After a brief time as a musician in New York City, which inspired her first novel, The Words of Every Song, Moore shifted her focus to writing. She subsequently published the novels Heft in 2012 and The Unseen World in 2016.
David Borgenicht is the owner/CEO of Quirk Books. David is the creator of the Worst Case Scenario brand and co-author of all of the books in The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook series. He has appeared on hundreds of television and radio programs, including the Today Show, 20/20/, Late Night With Conan O’Brien, The Tyra Banks Show, and The Big Idea With Donnie Deutsch. He has also given speeches at American Express, The Commonwealth Club, The 92nd Street Y, and at dozens of other venues to students, executives, and fans of the series.
Jess Dallow is an associate literary agent with Brower Literary and Management. She has a BFA in Writing for Film and Television from the University of the Arts and worked in Hollywood for eight years before returning to her home state of NY to work in publishing. She has previously worked in film – both in entertainment and the literary world.
Time
(Tuesday) 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
Philadelphia Film Center (formerly Prince Theater)
1412 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102
Organizer
Greater Philadelphia Film Office
14mar6:00 pm- 9:00 pmGPVA Meeting - Video Pros Exposed
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Enjoy an evening with experienced,
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Enjoy an evening with experienced, well-seasoned video, film and broadcast professionals. Learn about upcoming opportunities and refine existing skills.
Register now!
https://gpva.wildapricot.org/event-3297105
Presenters
Scott Whitham
Freelance Writer, Director
Tony Stewart
Cinematographer, Director/Cameraman
Sponsored by
Resolution Rentals
Hot Clips
Hot clips that feature your work are welcome. Show off your own work. Bring short clips to show off during our event.
Meeting Agenda
6-7 PM Networking/Food/Refreshments
7-7:15 Welcome/Host Property Remarks.
7:15-8:00 Main Presentation
8:00-8:15 Break
8:15-9:00 Hot Clips/Q&A
After Party
Kite & Key
1836 Callowhill St.
Philadelphia, PA 19130
Directions & Public transit info:
http://www.ccp.edu/about-us/locations/main-campus
Parking
Street meter parking
On-Campus Parking garage (entrance from 17th street or 18th street)
Mass Transit
Broad Street Subway:
Exit at the Spring Garden stop
The College is 2 blocks West on Spring Garden St.
Time
(Thursday) 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
21mar7:00 pm- 9:00 pmProduction Management
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Prepare for your upcoming production
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Prepare for your upcoming production by learning organizational strategies for breaking down your script or treatment into an achievable shooting schedule that takes into account all the details of production. Learn how to plan, organize and execute your vision by honing in your production management skills. Please submit a treatment or detailed description of your project at least one week before the first day of the workshop.
Instructor: Dana Master
Cost: $50, $35 Scribe members
Time
(Thursday) 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
22mar7:00 pm- 9:00 pmShorts from The Detroit Narrative Agency (DNA)
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Short Films from THE DETROIT
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Short Films from THE DETROIT NARRATIVE AGENCY (DNA)
A sponsored project of Allied Media Projects, the Detroit Narrative Agency (DNA) seeks to shift the stories that are currently being told in and of Detroit to advance social justice.
Take Me Home (USA, 2018, 13:03 mins) directed by Orlando Ford
While headlines read of the “rebirth” of Motor City, many Detroit neighborhoods have been devastated, with African American communities hit hardest of all. Take Me Home follows one family as they fight to save their home, and struggle to keep their neighborhoods and communities from being lost.
Dangerous Times | Rebellious Responses (USA, 2018, 12:28 mins) directed by Alicia Díaz
Dangerous Times traces the rise of the Sanctuary Movement in Detroit through the personal accounts of Esther Gálvez, a Latinx Sanctuary advocate, and Sihanouk Mariona, whose family was amongst the most visible Salvadorian exiles in the US.
Sidelots (USA, 2018, 16:13 mins) directed by Atieno Nyar Kasagam
Sidelots is a love story of Black land reclamation told in ritual between Detroit, Alabama, and Kenya. It follows one family on Detroit’s East Side as their story of urban farming unfolds into a spiritual journey of discovery, loss, and re-indigenization.
Riding with Aunt D. Dot (USA, 2018, 7:12 mins) directed by Bree Gant
This experimental film brings together personal narrative, radical imagination, experimental video, and the Detroit city bus. It tells the story of a disillusioned Detroit artist struggling to ground herself in reality or her dreams.
Femme Queen Chronicles (USA, 2018, 11:00 mins) directed by Ahya Simone
Femme Queen Chronicles is a new web series about the lives of four black trans women as they navigate through love, life, trade, and shade in the city of Detroit; written, directed, and brought to life by black trans women themselves.
Preceded by Stadium Stompers (USA, 2018, 9:12 mins) produced by Stadium Stompers through Scribe’s Precious Places Community History Project. North Central Philadelphians struggle against a university’s encroachment on their land that threatens the existence of a community and culture.
Time
(Friday) 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
25mar7:00 pm- 9:00 pmOral History in the Digital Age
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This three-session workshop will provide
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This three-session workshop will provide participants with a broad-based introduction to oral history practice, including project design, interview preparation, question lists, ethics and law, and interviewing techniques. The course also covers the collection of supporting documents, the construction of memory, presentation in multiple media, and the preparation of materials for deposit in an archive. The third session will focus on discussion of practice interviews and participant projects.
Instructor: Charles Hardy III
Cost: $75, $60 for Scribe members
2 sessions will follow on April 1 and April 8 from 7:00-9:00 PM
Time
(Monday) 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
27mar7:00 pmProducers' Forum: An Opera of the World
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AN OPERA OF THE WORLD
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AN OPERA OF THE WORLD directed by Manthia Diawara (Portugal, USA, Mali, 2017, 70 mins)
MANTHIA DIAWARA IN PERSON
Manthia Diawara’s film is based on the opera Bintou Were, from the Sahel region of Africa, which recounts an eternal migration drama. The Bintou Were opera, filmed on location in Bamako, Mali in 2007, serves as a mirror for Diawara to build an aesthetic and reflexive story, through song and dance, about the current and yet timeless drama of migration and the ongoing refugee crises. The success and limits of fusing African and European perspectives are tested by interlacing performances from the Bintou Were opera, past and present archival footage of migrations, classic European arias, and interviews with European and African intellectuals, artists, and social activists.
Manthia Diawara is a filmmaker, essayist and cultural critic. Born in Mali, West Africa, he is the Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Film at New York University. His essays on art, cinema and politics have appeared in The New Times Magazine, LA Times, Libération, and Artforum. He is the author of two memoirs and has published several books on African and African American cinema. Diawara’s previous films include Negritude: A Dialogue between Soyinka and Senghor (2016), One World in Relation (2010), Maison Tropicale (2008) and Rouch In Reverse (1995).
Preceded by And Now I Can Speak (USA, 2017, 9:14 mins) produced by Abia Noumbissi through Scribe Video Center’s 2017 Documentary History Project for Youth Program. This short documentary explores the migration of people and language and how/why immigrants need to learn English when they move to the United States.
THIS SCREENING CO-PRESENTED BY TEMPLE UNIVERSITY AND THE CENTER FOR EXPERIMENTAL ETHNOGRAPHY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Time
(Wednesday) 7:00 pm