A Filmmaker's Life: September 2015

Thursday, September 3, 2015

VisionFest 2.0: FA at the Viaduct THIS Saturday!! (Sept. 12th 2015)

PLEASE RSVP HERE!

Presented by Filmmakers Alliance, Shutterstock, ABS Payroll, WGAW, SAGIndie, FilmLA, Final Draft, Blackmagic Design, The Director List and the California Parks Department.

An outgrowth of our wildly popular short film screening series (usually held at the awesome Echo Park Film Center), Filmmakers Alliance is hosting a larger screening in conjunction with the California State Parks Department OUTDOORS under the LA State Historic Park VIADUCT (at the north end of the Los Angeles State Historic Park).

There will be a reception before with musical guest BLACKWELDER - with delicious food and drink, of course. ALL filmmakers will be in attendance and available for a brief discussion after the screening of each film.

The event is free, but donations are accepted! Plenty of free parking available along the entrance to the Los Angeles State Historical Park.

You must RSVP HERE by Sept. 10th!

VisionFest 2.0 - FA at the Viaduct

Saturday, September 12th @ 7 p.m.

Los Angeles State Historic Park (north end)

1799 Baker St.

Los Angeles, CA 90012

Preceded by a musical performance by BLACKWELDER

THE FILM PROGRAM

Touch (13 min)

Director: Jen McGowan

An ode to city life, Touch explores themes of isolation and the universal need for community when two strangers make the most important connection of their lives while waiting for a train.

Charlotte (11 min)

Director: Angel Kristi Williams

When her new friend Charlotte wants to play house, Alex innocently plays along and develops feelings she doesn't understand.

Unspoken (10 min)

Director: George Zaverdas

A glimpse of an American family, in a moment of tension and crisis, struggling under the weight of a deep dark secret.

Death, Taxes and Apple Juice (8 min)

Director: Tamar Halpern

Two little girls file their taxes while having an existential crisis.

All Of Your Favorite Shows! (5 min)

Director: Danny Madden

Anything you wanna watch in the palm of your hand! Crazy convenient...crazy.

Pink Grapefruit (11 min)

Director: Michael Mohan

A young married couple brings two of their single friends out to Palm Springs for a long weekend. It does not go as planned.

Total running time: 58 min

The evening is made possible through the generous support of the following sponsors:

CineThoughts

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't. - Jean-Luc Godard

To have a life as a filmmaker, you must continue to make films. Like filmmaking, being a filmmaker is a process. It demands education, experience and exposure.

The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things, but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all. - John Cassavetes

Good is the enemy of great. Look beyond praise to the truth of what you're creating.

Juxtaposing a person with an environment that is boundless, collating him with a countless number of people passing by close to him and far away, relating a person to the whole world, that is the meaning of cinema. - Andrei Tarkovsky

Be a true filmmaker, a true creative being. Not a merchant. Make films from and for your soul.

Some rainy winter Sunday when there's a little boredom, you should carry a gun. Not to shoot yourself, but to know exactly that you're always making a choice. - Lina Wertmuller

To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work. - Krzysztof Kieslowski

"I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space." - Michelangelo Antonioni

I formulated my own directing style in my own head, proceeding without any unnecessary imitation of others…for me there was no such thing as a teacher. I have relied entirely on my own strength. - Yasujiro Ozu