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Bill Woolery will be at the event and give tips and ideas on improving your trailer and give you his notes to take home. Next screening SEPTEMBER 29 6 to 8pm. Join us to see how to create or improve your trailers. Presenters to be announced.
First screening for 2010
6 to 8 PM Feb 23, Mary Pickford room
5200 Melrose Ave, Parking on Van Ness for $5.00 or street parking
You are cordially invited to join us to view the following trailers. Bill Woolery, www.divertimento-prods.com, the experienced trailer specialist will be one of our guests.
The following filmmakers will screen their films and be open for any compliments, questions and suggestions afterwards. Each is given 20 minutes. They will appreciate your support so please RSVP to Caroleedean@att.net seating is limited.
Dan Chapman is screening a trailer from his feature length doc, "EMMETT"
This is a story of redemption about an inventor and his invention.
Emmett Chapman discovers a new way to play music, creating a unique instrument called "The Stick." Wherever he plays, people are truly amazed. Immediately other musicians recognize its value and want one too. He then makes a critical choice to supply their demand. For years he gets caught up manufacturing it for others and almost forgets why he made it in the first place, as the vehicle for his own freedom of expression. After years of struggle, will he rediscover the key that unlocks the secret to his own salvation?
This film is a window into an unusual creative community and the 40-year odyssey of public and personal battles to establish a new musical instrument. This is a documentary about my brother. He's been a role model all my life, but it's not just me. Thousands of people in many countries have been influenced and inspired by his unique way to play. His instrument has been used by groups like Aerosmith, King Crimson, Santana, Dave Matthews Band, Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd, Robbie Robertson, Paula Cole, Tangerine Dream, The Blue Man Group and Cirque du Soliel, among many more from all around the planet. info@chapdoc.com
Leslie Weinberg is screening the trailer for feature doc, Neon Now & Then.
www.leslieweinberg.com
"Neon Now & Then" is the first feature length documentary about an almost forgotten art form that epitomized the playful kitschy spirit of the mid-twentieth century American era. The film will trace the history of neon, the science behind the art and neon's decline toward the end of the century. As the grand relics of yesteryear and those classic neon icons imperceptibly fade off the American landscape being replaced with plastic corporate logos and jumbo TV screens, the future of this art form is uncertain. This film will show a visual history of neon, emphasizing it's gradual disappearance appealing to the nostalgia of this lost art.
Personally capturing much of the footage for neon Now & Then in and around Los Angeles as well as other cities on a cross country trip across the country on Route 66,
I found many lovely lit and unlit signs barely hanging on to the metal erected to hold them. A Heinz Ketchup bottle in Pittsburgh still illuminates the side of a downtown brick wall, the Mann's Chinese Theater dragon which graced the theater's facade on Hollywood Blvd. is now rusted out in an old warehouse. A visit to a neon graveyard in Vegas conjures strange collective memories. Interviews with working neon artists, tube benders and fine artists who have mounted large scaled neon installations for public art are included in the piece showcasing the luminosity and splendor of neon which looks beautiful any way you shoot it.
Although the demand today is less than ever, neon seems to have evolved from low art in the street to high art, it's magic appreciated in the future in art galleries and museums. This film will have you seeing neon in a whole new light.
Pamela K. Johnson's screening a trailer from her feature documentary
LOVE, SHERWOOD
As a kid growing up in Depression-era New York, Sherwood Schwartz was determined to become a doctor. "I wanted to cure some diseases," he recalls. But with America's fortunes dwindling, many employers refused to hire Jews, and medical and law schools limited their enrollment. Sherwood went on to earn not one, but two graduate degrees in science, but still could not get into medical school. It appeared that he was one of the unlucky ones who had to resort to Plan B.
While he was a student at USC, his big brother Al worked as head writer for Bob Hope radio show. Sherwood asked Al if he could submit a few jokes to the comedian, to earn money for food. Sherwood's jokes were a hit, and Bob's manager offered Sherwood a contract. He went on not only to write for Bob, but to enjoy a stellar career, creating not one, but two of TV's longest running shows in history: The Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island.
As a kid, growing up in 1970's California, I was determined to become the seventh Brady kid. It didn't matter to me that the shows characters were all white, and I was black. Though that dream never materialized, I did grow up to be a journalist, and one of my stories led me to my own Plan B: An opportunity to meet Sherwood Schwartz, learn from him and tell his story in my intimate documentary, Love Sherwood.
Pamela K. Johnson, Avalon Blvd. Films, (562) 760-8322
http://PagingPamela.homestead.com
Leslie Streit is screening her trailer for the feature documentary, Elly Glass Project.
Spring,1938. Vienna and all of Austria are under the willing control of Hitler's Nazi Germany. Persons deemed political threats are routinely arrested and sent to the newly built concentration camps that would later become infamous throughout the world. Many never returned. Henry Glass was one of those arrested. His wife, Elly, only twenty-three years old, worked desperately to secure his freedom. Week after week, month after month, she pleaded fruitlessly with local agencies for assistance and regularly visited the local Gestapo headquarters petitioning for Henry's release. Convinced she would never be successful dealing with local authorities and deeply fearful for Henry, Elly determined to make the 600 mile journey to Gestapo headquarters in Berlin. With the help of a Dutch attorney whose name is lost to the years, a meeting was arranged with a high ranking officer. Elly says his face still comes to her in the night. What is known is at the end of the meeting the officer promised Elly her husband would be released in ten days. And he was.
Henry went on to remarkable success in his chosen field, architecture and design, was thinking about "green-building" 50 years before most of the rest of us, designed one of the first passive-solar homes in the country, held more than 50 patents on his work, advocated for civil rights and so much more. Elly, smart, indomitable and irreverent, was his indispensable partner in all of it. She is his touchstone, without whom life would have been very different. She is an extraordinary person, and without her help telling this story would not have been possible, and certainly not nearly as rewarding. It is an amazing and important story in so many ways freedom, flight, poverty, success, a remarkable career, and a sixty-six year love story.
Bing Hugh is screening her trailer for "A Place on Earth." -- a sweet and poignant drama about a little girl's search of the missing mother of an undocumented boy on her Youtube show.
700,000,000 to find 1 mom...
Arturo, a young Mexican migrant boy who is a gifted guitarist, has lost his mother to an immigration raid. He finds himself all alone in a strange city and a strange school. Lena enjoys vast popularity on the web through her smash-hit Youtube Show. Yet her mother's sudden and tragic death leaves a void that no amount of hits can quite fill. At school, Arturo's guitar intrigues Lena. Despite the language barrier, Lena is drawn to Arturo and his masterful guitar playing. She finds herself sitting down by the piano again, something she has abandoned since her mother's death. While Arturo and Lena slowly developing a close relationship through music, the immigration task force started visiting local schools to pick up undocumented kids. Arturo's wish to find his missing mother is strong. After telling Lena his story, he is forced into hiding in a local church. Before long, Lena starts getting into serious trouble with her over-protective father who strictly forbids his daughter seeing boys. Because what happened to her own mother, Lena feels for Arturo's suffering. The situation gets critical when she decides to broadcast Arturo's cry for help on her YouTube channel to millions of viewers...
Lori Miller, Alex Rotaru and Brad Kopenick are screening their feature documentary trailer, Shakespeare High, this is the winner of the L.A. Roy W. Dean Film grant for 2009
SHAKESPEARE HIGH
"Shakespeare High", is a feature-length documentary about a group of teens in Southern California whose lives are profoundly changed by learning, and then performing Shakespeare in the 90th Annual DTASC Shakespeare Competition. The film follows several students - mainly underserved, and from diverse socio-economic backgrounds, and explores how their dedication to drama provides them the purpose and passion to overcome great challenges.
Amongst the teens chronicled include Tosh from East Los Angeles, a former gangbanger whose discovery of drama rescued him and diverted him to follow his passion, stay in high school, and get good grades. In the high desert town of Hesperia, African American football stars twins Galvin and Melvin found Shakespeare after their father murdered their mother during an acrimonious divorce. They are drawn to the violent nature of Othello because it helps them release repressed traumatic feelings in ways they didn't think possible. Nicole - earnest and wise-beyond-her-years - is consumed by her drama studies. Her mother suffers from a terminal disease, and her family is broke. She can't afford to go to a four-year liberal arts college to pursue her dream career, and despairs that she'll never get out of her small town.
These are but a few of the thousands of stories of Southern California high school students who compete in the DTASC Shakespeare Festival. After we meet and hear these inspirational and emotional tales, we follow our protagonists to the competition and watch as months of arduous preparation culminate in a single, frantic day - when performances are judged by an expert jury/verdicts rendered/dreams ended/prizes won - and careers begun...
Contact: Lori Miller, Producer lorikmiller@earthlink.net 310-488-9868
