FTS 95 Fall 2012 – 1 Credit Film Festival Opportunity – REGISTER NOW

For more info: Deborah.ellis@uvm.edu

VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL www.vtiff.org, October 19th – 28

 

This year FTS is pleased to be able to offer a 1-credit Vermont International Film Festival experience. The Vermont International Film Festival is held in downtown Burlington, October 19th – 28.

 

  • Students will attend workshops and panels, and have specially arranged interaction with visiting filmmakers and/or festival organizers.
  • Students will attend a minimum number of screenings during the festival (2 – 4 TBA).
  • Students will maintain a journal and write a short paper upon completion of the festival.
  • Students will meet with Professor Deb Ellis once before the festival and once after.
  • Note: a fee may be involved to pay for passes. It will not be over $25, and may be less.  Need to be negotiated!  Please speak to Prof. Ellis if you have questions.
  • A similar arrangement may be able to be arranged with the Camden International Film Festival in Camden, ME.  http://www.camdenfilmfest.org/  (September 27-30).  You would need to arrange your own transportation, approx. 6 hours.  Please talk to Deb Ellis if this is of interest.

 

INDUSTRY WORKSHOPS, PANEL DISCUSSIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Below is an overview of workshops and panels that will be presented at VTIFF.  Additional events include film screenings with director Q&As, a weekend of free Vermont-made films, and a number of “showcase” films.  The full program will be announced in upcoming weeks. 

Friday 19, 11am Main Street Landing-Film House

Fernanda Rossi/The Doc Doctor – Packaging your Documentary for Fundraising

Fenanda Rossi has doctored more than 300 fiction scripts, fundraising samples and documentaries, including two nominated for the Academy Award® and many that went on to receive funds from ITVS in the U.S. and NFB in Canada. She has given workshops and lectures in more than 12 countries for more than 40 film organizations and at all major world markets and conferences, including Hot Docs in Canada, SilverDOCS in the United States, Sunny Side of the Doc in France and Sheffield Doc/Fest in the UK. Her columns and articles have been published in trade publications, such as The Independent in the United States and DOX in Europe. She is the author of the acclaimed bible on demo production: Trailer Mechanics: How to Make Your Documentary Fundraising Demo. www.documentarydoctor.com

Friday Oct 19, 2pm Main Street Landing-Film House
Caitlin Boyle – Making Change: How to Use Grassroots Distribution to Build Audiences, Revenue, and Social Change With Film

Caitlin Boyle, Founder & President of Filmsprout http://www.filmsprout.org/, a boutique distribution and outreach firm that helps filmmakers broaden the audience and impact of their documentary films through public screening initiatives that secure revenue, swell viewership and spark social change.  A leading champion of grassroots and community distribution for independent films, Ms Boyle is the architect of national screening and audience outreach initiatives for dozens of feature documentaries, including King Corn, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, The End of the Line, A Small Act, Bag It and The Invisible War. Her workshops and presentations have rallied filmmakers at SXSW, Hot Docs, Independent Film Week, Sheffield Doc/Fest, the Los Angeles Film Festival and The New York Foundation for the Arts. She serves on the board of Brooklyn documentary arts center UnionDocs, and on the advisory board of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts Research Institute for the Advancement of Cinema Arts and Commerce.  England

Saturday Oct 20, 11am Main Street Landing-Film House
Sandra Forman – Whose Rights Are They Anyway

A roundtable Q & A and discussion with filmmakers on production legal issues including collaboration agreements, acquisition of literary and life story rights, production agreements, rights clearances, and fair use.

Sandra Forman, Entertainment and Copyright Lawyer with the Boston law firm of Rich May P.C. represents all aspects of production legal work for television and motion pictures, financing and distribution deals, publishing contracts, literary and life story rights acquisitions, writer and talent agreements, and analysis of rights issues including fair use review and opinion letters for insurance coverage. Ms Forman leads the Firm’s Entertainment Copyright and Trademark practice group. Over the past eight years, she has also served as project director and legal counsel on the re- release of Eyes on the Prize, the fourteen-hour, Emmy Award winning series on America’s Civil Rights Movement. Ms. Forman is on the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Production Coalition, the Advisory Board of Filmmakers Collaborative where she served on the Board of Directors for over ten years, and the Advisory Committee of Women in Film and Video New England

Forman will be joined by filmmaker David Van Taylor.  This year marks the twentieth anniversary of his first film, Dream Deceivers (link http://www.pbs.org/pov/dreamdeceivers/) which made extensive fair use claims.

Additional workshops/panel presentations will include:


Tribute to George Stoney: How Film Can Change Lives, followed by a screening of his film The Uprising of ’34  www.der.org/films/uprising-of-34.html – courtesy of Cynthia Close and Documentary Educational Network. Panel presentation in partnership with Channels 15, 16, 17. Participants to be announced.
George Stoney was a pioneer filmmaker and champion of public access television who died in 2012.  The Uprising of ’34 is a startling documentary which tells the story of the General Strike of 1934, a massive but little-known strike by hundreds of thousands of Southern cotton mill workers during the Great Depression.


Music and Film with Colin Trevorrow, director of Safety Not Guaranteed www.safetynotguaranteedmovie.com and Ryan Miller, Original Music Safety Not Guaranteed and member of the band Guster  www.guster.com

Collaborative Filmmaking with Nora Jacobson and others to be announced


The Future of Film in partnership the Burlington Fim Societyand Champlain College – with Barry Snyder, Rob Schmidt Barracano (LrP) and others to be announced