Woods Hole Film Festival

Workshops

ANIMATION with Bill Plympton Saturday, July 26th, Noon - 5 PM Fee: $100.00 Limit: 50. Location: Falmouth Community TV-13, 310 Dillingham Ave., Falmouth, MA 02540. Directions. register by phone 508-457-0800 or by mail DOC Registration Form.orAdobe PDF Registration Form Course description:Award-winning animator Bill Plympton returns to the Woods Hole Film Festival to give a one-day animation workshop. Participants will learn elements of animation from a master through demonstration and hands-on examples. Plympton will also give feedback on participant’s works-in-progress. About the Instructor: Selected Filmography: *The Tune* (1992), *J. Lyle* (1994), *Guns on the Clackamas* (1995), *I Married a Strange Person* (1998), *Mutant Aliens* (2001), *Your Face* (1987), *Eat* (2001), *Parking* (2002). Bill is working on his next feature film, *Hair High*, a gothic '50s high-school comedy about a love-triangle that goes terribly bad, with two young, murdered teens returning to their prom to get revenge. Plympton is still charting new territory in animation, this time by broadcasting all of his drawing for the film live on the web at www.hairhigh.com. The new film will be completed in late 2003. ...

SCREENPLAY DEVELOPMENT: *How To Develop Your* Screenplay So It Will Be Produced with J-P. Ouellette Monday, July 28, 11 AM - 5 PM Fee: $100 Limit: 10. Location: Falmouth Community TV-13, 310 Dillingham Ave., Falmouth, MA 02540. Directions. register by phone 508-457-0800 or by mail DOC Registration Form.orAdobe PDF Registration Form Course description: Before anyone, including yourself, makes your screenplay into a movie, the screenplay itself will have to convince a script reader, a producer, a director, actors, investors, a distributor, and a plethora of marketing professionals that it will not only connect with the audience you are writing for but that they will be able to promote it successfully to that audience. This intensive workshop reviews the requirements for a successful project and how to keep your creative integrity within the constraints of the medium. Participants should bring two practice story ideas in formative stage to the course: a log line and one paragraph description of the story's beginning, middle, and end. Pad and pencil/pen highly suggested. Through lecture, discussion, and interactive reviews of the projects, each participant will develop one of their projects towards a marketable and artistic beginning. About the Instructor: J-P Ouellette is a long time industry professional whose credits begin with apprenticeships to Orson Welles and Russ Meyer and include freelance script revision, second unit director on The Terminator, writer/director of H.P. Lovecraft's The Unnamable I and II. He has produced international television, industrials, documentaries, and features. He is currently co-developing a theatrical screenplay entitled Public House** for an award-winning Hollywood television star. ...

DIFFICULT SUBJECTS: Working with films from the collection of the National Library of Medicine with Michael Sappol Wednesday July 30th, Noon - 3 PM Fee: $50.00 Course Limit: 25 (must be over 21 to register). Location: Marine Biological Laboratory, Lillie Building, Room 103, Woods Hole. Directions. register by phone 508-457-0800 or by mail DOC Registration Form.orAdobe PDF Registration Form Course description: Historical medical film is notable for its representation and documentation of “difficult subjects.” Although publicly available, such films are rarely screened and, as a result, rarely studied. This workshop will screen a selection of these difficult films, explore their unique history, uses and abuses, effects on viewers, and the larger issues that they raise. Michael Sappol, historian-curator at the National Library of Medicine, will lead the discussion. About the Instructor: Michael Sappol is a curator-historian in the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine. He holds a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and is the author of *A Traffic of Dead Bodies* (Princeton University Press, 2002), which is about anatomy in 19th-century America. At the Library, he puts together museum exhibitions related to the history of medicine, science and technology. His current exhibition, *Dream Anatomy*, focuses on the history of anatomical representation, from 1500 to the present. ...

THE PICTURE IS THE FOCUS with a SPECIAL CINEMATOGRAPHY WORKSHOP by GORDON WILLIS. Master Class with Cinematographer Gordon Willis, A.S.C. Thursday, July 31st. 11 AM - 3 PM. Fee: $100 (Fee includes screening of "Manhattan" and afterparty). Course Limit: 50. Location: Falmouth Community TV-13, 310 Dillingham Ave., Falmouth, MA 02540. Directions. register by phone 508-457-0800 or by mail DOC Registration Form.orAdobe PDF Registration Form Course description: In this special one-day workshop, Gordon Willis will discuss the elements of film; critical decisions that make a good film, such as definition, relativity and design; focusing on the importance of why you do something as opposed to how; decision-making and communication; achieving a shared vision; and getting the results you want. He will show examples of his films and lead structured Q&A. Geared toward filmmakers and film professionals. The workshop will be followed by a special screening of Woody Allen’s film Manhattan at the Regal Nickelodeon Cinema in North Falmouth. The screening will be introduced by David Kleiler and followed by a Q&A with Gordon Willis, hosted by Boston Phoenix Critic-at large Gerry Peary. Join us at a post screening reception at 10:00 p.m. at Contrast in Mashpee Commons. About the Instructor: Since the release of his first feature film, Gordon Willis has been the Director of Photography on over 30 films, including some of the most outstanding films of our time such as *The Godfather(s), Annie Hall, All The President’s Men* & *Manhattan*. Mr. Willis was chosen for membership in the American Society of Cinematographers in 1975. Twice nominated by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, three times nominated by the British Academy, he has received numerous awards and an honorary degree. In 1995, the A.S.C. honored Mr. Willis with a Lifetime Achievement Award. ...

TECHNOLOGY DAY Friday, August 1st, Presentations throughout the day from 10:30 AM - 4:30 PM Limited to 80 persons per session Location: The Old Woods Hole Fire Station. Directions. registration not required, seating on first-come-first-served basis On Friday August 1st, from 10:00 AM to 5 PM at the Old Woods Hole Fire Station on the 2nd floor, the 2003 Woods Hole Film Festival will present a Technology Day. Open to the public and free of charge, this Technology Day will bring bleeding edge manufacturers to the festival to present advanced media production workflow techniques including: Improved acquisition of footage by ZGC Camera Company Time saving media storage technology designed by Focus Enhancements FireWire storage devices manufactured by LaCie The latest hardware/software solutions from Apple Computer Refined media compression and conversion tools from Discreet Integrated vector effects and titling software from Boris FX A new model for DVD/VHS content distribution from CustomFlix On hand to discuss these technologies: Don Peebles - Apple Computer - Senior Systems Engineer Denis Flynn - North East Sales Manager - Discreet Mizell Wilson - National Sales Representative - ZGC Camera Company Rob Bernstein - North East Sales Manager - LaCie hard drives Anne Renehan - Director of Educational Initiatives - Boris FX Shaun McTernan - North East Channel Manager - Focus Enhancements Gary Pink - New England Manager - The Camera Company Sean Sanders - CustomFlix.Com Art Smith, D.P. and seasoned wildlife photographer for National Geographic, National Wildlife Federation and U.S. Forest Service; From ANWR: To Whom It May Concern (documentary feature in production) Anyone working with video should attend. As a special treat, Apple Computer has loaned the Woods Hole Film Festival a portable classroom allowing attendees to play with the latest in Powerbook, editing and storage technology. Located downstairs at the Fire Station, these systems will be open to participants all day long. As an aperitif, there will be a 9:00 PM Emerging Technologies Panel and high-definition screening in the Woods Hole Oceanographic's Redfield Auditorium. On the panel: Brian Meaney - Apple Computer - Member - Final Cut Pro 4 design team David Bigelow - HD Editor - Element Productions Chi Ho Lee - Editor - The Busker (HD Feature) Shaun McTernan - North East Channel Manager - Focus Enhancements To be screened: Winter People directed by John Stimpson (HD Short) Freebox directed by Shandor Garrison (HD Short - a sneak peak of a work in progress) Please join us for these informative networking events! Space is limited and available on a first come first serve basis! For questions please contact J.C. Bouvier @ 508.344.1300 ...

PROJECT DEVELOPMENT AND DISTRIBUTION: Now that I’ve Made My Film, What Do I Do With It? with David Kleiler Saturday, August 2rd, 11 AM - 2 PM Fee: $100.00 Limit: 40. Location: Falmouth Community TV-13, 310 Dillingham Ave., Falmouth, MA 02540. Directions. register by phone 508-457-0800 or by mail DOC Registration Form.orAdobe PDF Registration Form Course description: In this workshop you will learn how to develop a script into a film that can be positioned strategically in the marketplace. The first half of the class will be a lecture with specific case studies; the second an interactive thinktank about projects being developed by class participants. Audio/visuals regarding your film are encouraged to enhance feedback and critique. About the Instructor: David Kleiler, is the principal name in Local Sightings and is artistic director and.or director of many film festivals including Woods Hole, Northampton and the Boston Underground Film Festival. He has consulted on many New England film projects. ...

WHAT'S THE STORY? The Infinite Forms of Documentary Film with Kate Davis Saturday, August 2nd. 11 AM - 3 PM Fee: $100.00 Limit: 30. Location: Falmouth Community TV-13, 310 Dillingham Ave., Falmouth, MA 02540. Directions. register by phone 508-457-0800 or by mail DOC Registration Form.orAdobe PDF Registration Form Course description: Award winning documentary filmmaker Kate Davis (*Southern Comfort, Sundance Grand Jury Prize 2001) will conduct a study of how style works with content in the shooting and editing of non-fiction. Using examples of strong documentaries, both well known and obscure, and showing works in progress with filmmakers, this seminar will examine the variety of aesthetic approaches found in doc films. We will discuss issues including camera angles, editing rhythms, structure, the use of information as a tool and a hinderance, character development, verite vs. interview, and narrator. All this will be in service to the large, often overlooked basic question, "how should I tell my story?" About the Instructor:* Kate Davis, Producer/Director and co-founder of the Woods Hole Film Festival, has been making films about misunderstood people on the margins of society for over ten years. The subjects of her films are often people who are overlooked by the mainstream society. Davis' theatrical films include *Girl Talk, a feature length film on three abused runaway girls, A World Alive, Requiem for the Planet, Total Baby, Vacant Lot*. These works have screened at theaters across the country and been broadcast worldwide. ...