Grey’s Anatomy Actors Honored
August 12th, 2006
Isaiah Washington and Chandra Wilson
to become Reel Stars of Texas
Women In Film And Television will recognize two of our own! Native Houstonians Isaiah Washington and Chandra Wilson, stars in one of TV’s hottest shows, ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy, will be presented WIFT’s prestigious Reel Stars of Texas Award. A reception will offer an opportunity to meet Isaiah and Chandra and the awards ceremony will be quite different from the norm - an Inside The Actors Studio-type interview before a live audience, recorded for later broadcast. Save the date and your money, as this will be a major fundraiser for the organization. Seating will be limited. Details soon!
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Past Events
Town Hall Meeting
Texas Motion Picture Alliance
May 31, 2006 Houston Regional Meeting
6pm – 9pm
Rice University Media Center
University Boulevard, Rice Campus Entrance #8
(At University Blvd. and Stockton Street)
The Houston Film Commission and Southwest Alternate Media Project (SWAMP) invite you to participate in a town hall meeting with Director of the Texas Film Commission Bob Hudgins, who will introduce The Texas Motion Picture Alliance, a new organization being created to address current issues facing the film, video, and new media industries in the state of Texas.
The Houston Chapter of Women In Film & Television supports this meeting and strongly encourages industry professionals to attend this important meeting. RSVP to jmontgomery@ghcvb.org.
Meeting Agenda
• Discuss the need for a statewide alliance of organizations.
• Discuss the need for the depth of membership with the alliance.
• Discuss the next step of having a statewide meeting of the organizations' leadership in Austin to form a board that will formally create the alliance.
For more information: www.txmpa.org or www.txmpa.org
No-Budget Film School
Saturday, May 13, 2006
Instructor: Mark Stolaroff
Special Guest: Filmmaker Jacob Vaughan
Saturday, May 13, 2006 (10am - 5pm)
Location: Rice University Media Center
$75 – General Public;
$65 - SWAMP Members, WIFT Members & Students
For reservations contact SWAMP
Email: swamp@swamp.org
Phone: 713-522-8592 ext. 2
http://www.swamp.org
This class is recommended for all filmmakers who are ready to go out and make a feature with whatever resources they have available to them right now. The class offers a broad overview of Production, Post Production and Distribution, with the focus on a series of ideas that encourage filmmakers to throw out whatever old templates they may have on the filmmaking process. The approach taught asks filmmakers to look at their specific circumstances—their limitations and their resources—and develop their script and filmmaking technique from that, essentially reinventing the moviemaking process to suit their unique situation.
No-Budget Film School instructor Mark Stolaroff, a native Houstonian, is an independent producer and a founding partner of Antic Pictures, a new LA-based production company producing a slate of low budget, high quality digital features. Currently, Antic is in post on its first project, True Love, developed in the 2003 Sundance Screenwriters Lab and the third feature from acclaimed director Henry Barrial (Some Body). Stolaroff also recently co-produced the feature documentary Paper Chasers. Stolaroff has lectured on low budget and digital filmmaking throughout the world and at many of the major film festivals. He has taught film classes at UCLA Extension, the Maine Film Workshop, and The Learning Annex and has written for Scientific American, Filmmaker, Sight & Sound, and Film Festival Reporter.
Special guest speaker will be Texas filmmaker Jacob Vaughan. Jacob will talk about his no- budget feature "Dear Pillow", which he and filmmaking partner Brian Poyser produced, shot and edited for $3800.The film was nominated for a Spirit Award last year and has received critical acclaim nationally. Jacob recently directed "Cassidy Kids", which premiered at SXSW this year and was financed by Burnt Orange Productions.
For more details: www.nobudgetfilmschool.com