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NALIP, CPB, the NEA, the Hanson Film Institute, and the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
In association with the School of Theatre, Film & Television, College of Fine Arts, University of Arizona, the Tucson Film Office, KUAT, CAAM, LPB, ITVS, NBPC, PIC, NAPT, and Women Make Movies Present
Doing Your Doc: DIVERSE VISIONS, REGIONAL VOICES
Sept. 17-19, 2010 in Tucson, Arizona
A Weekend Seminar in Tucson
to Kick-Start Your Documentary
Don't miss this unique chance to work with story consultant Fernanda Rossi, the Documentary Doctor, author of the book "Trailer Mechanics," plus receive project mentoring on your proposal, trailer or documentary idea. This intensive 3-day workshop is right for you, whether you are just beginning, have already shot footage on a documentary project, or are seeking finishing funds. "Doing your Doc" is designed especially for media makers in the diverse and local communities of Arizona, preparing you to receive production funding and apply to national professional programs while developing your unique stories and views.
Do you have a personal documentary idea, or social change community project that needs development? Are you considering public television funding sources or need R&D $$??
Join us in Tucson – Sept. 17-19 – Friday night through Sunday at 5 pm
** Click Here to Register Online for DYD Tucson **
Download the Flyer here
Questions? Call 310.395.8880
Doing Your Doc: 3-day Workshop Fee
Early Registration by Sept. 17- $100; Student w/ Valid ID -- $50
100% Scholarships Available for U of A students!
Includes lunches, workshop materials, books & private project mentoring
At the door Registration -- $125; Students -- $75
Venue Address:
ILC 130, University of Arizona
1500 E. University Blvd., Tucson, Arizona
Doing Your Doc: Workshop Overview
Sept. 17 - 19, 2010
WORKSHOP OVERVIEW
FRIDAY, Sept. 17
6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Orientation & Program overview
Documentary Case-Study Screening and Filmmaker Q & A
SATURDAY, Sept. 18
9:00 am – 5:00 pm DOCTORING YOUR DOC: How to Structure Your Documentary
Do you have lots of ideas and even footage but no clue where to get started? Or maybe you are stuck in the cutting room? A solid understanding of story structure is as necessary to your documentary as a strong script is to a fiction film. With hands-on exercises, this full-day workshop is for producers, directors, writers and editors, and can give you the guidelines you need to find solutions that are true to your documentary's style. You will:
* Learn story development techniques
* Learn story structure templates in an innovative and easy way
* Identify common pitfalls that waste your time and money during production and post, and how to avoid them
* Analyze a film as practice for your own project
* Analyze works-in-progress from the audience
1:00 pm Special Lunch presentation on public television funding and navigating the Consortia System
5:00 pm – 7:30 pm Private Mentoring Sessions w/ Guest Filmmakers and Funders
Have your idea, proposal, trailer, pitch or concept evaluated and discussed for the next best steps to realize your project and documentary production.
Bring your work-in-progress, whatever stage it is in – Not required to attend
SUNDAY, Sept. 19
9:00 am – 12:30 pm TRAILER MECHANICS: How to Make Your Fundraising Trailer
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm WORKING LUNCH: Designing your Filmmaker website to raise funds and build audiences
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Getting your project off the ground -- Elements for successful Proposals and Budgets
"Can I see your trailer?" Let's face it, a fundraising trailer can make or break your film. It can get you funded or it can put you on the "pass" pile. Stop the guess work of what works and what doesn't with this full day workshop for producers, directors, writers and editors.
See all of Ms. Rossi’s “Trailer mechanics” theory in action with real life examples. You will:
* Learn the foundational story structures for fundraising trailers
* Learn the most common mistakes filmmakers make when making their trailers and how to avoid them (not the filmmakers: the mistakes!)
* View trailers before and after Fernanda's doctoring
* View successful fundraising trailers
* View your fundraising trailers, followed by discussion
* Review elements of successful Proposal Writing to request funds
* Cover budget formats and requirements for grants and funding
* Discuss funding opportunities and strategies for your doc
* Learn when and how to handle an editor, a DP, etc. in smart production planning
** Click Here to Register Online for DYD Tucson **
ABOUT DOING YOUR DOC: DIVERSE VISIONS, REGIONAL VOICES
The National Endowment for the Arts and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting support NALIP's efforts with a grant to design, market, organize and produce 4 regional professional documentary development/production seminars targeted at the diverse voices of emerging Latino/a, African-American, Asian, Pacific Islander and Native American documentary makers. "Doing Your Doc: Diverse Visions, Regional Voices" has completed its forth successful year aimed at expanding the documentary talent pool in communities underserved by documentary development.
The program attracted 20-45 artists in Austin, Miami and Chicago, Albuquerque, Boston, Atlanta, Denver, Tucson, and San Francisco. The 2-1/2 day curriculum covers documentary project story structure, proposal writing, trailer mechanics and post-production/ delivery planning taught by "Documentary Doctor" Fernanda Rossi. It includes general information, a case study screening, and specific project mentoring. It focuses on emerging regional makers who have personal documentaries reflective of their locales or experience, plus it supported stories that cover community-based and social change issues. It includes presentations about funding, broadcast or careers in the public television system, and introduced members of the minority consortia to new applicants. It brings professionals to regional communities underserved by the information available in New York and Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and supports project development to feed into other national programs like NALIP's Latino Producers Academy and Latino Media Market.
NALIP and the Full Frame Film Festival, in association with the National Endowment for the Arts, Columbia College Chicago, International Latino Cultural Center and IFP-Chicago, National Black Programmers Consortium, the Center for Asian American Media, Pacific Islanders in Communications, ITVS, WMM, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Film and Video Center at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, KNME, Full Frame Documentary Festival, the Office of African-American Affairs, the New Mexico Film Commission, the Institute of American Indian Arts, MIT Media Lab, DAEL Lab at GSU, Native American Telecommunications, and Latino Public Broadcasting presented additional 2009 workshops in Miami, Lincoln, Harlem, and San Antonio; in 2010 we target Minneapolis, Puerto Rico and perhaps Dominican Republic.
Funding pays instructors and artists to attend as mentors, to do case studies, and to inspire new filmmakers. Funding provides audio visual support and professional development lunches about public television funding opportunities and digital technologies. And funding supplements lowered registration and, when possible, hotel costs for regional participants. In Austin, we had makers travel from Arizona, New Mexico, Dallas, Houston and the Rio Grande Valley; two Puerto Rico filmmakers and an Atlanta artist attended the Miami workshop on scholarship while PIC hosted two Hawaiian producers in Chicago.
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