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NALIP, CPB, the NEA and the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
In association with the Puerto Rico Film Commission, WIPR, Filmoteca Nacional, Latino Public Broadcasting, NBPC, NATV, ITVS, CAAM, PIC, and Women Make Movies Present
Doing Your Doc: DIVERSE VISIONS, REGIONAL VOICES
Feb. 5-7, 2010 in San Juan, Puerto Rico
A Weekend Seminar in San Juan
to Make Your Documentary Happen
If you took the trailer/sample tape workshop with story consultant Fernanda Rossi, the Documentary Doctor, you can now benefit from her invaluable workshop on story structure. For the first time in Puerto Rico, Fernanda Rossi will teach “Doctoring your Doc: How to Structure your Doc.” This is paired with a personal free appointment for mentoring on YOUR full work Sunday: trailer, short, rough-cut and/or proposal; scheduled with Fernanda and our funder/mentors. This intensive weekend workshop is right for you, whether you are just beginning a film, if you have already shot footage on a documentary project, or if you are already seeking finishing funds. “Doing your Doc” is designed especially for media makers in Puerto Rico, to develop your unique story. It prepares you to advance or complete you project, receive production funding and broadcast opportunities, or to apply for professional programs that expand your relationships and career.
Do you have a personal documentary idea, or social change community project that needs development? Are you working on a trailer, a proposal or a rough cut that can use specific feedback in order to attract funding for production or need R&D??
** Click Here to Register Online for DYD San Juan **
Download the Flyer here
Questions? Call 310.395.8880
Doing Your Doc: 3-day Workshop Fee
Early Registration by Feb. 5 - $100; Student w/ Valid ID -- $50. ($150/$100 at Door)
Includes lunches, workshop materials, handouts & private project mentoring session
Venue Address:
Filmoteca Nacional
Cuartel de Ballaja, Area Norte, 8 Calle de San Sebastian, San Juan, PR
Doing Your Doc: Workshop Overview
Feb. 5-7, 2010
Filmoteca Nacional, Cuartel de Ballaja, Area Norte, 8 Calle de San Sebastian, San Juan, PR
WORKSHOP OVERVIEW
FRIDAY, Feb. 5
6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Registration & Program overview
Documentary Case-Study Screening and Filmmaker Q & A
SATURDAY, Feb. 6
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 – 6:00 pm How to raise money, build audiences, and market your film with Debbie Zimmerman, Women Make Movies.
Bring your work-in-progress, whatever stage it is in – Not required to attend
SUNDAY, Feb. 7
9:00 am – 5:00 pm SIGN UP to have professional feedback by funders, filmmakers, and Fernanda Rossi. Your personal time will be scheduled. Screen a trailer. Screen a rough cut. Present a proposal. Try out a funding pitch. All options are open.
Come only for your private meeting OR sit in all day to see the work, hear the feedback, and get ideas for your own project.
** Click Here to Register Online for DYD San Juan **
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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