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HOW TO CREATE A MARKETABLE DOCUMENTARY- WorkshopSunday, August 7, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (PT)Los Angeles, CA |
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What's the secret to creating and shooting not only a marketable documentary, but one that makes a difference?
Join us for a special two hour seminar with Chandler Griffin, Documentary Filmmaker and Director of Barefoot Workshops. Chandler will demonstrate how to create a one-man, professional HD equipment package to work in a variety of remote locations, all based on his own experiences working in the U.S. and around the globe. Chandler will also show Barefoot Workshops' alumni work as examples of how documentaries can be created in under two weeks using inexpensive and budget-realistic equipment packages. This will be a great opportunity to ask questions about equipment and how to work in unusual locations around the world.
Barefoot Workshops Bio:
Barefoot
Workshops is a New York City-based, nonprofit organization 501(c)3
founded in 2004, that teaches individuals and organizations how to use
digital video, new media, and the arts to transform their communities
and themselves.
Each year, we teach traditional Documentary Workshops in The Mississippi Delta; Cape Town, South Africa and Marfa, Texas which are open to individuals with beginner through advanced levels of training.
Barefoot
Workshops also leads NGO Workshops in partnership with government and
nongovernmental organizations. Together, we build the capacity of
organizations around the world to meet program goals in areas such as:
health (HIV/AIDS), conflict resolution, youth empowerment, civil rights
and democracy-building.
To date, Barefoot has run
workshops in nineteen countries teaching individuals, organizations,
youth, adults, cancer survivors, HIV/AIDS advocates, everywhere from
Burundi to The West Bank to Canada to Honduras.
Partners
have included: the U.S. Department of State, Desmond Tutu HIV
Foundation, the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI), Filmaid
International (
Kakuma Refugee Camp,
Kenya), UNESCO (Burundi), and Katrina-affected communities in the southern United States.
Chandler Griffin Bio:
Chandler
Griffin is a New York City/Los Angeles-based, documentary filmmaker,
educator and the Founding Director of Barefoot Workshops with over ten
years of experience instructing over seventy media workshops, starting
out at the Maine Media Workshops. His projects have taken him to Latin
America, North America, the UK, Ireland, Africa, India, Southeast Asia
and the Middle East. He has produced and taught educational programs in
northern Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, South Africa, Honduras,
Jordan, Kuwait, Israel, Palestine, Bahrain, India, Vietnam, Indonesia,
Malaysia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Canada and various locations
in the continental USA. He is a founding member of Video Volunteers.
Chandler has collaborated with Navsarjan Trust, PLANusa, 1Giant Leap,
PBS, The American Cancer Society, The Mississippi Film Office, The
Mississippi Arts Commission, The Mississippi Humanities Council,
Hospice Ministries, FXB International, The Ford Foundation, Academy for
Educational Development, Global Nomads Group, RFK Center for Human
Rights, Ocean Classroom, FilmAid International, UNESCO/UNAIDS/UNDP, the
State Department's Middle East Partnership Initiative and the
President's Digital Freedom Initiative. His camera work has helped
films earn a CINE Golden Eagle Award and an Oscar Finalist/Student
Academy Awards. In 2006 Chandler founded A River Blue, an arts
empowerment project for 100 displaced children in northern Uganda. A
River Blue offers agriculture, agroforestry, animal husbandry,
tailoring, psychosocial counseling, English, business and secondary
school to 51 students. He holds two BFAs in Photography and Video/Film
from the Savannah College of Art & Design and lectures regularly
in New York City at B&H, Tekserve and Atlantic Theater Company. At
this point in his career, he doesn't consider himself a filmmaker or
photographer. Chandler sees himself as a creative entrepreneur who is constantly looking for original and innovative ways to use the arts as an excuse to create cultural bridges between individuals and communities.
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Raleigh Studios
5300 Melrose Ave
Los Angeles,
CA 90038
Sunday, August 7, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (PT)
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