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Workshops & Special
Activates FREE For Members Included:
- Workshop: Writers of the L word
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Seminar with the L word creators
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Workshop: literary
agents, directors
agents and below the line agents,
- Workshop:
Female DP's-
- Workshop:
Lesbian Films, What's in
the Pipeline
- the art & craft of Pitching
- the art & craft of Networking
- the art & craft of Directing
- the art & craft of Screenwriting
- the art & craft of Film Festivals
- the art & craft of Life Coaching
- Casting Directors ‘meet and greet’
- Pitching to a Production Company
- Introduction to Talent Agent
- Introduction to Book Publisher
- Literary Manager solicited screenplays
- Los Angeles Launch Party
- New York Launch Party
- Chicago Launch Party – in Sept. 2002
- Positions on the crew, from Producer to
PA, of all grant winning films
Other Events POWER UP has provided members access
have included
The Premieres of Showtime's "Queer as Folk,"
" More Tales of the City,"" A Girl Thing"
Intimate dinners with Sharon Gless, Hal Sparks, Scott
Lowell and Helen Mirren & Taylor Hackford.
Panel discussion “Where the girls are” a look
a lesbian roles in TV and Film - Co-sponsored
MAKING MOVIES: what it takes, how it is done and who does
what...
Industry guests and participants have included:
Lucy
Mukerjee,Patrick
Baca, Lisa Thrasher,
Kelly Evans,
Angela Robinson, Joan Sobel,
Midge Sanford, Sarah
Pillsbury, Jane Berliner, Leslie Belzberg, Effie Brown,
Andrea Sperling, Forrest Murray, Lee Rose, Jamie Babbit,
Nicole Conn, A. Rosser Goodman, Joanne Linville, Denny
Sevier, Jan Oxenberg, Mary Kuyrla, Jeanie Ellis, Cara
Coslow, Lindsay Chag, Patrick Baca.
Ken Greenblatt of Genesis Literary Agency, Matt Altman
and Amy Retzinger of Gersh Agency and Pat Quinn and Jonathan
Silverman of Paradigm Agency. Showtime executive Cindy
Bell, L Word executive producer and creator Ilene Chaiken,
writers Guinevere Turner, Angela Robinson, Ellie Herman,
and actress Jennifer Beals, Mia Kirshner, Leshia Hailey.
Lisa Wiegand, Amy Vincent A.S.C. and Nancy Schriber A.S.C
Trish Doolan writer/director April's Shower, Roberta
Munroe, Programmer Sundance Film Festival and IFP Los
Angeles Film Festival; Lydia Marcus, Senior Film Critic
Frontiers Magazine and entertainment journalist; Kirsten
Schaffer Director of Programming Outfest, Laura Nix director
Politics of Fur
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NEWS AND EVENTS
PROFESSIONAL
SCREENPLAY COVERAGE
Have
your screenplay read by a professional "reader". Get
written notes and the inside scoop on how to make it POP
when you submit it to producers, agents, managers and competitions.
POWER UP members $200,
non members $285. There is a 2 week turnaround.
Contact Chris Thrasher
323 463-3154 for coverage.
FILMMAKING
DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS
Members in good standing may submit feature screenplay at anytime
to the Development program for possible production. POWER UP WILL
ONLY ACCEPT SCREENPLAY FROM CURRENT POWER MEMBERS.
THE ART & CRAFT OF
NETWORKING TBA
POWER UP executive director Stacy Codikow presents her ‘film
festival seminar’ to POWER
UP members. Get ahead, get what you want, get it all. Great for
new members. Great way
to reconnect with your peers!
NEW
CLASS...NEW CLASS...NEW CLASS...
NEW CLASS...NEW
CLASS...NEW CLASS...
Producers Program:
APPLY EARLY!
- LIMITED SEATING!
FREE to Professional Members in good standing through
June 2009.
Learn
skills, gain information, make contacts, understand the game,
in this intense Producers Program. This 6 month program includes:
meetings along with your participation in many projects to familiarize
you with many aspects of producing including the many ways one
can raise money for their projects. We will be doing development
on projects and you will receive hands on experience.
Mtgs can be evenings/weekends.
FOR Serious future or current producers only.
PLEASE write a one page summary
of your skills, experience, and education along with what you
hope to gain from this opportunity and email it to joinpowerup@aol.com
by Jan 6th 2009. PUT PRODUCERS PROGRAM in Subject.
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