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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 FilmMAKING
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...
Producing Independent Women’s Film
WHEN: TUESDAY,
July 22 - August 26
a six week class
WHERE: WGA in West Hollywood
TIME: 7pm-10pm
WITH: Lisa Thrasher - President of Production
Producing Independent Women’s Film Class
curriculum:
• Independent Film Today – How it has changed in the
last ten years and how does it differ from Studio Filmmaking?
• Theme & Story – What is the difference?
• Writing or Acquiring Scripts – Legal Rights
• Film Financing – Budgeting, Raising the Money, Getting
Investors, Grants & Fiscal Sponsorships.
• Pre-Production & Production - Shooting Schedule, Making
your Days, Staying on Budget.
• Post Production – Editing off & online, Film
Processing & Telecine, Color Correction, Sound Design &
Mix.
• Legal Issues in Film – Copyright, Contracts, Trademark,
Assigning rights, Music Rights.
• Piracy – How to protect your investment, Screeners,
Copyright, Press.
• The Film Festival Circuit – How to make it work
for you, Important Film Festivals, Specialty Film Festivals.
• Distribution & Marketing – Publicist, Finding
Distributors, Sales Agents, Contracts and Making the Deal.
REGISTER EARLY!
- LIMITED SEATING!
$325 per person
for professional members
$375 per person for non members
visa /mc or checks – no refunds
www.power-up.net
POWER UP * 419. N. Larchmont Blvd. #283,
* L.A. CA 90004 * 323 463-3154
Call Chris to sign up 323 463-3154
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