FILM AND VIDEO: WINTER WORKSHOPS

The DIVA Center is pleased to offer a number of planning and production workshops throughout the winter. Come and join regional film and video directors and producers as they share their expertise with Eugene's growing cinema arts community. Checkout our Winter Film Screenings page for a listing of hosted film events at DIVA. The DIVA Events Calendar has additional Center-based activities for the visual and time-based arts.

Saturday, December 15 Workshop: Improvised Performances with Sound-Image Technology
Instructors: Filmmakers Matt McCormick and Rob Tyler
Time: 11:00am - 1:00pm
Fee: $20 General. $15 Student
~ Visiting Portland filmmakers Matt McCormick and Rob Tyler explore the reasons for, and challenges of, performing live improvised works using audio and video technology. A round-table discussion examines the creative, aesthetic, and technological aspects involved. Seating limited. Pre-registration with payment guarantees a spot in the workshop. Call 344-3482 to register. Mail-in registration form available online. This workshop offered in conjunction with the 2007 IMMI Fest.

Saturday, January 12 Workshop: Documentary Pre-Production
Instructor: Film Producer Aaron Douglas
Time: 9:00 AM - Noon
Fee: $40 General. $25 Student
~ Producer Aaron Douglas examines the pre-production issues for documentary film. Topics include: Finding an appropriate topic, selecting or working with a director, budgeting and funding sources, grant writing and fiscal sponsorships, initial marketing strategies, and finding crew. Seating limited. Pre-registration with payment guarantees a spot in the workshop. Call 344-3482 to register. Mail-in registration form available online.This workshop offered in conjunction with the 2008 OpenLens Film Festival.

Sunday, January 13 Workshop: Documentary Production and Post Production
Instructor: Film Producer Aaron Douglas
Time: 9:00 AM - Noon
Fee: $40 General. $25. Student
~ Producer Aaron Douglas examines the pre-production issues for documentary film. Topics include: Film website & trailer, legal, and insurance considerations; locations and permits, music, subject releases, focus groups, PR, electronic press kits, festival circuit, sales agents and distribution. Seating limited. Pre-registration with payment guarantees a spot in the workshop. Call 344-3482 to register. Mail-in registration form available online. This workshop offered in conjunction with the 2008 OpenLens Film Festival.

Saturday, January 19 Workshop: Guerilla Marketing and Self-Distribution of your Film
Instructor: Filmmaker Kelley Baker
Time: 9:00 AM - Noon
Fee: $30 General $15 Student
~ Independent filmmaking is alive and well, it's independent distribution that is dead. At a time when "independent" films have to have a star and at least a couple million-dollar budget, how do you get your films seen?  Forget Sundance, Miramax, and PBS. These places get hundreds of submissions a year. How do you get your films seen? From wooden nickels to websites, to press kits and reviews Kelley Baker walks you though different ways to get an audience to turn out for your screenings. He challenges you to assess the real market for your film and provides examples of other filmmakers getting their work out, after their films were turned down by traditional distributors. Seating limited. Pre-registration with payment guarantees a spot in the workshop. Call 344-3482 to register. Mail-in registration form available online.

Saturday, February 2 Workshop: Make Your Own Damn Movie
Instructor: Director Lloyd Kaufman, Troma Films New York
Time: 3:00 PM
Fee: $10 - $20 Sliding scale. Register at the door. Seating Limited.
~ Low budget genre-bending New York Troma Films director Lloyd Kaufman (Toxic Avenger) will offer a two hour workshop on 'Make Your Own Damn Movie' This informative two hour course will cover everything an up-and coming filmmaker must know to get their dream projects off the ground.
Participants will learn how to:

• Get started on their first film project
• Find financing
• Understand what's involved in pre-production
• Choose a crew and production group
• Survive both large and small crises

By the end of the two-hour course, students will leave with dozens of creative and practical tips that are invaluable to aspiring filmmakers and get a real inside look at how it's all done.

Saturday, February 9 Workshop: Star Trek: Behind The Scenes (Writing for Science Fiction Television)
Instructor: Eric A. Stillwell with Lolita Fatjo and Mary Conley
Time 9:00 am - Noon
Fee: $35 General $30 Student/DIVA Member
~ Eric A. Stillwell and Lolita Fatjo, script coordinators for Star Trek: The Next Generation, present an informational workshop on writing for sci-fi television taking you behind the scenes of one of Hollywood's most successful franchises. 
Mary Conley, a writer who worked with them at Paramount Studios will join in a panel discussion about the various steps in the process of selling a script idea, from inception to final draft -- including the verbal pitch, writing story outlines and developing teleplays. 
    Each participant in the workshop will receive a copy of Stillwell's book "The Making of Yesterday's Enterprise," which provides a definitive behind-the-scenes look at the process for anybody who has ever entertained the idea of writing for television; or simply for the curious fan who has ever wondered what it's really like to work on a world famous science fiction television series. Seating limited. Pre-registration with payment guarantees a spot in the workshop. Call 344-3482 to register. Mail-in registration form available online.

Ongoing Workshop: Screenwriting Seminar
Instructor: Thomas Blank
Date: Saturdays (ongoing)
Time: 9:00am - 11:00am
Cost: $20 per class session, with a minimum registration for 4 Sessions required
Prerequisites: Instructor approval - 344-3482 for registration information
~ Retired Hollywood television director Thomas Blank offers an ongoing screenwriting seminar at the DIVA Center, 110 W. Broadway. The seminar is for those individuals ready to turn their script into a professional level screenplay.

Checkout our Film Screenings page about feature film programs at DIVA