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News from the Studio Window
Autumn: a season witness to eager, inquisitive students headed back to school. NWFF begins the new school year by offering a smattering of classes with legendary, pioneering and thoughtful visiting artists.
An icon of independent filmmaking over four decades, Melvin Van Peebles will share his epic and humorous stories. Argentine director Lisandro Alonso will describe the process of working with people and locations as inspiration for his storytelling. Experimental filmmakers Zoe Beloff and Stephanie Maxwell will offer hands-on workshops, demonstrating 3-D filmmaking and direct animation on 16mm film. Canadian filmmaker Velcrow Ripper will describe his experience and process of making documentaries about spiritual and social activism. Whether you are new to film as a medium of artistic expression and exploration, or a seasoned veteran, I'm sure you will find a workshop to engage and challenge you.
The season of falling leaves also brings the return of NWFF's Local Sightings Film Festival. There's no need to be frightened! That sinister figure lurking in the distance has merriment on his mind. You can scream and shout at our stellar opening night party on October 2, but after your eyes get used to the cinema darkness, the flickering images on screen will provide a week-long celebration of cinema that will feature the latest triumphs in narrative, documentary and experimental works from local artists. Check the website after September 18 for the full listing of films and events. www.localsightings.org
David Hanagan
Studio Director
Member News
Jon Behrens latest DVD release, Selected Experimental Short Films 1987–2007, is going into its second printing. He is working on three new films that should all be done by next spring and he is happy as a clam.
Lindy & Kris Boustedt co-wrote and will co-direct their first feature film, Perfect 10, this August in Cheney and Seattle through their company First Sight Productions. Perfect 10 is an off-beat dramatic comedy about identity, self-respect and the beauty of dysfunctional friendship. You can learn more at perfect10themovie.com.
William Brody has been videotaping episodes of the pop divination show Radio 8 Ball at the Little Red Studio on Wednesday nights, and looks forward to its Bumbershoot premiere. On the heels of screening his latest short, kristi 18, for the Exquisite Corpse Film Challenge, William has been doing still photography for KEXP, the Center on Contemporary Art, and Sinner Saint Burlesque.
Tom Furtwangler executive produced Remember Eliphas 3, an AIDS education drama set in the Namibian military, using an all-soldier cast and a mixed Namibian/South African crew. Cast and crew were thrilled when one of the Namibian Defence Force's three helicopters was made available for two hours to shoot the opening scene.
Erik Hammen is editing his feature film, Time of the Robots.
Michael Harring is editing Lauren Is Missing, his second feature. Meanwhile, his first feature, The Mountain, The River and The Road is set to play Local Sightings and Indie Memphis in October.
Kairos Productions is proud to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Crosswicks, LTD. to begin preproduction on the film Camilla Dickinson, an adaptation for the screen of Madeleine L’Engle’s fifth novel, Camilla. The producers are currently seeking financing and hope to produce this wonderful story with the loving care that it deserves. The film will be directed by Cornelia Duryée Moore and will be a celebration of Madeleine’s unique spirit and legacy. Cornelia worked with Madeleine for many years and is humbled and blessed to be producing the film of this beloved novel. www.kairos-productions.com
Sam Kellett recently worked on the film Hai Kwon Do for the Seattle 48-Hour Film Project. Sam was lead writer and co-director for the film, which won one of four Audience Awards.
Karl Krogstad expects the book to be a miracle. Just ask Cinema Books. Shot To Death is Karl's first book about filmmaking with intro by Gus Van Sant.
On July 8th LolitaMoon Productions' held a fundraiser sponsored by Tom Douglas at the Palace Ballroom for upcoming projects in need of executive producers and investors.
Marissa Rae Niederhauser is nearly done editing Tracings and is turning the reigns over to the audio artists (Jason Staczek and Steve Barsotti). Look for her dance film, Holding This For You (with camera by Benjamin Kasulke) at Bumbershoot's One Reel.
Jennifer Roth wants you to see World's Greatest Dad and rent (or buy) The Wrestler again.
Stephen Silha and Eric Slade have completed two sets of interviews in San Francisco for Big Joy, a documentary about film pioneer and poet James Broughton. Interviewees included George Kuchar, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Armistead Maupin, Jack Foley and film critic Edward Guthmann. Visit the website at www.bigjoy.org.
Paul Turcott is finishing up post-production on The Late Sorry for visual FX, sound and color. It is about a guy named Joel Stienberg, who's dead and doesn't know it. After passing from a heart attack during a nap at a family BBQ, he walks through his bathroom door straight into a psychiatrist's office for an appointment he didn't know he had with a man named Dr. Zane. When Dr. Zane sits Joel down to talk to him about his life, he digs further and discovers that Joel is a killer and Joel discovers Dr. Zane is no doctor.
What does an empty-nester cuddle and nurture? Koi Walker has been lugging a Panasonic HPX everywhere she went, filming everything from mayoral candidates, meditations, to pride parade!
White Noise Productions' Rustin Thompson premiered his high-def cerebral futuristic feature, The Ends of the Earth, at the Rainier Independent Film Festival. See a trailer of this visually striking, made in Washington, fiction-doc hybrid at endsoftheearthfilm.com.
Nathan Williams is in post-production on a new short film, Night Stand.