“Nuts and Bolts of Producing, and How to Structure A Documentary”
Lead by writer-producers Bobby Mardis and Denise Hamilton.
This will review important aspects of pre-production and production, present the professional-versus-guerilla filmmaking elements, and cover the steps necessary to assure a strong story structure. It’s an extremely important presentation for new and developing filmmakers.
FREE for BADWest members; $5 admission for all others.
To attend: RSVP at (213) 534-6635
About the Presenters:
Bobby Mardis Productions, in association with Fat Chance Films, has produced film,
television and various industrial projects for the last twenty-nine
years. Showtime
Network aired Bobby’s Why Colors? which starred Regina King, Ice T, and Barry White. Mardis has received awards for his films in over twenty film festivals around the world. He has produced straight-to-video projects, like the thriller One Last Time. His documentaries include Beats By the Bay, about the independent hip-hop and rap scene around San Francisco; and Katrina: Keeping the Faith about displaced Gulf Coast residents. He is currently in post-production on a jazz documentary Passing the Torch
Denise Hamilton is a writer-producer for television whose work has been produced for NBC and CBS affiliates in New York and Boston, the Discovery Channel, the Fox Family Channel, and E! Entertainment. Her most recent work was as writer for the documentary feature Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical Treasure, featured at the Palm Springs Film Festival, as well as writer/co-producer of the television series version that aired on PBS in 2009. Ms. Hamilton was coordinating producer for the ABC-TV documentary Motown 40: The Music is Forever, and WNBC-TV’s For Peace Sake: Youth Speaks Out, which won three local Emmys. She also wrote and produced the documentary Ngone’s Story: A Tale of Africa’s Orphans for the NBC/IBC series Horizons of the Spirit, as well as documentaries on the Rwandan refugee crisis, and Nicaraguan missionaries for the Odyssey Channel.
Location: (WGA) Writer Guild of America, West 7000 West 3rd St (at Fairfax) Los Angeles, CA 90048
Cost: FREE Admission & FREE Underground Parking at the back of the building.
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