BADWest » Workshops http://www.badwest.org The Black Association of Documentary Filmmakers West Thu, 08 Dec 2011 07:48:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 7pm, April 7th, Nuts and Bolts of Producing & How to Structure A Documentary http://www.badwest.org/events/nuts-and-bolts/ http://www.badwest.org/events/nuts-and-bolts/#comments Thu, 15 Apr 2010 07:15:39 +0000 admin http://www.badwest.org/?p=179

“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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Jonathan Skurnik is a documentary producer, director and cinematographer and a narrative film writer and director. His films have been broadcast on PBS, Satellite and Cable stations and European television. They have been screened at the Museum of Modern Art, Lincoln Center, art galleries in New York City and Martha’s Vineyard, and at over thirty film festivals throughout the world. He has won the Harry Chapin Media Award for films about poverty and Best Documentary Award at the Urban TV film festival in Madrid.
Jonathan has worked in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and South and North America. He has raised over $400,000 from ITVS, the MacArthur Foundation, the Paul Robeson Fund and many other foundations and private donors. He has sold over $60,000 worth of his films to Universities and Non-Profits and serves on the board of New Day Films, one of the oldest and most successful educational film distribution companies in the US, with annual sales of over $800,000.
Jonathan has led workshops and master classes in theory and production for filmmakers in the US and China. He has written and directed two narrative films that are doing the festival circuit.
Jonathan recently moved to Los Angeles where he plans to write and direct for television and movies while he continues to direct and shoot independent documentaries.
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