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The Sony Future Filmmakers Award for Best Picture in 2007 is presented to Mission Space 2.

Running Funny
The film Running Funny is scheduled to screen at 4 p.m. on Sunday, March 30 at the Aguora Hills/Calabasas Community Center.


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2008 Method Fest Film Festival Youth Day
Set for Sunday, March 30

Seminar, Shorts, Film at Agouia Hills/Calabasas Community Center

2008 Method Fest Youth Day
Sunday, March 30th 11:00AM - 6:00PM
The Agoura Hills / Calabasas Community Center
27040 Malibu Hills Road
Calabasas, CA 91301

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC


11:00am - 1:00pm Seminar
A Filmmakers Education - Paths to a Career in the Entertainment Industry


About:
This seminar is a great opportunity for youth filmmakers and beginning filmmakers of any age to learn from industry professionals, film school graduates, and film school professors the pros and cons of a degree in film, the paths to entry-level jobs in the entertainment industry, and everything else one could ever possibly want to know about the entertainment industry but was too afraid to ask.

Moderator:
Eric Gersh, moderator, Owner of EMG Studios, Video Production Instructor for Las Virgenes School District

Panelists:

  • Anthony Grippa, director of "Running Funny" (Method Fest film '08), Rutgers University graduate
  • Matt Christensen, producer of "Running Funny" (Method Fest film '08), UCLA graduate
  • Jurg Walther: Award-winning cinematographer, Chapman University professor
  • Lynn Hamrick: DGA Award-winning director, Chapman University professor, director of Stanley Marshall's Myth (Method Fest film '06)
  • Jill Dickerson: Producer/Writer/Story Supervisor/Casting Director, Harvard and NYU graduate
  • Todd Baker: Producer/Sound engineer, Cal State Long Beach professor, USC graduate

1:30 - 3:00 - Youth Screenings

2008 Youth Films Lineup is:
  • Goodbye by Aaron Blum
  • Chope by Michael Fishbein
  • Hillary and Obama by Charlie Kaufman
  • The Boy and the Bird by Erica Leshon, Mor Weizman, Natalie Nacson, Cameron Dutra, and John Garcia
  • Artistic Seclusion by Justin Lieberman
  • Water Damage by Kellen Moore
  • Petals of Hope by Sarah Morcos
  • Winter's Hero by Alexi Sciutto
  • Sweet Tooth by Mason Shefa
  • Millie by Chris Sullivan

3:00 - 4:00
Acting Workshop Hosted by Ron Gilbert

4:00 - 6:00
Running Funny (Feature Film)

See Films Page for more information.


Contact
Feel free to contact us with questions or comments via email at youth@methodfest.com.