Saturday, September 6, 2008

Call for Submissions - Director's Lab

Call for Submissions: Film Independent's 2009 Directors Lab

Designed to help directors who are prepping their feature films, the Directors Lab is an intensive eight-week program running in Los Angeles each spring. The primary focus of the Lab is on learning to work with actors and the rehearsal process. Under the guidance of the lab instructor, Directors Lab Fellows select short scenes from their scripts to workshop. Additionally, Fellows go through a mini-production, learning how to break down a script into a shot list, collaborate with cinematographers, and construct a scene in the editing process. Film Independent provides the Lab participants with camera and sound packages to shoot their scenes. All scenes will be shot on digital video and critiqued by the Lab Instructor as well as the other Lab participants.

A secondary goal of the program is to help advance the careers of the Lab Fellows by introducing them to film professionals who can advise them on both the craft and business of directing. Lab Fellows have one-on-one meetings with established directors and other industry professionals who act as advisors on the participant's projects.

A maximum of ten projects are selected.

Directors Lab Fellows receive:
A one-year membership with Film Independent
A pass to the Directors Series, which runs concurrently with the Lab
A pass to the Los Angeles Film Festival (Westwood Pass)
Year-round support from Film Independent

For an application and more information, please visit:
http://www.filmindependent.org/index.php/talent_development/directors_lab

Fall is Coming!


Fall is slowly coming to New Mexico. For those unfamiliar, in New Mexico fall means that the green chiles are harvested and roasted for the year ahead. Green chile is catamount to religion in New Mexico - chiles are even on the signs welcoming you to the state. Its a salsa, its a sauce, its a topping, its something you wind up adding to just about everything you eat. Once you've lived under the spell of green chile, you're forever addicted.

We've weclomed fall by peeling and bagging a 35# bag of hot green chile, and washed down with a nice fall ale. Here's the seeds and skins we'll be adding to the garden.