BAWIFT MEETINGS
We usually meet on the 2nd Wednesday of every month for an evening of guest speakers, show and tell, tips and tricks and whatever else we can fit into two and a half hours. However, sometimes due to venue or speaker availability, we meet on a different day.
SAVE THE DATE FOR BAWIFM's APRIL EVENT:
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8TH, 2009!
Acting/Writing/Directing Synergy******************************************************************
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Acting/Writing/Directing Synergy
How often have you arrived on set and the actors, writer and actor have trusted each other enough that everything flowed naturally, to the point that you could call it “synergy”? How is acting for the stage different than acting for camera? As a director, how can you speak the actor’s language so you can work with them to achieve your goals? What conversations should the actors, writer and director have prior to arriving on set? And what the heck is a “dramaturg”, anyway? These are just a few of the questions our panelists will address at the April 8, 2009 BAWIFM meeting.
Panelists include:
Celik Kayalar, PhD. writes, directs and produces films and plays. Also trained as an actor, he has acted in numerous plays and movies in the Bay Area. Celik is the founder and the director of the Film Acting Program at "San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking", which trains 400 film actors every year. His most recent feature-film, "Moonlight Sonata", which he wrote, directed and edited, has just been accepted to California Indie Film Festival ( Livermore, 2009 ). For more on Celik, please visit: www.moonlightsonatamovie.com
Kelilyn Mohr McKeever, Writer and Director
Two formative experiences got Kelilyn writing screenplays: she was referred to as "tits" while working as a production assistant and was asked at two different auditions if she'd be comfortable with a simulated fellatio scene. The comedy, "Greyhounds", is her first short film as a writer/director. It screened at the Cannes Short Film Corner, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, The Space4Shorts Film Festival in England, and The San Francisco International Film Festival, where it was nominated for two Golden Gate Awards. (Watch it online as part of IMDb Theaters). Currently, she is working on a comedic series for the web about the guests and employees of the first budget space hotel. She has written several feature length screenplays, including "The Wee Hours" about a woman who becomes a menopausal insomniac in suburbia.
Valerie Weak is a San Francisco based actor who works on stage, film, voiceover and print. "The Snake", an irreverent comedy about dating and body image that features Margaret Cho, screens at SXSW in March 2009. "Around the Bay" was at Cinequest 2008 and named a top film of 2008 by the San Jose Metro. Recently wrapped is the short "A Little History, episode one" in the Find your Frame series. Valerie has worked at many Bay Area theaters including Theaterworks, Shotgun Players, and Pacific Alliance Stage Company and will appear in Bay Area parks this summer with the San Francisco Shakespeare festival in "A Comedy of Errors". She holds a BA in Theatre Arts from UCLA and has trained with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company.
Laley Lippard is a director and the co-founder / artistic director of Brave Trade Narrative. Laley is committed to championing new work and creating ground-breaking performance with a rigorous physical vocabulary. As an associate artist at Magic Theatre, she worked on three premiers and co-produced and directed "ZMagicMonday". Working with development programs at Playwrights Foundation, Theatreworks, and Just Theater inspired her direction of sevenby7, a Bay Area writer's collective. Local credits include mugwumpin, foolsFURY, Cutting Ball, Open Experiments Ensemble, and A.C.T. where she was the recipient of a SSDC Observership Grant. National credits include Guthrie, Arena Stage, Woolly Mammoth, Rorschach Theatre, and SITI Company in Saratoga.
OUR MONTHLY MEETING IN APRIL 2009 IS AT THE SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL OF DIGITAL FILMMAKING
Please refer to the information on location and directions to the School provided below. There are two campus locations for SF School of Digital Filmmaking if you look on their website. Below we provide the correct location for this event.
Directions to the San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking:
2565Third St., Suite #337, between 22nd & 23rd, SF
Note: At the front door, look up SF School of Digital Filmmaking in the building directory. You will see the code number *033# Dial that number and you will be buzzed in. Come to the third floor by the stairs or the elevator, which is beyond the stairwell and through the
first door.
HOW TO GET TO THE SF SCHOOL OF DIGITAL FILMMAKING at 2565 THIRD ST.:
By Public Transit - BART
Exit at the 16th Street/Mission Station. Take the #22 bus from the SW corner to the last stop on the line, which is Third St. at 20th St.
Walk 1.5 blocks south.
Public Transit - SF MUNI
To use Muni from downtown SF or from the East Bay, take the T-THIRD MUNI line (inbound to SF) on the Embarcadero. This is on the street
level. Pick it up anywhere along the Embarcadero and it goes down
Third Street and stops just opposite the SFSDF building, near 22nd St. For more MUNI info go to: www.sfmuni.com
BUS LINES in San Francisco to use:
# 22 (take it to the last stop, at Third & 20th), and # 49
FOR THOSE DRIVING, STREET PARKING IN THIS AREA IS EASY AND FREE AFTER 6 PM.
DRIVING FROM THE EAST BAY:
Go West toward San Francisco
Cross the Bay Bridge (toll)
Stay on US 101, toward San Jose
Exit right onto Cesar Chavez Blvd heading EAST
Turn left onto Third St.
The school is located between 22nd & 23rd Streets.
DRIVING FROM THE SOUTH BAY
US 101 or US 280 North toward San Francisco
Exit right onto Cesar Chavez Blvd., go EAST
Turn left onto Third Street
The school is located between 22nd & 23rd Streets.
DRIVING FROM THE NORTH BAY
US 101 S toward San Francisco (toll)
Turn right onto Van Ness Ave./US101
Turn left onto Golden Gate Ave.
Turn slight right onto 6th St.
Merge onto I 280 S / US280 South
Take Mariposa St. exit
Turn left onto 18th St.
Turn right onto Third St.
Go South a few blocks.
The school is located between 22nd & 23rd Streets.
WE LOOK FORWARD TO YOU JOINING US ON APRIL 8th!
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