Film Connections Archive

 

Tuesday, June 28 

Be an Extra! With five upcoming feature-length films being made in Ohio recently announced, hear from two experienced professionals about a day in the life of an extra. Featuring FilmDayton friend and Dayton-based background actor, David J. Gewertz and Cincinnati-based Dare to Dream Casting casting director Greg Matusek. No sales pitches, just solid info and opportunity for in-depth discussion - join us.

 

Tuesday, April 26

Film Connections GOES to the MOVIES

As we gear up for the FilmDayton Festival (May 20-22, 2011) and the FilmDayton Screenwriting Conference (May 21-22, 2011), we’ll be taking a break from our regularly scheduled format for our April and May meetings and invite you to chill out with us at the movies!

Meet us at 7pm, NEON Movies lobby, get your $5 ticket (such a deal!) to see WIN WIN and get a bonus SNEAK PEEK of 5 FilmDayton Festival Film trailers before the 7:30 screening!

Synopsis:
Disheartened attorney Mike Flaherty, who moonlights as a high school wrestling coach, stumbles across a star athlete through some questionable business dealings while trying to support his family. Just as it looks like he will get a double payday, the boy's mother shows up fresh from rehab and flat broke, threatening to derail everything.

There will be no fee for FILM CONNECTIONS for this meeting.

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March 29

 

FilmDayton welcomes guests from the American Advertising Federating-Dayton to showcase the Silver & Gold Hermes/ADDY winners.  The winning works will be displayed and several guest designers will talk about their work and creative process. This is a wonderful opportunity to meet and network with this group of creatives.  

As a preview, here’s a link to the AAF-Dayton’s Tribute to 100 Years of Dayton Advertising:As a preview, here’s a link to the AAF-Dayton’s Tribute to 100 Years of Dayton Advertising:

http://mpg.udayton.edu/Hermes2011/

Presenters:
 1. Jim Hausfeld, Clear Channel Dayton 
 2. Mike Hurtz, University of Dayton Media Production Group
 3. Cathy Wiley, Cox Media Group Ohio
 4. Scott Winters, Winters Design

AAF-Dayton, Dayton Creative Syndicate, and FilmDayton members get free admission; non-Members $5; non-Member students $1. Your names will be on a list and your fees will be waived. You can each bring up to 4 guests for free. 

No reservation needed, just show up. Payment, if applicable, will be taken at the door. 

Tuesday, February 22

 

Scoring to Picture with Composer Damon Sink,
NORTH DIXIE DRIVE Sneak Peek,
Production Assistant Training Preview,
and TICKET OUT Preview Giveaway

 

Scoring to Picture: Collaborating with a Composer 

UD Professor, composer and all-around involved guy, Damon Sink will present the composition process from pre production to final delivery. (www.damonsink.com)

 

North Dixie Drive Sneak Peek

FilmDayton friend and all-things-Dayton-music impresario Shelly “Gladgirl” Hulce will intro the trailer of former Dayton bandmember Murder Your Darlings Eric Mahoney’s new film NORTH DIXIE DRIVE, screening at the NEON, Sat, Mar 26, 5pm.

 

 

 

Production Assistant Training Preview

FilmDayton presents a weekend of events to take you and your productions to the next level.

 

 

 

TICKET OUT

FilmDayton screening of TICKET OUT, the new Ray Liotta thriller shot in Cleveland by Director Doug Lodato.  

 

Fri, Feb 25, 6:30pm followed by Q&A, WSU, Theatre Arts Building, M252

  

 

Film Connections - Tuesday, January 25, 7pm, ThinkTV

Casting and Beyond: Finding and Working with Actors for your Film

Finding the right actors for a film is one of the most important steps to making a project a success.

Sadly, fear and lack of knowledge about how to attract good actors to a project lead many filmmakers to cast friends, family and amateurs, often making a promising project an unwatchable mess.

The actors are out there – this meeting will tell you how to find them!

Our discussion will include:

• Writing the casting notice

• Selecting sides
  

• Working with talent agencies, casting directors and actor’s unions
  

• Local sources for talent
  

• The audition process
  

• What actors expect from a director
  

• The importance of rehearsals
  

• Creating a professional working environment – before, during and after the shoot
  

About our presenters:
Shaunn Baker is the Managing Partner of WorldStage Media in Dayton Ohio, a company that produces both entertainment and corporate media projects locally and across the country. He is a graduate of Wright State University’s professional actor training program and has been working as a performer or with performers for more than 30 years. Baker has directed, produced and shot hundreds of video projects for companies ranging from small non-profits to Fortune 500s. Early in his career he was a member of the Generic Comedy Troup with Brad Sherwood from Whose Line Is It Anyway, and several Second City alums. He also has directed professional theatre, locally for both The Human Race and The Zoot Theatre Companies, and works with the P.C. Goenner Talent Agency coaching actors on audition techniques.

Karri O’Reilly has been involved with over 100 features, short films, commercials and television programs during her fifteen years in the entertainment industry. She received her degree in Motion Picture Production from Wright State University, and worked on several feature films in Ohio and as an associate news producer for the local ABC affiliate before moving to Los Angeles in 1995. In LA, she jumped back into film production, working on such films as Boogie Nights, Nothing to Lose, and Double Dragon.

Most recently, she produced the Cuba Gooding Jr. drama Linewatch, and co-produced the 3-D feature film The Dark Country for Sony’s Stage 6 Productions. She also recently produced the Romania-lensed sequels Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes and Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud, and line produced the family film Saving Shiloh, which is the third installment of the critically acclaimed Spirit Awards, and in the winter of 2004 she line produced the Sci-Fi channel feature Black Hole.

A member of the Directors Guild of America, Karri has worked all over the US and internationally on such films as A Love Song for Bobby Long, Something the Lord Made, Hollow Man 2, Freddy Vs Jason, and Wedding Crashers.  

FilmDayton members get free admission; non-Members $5; non-Member students $1. Your names will be on a list and your fees will be waived. You can each bring up to 4 guests for free.

 

Film Connections - Tuesday, Dec 28, 7pm, Think TV

Dayton Filmmaker Spotlight: Marisha Mukerjee 

 

Please join FilmDayton Board Member Marisha Mukerjee. December 28th, Think TV, 7-8pm downtown for FilmDayton’s December Film Connections.

 

Marisha Mukerjee, Producer at Madrina Films and a Screenwriting Professor at Northwestern University Evanston, will be sharing some of her experimental video installations, talking about her time this summer at Showtime covering Dexter and Californication. Marisha will also speak about her upcoming short film Wonderland, she will be filming in Dayton this Spring.

 

Filmmaker and Advocate Maria Messer will be talking about Cielo Rojo, a documentary that is currently in production both here in Clark County, as well as in Arizona. Cielo Rojo probes the human tragedy of illegal immigration – a tragedy deepened by the anger that surged after the enactment of anti-immigration legislation in Arizona.

 

Cielo Rojo follows the emotional and physical journey of migrants from their villages in Mexico and Central America to rural Ohio. The film follows the stories of those who flee corruption, poverty, and violence in Mexico and Central America, risking death to cross in hope of finding a decent life in the United States. Throughout the film migrants and their advocates tell stories of the criminal gangs who prey upon migrants; stories of rape, kidnapping for ransom and human trafficking; stories about the lonely deaths of the weak who are abandoned and die of exposure in the desert.  Cielo Rojo also takes an in depth look, exposing the dark side of the smuggling industry, run by “mafias” and “cartels” whose greed blinds them to the humanity of their own people. The color of illegal immigration is not black or white it’s green.

 

Maria Messer is an advocate for immigrants in rural communities in central Ohio. She has extensively traveled to desert migration corridors in Arizona and elsewhere in the American southwest to witness the cruel experiences of her clients.

 

 

Film Connections - Tuesday, Nov 30, 7pm, ThinkTV