Workshops

Don’t miss these inspiring, educational and FREE film making workshops during the 2012 West Chester Film Festival.

Documentary Filmmaking from Start to Finish

Presented by: Sixx King, Producer/Director/Actor/Activist

Saturday, April 28, 12:30 PM at Knights of Columbus (KoC) 110 West Market Street

This workshop will provide you with a comprehensive overview of documentary filmmaking, from the production process through promotion. You will learn basic shooting techniques, and how to use microphones and audio-recording equipment in the field. While learning post-production strategies, and exploring storytelling methods and creative approaches to effectively communicate the message to your intended audience.

Sixx King is one of today’s most promising writers/producers/directors/actors/activists. A natural organizer, mobilizer and pop culture maven, King is always on the cutting-edge of what’s new and hot in entertainment. Through his company, Sixx Degrees Films, King has produced music videos for some of the industry’s brightest artists Eve, Alicia Keys, Sting and Lady GaGa to name a few.

A once in a life time interview by Howard Stern in 2005 paved the way for King’s radio career with New York’s Hot 97 morning show. During that same year he appeared in his fourth feature film, Black Cloud starring Tim McGraw and Rick Schroder.

In 2008, King was tapped as an on air personality for Radio One WPHI 100.3 The Beat and WRNB 107.9, taking home the March Of Dimes A.I.R. award for Best New On Air Talent. Also in 2008, King formed Youth, Politics & Empowerment, a program that introduces young people to film and television producing while learning about the political process.

The highlight of King’s career is his commitment to his son and the community. As a father King believes that what children become today is what our future will become tomorrow.

A Short (and funny) History of Film

Presented by: Marc Lapadula

Saturday, April 28, 2:00 PM at Knights of Columbus (KoC) 110 West Market Street

This talk will explore the film medium from its true inception to the dawn of “modern cinema” and on up through the decades to the current moment. It will examine how film has evolved (and sometimes devolved) into complex and multi-faceted entity that it is today.

Marc Lapadula is a full-time lecturer at Yale University, where he runs and teaches the entire screenwriting curriculum in the Film Studies Program. Marc also lectures and conducts screenwriting, playwriting and film analysis workshops on both the graduate and undergraduate levels for The Writing Seminars Department at Johns Hopkins University. He has also lectured extensively on film and conducted screenwriting seminars at Columbia Graduate Film School, the University of Pennsylvania (where he created the Screenwriting Program), as well as the Screenwriting Series at the Smithsonian Institution. He has been a consultant and expert analyst for movie producers and New Line and Paramount film studios. Marc produced the film, ANGEL PASSING, starring Hume Cronyn, which premiered at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival and then went on to win the Grand Jury Award at Worldfest, the Houston International Film Festival. Marc also co-produced the film MENTOR, starring Rutger Hauer, which was screened at THE TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL 2006.

Marc’s former students have written the screenplays for THE HANGOVER, (500) DAYS OF SUMMER, THE BREAK UP to name only a few. Several have written successfully for TV with scripts for FAMILY GUY, SCRUBS, LAW AND ORDER, SVU, and others.

Marc has had stage plays produced in New York and regionally and has had several original as well as adapted screenplays optioned and commissioned. Most recently, AT RISK, a dark drama about a troubled teen sent to a behavior modification camp, has been optioned in Los Angeles.

Film Acting, Stage Acting and Auditions! What’s it all about?

Presented by: Therese Walden-Murphy

Sunday, April 29, 11:00 AM at Knights of Columbus (KoC) 110 West Market Street

This workshop will teach the basic principles of acting and audition technique. The workshop will begin with an overview of acting concepts. Then Therese will discuss the specifics of performing on stage verses on-camera. She will wrap up the workshop with a discussion about how to audition and how to prepare for your audition. There will be time allotted for questions at the conclusion of the workshop.

Director of West Chester Studio for the Performing Arts, Therese is a professional actress who has performed in New York City, Los Angeles as well as regional theatres across the country. She holds an MFA in Classical Theatre from the Old Globe Theater Professional Actor Training Program and has been seen and heard in Commercials, Voice-overs, TV, Soap Operas, Industrials, Film, and on Stage. Therese joined the 1997 Broadway Company of Annie as Mr. Charnin’s assistant director and continued on with the National Tour. Some of her favorite roles played are: Mme. Giry in Phantom of the Opera (National Tour), Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet the Musical (The Ordway Theatre), Grace in Annie (Dramalogue Award for Best Actress, Fullerton Civic Light Opera), Margaret in The Lady’s Not For Burning (The Old Globe Theatre), Goneril in King Lear (LA Repertory Company), Princess of France in Love’s Labour’s Lost (McCallum Center), Faye/Angel/Gwen in Here on the Flight Path (Walnut Street Theatre), Belle in Tiny Tim’s Christmas (Brooklyn Academy of Music), and Fiona in Brigadoon (Robby Award Nomination for Best Actress, Santa Barbara Civic Light Opera). Films: National Treasure, Joe vs. the Volcano and When I was a Boy, TV: Renegade, Guiding Light, As the World Turns, and Another World. Therese is a proud member of AEA, SAG and AFTRA.

In addition to performing Therese has taught Musical Theatre, Shakespeare, Acting and Speech for over 20 years at many theaters and schools: The Old Globe Theatre, LA Repertory Company, Flat Rock Playhouse, Performers Theatre Workshop in NJ, The Hedgerow Theatre, The Media Theatre as well as private coaching in New York City.