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July 17, 2007
IAIA PUBLIC SCREENING OF 5 SHORT FILMS BY NATIVE AMERICAN FILMMAKERS
After six weeks of intensive training both inside and outside of classrooms on the IAIA Campus, the nine filmmaking students and ten screenwriting students taking part in the IAIA / ABC-Disney Summer Television and Film Workshop are ready for their cameos.
On Friday evening, as part of the Closing Ceremony marking the conclusion of this year’s Workshop, a group of short films created during the workshop by its students will be featured in a free screening in the LTC Auditorium on IAIA’s campus. Also being screened that evening is a video of a “table read” by the ten screenwriting students participating in the workshop.
“The ‘table read’ is where a film’s creative process begins,” says Beverly Morris (Aleut), the workshop’s director and an experienced documentary filmmaker. “Some of the most successful television series develop their scripts this way, and writers generally like working in a communal, supportive setting.”
The addition of a separate writer’s track to this year’s workshop has proven to be very useful for the ten students accepted into this year’s session, according to Morris. An atmosphere of collaboration between the screenwriters and filmmakers resulted in not only better scripts for the five short films featured in Friday’s screening, but also in several writers agreeing to act in the screenwriters’ films, Morris added.
The tribal backgrounds of students in this year’s workshop included Haida, Wampanoag, Kiowa, Navajo, Comanche, Pueblo, Ogallala, Pueblo and Choctaw. Workshop sponsors include W.K. Kellogg Foundation, ABC-Disney Television Group Talent Development Progams, New Mexico Arts, Anasazi Software, NBC Universal, and the 2007 New Mexico State Legislature.
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