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Our UA Alum continue to inspire! Lauren Rossi has just accepted a job as Production Assistant on Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Congrats, Lauren!
What better way to continue this past year’s #WomenInFilm focus than by also sharing your work with Athena Film Festival? Do you have a short film or script that focuses on a fierce and fearless women leader? If you answered yes, then submit!
The BWFF team is doing great things this summer! Shoutout to our Assistant Publicity Director, Katie Teas on landing an internship! She will be doing Marketing and Operations at Justins, a company located in Boulder Colorado. Congrats and good luck, we are so proud of you! @katie.teas
Our good friends over at Sidewalk Film Festival have another one of their monthly salon's coming up in Birmingham this week. The focus for this one is LOCATION SCOUTING! Join Sidewalk at Rojo Birmingham for their May salon covering location scouting! They’ll have guest speakers Chris Olney and Buddy Palmer discussing the ins and outs of location scouting. Chris was a location scout for the A24 film “On the Run” and was assistant locations manager on “Bigger” and “Into the Ashes.” Buddy Palmer is the president and CEO of Create Birmingham, parent organization of Film Birmingham. About Salon: Sidewalk Salon is a FREE monthly networking and educational event aimed at film makers and film fans alike. Join us the 1st Tuesday of each month to meet new people, learn something new and enjoy complimentary chips, salsa and queso from our friends at Rojo. As always, networking starts at 6 and the presentation starts at 7. Questions about Salon can be directed to kiwi@sidewalkfest.com.
Great read about Ryan Coogler and the representation of diversity in the industry by @ava https://buff.ly/2HdbxpX
We’ve got some exciting news: BWFF 2019, March 29-30, #TellYourStory
Big podcast fan? If so, come to Green Bar this Wednesday, 4/25, from 7:00-8:30 pm to watch the Anatomy of a Trial live event! Anatomy of a Trial is a year-long creative journalism course in which students produce a podcast about a local hot topic - some kind of societal trial, if you will. This Wednesday, students in the course will be presenting "sneak peaks" of their podcasts in a live open-mic-styled event. Students will perform parts of their work and answer questions on the process of reporting the individual topics. There will be six stories presented by UA students Alex Richey, Emily Elia, Leah Efferson, Madeline Mitchell, Mary Clay Kline, and Rick Lewis. Our podcasts include stories of catfish farmers, sounds from Tutwiler women's prison, jokes about corn (no, seriously), and more! And it's free! You can find more info within the Facebook event, "Anatomy of a Trial Live!"
Calling all southern doc filmmakers, have you checked out the Southern Documentary Fund's Production and Research and Development grants yet? Deadline to apply is July 15th and they come with great cash prizes. If you're an eligible southern filmmaker, definitely look into the opportunities with these grants and get to applying. Get more details on their website here: https://buff.ly/2GHcUxc
This weekend our former VIP and Operations Director, Tiana Raimist-Carter (@hipsstir_13), attended Tribeca Film Festival. When she wasn't hanging in the hub, she attended the screenings for “Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable” and “Duck Butter.” What is one film you are looking forward to seeing come out of Tribeca?
Tuscaloosa don't miss this opportunity to support local film on Tuesday! The 12th annual Documenting Justice screening is on Tuesday, April 24 at 7pm at the Bama Theater (600 Greensboro Ave, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35401). We can't miss the opportunity to see three short student-films at one of our favorite local theaters. Info about the course and free screening below! Documenting Justice is a nationally unique course in which non-film majors create short documentaries focusing on issues of justice or injustice in Alabama. Harnessing perspectives from disciplines across the humanities, the year-long course teaches students to use film to document and analyze the many dimensions of cultural and social interactions central to the stories they choose to tell. Featuring original films: "Dear, Inescapable" by Sarah Cheshire & Sophie Strohmeier "An Empty Spot" by Alex Brittenham & Sydney Gabrielson and "Back to the Farm" by Ilham Ali This is a FREE event. Invite your friends! Better get there early!