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ITSA Film Festival workshop lineup finalized

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Sept 30 - Oct 1

The ITSA Film Festival is coming to Sonora & Groveland, CA on Sept 30-Oct 1, featuring short films from around the world and workshops for current and aspiring filmmakers. Workshops are FREE to anyone attending the film festival. Tickets to the festival start at just $25 and can be purchased online, in Downtown Sonora at The Candy Vault and Swank Boutique, or in Groveland at Hotel Charlotte.

Here’s the current lineup of workshops:

Friday, September 30

3:30 PM – 4:45 PM
Documentary Workshop
Instructor: Kevin Fox
This workshop concentrates on how to create a documentary the down and dirty way. For photographers, beginning and intermediate filmmakers.
Location: Historic Sonora Opera Hall

Saturday, October 1

10 AM – 12:30 PM
Kids on Camera! Kids Acting for Television (reservation req’d) 
Workshop A – students pick up tix at door
Instructor: Judy Berlin
Location: Sonora Inn Banquet Room

10 AM – 11:30 PM
Learn How to Maximize Your Film Audition Results!
Instructor: Joie Landeaux
Location: Stage 3 Great Room

12 PM – 1:30 PM
How to Get Your Indie Film Sold
Instructor: Leonard Pirkle and Derek Zemrak
Location: Stage 3 Great Room

1:30 PM – 4 PM
Kids on Camera! Kids Acting for Television (reservation req’d)
Workshop B – students pick up tix at door
Instructor: Judy Berlin
Location: Sonora Inn Banquet Room

4:30 PM– 6:00 PM
Stunts for Movies & Television
Instructor: Mike Martinez
Location: Sonora Inn Banquet Room

ITSA Film Festival add local favorite Mike Moroff

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Moroff as Pancho Villa in Young Indiana Jones

Mike Moroff has been featured in over 80 films and television series including From Dusk Till Dawn, Desperado, La Bamba and Robocop. He was also a regular at the Wild West Film Festival — if we’re lucky he will even sing La Bamba!

Mike is currently producing 4 major films– and one of them stars Javier Bardem! Come see him in person at the ITSA Film Festival on September 30th – October 1st.

 

Tickets and more information

Mike Moroff’s website and artwork

2011 ECA Films to Screen at ITSA Film Fest

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Sept 30 - Oct 1

ITSA Film Festival is receiving eight honored films from the 2011 Emerging Cinematographer Awards, including one called “Not Your Time”, starring Jason Alexander (George from Seinfeld). ITSA is presenting these films just five days after their première at the Director’s Guild of America Theater in Los Angeles. This is a huge honor as ITSA film festival attendees will see these films even before the DGA’s own New York event. The films will be screened at ITSA’s Opening Night Gala, September 30th at the Sonora Opera Hall.

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2nd Annual ITSA Film Festival in Sonora AND Groveland on Sept 30-Oct1

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UPDATE: ITSA Film Festival will now include opening night events at the Sonora Opera Hall.

From the website:

Come out and enjoy the finest short films and animations in the beautiful historic town of Groveland, California, just 25 miles from Yosemite National Park. Each year in October in the goldrush mountain town of Groveland, the ITSA Film Festival comes to life.

This years festival is tentatively on September 30 – October 1, 2011.

Film enthusiasts embark on this cerebral event to discover talent, imagination and have a good time.

The ITSA Film Festival is not just any film festival. It’s about discovering the gold or in this case, ‘the stars’ not only on film but behind the camera. We work hard in bringing quality short films and animations that everyone can enjoy. Our inaugural year in October 2010 brought “The Endgame Study” by Los Angeles-based filmmaker Lance Mazmanian, “The Assembly Line” by Bay Area filmmaker Matthew Vanderzee as well as some shorts by brothers, James and David Codeglia of Ghostlight Studios.

While we are awarding “Best of Show” in several film categories, we take great pride in not becoming about the competition, but about celebrating some of the best short films and animations in the world.

So whether you’re submitting one of your own films or coming out and just screening, there’s something that is sure to appeal to everyone.