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2003 Seminar Information: Schedule

 

Friday, January 31, 2003
The Art Studio, Inc.
720 Franklin St.
Beaumont, Texas
409-838-5393
7 pm - 11 pm
Opening Party
Spinfest party, open to all film festival attendees and sponsors. Screening a short film series at 8 pm, and a rough cut of Steven Mims' new concert film at 8:30 pm.

 

Saturday, February 1, 2003
University Theatre
Lamar University
Beaumont, Texas
9 am
Workshop
"Line by Line, Finishing Your Project"
Marvel Wakevield, freelance script supervisor. She has worked on the films "Independence Day" and "Doctor Dolittle," and television shows "That was Then," "Robbery: Homocide Division" and "Beverly Hills 90210."

9 am Screening Spindletop Film Festival 2003 contest winner screenings.

10 am Workshop "The Indie Process: Making it Work"
Director/screenwriter Steven Mims, of Austin FilmWorks.
John Merriman and Courtney Davis, writer/director/producers of "My Name is Buttons;"
David Layton, cinematographer and producer of "My Name Is Buttons."

10 am Screening Spindletop Film Festival 2003 contest winner screenings (continued).

11 am Workshop "From Robocop to Starship Troopers: Writing a Screenplay"
Ed Neumeier, co-writer of "Robocop" and writer of "Starship Troopers," is also a co-producer of both.

11 am Screening "My Name is Buttons," contains adult language. Shot in Austin with a Texas cast and crew. Run time 80 mins.


Noon


Lunch

On your own for lunch.
1 pm Screening Spindletop Film Festival 2003 contest winner screenings.

1:30 pm Workshop "FX for Indie and Hollywood Films"
Steve Wolf of Wolf Stuntworks in Austin, Tx. - special effects and stunt coordinator

1:30 pm Screening Texas Filmmaker Showcase. Not rated. Houston Film Commission (run time 120 minutes).

2:30 pm Workshop "Editing: From a Troma film to an Oscar-nominated movie"
Frank Reynolds is editor of the Oscar-nominated film, "In the Bedroom," and a former editor for Troma Entertainment.

2:30 pm Screening Texas Filmmaker Showcase continues.

3:30 pm Workshop "Suspense in Cinema"
J.D. Feigelson, writer of "The Lake," "Dark Night of the Scarecrow" and writer/director of "One of the Missing."
David Schmoeller, writer/director of "Puppet Master," "Crawlspace," "Tourist Trap" and "Please Kill Me Mr. Kinski."

3:30 pm Screening Spindletop Film Festival 2003 Contest winner screenings.

4:30 pm Awards Announcement and recognition of festival winners for the 2003 Spindletop Film Festival.

6 pm Screening "The Greater Ambition" PG-13
by Lamar University grad Gordon Williams
(run time 42 minutes)

7 pm Screening "Man of the Century" R
Edited by Frank Reynolds. Reynolds is editor of "In the Bedroom" and worked for Troma Films
(run time 77 mins)

8:45 pm Screening "Please Kill Me Mr. Kinski" - Not rated, adult language
by writer/director David Schmoeller. This 9-minute documentary gives an amusing, firsthand account of directing the difficult Klaus Kinski during a movie shot in Italy.

9:15 pm Screening "Dark Night of the Scarecrow" made for TV.
Writted by J.D. Feigelson of Beaumont, Texas. This cult classic, horror film is not rated.
(run time 100 mins.)









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