NO BUDGET FILM SCHOOL PRESENTS: "The Art & Science of No-Budget Filmmaking" led by Mark Stolaroff, Producer and Founding Partner, Antic Pictures

Saturday, October 5, 2013, 9:30am ET / 6:30am PT

6pm. TWO FULL DAYS! Saturday, October 5th & Sunday, October 6th

"The absolute best class you can take on how to make your own low/no budget film. Seriously." - Signe Olynyk, Founder, Great American Pitchfest; Writer/Producer, "Below Zero"

Actors Connection is thrilled to have Mark Stolaroff and his No Budget Film School in New York City for his famed two-day micro-budget filmmaking class!

Specifically designed for no-budget filmmakers who are ready to finance their own projects, the lessons, tools, and techniques gained will maximize limited resources and minimize critical errors that can doom otherwise worthy projects. Producer Mark Stolaroff--former principal of IFC's Next Wave Films--and guest experts teach the specific methods, models and priorities unique to micro-budget filmmaking, whether the budget is $200,000 or $200, in this in-depth, one-of-a-kind class. Attendees will walk away with powerful ideas that they can use immediately, saving them time and money. These cutting edge techniques can NOT be found in a book, at film school, or in other film classes.

Guest speakers:

Writer/Director Eliza Hittman will discuss her award-winning Brooklyn-shot feature "It Felt Like Love" which premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival and has gone on to play over 30 festivals worldwide, winning numerous prizes. Shot on a RED Epic with a tiny crew, it was voted one of the Top 10 Films of the 2013 Sundance by Film Comment. She was recently picked by Filmmaker Magazine as one of their 25 New Faces of Independent Film and she teaches directing at Columbia University.

Writer/Director/Actor Alex Karpovsky will discuss his dynamic career making no-budget features, both in front of and behind the camera. Perhaps best known to audiences as Ray on Lena Dunham's HBO series GIRLS, Alex has acted in several successful no-budget features, including "Sleepwalk With Me", "Lovers Of Hate", "Bass Acwards", "Co-Dependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same", (all premiering at Sundance), "Beeswax", "Wuss", Dunham's "Tiny Furniture" and many more. He also appears in the Coen Brothers "Inside Llewyn Davis", which won the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes this year and is opening in December. Despite his busy acting career, he has managed to write and direct five features over the past eight years, including "Rubberneck", which premiered at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival; and "Red Flag", which premiered at the 2012 Los Angeles Film Festival, (both were released by Tribeca Film and are available on Netflix streaming). While both were made on tiny budgets, "Red Flag" was shot with a one-man crew on a Canon 7D. Alex will share his secrets to creating successful content with limited resources.

Film industry veteran Brian Newman will give an empowering presentation on connecting with audiences so your micro-budget features will be seen. Making the film is only half the battle; getting your films out into the world is the other half. Brian will help you create a Plan A for your film, so that any distribution offer is a Plan B that must work better than what you can do on your own. Learn how to engage audiences early in the life of a film, turn them into fans, and how to use new technologies to keep them engaged in your future projects so this can remain a career. Brian is the Founder of Sub-Genre Media, a film and new media production, distribution and marketing company. He is also acquisitions and marketing consultant to DirecTV and Brainstorm Media. Brian has served as CEO of the Tribeca Film Institute, president of Renew Media and executive director of IMAGE Film & Video. He blogs about film and new media at www.Sub-Genre.com.

Post Production maven Michael Cioni will cover post production on a "no" budget. Considered one of digital cinema's leading experts, Cioni has had a big role in helping shape the landscape of the rapidly changing media ecosystem. As the CEO of Light Iron, he has supervised the Digital Intermediate and workflows on hundreds of feature films including Flight, The Muppets, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, 42, and Man of Tai Chi. And as the industry leader of on-set post production, Michael delivers Light Iron's OUTPOST Mobile Post Systems on more than 100 major motion pictures, television shows, commercials, and fashion and web-based projects annually.

If you're through talking about being a filmmaker and ready to become one, this will be the most practical filmmaking course you will ever take!

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Testimonials:

"The No Budget Film School is designed for the moviemaker who possesses nothing but a dream and a drive. If you take the course and can't make some kind of film at the end of it, you'll have no one to blame but yourself. " - Peter MacNicol (Emmy Award Winning Actor: "Allie McBeal", "Numb3rs", "Sophie's Choice")

"Your workshop was fantastic--well worth the money in my no budget filmmaking world. I'm a graduate of UCLA film school and two of my screenplays were considered by the Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab. You and your guest speakers inspired my husband and I to move forward, honor our uniqueness, and trust our intuition instead of playing the approval game. You've liberated us! Thanks a million for sharing your experiences." - Chien-ei Yu

"I cannot say enough about the two-day class we just completed today...the course was fantastic!! I feel like I have learned in two days, what would've taken me several years of experience and experimentation to learn. Thanks for sharing your wealth of experience and knowledge with us." - Monica Vazquez

"The best filmmaking training money I ever spent." - Amir Masud, Writer/Director, "Affliction"

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:

Mark Stolaroff is an independent producer and a founding partner of Antic Pictures, an LA-based production company producing a slate of low budget, high quality digital features. Stolaroff's recently completed micro-budget film "Pig", the fourth feature from award-winning writer/director Henry Barrial ("Some Body"), has been an official selection at over 35 film festivals worldwide, and won 10 awards, including 7 Best Feature awards. It will be released by Kino Lorber in the U.S. in the coming months. With Ron Judkins, Stolaroff produced Barrial's third feature, "True Love", which was developed in the Sundance Screenwriters Lab and was a success on the festival circuit. He is the co-producer of Barrial's new film "The House That Jack Built", which world premiered in the 2013 Los Angeles Film Festival. He was also the post production supervisor on "Farah Goes Bang", a film he consulted on before production, which premiered in the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, winning the Nora Ephron Award.

Stolaroff was formerly a principal of Next Wave Films, a company of The Independent Film Channel that provided finishing funds to exceptional, low budget films; and through its production arm Agenda 2000, financed and executive produced digital features. Included in Next Wave's 13 films are Christopher Nolan's ("Inception", "The Dark Knight", "Batman Begins", "Memento") first feature, "Following"; Joe Carnahan's ("The A-Team", "Narc") first feature, "Blood, Guts, Bullets, & Octane"; Amir Bar Lev's ("The Tillman Story", "My Kid Could Paint That") first feature "Fighter"; the Academy Award-nominated documentary "Sound And Fury"; and the Sundance Grand Jury Prize winning documentary "Southern Comfort". He was the Associate Producer on a number of Next Wave projects, including "Some Body and Manic" (starring Don Cheadle, Joseph Gordon-Levitt & Zoey Deschanel), two digital features at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, and the award-winning theatrical documentary "Keep The River On Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale". In all, Next Wave took seven films to Sundance and five to Toronto; nine were released theatrically in the U.S. and two premiered on HBO; nine were shot digitally and six of those were transferred to film.

Stolaroff has lectured on low budget and digital filmmaking throughout the world and at many of the major film festivals. He has taught film classes at UCLA Extension, the Maine Film Workshop, and The Learning Annex and has written for Scientific American, Filmmaker, Sight & Sound, Film Festival Reporter, and Film Arts Magazine. He has been on countless filmmaking panels over the last two decades and has sat on the juries of many film festivals. He was on the Advisory Board of HBO's US Comedy Arts Film Festival and he currently serves on the advisory board of Filmmakers Alliance.

Stolaroff has extensive production experience on several low budget features and shorts, including production managing the Academy Award winning short film "My Mother Dreams The Satan's Disciples in New York". His background also includes two years in Investment Banking at Merrill Lynch Capital Markets, and five years as the Managing Director of Curtains Theater, an innovative legitimate theater he founded in Houston. A native Texan, Stolaroff received his BBA from the prestigious Business Honors Program at the University of Texas in Austin and minored in Film Production, directing several 16mm shorts.

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