Day 3 of our course on micro-budget moviemaking deals with how to direct actors, organize a crew, and keep them all happy without anybody making a dime. Panelists for the class include Valerie Perez (producer/star of the Paula Peril series), Vera Vanguard (producer of The Building of Good and Evil), Nick Murphy (writer/director of Pizza and Bullets), Jack Conway (actor, Nazis at the Center of the Earth), Sean Rourke (writer of Ballistica), and actors Josh Perilo, Megan Rees, and Bradley Upton.
Six-year-old boy "Thin Foot" strives to become the hero of his own life. Participating panelists include Christopher Guinness (director, Pothound) and Leizelle Guinness (producer, Pothound).
Denny Burke is finally about to graduate from high school. Senior year has been one bad thing after another: a broken leg, a broken heart, and-worst of all-a broken home. With four of his closest friends, Denny goes on one last rock- climbing trip to prove he's ready to start his adult life. On their trip, the five teens receive a genetic boost beyond anything they'd ever imagined. Denny's soon faced with the first big decision of his adult life: Does he give up these powers and stay a normal teenager, or does he keep them...and graduate from the human race? Participating panelists include Kyle Roberts (director), Sterling Gates (writer), and Lindsay Sawyer (actress).
Havoc, a wannabe villain, gets the chance to follow his dreams and prove himself a worthy heir to a supervillain legacy through a seemingly opportune "Day in the Life" news segment, only to come face-to-face with Doom, his powerful father. Participating panelists include Clarence Ma (director/producer), Mindy McKoin (producer), Christopher Glennon (co-writer), and Peter Sebastian (editor).
Do you have an idea for a film or a concept for a video? Is money the first thing standing in your way? This panel of producers and financing experts will discuss the players in film financing and the best strategies to help your movie get made. Griff Furst (development executive and director of Ghost Shark, Arachnoquake, and other SyFy Originals), Steven Kaplan (president of Rainstorm Entertainment with features from $3 to $50 million in development), Will Wallace (award-winning producer/director with distribution deals with Lionsgate and Warner Brothers), Christi Matthews (sales & marketing strategist, supplying promotional materials used in crowdfunding campaigns), and Brad Littlefield (producer and organizer of numerous high financing seminars for Angel Investors), with a special guest appearance by Thunder Levin (writer of Sharknado and Sharknado 2). Panel and Q&A moderated by Eric Forsberg (writer/director of the SyFy original movie Mega Piranha).
An imaginative little girl and a petty burglar become unlikely accomplices when she mistakes him for her favorite comic book superhero in this coming-of-age drama. Participating panelists include Puja Maewal (writer/director).
Gho is not just the down-and-out creator behind the comic book Badbug but also the protagonist who protects mankind from mutant vermin. He goes on a quest each night to annihilate the bad bugs. When the line between fiction and reality is blurred, what could it be that Gho is really fighting for? Participating panelists include Moogen (director) and Deon Lee (film composer).
The land of Cambria is devastated by a decade of war. Towns and villages are piles of debris, as is the hope of their inhabitants. Three brothers, divided in their childhood, grew up nurtured by a hatred that corrupts and drives them to hunt each other. The battlefield becomes the stage where Mordraud and the proud Eldain's rebels on one side, and Dunwich with the Imperial Lances and Loralon's Chanters on the other, will consume their tragedy.
In a dying land where the ancient practice of magic is forbidden, Princess Irana embarks on a journey to save her wounded mentor from certain death. With the help of Arcker, a banished warrior, the fugitives struggle to reach the summit of Mount Oriud, where legend tells of a mystical pool that holds the power of healing. But their journey may be for naught, for in the shadows, an even greater evil awaits them. Participating panelists are Brian Ulrich (director), Kevin Ulrich (director of photography), and Skyler Christensen (puppeteer of Sieck).
Francesca and Joe are astronauts who've become lovers. Bunkered up in their little spaceship, Earth is a distant reality; everything they want is right here. But now their mission is ending, and Joe's wife is waiting for him back home. Thinking she's going to lose him, Francesca takes desperate measures, leading to terrible and unintended consequences. Participating panelists include Sabrina Doyle (writer/director), Matilde Barbagallo (producer), Lizzy Davis (actor), and Brian Groh (actor).
Set in an original sci-fi/fantasy future where nuclear war has torn through Europe,Valiant is the story of three air pirates, The Valiant Three, as they set out on an unexpected mission to return a lost princess to her father. Valiant is a short film as well as a fully crafted new world, launching a universe for feature films, TV shows, interactive media, comic books, and more. Panelists include Shyam Sundar Sengupta (producer), Robin G. Phillips (writer/director), Scott Baba (writer), Gil Darnell (Ronnie, Reign), Camden Toy (King Mortimer, Buffy), and Fon Davis (miniatures supervisor, Guardians of the Galaxy, Star Wars Episode III).
Brace yourself for a rough landing as kick-ass comic book heroine Connie Radar attempts to prevent the first moon landing. With robots, astronauts, and lots of guns, it's an epic battle of the sexes and there can only be one winner. Participating panelists include director James Cunningham (Rotting Hill and Shelved).
Zero is a small android who leaves his home planet just before it is destroyed and discovers Earth in 1918. He leaves Earth in 1939, sensing a negative change in our culture. He returns to Earth 74 years later, only to find how things have changed. Panelists include director William Wall (The Immortal Edward Lumley) and Steve Terrones (co-producer & puppeteer).
Boy meets girl in a bunker during the robot apocalypse and can't help flirting up a storm despite the threat of evil killer robots outside. Participating panelists include director Ned Ehrbar (Co-op of the Damned), and stars Jordan Hinson (Eureka) and Paul Telfer (The Vampire Diaries).
In a devastated world, Yonatan, the developer of a device that allows the reexperiencing of recorded memories, becomes obsessive about the last recollections of his late wife.
Would you like to die the same way your icon did? Would you like to imitate the death of some memorable scene? Euthanas Inc.: For those who need or want to put a legitimately spectacular end to their lives.
Hollis (Brett Stimely) pulls together the surviving crew of an exploded spaceship cargo carrier. The deeper he digs in the moments before his almost certain death, the greater his risk of discovering what matters. Are memories really worth more than dreams? Participating panelists include director Eric Tozzi (Dirty Bomb Diaries), Brett Stimely (protagonist, producer, writer, Watchmen, Transformers: Dark of the Moon), and possibly a surprise panelist.