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PANELS AND AFTER SCREENING DISCUSSIONS

 

Plan on this being a big part of the PRDFF.  Information and knowledge, especially from people on the cutting

edge of this digital revolution, discussions with young film makers and the people that are part of the paradigm

shift being experienced in the entertainment business, and the synergy that can come from open discussions

with experts and emerging film makers can create a great learning experience.

 

Some of the Film makers below will be on panels and some will have panels or Q & A discussions after their

screenings.  For example Bruce Ricker, and Joel Cox, who both worked on the Tony Bennett film with Clint

Eastwood, will be at the screening to do a Q & A afterwards, and will appear on one of the Panel Discussions,

regarding a topic of film making importance.

 

PLEASE CLICK THEM FOR BIOS

 

Bruce Ricker

Joe Hyams

Joel Cox

Christopher Reyna

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

Ronee Blakley

Chris Felver

Gary Roach

Judie Hoyt

George Wilkins

Les Blank

Chuck Banner

Max Gail

Hector Galen

Jack Tempchin

Travis Howard

John Andrew Parks

Richard Bellis

James Mathers

Michael Jensen

Cass Warner

Kathy Kelly

more TBA

 

 

Topics will range in the realm of the themes of our Festival.  Music and its importance in the movie making

process, music documentaries that capture history and inform,  and music DVDs from the MTV revolution

to DVDs and digital downloading.  From the shorts to film to filmless and tapeless, and back to shorts...

Enter the Internet and statements like, Bill Gates made this March on Capitol Hill, "TV will be based on the

Internet; it will be an utterly different thing."   Discussions on the end of the music business as we knew it,

and the emerging digital age.  The Panel Discussions will be webcast and take you to the future of media

 that is NOW.

 

PANEL TIMES AND SCREENINGS POSTED END OF OCTOBER

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INFORMATION FOR THE AGE OF INFORMATION

The Panel Discussions will be a huge part of the Festival and on topics of interest to the Digital Age.

They will be filmed for purchase online and at the Festival, email us if you have some topics that

you would like to see discussed, and if you would like to be on a panel, send us your bio.

 

 

Joel Cox (Editor) has worked with Clint Eastwood for more than 30 years, on films that include "Bird," "Eastwood After Hours: Live at Carnegie Hall," Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends," and co-edited Clint Eastwood's "Piano Blues."  Joel has been editor on movies like “Flags of Our Fathers,” “Million Dollar Baby,” “Mystic River,” “Blood Work,” “Space Cowboys,” “True Crime,” “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” “Absolute Power,” “The Bridges of Madison County,” “A Perfect World,” and “Unforgiven,” for which he won an Academy Award for Best Editor in 1992. 

 

Bruce Ricker On September 12, 2007, TONY BENNETT: THE MUSIC NEVER ENDS ran on national television on PBS. This was the fourth documentary directed and/or produced by Bruce Ricker, creator of Rhapsody Films. Over the past 20 years Ricker has co-produced with Clint Eastwood an impressive repertoire of films including Mystic River, Clint Eastwood’s Piano Blues, The Bridges of Madison County and many more.   

 

Joe Hyams, who has been working with Clint Eastwood since 1971, has shepherded projects of talents such as Stanley Kubrick, Francois Truffaut, David Puttnam, Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford and John Wayne.   

 

Gary D. Roach (Editor) previously worked with Editor Joel Cox and Director Clint Eastwood as an Assistant Editor on “Million Dollar Baby,” “Mystic River,” “Space Cowboys,” “True Crime” and “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” among others.  His additional assistant director credits include “Catwoman,” the miniseries “The Blues,” “Monterey Jazz Festival: 40 Legendary Years” and “Eastwood After Hours: Live at Carnegie Hall.” 

 

Judy Hoyt stared working with Clint Eastwood in 1975, on The Outlaw Josey Wales, after he arrived at

Warner Brothers from Universal.  She has worked with him for a total of 20 years, with a couple of

retirements in between.  During these years she has worked on the films Letters from Iwo Jima, Flags of Our Fathers, Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River, Bird, Pale Rider ,Sudden Impact, Honkytonk Man and many more.

 

George Wilkins was the "Composer in Residence " at Walt Disney Productions for over seven years, making him responsible for writing, arranging and producing over 36 hours of music for film, theatre and pavilion attractions at EPCOT, Disneyworld, Disneyland California, France, Tokyo and China. 

 

Max Gail is best known for his television role as Det. Stan "Wojo" Wojeciehowicz from the sitcom Barney Miller (1975). He now runs his own production company, Full Circle, which has done documentaries on such things as Agent Orange, Native Americans, and nuclear issues. 

 

Travis Howard made his first mark as a cast member on the first season of USA Network's "Nashville Star" in 2003. It was on that show that he began to write several of the biggest hits that kicked off the blazing career of current rising country star, Miranda Lambert.  

 

Lennie Niehaus is an Emmy Award-winning composer whose television productions include more than a dozen film projects working with Clint Eastwood on such collaborations as Pale Rider, Heartbreak Ridge, Bird (nominated for Best Score by the British Film Institute), The Rookie, Unforgiven, A Perfect World, The Bridges of Madison County, Space Cowboys, Mystic River, Blood Work and many more.  

 

 Ramblin' Jack Elliott is considered one of the country's legendary foundations of folk music. Honored at the White House in 1998 with a National Medal of Arts for his contribution to American Folk Music, he was also awarded a Grammy in 1996 for his "South Coast" recording.  As one of the last true links to the great folk traditions of this country, with over 40 albums under his belt.

 

Christopher Felver is a photographer and filmmaker.  His work has been exhibited internationally, and his works are collected by numerous libraries and museums, including Stanford University Special Collections.

He participated in the 53rd Venice International Film Festival, and screened films in festivals and museums around the globe, including presentations at the Library of Congress, he received the Best Art Documentary Awards at the Cinema Arts Centre Independent Film Festival,  and he was a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome.

 

Les Blank is a prize-winning independent filmmaker, best known for a series of poetic films that led Time Magazine critic Jay Cocks to write, "I can't believe that anyone interested in movies or America... could watch Blank's work without feeling they'd been granted a casual, soft-spoken revelation." 

Hector Galán has been creating documentary films for over thirty years. One of his most recent credits includes the documentary Los Lonely Boys Cottonfields and Crossroads. He has also produced and directed eleven films for the PBS series FRONTLINE, two films for THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, and many critically acclaimed and award-winning independent films.  

John Andrew Parks is a Songwriter's Songwriter, a Poet, and a Storyteller. Parks’ melodic narratives run from windblown prairies and old jalopies to shooting stars across the cosmic canvas. As Kenny Rogers once said on an NBC Television Special, “John Andrew Parks is one of the greatest singer/songwriters I’ve heard in 20 years, and whether or not you like this song you have never heard anything like it before!” 

Ronnie Blakley may be most widely known now for her performance as country superstar Barbara Jean in Robert Altman's 1975 film Nashville. She was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Supporting Actress and, along with Lily Tomlin (who was also nominated in the same category), is often regarded as offering one of the most revealing performances in the film. 

Richard Bellis is a film and television composer, a former member of the USC faculty and a past president of the Society of Film Composers and Lyricists. Some of his many credits include the Emmy Award-winning score of Stephen King’s IT and the book, The Emerging Film Composer. 

Chuck Banner has worked in developing children's programming, working with the Dallas Symphony on AMAZING MUSIC, a family concert series (A&E, PBS) and in co-production with Fireworks Entertainment on REAL KIDS, REAL ADVENTURES for the Discovery Kids Channel.  Chuck's latest production to air nationally on PBS was AMAZING MUSIC JAZZ, which he directed, produced and edited. 

Jack Tempchin wrote a number of big Eagles hits like ALREADY GONE and TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT and has two songs on the new Long Road Out of Eden Album by the Eagles, on the charts now. He also has a song SMUGGLERS BLUES sung by Glenn Frey on the Miami Vice Television Soundtrack.   

Christopher Reyna, principal, New Paradigm Productions, is a technical expert who has extensive experience with the full spectrum of production, post-production, and exhibition of high quality moving images since 1971. He has specialized in the development and implementation of new digital tools for Giant Screen and ultra high-resolution image presentations. He pioneered the transition from photochemical to digital toolsets with an emphasis on maximizing quality.

James Mathers has been the Director of Photography on over thirty-five films and MOWs, and has seen six TV series from inception through their first season. Recent projects include a pilot for DreamWorks directed by Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, Forty Year Old Virgin), an HD feature for director David Mickey Evans (The Sandlot, Radio Flyer), and several features pioneering the use of the 4K RED One camera.

Michael Jensen is the CEO and President of Jensen Communications (JCI). Formed in 1982, JCI is a strategic public relations management and marketing firm specializing in Music, Television & Film, The Arts, Non-Profit, Crisis Management, and Corporate world. Some of JCI’s long-time clients include Santana, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Herb Alpert, Jackson Browne, and XM Satellite Radio among others.

Kathy Kelly has over 25 years experience in all aspects of media communications. Her work has included projects for Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Turner Classic Movies, Capitol Records, MGM, Kal Kan, Johnson & Johnson, Toshiba, Amgen, Gemstar, Hoover, Fitness Quest, Braun, T-Fal, Conair, Murad, GNC, Motorola and many other national and international consumer brand marketers.

Cass Warner has the honor of being a third-generation film maker. Her father, twice Oscar-nominated writer/producer Milton Sperling worked on the Warner Bros. lot and her grandfather, Harry Warner, was the President and Founder of Warner Bros. studios. After studying acting with the acclaimed Milton Katselas, and learning screenwriting under the mentorship of her father and Howard Koch of "Casablanca" fame, her production company, Warner Sisters, was born.  Cass carries on the original Warner Bros. motto--making films that "educate, entertain and enlighten."

 

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