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PANELS AND AFTER SCREENING DISCUSSIONS

 

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Bruce Ricker

Joe Hyams

Joel Cox

Nigel Sinclair

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

Gary Roach

Chris Felver

Christopher Reyna

Judie Hoyt

George Wilkins

Les Blank

Chuck Banner

Max Gail

Hector Galen

Jack Tempchin

Del Breckenfeld

John Andrew Parks

Richard Bellis

James Mathers

Mike Lane

Cass Warner

Ronee Blakely

Susan Morgan Cooper

Gary Conway

Kathy Kelly

Charles Unger

Travis Howard

Dave Cole

Carole MacDonal

Archie McLaren

 

 

 

 

Future of Entertainment Technology

Hosted by Digital Film Society

 

The History of Malpaso

 

Uncorking Wine and Film

It's Un-Reel Out There

 

The Internet And Its Effect

on the Music and Film Biz

 

The Technology Paradigm Shift

and the Independent Film Maker

 

The Emerging Film Composer

Distribution Then and Now

Filmless and Tapeless

PANELS

 

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PANELS, TALKS  and BOOK SIGNINGS

 

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INFORMATION FOR THE AGE OF INFORMATION

music off

Panels are at the Paso Robles Library just on

the South Side of the City Park

 

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

10:30

 

Filmless and Tapeless

talk and demonstration

Charles Unger

10:30 p.m.

 

TONY JAMES

FROM DISNEY'S OUT OF THE BOX

AND

GEORGE WILKINS

FROM WALT DISNEY IMAGINEERING

noon

The Internet And Its Effect

on the Entertainment Biz

 

Kathy Kelly

Gary Conway

John Andrew Parks

Mike Lane

 

noon

 

The Emerging Film Composer

TALK AND BOOK SIGNING WITH

 

Richard Bellis

 

Del Breckenfeld

1:30

 

The Importance of Music Docs

 

Bruce Ricker

Cass Warner

George Wilkins

Gary Roach

Blu Murray

 

1:30

 

Songs written for the visual image

 

Jack Tempchin

George Wilkins

John Andrew Parks

Travis Howard

4:30

 

THE COOL FACTOR:

BUILDING YOUR BRAND’S IMAGE THROUGH

PARTNERSHIP MARKETING

talk and book signing with

Del Breckenfeld

 

3 p.m.

 

Future of Entertainment Technology

Hosted by Digital Film Society

James Mathers

Christopher Reyna

David Stump

Sara  Mora  Ivicevich

 

2 p.m. at Paso Robles Inn Ballroom

Special Pass needed

 

The History of Malpaso.....Bruce Ricker MODERATOR

Joe Hyams

Joel Cox

Judie Hoyt

 

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HISTORY OF MALPASO AND OTHER PANELS

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, Tony Bennett: The Music Never Stops, Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows, 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,

do Clint personal and movie publicity world wide. 

 

Judie 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.

 

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.” 

 

Gary Conway has an extraordinary creative background from the fine arts to the arts of viticulture and winemaking, it was in television where Gary Conway first became recognized worldwide, initially starring in the TV series "Burke's Law," then "Land of the Giants," the world’s most successful TV series.  Besides starring in series and a multitude of episodic television shows and TV movies for the three networks, he starred in many motion pictures.  He is also a prominent screenwriter with such credits as “Over the Top,” and the “American Ninja” series.  He currently directed and starred in the acclaimed film “Woman’s Story.”

 

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. 

 

 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.  

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."

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!” 

Susan Morgan Cooper, director/ producer An Unlikely Weapon. Susan was compelled to make her first documentary, "Mirjana",about a young girl displaced by the Balkan War." She was drawn to Eddie Adams, the photographer in "An Unlikely Weapon", because of his fascination with displaced and oppressed people. In

2008 Susan is set to direct her first dramatic feature. Based on a documentary she made a few years ago "Roadrunners" is the story of a cop from East L.A. who takes a group ofgang kids and turns them into a championship roller hockey team.

 

Ronnie Blakely 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.   

Rick Roas will be her playing bass with Jack Tempchin, and will be here as a musician and a panelist after the screening of  NEIL YOUNG: Heart of Gold.  He has played bass for years with Neil Young and is in the film.  Rick has also played with the likes of Joe Walsh, CSN&Y, Johnny Rivers and many more.

 

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.

Dave Cole has a wide variety of feature film and TV credits as an actor and a recent three-year term as Vice-President of the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival, Central Coast denizen Dave Cole has broadened his involvement in the indie film ‘biz to include assisting filmmakers with the production, marketing, distribution and film festival strategizing for their films, promoting The Center for the Study of Film and History, and working with some other film festivals and their programming.

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.

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.  

Los Lonely Boys: Cotton Fields and Crossroads

 

Festival Express

Legendary Train Ride Through Rock's Fabled Past

 

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