In this VIRUTAL workshop, filmmaker, educator and Impact Strategist Lyntoria Newton will lead a virtual workshop that will dive deep into creating a film's social impact strategy and teach filmmakers the steps they can take to connect with communities they want their films to serve. Attendees will be introduced to resources (and real-life case studies) for developing a solid social-impact campaign plan by helping them identify a clear set of social-impact goals and resources for how to find the right impact producer for their films. Attendees will be provided with guidance on how to maximize social impact while minimizing costs.

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Join the Berkeley FILM Foundation for our first fall workshop with Brenda Avila-Hanna and Theo Rigby of New Day Films who will walk you through the benefits and importance of educational distribution. They will explain the process for making an educational distribution plan tailored specifically to your film and give examples of strategies used to maximize financial return both in the short-term and long-term.

Whether you're in development or already on the festival circuit, you should be thinking about the extended life of your film and learn about how your film can reach a broader audience for years to come.

Tickets are $10. If the cost is a barrier to attendance, please contact: isabella@berkeleyfilmfoundation.org.

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Join the Berkeley FILM Foundation for our next educational workshop (in-person!) at the David Brower Center in Berkeley to learn about incorporating animation into your documentary film. Animation is being increasingly used in documentaries as a creative tool to elaborate on an idea, to visually interpret an emotion or experience or to communicate complicated data to an audience. But how do you know what style is right for your film? When is it appropriate to use animation, and when is it not? Filmmaker Arwen Curry and artist Molly Schwartz will answer these questions and give insight into the important collaboration process between Director and Animator during the film’s creation.

The event will be hosted in-person and also streamed virtually online via YouTube. It is a 3-hour lecture style workshop with two 15-min breaks. This workshop is FREE to all, but please consider donating if you have the capacity!

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Arwen Curry is the producer and director of the 2018 PBS American Masters documentary Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin. Before that, Arwen was the Associate Producer and Archivist of the PBS American Masters film EAMES: The Architect and the Painter (2011), and associate-produced both American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco (2013), and the acclaimed HBO film Regarding Susan Sontag (2014), among others. Arwen was editor of the punk magazine Maximum Rock'n'Roll from 1998 to 2006. She is an SF Bay Area native and a graduate of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

Molly Schwartz is the founder and director of PHLEA TV studio, creating art, animation, design, and code for site-specific installations and documentary film. Her work on Watchers of the Sky won a Sundance Special Jury Award for Animation. Film credits include: Above & Beyond: NASA's Journey to Tomorrow, Worlds of Ursula K LeGuin, Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, Krimes, Cancer: Emperor of All Maladies, Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper, Rancher Farmer Fisherman, CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap, Rachel Carson, Words from A Bear, Hemingway, and My Name is Pauli Murray. See some of Molly's animation work here.

Meeting the Moment: Achieving Representation and Equity in the Creation of Your Film

Join the Berkeley FILM Foundation for an intimate conversation with filmmakers Selina Lewis Davidson, Macky Alston and André Perez to learn how independent filmmakers can productively incorporate diversity and inclusion practices into their project plans and make conscious choices that will lead to greater representation in the industry. Our panelists will use their own projects as case studies to explain how minority stories can be told with accuracy and awareness and will introduce you to a ‘Code of Ethics’ that influences them when making important decisions in the filmmaking process. This will be conducted as a Zoom webinar and Q&A time will be distributed throughout the workshop. Registration required.