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MISSISSIPPI ARTS COMMISSION PRESENTS

Crafting the Visual Story a filmmaker’s workshop

In collaboration with Barefoot Workshops, the Mississippi Film Office and guest filmmakers, this day long workshop will bring together a wealth of resources, open Q&A sessions, and training to support artists who are considering applying for the MAC Artist Fellowship in the category of Filmmaking (deadline: March 3, 2014).

Topics will include: • Ten Tips for submitting a successful application to MAC Artist Fellowship (up to $5000) • Writing an artist's statement - Do's and Don'ts • Selecting your team • Crafting a log line for narrative and documentary genres • Mastering the art of visual storytelling across genres (e.g. Photography, Documentary, Narrative, Experimental) • Understanding story structure

• Screening: "Drawing On A Dream" (TRT: 10 min.) / Q&A with guest filmmakers Overall, the workshop will focus on empowering applicants with tools and information to craft compelling stories across diverse genres, and to produce successful grant applications. Beginner through advanced filmmakers welcome. Space is limited.

Instructors: Alison Fast is a bi-coastal, award-winning Television Producer who has worked for networks such as NBC/Universal, BBC Worldwide and MTV Networks. In 2007, she won a Peabody Award for the one-hour documentary, "For My Country? Latinos In The Military", which she shot, produced, directed, and edited for mun2. She also worked as a Field Producer for "Dancing With the Stars" (ABC) and Que Viva (XIX Entertainment). She has documented National Audubon Society's response to the Gulf Coast oil spill, grassroots uses of media in the favelas of Brazil, water user issues on the Mara River in Kenya and Tanzania, and vignettes of women's leadership across the United States for Odyssey Network. Since 2006, she has worked as a Program Director for Barefoot Workshops, training more than sixty organizations in the United States, South Africa and The Middle East. Her goal is to use media to create positive social change and to give communities a voice. She graduated in 1998 with a degree in Journalism from Boston University College of Communication.

Chandler Griffin is a NYC-based, documentary filmmaker, educator and the Founding Director of Barefoot Workshops with overWilma ten years of experience eighty media starting out atand theauthor Mainewhose Media Workshops. His E. Mosley Clopton,instructing Ph.D. is aover Mississippi native,workshops, independent filmmaker works highlight the continued significant contributions of Mississippi African-Americans.

Her most projects have taken him throughout the USA, Europe, Latin America, Africa, India, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. He work “Did Johnny Come Marching Home?” exploressince the role of people of color in the Civil War has recent produced and taught educational programs in Mississippi 2004.

Chandler has collaborated with clients as diverse here in Mississippi. She is a graduate of 2012 Barefoot Filmmakers Workshop and the 10th Annual Ole as: PBS, The American Cancer at Society, FXB International, TheDr. Ford Foundation, for Educational Miss Filmmaking Workshop the University of Mississippi.

Clopton’s films Academy were regularly featured Development, Global Nomads RFK Centerand for showcased Human Rights, UNESCO, the Department State on the formerGroup, FOX 35 network on Comcast 14.UNAIDS/UNDP, She was recognized in 2013 asof one of Middle East Mississippi’s Top (MEPI), 10 Business Women of the Year.

Most recently thePresident's MississippiDigital Department of Initiative. As a Partnership Initiative Creative Associates International and the Freedom Archives and History included her film “In Spite of it All: The Ollye Shirley Story” as part of its “History is He holds a BFA Cinematographer, he has earned a CINE Golden Eagle Award and Oscar Finalist/Student Academy Awards.

Lunch Series”. in Photography and a BFA in Video/Film from the Savannah College of Art & Design and lectures regularly in New York City at B&H and Tekserve.

Guest Filmmakers: Wilma E. Mosley Clopton, Ph.D. is a Mississippi native, independent filmmaker and author whose works highlight the continued significant contributions of Mississippi African-Americans. Her most recent work “Did Johnny Come Marching Home?” explores the role of people of color in the Civil War here in Mississippi. She is a graduate of 2012 Barefoot Filmmakers Workshop and the 10th Annual Ole Miss Filmmaking Workshop at the University of Mississippi. Dr. Clopton’s films were regularly featured on the former FOX 35 network and showcased on Comcast 14. She was recognized in 2013 as one of Mississippi’s Top 10 Business Women of the Year. Most recently the Mississippi Department of Archives and History included her film “In Spite of it All: The Ollye Shirley Story” as part of its “History is Lunch Series.”

Susan Liles is Public Relations Director for the Mississippi Arts Commission and participated in Barefoot Workshops training in the fall of 2011. Along with her partner, David Rae Morris, they created “Drawing on a Dream,” a documentary film about the late Mississippi artist and musician, Duff Dorrough.