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wmmemm 4 \ ^ : :3b % Workshops focus on directiSI BY KYLE WHITACRE The Battalion Vf.! V* 4 ' *r > . ' n A ::t > he Texas Film Festival is not just about showing independent films; it is about much more. Each year the festival holds free workshops for those interested in the differ ent aspects of filmmaking. This year, the 7th Annual Texas Film Festival will hold eight workshops and include diverse topics such as computer animation, film theorv and production. “This year a majority of the workshops will be held by the filmmakers themselves,” said Casey Starr, director of the Texas Film Festival and a senior industrial distribution major. 'in the past years the workshops have mainly been given by A&M professors. This year we asked the filmmakers coming if they would like to host workshops and a lot of them jumped on the opportunity.” “Professors have usually done just 'critiques’ of films, yvhile the directors coming have actual experience and many stories to tell,” said Ryan Whitworh. chair of MSC Film Society and a senior biomedical science major. "Most of the filmmakers we asked didn’t need much time to decide yvhat they wanted to do a workshop on. They knew what they wanted to talk about." In addition to filmmakers giving workshops. Scott Meadows and Tina Messinger. graduate students from the Visualization Laboratory at A&M, yvill be holding a workshop on 3-D Modeling. Texturing and Animation. Four directors yvill be hosting workshops Wednesday through Friday afternoon in R udder Tower. On Wednesday, former student Jo Streit yvill be hosting “The Art and Business of Producing Films” workshop. Streit directed Flirting with Power, a documentary about Ross Perot's 1992 presidential campaign. The workshop yvill deal with the yarious job requirements of producers on a feature I Meridith Scott Lynn, who co-directed ai duced Standing on Fishes, yvill host “Howtel your loyy budget lilm and '.ell it <or notfoniy Christina Black, director or A Bumpy /fe] look at the history and difficuIW of filmnial Africa in her workshop “Yonba FilmmatJ Nigeria" on Friday. Following Black's workshop Stu Pollaii present “1 low the film you w rite itdifferentM film you make Pollard, director d Y7<r & [ Alone, will discuss the logistical differences!) writing and shooting a film. Nice <»uys SleejJ will be shown in Rudder Theater at9:30p.ni| Dr. Terence Hoagvvood. an Higlish prej will be the only A&M professor pnsentingaj shop this year and has given festivjl works; the festival in previous years, incluling one I films of Quentin Tarantino. His wtrieshop, "Postmodernism in Film", yvill be hctlonTH On Saturday, a new addition to aeTensl Festival yvill premiere. Directors, waerstsi| ducers, including Robert Rodriguez, vjl in a panel discussion "War Stories” onthepntl each of them have encountered in the ixxiuci their films. “The idea for the panel was origiialh gested by Cass Paley. director of \\.\)D\ '\ Life and Time of John Holmesl, but mfourt nately his film Whitworth said. “The panel is g of the workshi ood is coin up not shoiinp. ! It it turn ops. to lx* the most rebec j Starr said. Dr X - the moderator Ve the panel idea at) be really fun. so w f uture years.” lx* an hour and a among the film It will be on )l MSC. eluding “War Shooting the hiture of f occasio the fil Disney' alternat films is The has thr< schedul ranging length, alive an film ind Fean George dy ot Shakes/ Wars ci film is a and get Star Hi George endeavc Vood. funny, k woo las voodoo both she In th< m TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15 k is f ' mmjmmWi mmunmFcm 7:00 p.m. Night of Shorts I : 7:00 p.m. Across the Line 9:30 p.m. Flirting with Power M 1 5:00 p.m. Night of Shojfc^g 01 SHOWING AT RUDDER THE 9:30 p.m. The Cure for Boredom SHOWING AT RUDDER COMPLEX SHOWING AT CINEMARK HOLLYWOOD 16 7:00 p.m. .WY* $let Now ana i‘ 9:30 p.m. The Last Late N SHOWING AT CINEMA HOLLYWOOD 16 Bob 1 iLRUDDE