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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
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Christina Black, director or A Bumpy /fe]
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Africa in her workshop “Yonba FilmmatJ
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films of Quentin Tarantino. His wtrieshop,
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Flirting with Power
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