- Rodrigo Garcia, Keith Gordon, Catherine Hardwicke, and Alfredo De Villa to Serve as Lab Mentors -
Los Angeles (February 10, 2010) - Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival, has announced the filmmakers and film projects for its 9th annual Directors Lab, sponsored by Kodak. Taking place in Los Angeles from now until the end of March, the Directors Lab is an intensive nine-week incubator designed to assist directors with strong, original voices develop new narrative feature films, improve their craft, and advance their filmmaking careers in a nurturing yet challenging creative environment. This year's Lab Mentors include Rodrigo Garcia (Mother and Child), Keith Gordon (The Singing Detective, Waking the Dead), Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight, Thirteen), and Alfredo De Villa (Adrift in Manhattan, Washington Heights).
"It's exciting to have a group of filmmakers in the Directors Lab that not only have such varied artistic backgrounds,...
- 2/11/2010
- by maint
- Film Independent
On my first day of college freshman orientation I met the president of the student body, Sandy Pearlman. He had long hair and I figured I could get pot from him. He turned out to be virtually the only non-pot smoker that I ever met at college. But he taught me about the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement, the Rolling Stones and The Byrds. He talked me into running for freshman class president and we've been friends ever since. Until yesterday I'd been completely unsuccessful in persuading him to write a post for my blog, DownWithTyranny. Sandy currently holds the Schulich Distinguished Chair at McGill University. When I first met him in 1965 he had just gotten a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in the History of Ideas. Recently he was appointed to the National Recording Preservation Board (Nrpb) of the...
- 9/7/2009
- by Howie Klein
- Huffington Post
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