The Festival (Admission Free )
The BIG MINI-DV FESTIVAL is a two-day event hosted by the Media Arts Department of Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus. The festival will recognize the best documentary, experimental, and narrative long and short form video productions, being created with the Mini DV format.
Screeing on March 7th & 8th, 2008
Long Island University Brooklyn, New York
1 University Plaza, FlatBush Ave & Dekalb Ave
Spike Lee Screeing Romm (LLC 122)
Big Mini DV ‘s industry Workshop
with Award winning Producer, Editor, and Director Samuel D. Pollard
(3:30 - 5:00 P.M Saturday March 8, 2008)
Samuel D. Pollard
He is a feature film and television editor and documentary producer/director with 30 years of experience. Some documentary projects of his are: Brother Outsider and Eyes On The Prize II: America at the Racial Crosswords. He has been an editor on: Mo' Better Blues, Juice, Jungle Fever, Girl 6, Clockers,and Bamboozled. He has received an Emmy for co-producing Spike Lee Presents Mike Tyson and Producer on award winning HBO documentary, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts.
Panelists (6:30 - 8:00 Friday March 7,2008)
Virginie Danglades, Freelance Editor & Writer-Director
Freelance editor for the past 10 years. She has edited documentaries for cable: most recently
Alaska Teen Rescue for A&E, and
Child Brides: Stolen Lives for the public affairs series NOW on PBS.
She's also edited episodes for various reality television series for MTV, BRAVO and E! ENTERTAINMENT.
She has directed corporate projects for clients and wrote and directed 3 narrative shorts (K.622, Miracle Growth, Sparks).
Jeremy Workman, Editor/Director
He is well known for editing nearly 75 movie trailers and has won the Key Arts Awards and the Golden Trailer Awards. Some of his key editing works on trailers include: All tree Scream movies, Three Kings, Go, Life Is Beautiful, Shakespeare in Love, and Out of Sight. He is also a contributing editor on the Academy Awards show where his work has earned him an Emmy for Best Editing in a television special. He has his own trailer company called Workmanship Creative - which caters to NY independent distributors.
Elizabeth Donahue, Documentary Editor
She have been editing for the past 10 years and has been working on documentaries and TV shows that have aired on HBO, BRAVO, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC and OXYGEN.
SCREENING SCHEDULE
4:30PM FRIDAY MARCH 7, 2008
4:30PM “Blood Money” 8 min Narrative Short, Dir. Jason Sheinkopf
When a girl's family explodes, two house painters are called to paint over the mess.
4:40PM “Buskers: For Love or Money” 59min, Doc Long, Dir. Chad Taylor
96 performers, 9 countries, 3 smoking chainsaws…no net!
5:40PM “Urban Fantasy” 9min, Experimental, Dir. Pammela Timmins, Peter Leitch
Short non narrative film depicting a musical trip through New York City
Break
6:00 P.M Awards Ceremony
6:30 Editing Panel
8:15PM “The Red Rope Story” 6 min, Animation, Dir. Lei Zhou
A Chinese fairytale story about red rope.
8:25PM“Save the World” 11min, Narrative Short, Dir. David Casals – Roma
WINNER BEST NARRATIVE SHORT
Richard decides to save the world, although in a very particular way.
8:40PM “Ed & Vern’s Rock Store” 42min, Doc. Long, Dir. Christopher Leps
WINNER BEST DOCUMENTARY LONG
Mulholland Highway becomes Memory Lane; the timeline of the Sunday Drive.
9:25PM “Anti – Narrative Number 4” 9min, Experimental, Dir. Jeremy Kruse
Anti – narrative Number 4 is an experimental film in which a man’s life is
examined.
12:00PM SATURDAY MARCH 8, 2008
12:00PM “Our Parkour” 29min Narrative Short Dir. Benjamin Hausman
Parkour. An odd mix of pain, pleasure, and soufflé.
12:30PM “The Traveler” 96min Narrative Long Dir. David Moses
A Journey Beyond Your Imagination.
2:10PM “Inner Freak” 10min Doc. Short Dir. Kaitlyn Barlow
A short look into the Halloween Parade: New York’s most creative party.
2:20PM “he Amazing Adventures of Little Batman” 26min Narrative Short Dir. Joe Valenti
All Superheroes Begin Somewhere…
2:50PM “Lovely Academic Slaughter Houses” 27min Experimental Dir. David Finkelstein
Bubbles battle boxes in this abstract meditation on reality vs. academia.
BREAK
3:30PM - 5:00PM WORKSHOP
BREAK
5:30PM “Secret Salad Project” 6min Experimental Dir, John Aaron Goold
4 short ideas with nothing in common except yoyos.
5:40PM “Inna de Yard” 54min Doc. Long Dir. Rochelle Brown
The life of music in Jamaica and its inspirations.
6:35PM “Thursday Night” 4min Narrative Short Dir. Sean Gill
Illumination. Desperation. The here and now. “Thursday Night”
6:40PM “Pastoral” 28min Narrative Short Dir. Jeremy Holloway
A brilliant but troubled composer contaminates two friends with his personal torment.
7:10PM “The Strength Within” 15mins Documentary Short Dir. Yehudit Sidikman
One woman’s journey to find herself through the creation of The Israeli Women’s Martial Arts Federation.
7:25PM “Out of the Picture” 9min Doc. Short Dir. Dameon Mills
WINNER BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
The frustration and hardship single mother’s living in Brooklyn are faced with.
7:35PM “Amy / Alexandra” 40min Experimental Dir. Steven Strauss
WINNER BEST EXPERIMENTAL
Mixed modern day-in-the-life of Amy Fisher & Alexandra Ansanelli
8:15PM “Doodles” 20 min. Narrative Short Dir. Yjavoe Jensen
Big Mini DV Film Festival is sponsored by:
WHEN & WHERE:
The BIG MINI-DV FESTIVAL will take place on Wednesday, March 7 and Thursday, March 8, 2008 at Long Island University's Downtown Brooklyn Campus (ten minutes from Wall Street and SoHo). All festival screenings will be held in LIU/Brooklyn Media Arts Department’s Spike Lee Video/Film Screening Room (see map).
QUESTIONS
Email: info@bigminidv.com
Phone: (718) 488-1052
