The Central Coast Film Society Presents,
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SATURDAY, October. 7th - Entertainment EXPO
FORBES THEATER
The beautiful 600 seat theater will feature films using their all new state-of-the-art sound system and digital projections.
10:30am - 12:30am - Central Cost Showcase: Show, Don't Tell- with Filmmaker Q&A
To honor silent films of a century ago, we are asking for filmmakers to submit films with the "Show, Don't Tell" theme. Stories with captivating imagery that moves us! Don't miss these great pieces!
The beautiful 600 seat theater will feature films using their all new state-of-the-art sound system and digital projections.
10:30am - 12:30am - Central Cost Showcase: Show, Don't Tell- with Filmmaker Q&A
To honor silent films of a century ago, we are asking for filmmakers to submit films with the "Show, Don't Tell" theme. Stories with captivating imagery that moves us! Don't miss these great pieces!
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2:30pm - 4:30pm - Documentary Screening: Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic Parts 1 & 2
Come learn the story behind the filmmaker who defined what an "epic" movie was
6:00PM - DOORS OPEN FOR 100th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION of THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - Tickets Required
6:30pm - 7:30pm - Lost City of DeMille Panel
Join Peter Brosnan and the Guadalupe Dune Center as they explore the fascinating story behind the fate of DeMille's sets left buried in the sand dunes.
8:00pm - 9:30pm - Ten Commandments Screening with Music
Acclaimed pianist Sheridan Seyfried & cellist Jonah Kim will scoring the opening 40 minutes of The Ten Commandments, live on stage. The opening 40 minutes of the film follows he biblical tellings of Moses in Egypt, the portion which was filmed in Guadalupe.
Come learn the story behind the filmmaker who defined what an "epic" movie was
6:00PM - DOORS OPEN FOR 100th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION of THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - Tickets Required
6:30pm - 7:30pm - Lost City of DeMille Panel
Join Peter Brosnan and the Guadalupe Dune Center as they explore the fascinating story behind the fate of DeMille's sets left buried in the sand dunes.
8:00pm - 9:30pm - Ten Commandments Screening with Music
Acclaimed pianist Sheridan Seyfried & cellist Jonah Kim will scoring the opening 40 minutes of The Ten Commandments, live on stage. The opening 40 minutes of the film follows he biblical tellings of Moses in Egypt, the portion which was filmed in Guadalupe.
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STUDIO THEATER
Be sure to arrive early for the workshops and panels of your choice in this intimate theater setting. More panels and times will be announced soon. 1:30pm - 2:30pm - Equipment & Lighting Demonstration # 1 This is a hands-on demonstration to get you familiar with modern lighting and equipment techniques. 3:00pm - 4:00pm - Equipment & Lighting Demonstration # 2 A continuation of the demonstration from earlier with a new set up. Brought to you by Chachi Ramirez Mira Beyeler with the Guadalupe Visual and Performing Arts Center. |
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BACKSTAGE STUDIOS
Backstage will have "Studio A" and "Studio B" as well as the "Writer's Room." As space is limited, guests are requested to go to the Central Coast Film Society booth to pick up a "Backstage Pass" to reserve your place for that workshop and time. See the information booth for specific activities and their corresponding times. STUDIO A - 1:00pm-2:00pm & 2:30pm-3:30pm Practical Effects Demonstrations with MJ Johnson STUDIO B - 1:00pm-2:00pm & 2:30pm-3:30pm Audio & Sound Equipment Demonstrations with Chris Hite, Professor of Film and Video at Allan Hancock College. SALON - 1:00pm-2:00pm "Show, Don't Tell" Screenwriter's Workshop with Randi Barros, Professor at CAL POLY and award winning screenwriter and editor. SALON - 2:30pm-3:30pm Filmmakers & Mentors Meetup, hosted by Matt Halverson, SLO Film Comissioner with FILM SLOCAL. |
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LOBBY ATTRACTIONS
Inside the beautiful lobby of the Clark Center for the Performing Arts, we will have our vendors on hand to talk about how you can connect with them in the entertainment industry here on the Central Coast.
HOURS
10:00am - 8:00pm
Inside the beautiful lobby of the Clark Center for the Performing Arts, we will have our vendors on hand to talk about how you can connect with them in the entertainment industry here on the Central Coast.
HOURS
10:00am - 8:00pm
- Central Coast Film Society - Expo Central
- Red Carpet Photo Spot
- Guadalupe Dune Center
- Concession Stand - Food brought to you by Smokey Charles
Attending Speaker Bios
Peter Brosnan
Peter Brosnan has been a writer, screen-writer, filmmaker and social worker. His work has appeared on PBS and HBO, and been published widely, including The Nation. A graduate of NYU’s Institute of Film and Television, he also holds Master's Degrees from USC’s School of Journalism, and Pepperdine University’s Graduate School of Psychology. In 1983, he co-discovered Cecil B. DeMille’s “Lost City,” and began filming interviews with local Guadalupeans who worked on The Ten Commandments (1923) and other Dunes movies. His award-winning documentary film, The Lost City of Cecil B DeMille, premiered at the 2016 Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Now retired, he is working on a book tentatively titled, “Next?”
Colleen Hamilton
Mary Colleen Hamilton traveled to North Africa with her family when her father was stationed in Tripoli, Libia for the United States Air Force. Here, she experienced Roman archaeological ruins such as Sabratha and Leptis Magna which sparked her imagination. In 1976 she achieved a B.A. in archaeology and in 1990 finished an M.A. degree from University of Missouri-St. Louis and Washington University in Historical Archaeology. As a Registered Professional Archaeologist, Ms. Hamilton has spent the last 30 years excavating archaeological sites including Hopewell and Mississippian sites in Illinois, Mark Twain’s Boyhood home, in Hannibal, Missouri, and Anasazi sites in Arizona. She joined Applied EarthWorks, Inc in 1998 which led to excavations at the Lost City of DeMille in Guadalupe Dunes.
Now a century has passed since Cecil B. DeMille produced his most epic blockbuster film The Ten Commandments. This 1923 silent film brought together a workforce that numbered in the thousands, including livestock, to create one of the largest movie-sets ever built outside of Hollywood. DeMille abandoned the set on California’s coast after completing the prologue production and there it sat until the early 1980s when two film students having read DeMille autobiography relocated the set buried in the sand. This put in motion an adventure of 30 plus years that resulted in the production of an award-winning documentary by Peter Brosnan and the preservation of the film set’s unique archaeological heritage. With the site’s excavation between 2012 and 2016, the project captured the public’s imagination worldwide.
Now a century has passed since Cecil B. DeMille produced his most epic blockbuster film The Ten Commandments. This 1923 silent film brought together a workforce that numbered in the thousands, including livestock, to create one of the largest movie-sets ever built outside of Hollywood. DeMille abandoned the set on California’s coast after completing the prologue production and there it sat until the early 1980s when two film students having read DeMille autobiography relocated the set buried in the sand. This put in motion an adventure of 30 plus years that resulted in the production of an award-winning documentary by Peter Brosnan and the preservation of the film set’s unique archaeological heritage. With the site’s excavation between 2012 and 2016, the project captured the public’s imagination worldwide.
Chachi Ramirez
Chachi Ramirez is a producer with a rich history of working as a filmmaker around the world. Over the last two decades he’s worked on groundbreaking projects with his agency Mercy Brothers, specializing in gaming, branded content, documentary and cinematic endeavors. Recently Ramirez worked as the documentarian on Alejandro Gonzalez Inaritu’s Oscar winning virtual reality film “Carne y Arena.” Attending high school in a small town on the southernmost tip of Texas, dreams of Hollywood seemed too far to imagine, but his father, Roberto Ramirez, worked as a NBC News broadcaster and his son watched his dad on set from a young age. After graduating high school, he moved to Santa Cruz, California and soon began studying and working as a freelance photographer and videographer in the bay area. Demand moved him to Los Angeles to produce independent films (The Insatiable, Harvest of Redemption, Scooter Cannonball), and serve as Head of Production for several original content departments. Currently he's working on developing a feature film to direct and several documentary film projects. Outside of the film world, you can catch Chachi working on his 1968 Blue F-250 Truck with his 2 year old daughter Isla Rose in tow.
Chris Hite
Chris is a Professor of Film & Video at Allan Hancock College.
He started working in production & post-production in 1996. Since then he has been an editor, cinematographer, and sound recordist on hundreds of commercials, industrials, and short films. His own films have screened at over 60 national and international film festivals. Most recently, Chris was co-director and cinematographer on the documentary, Firestorm ’77: The True Story of the Honda Canyon Fire. The film has won numerous awards at various film festivals including San Luis Obispo International, Big Bear Film Summit, the Silicon Beach Film Festival, and many more.
His documentary, Ghosts in the Mountains, won awards at the Wasaga Beach Film Festival in Canada, Queen City Festival in Maryland, and the StarDocumentary Festival in Los Angeles.
For seven seasons, Chris was an animator with the Emmy Award winning creative team of of the children's television program, Smart Start Kids. His screenplays have won awards at the Action on Film Festival and the LA All Sports Festival.
Chris’s academic interests are in the areas of Italian and German cinema as well as experimental and documentary filmmaking. He has written for Super-8 Today magazine and presented papers at various conferences including at the TransAtlantic Visions Conference in Rome, Society of Cinema and Media Studies and Italian Cinema(s) Abroad at Ohio State University.
PhD, Film, University of Exeter
MFA, Screenwriting, Hollins University
BA, Film &Video Production, Pennsylvania State University
He started working in production & post-production in 1996. Since then he has been an editor, cinematographer, and sound recordist on hundreds of commercials, industrials, and short films. His own films have screened at over 60 national and international film festivals. Most recently, Chris was co-director and cinematographer on the documentary, Firestorm ’77: The True Story of the Honda Canyon Fire. The film has won numerous awards at various film festivals including San Luis Obispo International, Big Bear Film Summit, the Silicon Beach Film Festival, and many more.
His documentary, Ghosts in the Mountains, won awards at the Wasaga Beach Film Festival in Canada, Queen City Festival in Maryland, and the StarDocumentary Festival in Los Angeles.
For seven seasons, Chris was an animator with the Emmy Award winning creative team of of the children's television program, Smart Start Kids. His screenplays have won awards at the Action on Film Festival and the LA All Sports Festival.
Chris’s academic interests are in the areas of Italian and German cinema as well as experimental and documentary filmmaking. He has written for Super-8 Today magazine and presented papers at various conferences including at the TransAtlantic Visions Conference in Rome, Society of Cinema and Media Studies and Italian Cinema(s) Abroad at Ohio State University.
PhD, Film, University of Exeter
MFA, Screenwriting, Hollins University
BA, Film &Video Production, Pennsylvania State University
Mira Beyeler
Mira Beyeler is the founding member of the Guadalupe Visual & Performing Arts Center, the non-profit slated to operate the Royal Theater in Guadalupe once renovations are complete. After studying Cultural Anthropology at Sonoma State University, Mira spent a year in India and Israel working for two non-profits focused on Child Marriage and Sports development – both of whom had the shared goal of lifting up society’s young and vulnerable populations. Since moving to the Central Coast, she has actively involved herself in a variety of organizations invested in the area including Los Amigos De Guadalupe & the Guadalupe Business Association. Her passions involve event planning, community organizing & working with young adults.
Randy Barros
Randi Barros is an award-winning screenwriter, film editor, and professor. Her screenplays have been honored by the Nicholl Academy, the Writer's Lab, CineStory, the Austin Film Festival, the Athena
Writer's Lab, Finish Line, She Called Action and Final Draft's Big Break script competitions. Her screenplay, “The Chicken Festival,” is currently in development.
Recent editing projects include the feature documentary, "Heaven Stood Still: The Life and Times of Willy DeVille," which is touring festivals and theaters worldwide, the short films “Pennies,” “I Live on Your Visits,” and "Trusting Chloe," a Central Coast comedy short that has won several awards and was nominated for Best Editing at the Paris Film Festival. She edited the PBS documentary, "Lives Well Lived," which has garnered numerous awards and “Botso, The Teacher From Tblisi,” which was a five time Audience Award winner and a New York Times critics pick.
Randi teaches Storytelling and Filmmaking at Cal Poly University, where she received the Learn by Doing
Scholars Award in 2022. She attended the MFA Film Program at Columbia University School of the Arts
and received her MFA in Screen and Television Writing from Stephens College.
Writer's Lab, Finish Line, She Called Action and Final Draft's Big Break script competitions. Her screenplay, “The Chicken Festival,” is currently in development.
Recent editing projects include the feature documentary, "Heaven Stood Still: The Life and Times of Willy DeVille," which is touring festivals and theaters worldwide, the short films “Pennies,” “I Live on Your Visits,” and "Trusting Chloe," a Central Coast comedy short that has won several awards and was nominated for Best Editing at the Paris Film Festival. She edited the PBS documentary, "Lives Well Lived," which has garnered numerous awards and “Botso, The Teacher From Tblisi,” which was a five time Audience Award winner and a New York Times critics pick.
Randi teaches Storytelling and Filmmaking at Cal Poly University, where she received the Learn by Doing
Scholars Award in 2022. She attended the MFA Film Program at Columbia University School of the Arts
and received her MFA in Screen and Television Writing from Stephens College.
MJ Johnson (Practical Special Effects Artist):
MJ is a practical special effects artist. She specializes in effects makeup (think prosthetics, wigs, wounds,
sci-fi, high realism, training simulations), but also works in wardrobe distressing, specialty props, fight
choreography, directing, writing, graphic design, and editing. She loves working on collaborative projects
with a solid crew, telling character-based stories, and working to promote positive change
MJ is a practical special effects artist. She specializes in effects makeup (think prosthetics, wigs, wounds,
sci-fi, high realism, training simulations), but also works in wardrobe distressing, specialty props, fight
choreography, directing, writing, graphic design, and editing. She loves working on collaborative projects
with a solid crew, telling character-based stories, and working to promote positive change