Saturday, January 30 - Seminar: "Making Music Documentaries - The Sound and the Fury" Making films about music in the post-MTV video era seemed a natural enough vocation, particularly for musician turned filmmaker Beth Harrington. But the realities of funding, clearances, record label, management and artist issues presented pitfalls that could not always be sidestepped. Harrington will show excerpts from two works, her Grammy-nominated film Welcome to the Club - The Women of Rockabilly and her work-in-progress The Winding Stream - The Carters, the Cashes and the Course of Country Music and discuss the various challenges involved in bringing these stories to the screen. Sunday, January 31 - Seminar: "Anatomy of a Personal Documentary" Many of us have stories from our own lives that seem obviously cinematic. But taking the raw material of personal experience and developing it into a film is harder than it looks. Filmmaker Beth Harrington will show her personal documentary The Blinking Madonna and Other Miracles and describe the content development process, the trials and tribulations of funding the film and the aftermath of its airing on public television. How To Register:
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