Festival Workshops
We have exciting workshops and discussions planned for the 2010 Sedona International Film Festival.
All workshops and roundtable discussions are FREE and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis. No tickets are required.
Whether you are a filmmaker living and working with these subjects all day or a film lover who just wants to see how it is done behind the scenes, these workshops and panel discussions are sure to enlighten, enrich, educate and entertain.
 Tuesday, Feb. 23 and
Wednesday, Feb. 24
FREE WORKSHOP with Morrie Warshawski
Transformative Fundraising for Filmmakers
9 a.m. - Noon
At Zaki Gordon Institute for Independent Filmmaking
• Fundraising from A to Z
• Investor Models for Film Financing
• Non-Profit Models for Film Financing
• Engaging donors & investors from pre-production through distribution
Morrie Warshawski works with nonprofits and filmmakers that are having difficulty realizing their full potential. He helps them create roadmaps to a better future through strategic planning. His work is characterized by a commitment to the core values of tolerance, thoughtfulness, transparency, and creativity.
Warshawski has worked in the field for over thirty years as an administrator, consultant, facilitator, teacher and writer. He was the Executive Director of two media arts centers (Bay Area Video Coalition and The Media Project). He has served on numerous grant panels, and consulted with dozens of independent filmmakers.
Warshawski is the author of two books on fundraising, Shaking The Money Tree: The Art of Getting Grants And Donations For Film And Video, and The Fundraising Houseparty: How to Party With a Purpose and Raise Money for Your Cause.
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 Thursday, Feb. 25
FREE WORKSHOP with
George Rush and Lise Swenson
The Business of Getting Your Film Out There: Distribution
9 a.m. - Noon
At Zaki Gordon Institute for Independent Filmmaking
George M. Rush is an attorney and sales rep specializing in the entertainment industry with emphasis on the San Francisco Bay Area film community. Clients include producers, directors, screen-writers and investors in development, production and distribution phases. George recently repped Frazer Bradshaw's Everything Strange and New, Barry Jenkin's Medicine for Melancholy and Geralyn Pezanoski's Mine.
Lise Swenson has been an active member in the media arts of the Bay Area since the early 1980s. As a filmmaker she creates documentaries, experimental documentaries, feature length fiction and short experimental video art works. Swenson also creates multi-monitor video art works and video installations built in response to specific sites. She was a first assistant director on ‘Strange Culture’ and a producer of ‘Mission Movie’ both films garnered many festival awards nationwide.
Today Swenson is working on her latest feature film, "Saltwater" as well as the documentary ‘An Unexamined Life’. She is a popular instructor of film and video internationally.
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 Friday, Feb. 26 and
Saturday, Feb. 27
FREE WORKSHOP with Debbie Brubaker
Producing Your Film: What You Need to Know
9 a.m. - Noon
At Zaki Gordon Institute for Independent Filmmaking
This is a two-part workshop. The first part is dedicated to development and pre-production planning. We will discuss scheduling, budgeting, business plans and casting, legal issues and much more. The second part will focus on the transition between development and pre-production to production, post, and distribution. We will discuss bonds, post production, clearances, product placement, music, festivals and distribution – currently a hot topic in the film industry.
Debbie Brubaker is a seasoned producer in the world of “indie” feature films and ‘godmother’ of the San Francisco Bay Area independent movie arena. One of her recent successes was co-producing Peter Bratt’s movie La Mission, a Sundance 2009 hit.
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 Friday, Feb. 26
FREE PANEL DISCUSSION
with FESTIVAL FILM PRODUCERS
PRODUCING YOUR FILM
2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
At Zaki Gordon Institute for Independent Filmmaking
Join panel moderators Stephan Schultze and Bryan Reinhart and special guest Kathleen Glynn (who produces all of Michael Moore’s films).
They will be joined by other invited producers of festival films for an eye-opening, open discussion about producing.
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Friday, Feb. 26
FREE ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION moderated by John D’Anna
Sustainability Roundtable:
Challenges & Solutions for Arizona
5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
At Studio Live Theatre
A panel of sustainability experts will explore critical issues for Arizona and the world. This thought-provoking discussion will be moderated by John D’Anna.
 John D’Anna is editor of the Mesa Republic community edition and the author of the azgreenday environmental blog. Before his current assignment, he has served as deputy managing editor, senior editor for metro, projects editor, deputy city editor and assistant city editor. He was named one of Gannett Company's top 16 newsroom supervisors nationwide in 2003. From 1997 to 2002, he oversaw newsroom legal issues for the Republic, including a successful mandamus action before 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals involving the criminal trial of Gov. Fife Symington and a successful public records access suit against state Education Department over the release of standardized test questions. Both efforts were honored with freedom of information awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Arizona Newspapers Association.
 Don Piper teaches the capstone course for the “Sustainable MBA” at Bainbridge Graduate Institute, Sustainable Intrapreneurship and Entrepreneurship and is a Mentor-in-Residence at the Arizona Center for Innovation. Previously, Don was a Mentor-in-Residence at the McGuire Entrepreneurship Program, Eller College of Management, University of Arizona , in Tucson, Arizona . In 2007, Don was recognized by Fortune Small Business and CNN/Money as “top in the field by colleagues, students, and entrepreneurs.” Prior to entering academia in 2004, he was Chairman of the Board of ntouchresearch Corporation; a founding member of two venture capital funds, TriState Investment Group II and IV; and Chairman of the Board of The Phoenix, a research management company. Don’s specialty is in helping individuals and organizations interested in solving social and environmental problems create fourth bottom line solutions incorporating spirit, culture, and purpose into economically sustainable ventures.
John Neville, president and founding board member of Sustainable Arizona, has been involved creatively in sustainable development and communications for more than 30 years. He has helped organizations with sustainability systems, business communications and management practices, leadership development, and diversity enhancement. John has conducted corporatewide sustainability performance assessments and strategic environmental information planning, produced EHS programs
for compliance and beyond compliance training, and more. Currently, John is USGBC LEED-AP and provides sustainable systems consulting and communications services to municipalities and businesses and is a frequent guest speaker.
 Terril L. Shorb is a life-long westerner who grew up on ranches, subsistence farms, and in small rural towns in the northern Rockies. He holds a Ph.D. in Sustainability Education, an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies, and a B.A. in Communication Studies. He is on the Faculty of Prescott College’s Adult Degree and Graduate Program where he founded the undergraduate degree program in Sustainable Community Development, the first of its kind in the nation. His writing and photography appears in books, newspapers and magazines including Thoreau’s Legacy: American Stories about Global Warming, High Country News, America West Airlines Magazine, The Denver Post, Persimmon Hill, Succeed: The Magazine for Continuing Education, and Birds and Blooms. He is co-founder of Native West Press, a non-profit natural history press that produces educational books on wildlife of the American West.
 Mara DeFilippis is the founder of the Arizona Green Chamber of Commerce. She was appointed Chief Executive Officer of organization in 2008. The Arizona Green Chamber is the reflection of her vision to promote the success of businesses committed to environmental and social responsibility.
Prior to founding the Green Chamber, she was a licensed certified public accountant. Ms. DeFilippis spent several years with Merrill Lynch and a local boutique securities broker as a licensed financial advisor. During her career in the securities industry, she focused on identifying socially and environmentally responsible companies for clients of those firms who had a commitment to socially responsible investments. It is her belief that there the current economic structure has tremendous capacity and opportunity for growth and success with a more responsible and long-sighted approach. She has a long record of championing environmental, children’s and women’s causes.
 Greg Peterson, received his Masters degree in Environmental Planning and his Bachelors degree in Interdisciplinary Studies at ASU. Both degrees were grounded in sustainability studies merging over 25 years of real world self study with academic planning. As a resident of Phoenix for the last 40 years, Greg has a long rich history of urban sustainability and food production in dry lands. Throughout his life the notion of sustainability played a key role in the way he pursued his education and planted his gardens. In 1991 the concept of permaculture was introduced and brought together many sustainability concepts into one cohesive system. In 2001 out of his undergraduate work at ASU, Greg created a new concept called the Urban Farm, a real world environmental showcase home in the heart of Phoenix, Arizona. Utilizing his extensive background to develop an innovative holistic home site, The Urban Farm features an entirely edible 1/3 acre farm/yard, rainwater and greywater harvesting, solar applications along with extensive use of reclaimed and recycled building materials.
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 Saturday, Feb. 27
FREE ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION moderated by Neal Rogin
Sustainability Roundtable:
Filmmakers, Artists and Social Change
2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
At Studio Live Theatre
Join actors, filmmakers, directors, producers and members of the Creative Coalition for a lively discussion about the filmmaker’s and artists’ roles in social change and activism.
Take part in a one-on-one interaction with panelists and celebrity guests as they look at this timely and important topic — for us and for our environment!
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