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City Visions is an initiative started by KDHX TV to develop, encourage and otherwise support the growth of independent media arts in St. Louis by providing the access, training and environment needed to support the creative vision of St. Louis media artists. City Visions believes that a stronger media arts community can be built through four critical ways: resources, exposure, community and education. Each component of the initiative has been developed to foster these concepts. Following are details on each specific component:


48 Hour Film Project (Community & Exposure):
       

KDHX TV's City Visions is the official St. Louis host of the nationally renowned 48 Hour Film Project. The 48 Hour Film Project is the hottest new filmmaking experience in the country - filmmaking teams come together and have only 48 hours to produce a movie-from scratch. Congratulations to the 36 St. Louis teams that participated in the project. If you happened to miss the event, check out our short documentary or watch all of the 2005 films here.

A DVD containing all films in the "Best of" the 48 hour film project St. Louis 2005 is available on-line for $17. (including shippping)

The 48 Hour Film Project is supported in-part by The Pageant, The Moolah Theater & Lounge, the Regional Arts Commission and the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency.

Every second counts when you only have 48 hours to make a film!

Coming Up Shorts (Resources):

City Visions has an opportunity for local media artists to make 3-minute shorts with the help of KDHX TV. KDHX TV will provide the selected artists with all the resources necessary to make their short video (including a $100 honorarium.) These videos will screen on KDHX TV as "Bumpers" between our scheduled programming and at an annual showcase.

Behind The Lens & St. Louis Film Gallery (Exposure):

City Visions is producing a bi-weekly 30-minute television program highlighting the St Louis Film and Video Community called Behind the Lens. Roberta "Bobbie" Lautenschlager, a St. Louis Film Producer and Screenwriter, interviews local directors, actors and film and video professionals and shows their short films and videos. In addition to Behind The Lens, City Visions is creating a St. Louis Film Gallery on its web page with streaming versions of local films. If you would like your short film to be considered for Behind The Lens or be a part of the St. Louis film gallery, please submit it to:

KDHX TV
Attn: Behind The Lens/Film Gallery
625 N Euclid Ave, Ste 100
St Louis, MO 63108

River City B-Rollers (Community):

The River City B-Rollers is a documentary salon that meets once a quarter to screen regionally produced documentaries and discuss them. In essence, we talk about the creative, technical and financial challenges of directing and producing documentaries in the St. Louis area. The documentaries are screened as part of the Webster University Film Series and are accompanied by a panel discussion that includes the filmmakers and the subjects of the film.

If you would like to be on the email list that would inform you of River City B-Rollers screenings please contact Doug Whyte at doug@kdhx.org or at 314-361-8870 x229.

Check out the article "Missouri Breaks: Documentaries Enjoy A Renaissance in St. Louis" by Doug Whyte. The article appeared in May 2005 issue of the magazine International Documentary.

STLFILMWIRE (Community):

KDHX TV hosts the STLFILMWIRE community, an e-mail list of St. Louis based filmmakers and actors. The listserv, started by Adam Hackbarth in 2001, allows the local filmmaking community to communicate and collaborate. Postings include crew calls, casting calls, screening dates, funding opportunities and festival information. If you want to find out what's happening in the St. Louis Film and Video community, this is the place to be! To sign up, type your email address below and hit Go!

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Filmmaking Workshops (Education):

City Visions is partnering with the Webster Film Series to present Filmmaking Workshops with nationally recognized film directors. These filmmaking workshops will give artists a rare chance to learn filmmaking techniques and get advice from some of the most innovative and successful independent filmmakers in the country.

Workshop #13

KDHX TV and The Webster Film Series are proud to present a free Filmmaking Workshop with veteran animator Suzan Pitt:
December 16, 2006
1:00pm to 4:00pm
Webster University
Room 123 of the Sverdrup Business & Technology Complex
8300 Big Bend, Blvd.
Admission is FREE (but RSVP is required)

    
Suzan Pitt will conduct a free workshop on the many production processes which are possible in experimental animation. Suzan will bring samples of artwork, cels, backgrounds, and production materials which were used to create her films, and she'll talk about how the films were made. We'll also look at some historical examples by international animation artists on video tape and some new student-made animation from the Experimental Animation Program at Cal Arts, where Suzan teaches. If students have storyboards or ideas for animated films they would like to make, we'll discuss them with the workshop group.

More information on Suzan Pitt at her home page

Space is limited for the workshop. Please RSVP to Doug Whyte - (314)361-8870 ext. 229 or doug@kdhx.org This event is sponsored by The Webster Film Series, KDHX TV, CALOP, The Missouri Arts Council and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Workshop #12

Filmmaking Workshop with director Ron Mann:
October 21, 2006 1-4pm
    
Veteran filmmaker Ron Mann will conduct a free workshop of non-fiction filmmaking. Through discussion and presentation of clips from his films, Mann will explore all aspects of the theatrical documentary feature. A disciple of radical political filmmaker Emile de Antonio (IN THE YEAR OF THE PIG, MANUFACTURING CONSENT, etc), Mann sees himself as more of a cultural historian who documents alternative and dissent culture. The director of over a dozen films including the critically acclaimed GRASS, TWIST and more recently, TALES OF THE RAT FINK (all of which screen in a retrospective at the Webster Film Series October 19-22), Mann's films have enjoyed theatrical release in the US and Canada and around the world. They have played in hundreds of international festivals including Toronto, Berlin and Sydney.

More information on Ron Mann: http://www.sphinxproductions.com/

ADDED BONUS: John Goodman, narrator of TALES OF THE RAT FINK, will be present with Ron Mann for a Q&A at the 7:00 pm October 21st screening of the film.

Workshop #11

Fiction Filmmaking Workshop with Andrew Bujalski
Saturday, May 20, 2006 1-4pm

    
Acclaimed writer/director Andrew Bujalski will present a workshop on fiction filmmaking. Bujalski will discuss a variety of issues, including transferring a script to screen, casting, film festivals, and trends in contemporary independent filmmaking. Bujalski, whose first feature film, FUNNY HA HA, began playing festivals in 2002 and went on to a long slow burn life culminating in a 2005 theatrical release, was acknowledged among Filmmaker Magazine's "New Faces of Indie Film" in 2003. The film made several critics Top Ten lists including the Best Undistributed Films of the Year lists from Village Voice and Film Comment and received the "Someone to Watch" Award at the Independent Spirit Awards. MUTUAL APPRECIATION, which has received rave reviews, is set for a theatrical release in the fall of 2007. Both of Bujalski's films FUNNY HA HA and MUTUAL APPRECIATION will screen at the Webster Film Series May 19-21.

Workshop #10

Filmmaking Workshop with New York director Ralph Arlyck:
Saturday, March 25, 2006 1-4pm

    
Acclaimed filmmaker Ralph Arlyck will present a workshop on non-fiction filmmaking. Arlyck will discuss a variety of issues, including funding and distribution strategies, conceptualizing a project, navigating the film festival circuit, and releasing documentaries theatrically. A leading advocate for American independent producers, Arlyck has made over a dozen films including the critically acclaimed short SEAN, AN ACQUIRED TASTE, and CURRENT EVENTS which have played in leading US and international festivals such as New York and Sundance. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship. His recently completed documentary feature, FOLLOWING SEAN will screen at the Webster Film Series March 24-26.
Space is limited for the workshop. Please RSVP to Doug Whyte (314) 361-8870 ext. 229 or doug@kdhx.org This event is sponsored by KDHX-TV, CALOP, The Missouri Arts Council, The Regional Arts Commission and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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