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- In this recorded workshop you meet Darnell Williams, a Producer and Virtual Production Supervisor, who uses the Unreal Engine to make film and television. Darnell Williams, founder of Elektrashock Studios, is an expert in virtual production and motion capture technology. You've seen his work on TED (working with Seth McFarlane to animate the TED), and he's worked for Digital Domain, Walt Disney Imagineering, Nvidia, MTV, Sony Pictures, Square, etc. He's worked with producers at every budget level to develop, budget, and produce motion picture and television media. Darnell's background in Maya, Unreal Engine, MotionBuilder, Zbrush, Cryengine, Unity 3D, RealFlow, C++, Python, MoSys, NCAM, ARRI, BlackMagic, and a wide range of face and body motion capture systems, and his experience managing indie-production and FX teams working nationwide, make him the go-to production partner for many producers. Darnell is a strong concept artist and illustrator which ensures what production teams and studios envision is what ends up on screen.
- Justin Sterling is an attorney, civil litigator, intellectual property attorney, and entertainment lawyer who works with producers, screenwriters, and others to protect, license, and sell their content. In this workshop he addresses contract fundamentals, including the elements required for an agreement to exist between two people. He discusses how contracts can exist even when nothing is writing down, how people can unintentionally create enforceable contracts, how badly defined contacts create problems between parties, and elements that make written contracts clearer and easier to enforce. He addresses what it means for a contract to be negotiated or changed "under duress" and what "bad faith" means in the context of contracts. Justin Sterling is founder of The Sterling Firm.
- A court mandated therapy session run by hard-working psychologist Dr. Bass features Jane the felony shoplifter, Jacob the guy who stole his girlfriends car after she broke up with him, Finn the businessman whose bad attitude leads him to fight in bars . . . and Scott, the billionaire who bilked old ladies of millions. It's possible Scott's gotten some strangely favorable treatment. Together these folks meet once a week to talk about the compulsive risk taking that's led them into trouble. This week, Scott has a surprise for everyone.
- Smart producers consult with tax experts and attorneys to make sure they understand the risks and obligations involved in hiring people, and so they can ensure they are engaging people correctly. Producers and others who hire people under the table, or hire people as contractors when they don't meet the legal definition, take very serious financial risks. Calling someone a volunteer, contractor, or intern doesn't make them one in the eyes of the State or Federal government. Workers Compensation insurance for those working on set is also important. If someone gets injured on your production, and they are not covered, the penalties can be very high. In this workshop Brandon Brazee from Castifi.com addresses how to hire cast and crew legally nationwide.
- Leading Entertainment Attorney addresses copyright and work-for-hire law, specifically how writers, producers, performers, and others protect their work, and how intellectual property is licensed and sold. He discusses distribution, chain of title, releases, and litigation.
- Attorney and Litigator Justin Sterling discusses the Doctrine of Fair Use, and when writers, screenwriters, producers and publishers can use the work of others without permission. He also discusses the Right of Publicity which addresses the right of performers and other to control the use of their name and appearance for commercial purpose, versus the First Amendments protection for creative works and news stories that incorporate depictions of famous and not-so-famous people. Libel and Defamation are discussed, along with how documentary and narrative creators protect themselves from litigation.
- A US Marine picks up a girl at a party. A rainy 19-hour first date in New York soon becomes an evening home alone. But can true love conquer all? Our heroine is a peace activist, our hero a 1st Lieutenant in the US Marine Corps bound for a middle east battlefield in the morning. Will this star-crossed couple find common ground?
- Exceptional producer Gary W. Goldstein addresses the new entertainment industry landscape and the skills writers, producers, and others need to master in order to thrive. He reviews why many of the strategies that worked in previous decades are ineffective now, and how the approach many take to acquiring work makes it much harder for them to build the relationships they need in order to thrive.
- The term "development hell" is a term we hear. all the time in Hollywood. It's the excuse we get from our friends when we ask about the great script we read, the great movie or series they were working on, and occasionally the great lead role one of our up-and-coming actor friends has booked. It comes with a shrug, a look of embarrassment, and an awkward silence. It's a legendary obstacle that ties up great writers, actors, and producers for years, wasting time and money while destroying reputations. It's something you can avoid, and it's something you can get out of, but you have to understand what it is and why it exists in order to do that.
- A man and his wife face confront the a violent attacker. Not every divorce is a disaster. Sometimes couples part friends. But when love becomes hate, sometime divorce becomes murder. How do you know when you're giving in to hysteria versus facing the reality of the danger you're in? This short piece shows a family in crisis.
- When a producer working for a studio notices that all his female hires are being rejected, he calls the studio to find out what's going on. He's encouraged to accept the male replacements they've offered him because they are less likely to prove problematic going forward. Having recorded the call, he encourages them to remember that New York is a single party recording state, and their confession that they are favoring male workers over female workers represents make make their male hires fairly problematic going forward.
- When a famous actor visits his dying sister, many mysteries are resolved. A woman's beloved brother has been missing for a lifetime. She's grown old with out him, struggled through the death of both parents, endured her own fight with terminal illness. In the final days of her life the prodigal brother returns to care for her. She is mystified, and doesn't understand why, after so long, he has come home. In this story of tragedy and loss, a man finds his redemption.
- Long term loving relationships fall apart in an instant, shattering our understanding of ourselves, our partners, and our future. Sometimes an instant in a relationship determines the whole course of our lives. In this story a woman tells her lover that his one-sided decision not to marry and start a family was a make-or-break choice for their long term relationship. The are only so many hours in a life. She has chosen herself, the children she will love, and the true partner she will find over a guy who won't grow up.
- In this poignant drama, Ramona and Erik are trapped in a London airport. Getting here has been a comedy of errors, from missed flights to traffic jams, and now their flight is grounded. But, as Erik explains, today has been the perfect day because Ramona is in it. He wants her to be part of every day for the rest of his life, and he gets his wish. Not all fairy tales have a happy ending.
- Politics makes for some strange bedfellows and it is not uncommon to discover you are sleeping with the enemy. In this short drama a vet refuses to participate in a dangerous political stunt designed to distract voters from bank regulation. His group's corporate sponsors decide how to handle his refusal to participate in the political action of their choice.
- College Co-ed Jessie is stalked by a dream lover. What he does to her while she sleeps is killing her in the real world. Jessie can't wait to join her friends as a freshman at the state university. She's looking forward to learning, falling in love, getting married, her whole life. But she is stalked through her dreams but a mysterious, handsome, dangerous young man. No one will believe the injuries she's receiving come to her as she sleeps. Even her new boyfriend think she's insane when a dream puts her into the hospital. Desperate for help she find a witch who agrees to help her. She discovers the poignant truth about her dream stalker, and why his love for her is ever lasting.
- Every funeral is an unplanned occasion thrown together under terrible circumstances by people in shock and mourning. No one involved in burying the dead can fail to recognize their own mortality or confront the course their life has taken to date. In this full cast audio play about the death of a philandering family patriarch in a small town, characters reveal shocking secrets and struggle to decide if, when, and how they will ever see one another again. This moment marks the end of who each character is and allows us to understand who they will become. This is a full cast production of a stage play by Nancy Fulton.