Film Making Los Angeles
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Writers & Filmmakers Mixer @ Laurel Tavern | scriptca.mp wordca.mp filmca.mp
Mon, Aug 24, 1:00 AMJoin filmcamp, scriptca.mp and wordca.mp for our monthly Writers & Filmmakers Mixer at Laurel Tavern! Connect with your fellow filmmakers, screenwriters, authors, actors and other industry professionals. **About skillca.mp** We're a 501(c)3 non profit organization providing free skills training and business development education globally, focusing on marginalized and underserved communities. Bring your screenplays, novels or short stories to our critique swaps, workshops, writer's groups and around the clock weekend table reads marathon. đłď¸âđ This is an LGBTQ+ friendly space. âż We embrace accessibility and respect our disabled writers and filmmakers! Are you a produced, repped, published or emerging author or screenwriter with a strong handle on the craft? Join the Advanced Fiction Lab ( https://wordca.mp/advancedlab ) or Advanced Screenwriters Lab ( https://scriptca.mp/advancedlab ) If you support our mission, you can donate, volunteer or sign up for classes at https://skillca.mp
Entertainment Industry Network Event/Gifted ARTists
Sun, Sep 20, 10:00 PMJoin us for our monthly in-person entertainment industry meet-up in Los Angeles, where the people you need to meet are in the room. This event is designed for cinematographers, photographers, actors, and singers who are ready to stop chasing opportunities and start building real connections that lead to work, visibility, and growth. If youâre a cinematographer or photographer, this is your chance to meet venue owners, talent buyers, and industry decision-makers who are actively looking for visual talent. If youâre an actor or singer, this is where you can connect with the people who book talent, create opportunities, and help you get seen by the right audience. We bring together the exact people who can help solve the biggest pain point in this industry: access. This is more than a social event. Itâs a room full of possibilities, where your next booking, collaboration, or introduction could happen through one conversation. Come ready with your business cards, your portfolio, your reel, your headshots, and your confidence. Bring your A-game, because the people who can move your career forward will be there. Our goal is simple: to create a space where talent meets opportunity. Whether youâre looking to get booked, build your brand, find creative partners, or connect with venue owners and talent buyers, this event is built for you. Who should attend? Cinematographers looking for paid shoots and industry connections. Photographers wanting to connect with venues, artists, and talent buyers. Actors seeking casting opportunities and professional visibility. Singers ready to perform, network, and get booked. Industry professionals who want to build meaningful relationships and expand their reach. What youâll get? Direct access to industry professionals and decision-makers. Real networking with people who can help move your career forward. Opportunities to build relationships that can lead to bookings and collaborations. A welcoming, high-energy environment made for creative professionals. Come out, make the connection, and put yourself in the right room. This is where opportunity meets preparation.
Creative Tech & Visual Arts Mixer
Sat, Aug 15, 10:00 PMNetwork with LA creatives working at the intersection of art, technology, media, and production. Creativetoolkits is a community of 3D artists, fabricators, animators, VFX artists, TouchDesigner visual artists, software engineers, post-production professionals, videographers, directors, music producers, designers, creative coders, and more. Our goal is to create a space for people using creative technology to meet collaborators, exchange ideas, share projects, and build community. Whether youâre an industry professional, hobbyist, student, or just curious about how technology is being used in creative fields, youâre welcome to come hang out. **đ Where:** Smalls LA \| 4149 W Pico Blvd \#103 Los Angeles\, CA **đ When:** Every Saturday! **đ Tickets:** Free Entry, but consider buying a drink as a 'thank you' to our local record store/coffee shop. **What to Bring:** **Yourself + what youâre working on:** Come ready to talk about your projects, tools, workflows, experiments, or ideas. **Support:** If weâre meeting at a local venue, please consider purchasing a drink or snack as a gesture of appreciation. **Get More Involved:** Eager to contribute? Weâre looking for people interested in hosting project showcases, lectures, seminars, workshops, demos, creative hackathons, installation events, and collaborative meetups. Join the Discord and help shape the future of LAâs creative technology community. **Connect with us** Discord : [https://discord.gg/WemVunqCwS](https://discord.gg/WemVunqCwS) Instagram : [https://instagram.com/mycreativetoolkits](https://instagram.com/mycreativetoolkits)
Screenwriting Tribe 7-9 p.m. Aug. 16th
Mon, Aug 17, 2:00 AM**FIRST WORKSHOP ATTENDANCE IS FREE.** Bring a friend. **After 1st visit: Donation only.** Collected during workshop. QR codes to Venmo and PayPal provided, Or cash. The aim is to cover the expenses of the workshop. It's not set up to be a money-making venture. **TO WORKSHOP PAGES** OF YOUR SCREENPLAY: YOU đMUSTđđź HAVE AN RSVP đANDđđź WRITE "PAGES" AS A COMMENT HERE ON THIS EVENT PAGE. Read details below... We meet in the community room of the HULU building/Colorado Center, **2500 Broadway, Santa Monica** CA 90404. **First floor.** **Short walkway to glass door right near street (by "HULU" sign next to sidewalk)**. **⢠Tribe consists of writers and some actors helping writers to sharpen their screenplays, and their skills in the craft.** ⢠A diversity of ages, life experiences, and voices, are helpful to have in the workshop. Ages 16 and over. ⢠Maintain your RSVP status. If you RSVP, but can't attend: ⢠Please, cancel your RSVP ASAP. You do so on this MeetUp page. It prevents writers from spending money to make copies of their script pages for you. ⢠To sign up for having your script pages read by and get feedback from the group: ⢠First RSVP to sign up for pages. ⢠If you sign up for pages, and change your mind: DELETE your pages comment AND leave a post "Canceling pages." This gives another writer time to prepare pages. **⢠Canceling pages does not cancel your RSVP.** If you ARE NOT going to attend, please: ALSO cancel your RSVP. **⢠Sign up for pages: A, B, C, D...** A ⢠**Know you need to bring sets of pages for those who attend so they can both read and write notes on them.** B ⢠**Get the books:** 1. **Screenplay Repair Manual** by Daniel John Carey 2. **The Screenwriter's Bible** by David Trottier 3. **Dr. Format Tells All** by David Trottier C ⢠**Have an RSVP** D ⢠**Be one of the first 4 to sign up for pages.** **⢠We workshop feature and short film screenplays, and episodic, anthology, limited/mini series, serial series, and single cam sitcom screenplays, and also multi-cam sitcom scripts.** (We previously didn't workshop multi-cam scripts. Writers may want to consider that multi-cam sitcoms are not as popular as they were ten or more years ago. This makes getting a sitcom produced even less likely - unless you are an established sit-com writer, or an established stand-up comic. But maybe you will be the person who is successful in getting a new sitcom produced.) **⢠WE DO NOT WORKSHOP SOAP OPERA, MUSICAL, NC-17, OR X SCRIPTS.** **⢠Please format scripts in industry-standard 12 point Courier font**. **⢠Take one script through the workshop at a time from the first page to "The End."** **⢠Own the material in the script.** No plagiarism. The script has to be something you can copyright. (No lyrics, poetry, book excerpts, life stories, or other material to which you do not own the rights. For instance: don't use Beatles song lyrics in your script.) **⢠The workshop is as good as the participants make it.** **Aim to write engaging scripts with broad market, investor & distributor appeal, and that may advance the careers of actors, directors, DPs, editors, and you.** **đA screenplay is an investment proposal for film financiers.đđź** **To sign up for pages: 1, 2, 3.** 1. **RSVP.** 2. **After RSVPing, type âpagesâ in the comments section.** **Bring enough copies of your script pages for everyone who has RSVPd.** (Closest Staples copy center location is on Bundy just north of Olympic open to 6 p.m. You can print from your laptop - the attendant can tell you how. Make sure the copy machine is set to black and white, and NOT color - so you aren't paying three times as much for color copies when all you need is B&W. You can also ask the attendant to make sure it is the thinner paper, and not the heavier paper that costs more). Also, print double sided copies to save $ and paper. **We write feedback directly on the pages, and also give verbal feedback.** **Be prepared to assign your character dialogue to be read out loud by various people in attendance, and assign one person to be the narrator of the scene headings and description.** **We give verbal feedback after each set of pages.** **As a writer receives feedback, they are to be silent, even if asked questions. Listen. Take notes.** Feedback you consider "wrong" could instead be helpful in giving you some excellent ideas. Welcome it. Even if you then do the direct opposite in your script revision. **Sometimes attend when your pages aren't being read.** This will build your skills in unexpected ways. Participate in helping other writers with their scripts. **đPlease stay for the entire workshop.đđź** **If you are not of the first 4 signing up for pages,** you can type **"backup pages"** as a comment â in case anyone cancels pages. **After you workshop 13 pages** (or the entire episode of a multi-cam) â **before you bring in the next pages â READ THE ENTIRE SCRIPT to give it a wave of polish.** **If you only have a few pages remaining unworkshopped,** still bring in 13 pages of the script = the remaining pages + pages before it = re-workshopping some of the previous pages. **Each script is the intellectual property of the writer.** **âIf youâre not early, youâre late.â** â John Ritter
Screening LOS FRIKIS
Sat, Aug 22, 2:00 AMInspired by true events, Los Frikis is a coming-of-age story set in early 90s Cuba where a group of punk rockers in search of freedom deliberately inject HIV to live at a government-run treatment home so they can create their own utopia. Directed by [Tyler Nilson](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2436566/?ref_=tt_ov_1_1) and [Michael Schwartz](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1916835/?ref_=tt_ov_1_2) Discussion with Director Tyler Nilson after screening. 1h 51m
đŹâ¨$5 TIX - AI International Film, Music Video & Micro-Drama Festival Hollywood
Sat, Aug 15, 9:30 PM**Get exclusive $5 meetup tickets for Gala afternoon celebration with Red Carpet arrivals, Welcome Reception, World Premieres, 16 International Filmmakers, live filmmaker Q&A, Hollywood Afterparty** **--> Public tickets are $19. Many more people attend than the number who have registered by Meetup, because the event is listed on Eventbrite, Luma, Facebook, etc. as well** *â¨* **6 World Festival Premieres** đ˝ď¸ **Red Carpet Arrivals, Welcome Reception** đŹ **Screening 12 top international AI films, Music Videos & Micro-Dramas** đ **Selections from 250 submissions from 35 countries** đĄ **Live Broadcast Worldwide** đ¤ **16 International Filmmakers join live via Zoom** đ **Awards Show including Audience Choice Voting** đĽ **Afterparty at Mel's Drive-In Hollywood (Food&Drink Menu)** **Discount ticket code: meetup** **https://luma.com/nt5cl4o1** Join filmmakers, creatives, technologists, and curious Angelenos for an intimate social evening at Los Angeles Performing Arts Conservatory where films screen one at a time and the conversation happens live. **Experience where cinema is heading next â** with international films, music videos and micro-dramas selected from over 250 entries, live filmmaker Q&A throughout, red carpet arrivals, audience and jury awards, and our Hollywood afterparty at Mel's Drive-In. **VIP ticket holders are seated with filmmakers at the festival and at the afterparty.** Doors open at 2:20 PM. The show runs 2:30 to 6:30 PM. **FAQs:** **What should I wear?** There's a red carpet with photography and on-camera interviews, and most guests dress for it. Think Hollywood creative â stylish, expressive, photo-ready. Cocktail attire works; so does a sharp jacket or a standout piece. Wear what you'd want to be tagged in. **The venue:** an intimate black-box theater inside the Los Angeles Performing Arts Conservatory (LAPAC), two blocks from the Dolby Theater, the Chinese Theater, and the Walk of Fame. 1534 Highland Ave. **Parking? Free private parking** at 1539 N. McCadden Place **Preferred entrance?** 1535 N. McCadden Place (rear) **Afterparty?** Ticket holders attend our exclusive Hollywood Afterparty at Mel's Drive In (food and drink available for purchase). VIPs seated with filmmakers. **Who are we?** We are the **AI International Film Festivals** â a California **501(c)(3) educational nonprofit** dedicated to public conversation about AI's role in storytelling, media, and society. Since December 2021, we've hosted **24 events, and curated work from 2,400 creators, in 70+ countries**. **Recent editions sold out. Get your tickets soon.** [aifilmfest.org](https://aifilmfest.org/) ¡ [aimusicvideofest.org](https://aimusicvideofest.org/) ¡ [aimicrodramafest.org](https://aimicrodramafest.org/) ¡ [Stream the Films](https://watch.eventive.org/aifilmfest)
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