When: March 23rd to May 11th, Mondays, 5:15 - 7:45 pm
Where: Madison Public Library - Hawthorne branch
In an eight-week workshop on Monday evenings this Spring (March 23rd to May 11th), we’ll work together to make short movies using cellphones and tablets. We’ll guide you with the basics of filmmaking so that you can bring your stories to life. In the end, you will not only develop your own filmmaking skills, but we will also help you show your films in multiple showcases, archive your work in the public libraries, and even submit your works to festivals!
This workshop is set up primarily for underrepresented communities, i.e. the working class, people of color, and refugees, who otherwise might not have access to such classes.
If you are interested in this workshop and available to attend ALL of the dates below, please fill out this application form by March 7, 2020, 11:59 pm.
About the Instructors: Hamidreza Nassiri started filmmaking with the short film White Black (2008). He then entered the University of Tehran’s Master’s program in Cinema and made several short films, including his thesis, Daylight News (2013). Hamidreza left Iran to study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he has also taught film production. The winner of several scholarships and teaching awards, he founded the Wisconsin Iranian Film Festival in 2017. His new short film, Immortal (2018), became finalist in the Frostbite International Film Festival and Lift-Off Global Network Film Festival.
Carmine Grimaldi is a filmmaker, historian, and teacher, and is currently an A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Humanities at UW Madison. He received his PhD in History from the University of Chicago.
