"I once was where you are..."
-Anonymous
Our workshops at SCFF are designed to offer impacting, forward moving information that inspires engaging conversation, and delivers immediate results to independent filmmakers, actors, behind the scene workers, and aspiring individuals of all levels to increase opportunities to turn a hobby, skill, passion into a paycheck.
SCFF workshops are facilitated by industry professionals at the top of their game in the indie film market. Get answers to many of the questions you've been dying to ask to help put you further on the right track to becoming an even stronger force in the indie film industry. SCFF has got you covered!
Topics:
SCFF workshops are facilitated by industry professionals at the top of their game in the indie film market. Get answers to many of the questions you've been dying to ask to help put you further on the right track to becoming an even stronger force in the indie film industry. SCFF has got you covered!
Topics:
- The Film Commission... What is it, What are the incentives, and how does it help filmmakers in the local area it serves
- The Business of D.I.Y Film Making as an independent
- Surviving as an Independent Artist the Independent market
- Social Media: The importance of Right Now and marketing as an independent
- The market and the lucrative fast growing industry of drone piloting and filming
- Building Your Network to Increase your Net-worth as an independent
- How to influence Film Incentives in a local community
- How to maximize your talents and increase your net worth
- Picture Perfect: A Thousand words in 1 Look... Headshots and Branding You
- How to make project funding easier through credit awareness and financial literacy
SCFF 2022
Workshop Speakers
****************NEW SCHEDULE UPDATES*****************
SCFF22 Theme... So You Made A Movie... Now What??
Best Ways To Take Your Project To The Next Level!
Saturday January 15, 2022
11am-2pm (w/ Lobby Q&A to follow)
Location: Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N. St Petersburg, FL
$15 Seating is limited
Industry Professionals giving expert advice and the true inside scoop to surviving in this industry.
Best Ways To Take Your Project To The Next Level!
Saturday January 15, 2022
11am-2pm (w/ Lobby Q&A to follow)
Location: Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N. St Petersburg, FL
$15 Seating is limited
Industry Professionals giving expert advice and the true inside scoop to surviving in this industry.
11 - 12PM
Filmmaking Workshop
Filmmaking Workshop
Ziad Ahmed Director, International filmmaker, Producer, Editor
Workshop will cover:
- *Ziad has been involved in the process of film-making in various capacities, though the highlight of his career and legacy is his directorial work. Z's workshop is impactful, and very insightful, sharing his award winning expertise and experience in the art of filmmaking with little to no budget and turning that into world renowned profits and exposure.
Workshop will cover:
- *How to maximize your talents in filmmaking and increase your net worth as an independent
- The Art of Filmmaking
- *The Business of D.I.Y Film Making as an independent
*The Power of the local tax incentive... How to get your money back.
12-1PM
Writers Workshop
Writers Workshop
James EL Patterson Screen Writer, Actor, Filmmaker Producer
§ How to maximize your talents and increase your net worth as a writer for indie film and television. § Tips and tricks to crafting your story into from inside your head or a book you wrote into a screenplay for film
§ Tips on what types of stories are sell-able or in demand
- James El Patterson is an African-American screenwriter and filmmaker from Saint Petersburg, Florida. He studied filmmaking at Miami-Dade School of Film and Video in Miami. Soon after, James moved to Los Angeles, California in pursuit of a writing career. It was there where he acted in several films, notably, Ava DuVernay’s, “Middle Of Nowhere”, where he portrayed a Correctional Officer in that film. He also acted in a film with Kadeem Hardison. While living in Los Angeles, James worked as an ‘Audience Enhancer' on court TV shows for Judge Joe Brown and Divorce Court.
- Workshop will cover:
§ How to maximize your talents and increase your net worth as a writer for indie film and television. § Tips and tricks to crafting your story into from inside your head or a book you wrote into a screenplay for film
§ Tips on what types of stories are sell-able or in demand
1:00pm - 1:45PM
Actors Workshop
Actors Workshop
Chris Greene
Actor/Acting coach/ Writer, Director, Producer
Detour Entertainment
Chris Greene is a native New Yorker born in Mount Vernon and raised in Yonkers who is best known for his roles in the tv shows Queen of the South and ATLANTA and historically based films LOVING and The Birth of a Nation.
With over 20 years of training and experience, Chris has appeared in commercials for top brands and companies and has worked alongside some of Hollywood's top Actors and Directors.
Chris coaches Actors on the importance of having a positive lifestyle through the craft and business of acting with his organization The L.O.A.A., Life of an Actor!
Workshop will cover:
Better ways to act- Period.
Best Practices to getting more acting opportunities
Actor/Acting coach/ Writer, Director, Producer
Detour Entertainment
Chris Greene is a native New Yorker born in Mount Vernon and raised in Yonkers who is best known for his roles in the tv shows Queen of the South and ATLANTA and historically based films LOVING and The Birth of a Nation.
With over 20 years of training and experience, Chris has appeared in commercials for top brands and companies and has worked alongside some of Hollywood's top Actors and Directors.
Chris coaches Actors on the importance of having a positive lifestyle through the craft and business of acting with his organization The L.O.A.A., Life of an Actor!
Workshop will cover:
Better ways to act- Period.
Best Practices to getting more acting opportunities
2pm - 2:15pm
LOBBY Q&A WITH WORKSHOP SPEAKERS
