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Bowers Museum The Scene for Documentary Filmmaking Event
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The Media Alliance and OC Screen Writers Assoc., joint presentation of four award-winning documentarians entitled, Secrets of Successful OC Documentary Filmmakers, was a real crowd pleaser. Socializing, behind-the-scenes stories of filmmaking and clips of a wide variety of documentary subjects and styles highlighted the evening.
The venue was Santa Ana’s Bowers Museum and the event was sponsored by Bowers along with respected local production company, Corporate Video & Film. Lots of professional networking took place over cocktails at the reception held the museum’s large new event space. Later, guests were overheard to describe both the location and the event as, “first class”and “Impressive.”The crowd moved into the state-of-the art, 300-seat Norma Kershaw Auditorium for the program.
Mark Sevi, founder and president of the OC Screenwriters Association, characterized the panel as a “brilliant team” and he said, “we all appreciated their varied insights and suggestions.” Tim Keenan, the event’s moderator, agreed. “The crowd loved the film clips and the accompanying stories from all four panelists.” Keenan, president of Creative Media Recording, is the Co-President of the Media Alliance of Orange County and kept the program lively and interesting.
All Orange County based, the filmmakers each showcased their work and shared their creative, production, distribution and even fundraising experiences. The audience was deeply engaged and filled with questions both during and after the event. Great information and entertaining anecdotes were common throughout.
“It was both a pleasure and an honor to be part of such a creative group,”commented Richard Theiss. Theiss, of RTSea Productions and one of the panel of experts, spoke about the making of his feature film, Island of the Great White Shark. He was joined by three other distinguished Orange County documentary filmmakers: David Bojorquez, Executive Producer and principal of Vision4Media who specializes in Socially Conscious Original Content; Peter Buffa, CEO of Petrone Communications, who produced the historical doc, Titans of History, about the monumental World War II era Tustin Blimp Hangars; and Jay Grewall, a Multimedia Producer whose film, "If Mother Only Knew" takes a raw, in-depth look at the psyche of Mixed Martial Arts fighters.
Organized and presented jointly by the Media Alliance and the OC Screenwriters Association, the very successful evening was sponsored by The Bowers Museum and Corporate Video & Film.
For more photos of the event go to: http://picasaweb.google.com/votalk/MAOCBowersDocumentaryEvent#
--Submitted by John W. Coleman
A producer, director, writer and media consultant for over 25 years, John Coleman works in all media. He is the CEO of Twin Oaks Communications, Inc http://www.twinoaks.tv/ based in Mission Viejo, CA. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of The Media Alliance of Orange County as Secretary. Coleman can be reached at: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Media Alliance Producer-Director Jack Gallagher and "The First Ten" video crew at the Lido Cinema in Newport Beach
Around 60 people from the AD Club and the Media Alliance as well as interested media producers attended this panel in January on creating award winning projects.
The panelists were award-winning producers of one or more of these types of organization's awards.
Everyone touched on the importance of being recognized by their peers with awards like this and noted that having won awards does impact the "impression" that clients have of them. They also discussed the value of entering the various competitions and the effort and expense involved vs. the return.