Filmmaker Cafe — Friday, Feb 23, 10:30am-12:30pm
THE FILM LAB’S FILMMAKER CAFE IS A BRUNCH PARTY FOR FILMMAKERS, STUDENTS, AND FOLKS IN THE INDUSTRY.
Come to The Lower Lobby at Katy Murphy Amphitheater (in the Pomerantz Art and Design Center) to grab a bite, be inspired by filmmakers, and learn how we’re investing in the justice filmmakers of the present and future. Come to create connections and celebrate your films.
All filmmakers, students, industry, and press are welcome. Attendance, with brunch and coffee, is free. RSVP’s are appreciated. You can do so by completing this brief survey.
Friday, Feb 23, 10:30am-12:30pm in The Lower Lobby at Katy Murphy Amphitheater (in the Pomerantz Art and Design Center)
Lina Lyte Plioplyte
Along with the food and coffee, joining us is Emmy, Clio, and Silver Lion-winning Director/ Camera person Lina Lyte Plioplyte, Director of MSNBC’s Periodical which will be screening later that same day.
The UnRival Award
The unRival Award is given annually at the Justice Film Festival to a film in any category which powerfully demonstrates the beauty, difficulty, and value of pursuing justice and peace for all people through nonrivalrous and nonviolent ways of being. The award will be presented during the winning film’s screening block.
Film Lab Fall Program - Inquire
The Film Lab's Fall Program fosters the upcoming generation of justice filmmakers and their creative journey of crafting unique and profound transformative stories.
This 8-week Fall Program is designed to support and connect filmmakers who are actively at work on a project. By bringing pitch decks, scripts, treatments, or rough cuts to one another and to professional mentors in a nonrivalrous space, participants receive deep and meaningful feedback and encouragement and leave with a renewed sense of their capacity to complete the project with excellence and effectiveness.
Each filmmaker commits to joining 8 weekly, 2hr group sessions engaging in one another’s projects and 1 60-minute one-on-one mentoring session.
The next Fall Program will take place virtually in the Fall of 2024. Filmmakers everywhere are encouraged to apply. Applications will open in Spring 2024. Request more information here.
About the host…
Billy Price — unRival Network’s Creative Director and Programs Co-Director
William (Billy) Price, III is a storyteller with an eye – and an ache – for transcendence. In his award-winning work as a writer, director, producer, and actor, William pulls viewers toward the brutal tension of life – beauty and suffering, terror and mercy. William’s collaborations possess these darkly hopeful undercurrents while revealing a notable artistic malleability: he’s created alongside Grammy-winning artists, healthcare companies, non-profits, start-ups, and social justice movements. The tensions emanating from William’s work spark from his own filmmaking journey: reflecting his blue-collar, fireman’s son upbringing, he learned his craft as a trade instead of through higher ed. Beginning in the early 2000s as a PA and grip on sets, seeking and working and growing, William is now an award-winning director, a working actor, and a sought-after screenwriter. As a cancer survivor and father of two, William’s personal life has also been marked by the specter of suffering and healing. Follow William’s path towards meaning-making and hope at @williampriceiii, @unrival.network and @_929film.