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Introducing This Summer’s Camp Instructors!

We’ve gathered a fine group of people to lead our youth video-making summer camps this season. We’re very excited to bring back instructors from past years as well as add new faces to our roster.

2018 will see our greatest number of camps yet. We are so thankful to our partners at the East Baton Rouge Public Libraries, cost of levitra in uk the CAC, and of course our teachers.

Meet our stars:

 

BATON ROUGE

 

CLAY ACHEE

Clay Achee grew up in levitra presciptions online Baton Rouge. After graduating from Savannah College of Art and design in film and video he moved back to work for 10 years in the film industry. First is a production assistant, then as an assistant director. He is also worked ordering propecia online extensively in the sound apartment, and post-production sound. Clay has also had the opportunity pills store buy levitra to direct his own commercials, short films, and music videos.

 

DAJANAE ARNAUD

DaJanae is a student at LSU and will be starting her last year in the fall. She is a Film & Media Arts student with a concentration in Production. She is also studying two minors Theatre:Film & Television and Mass Communication. She has been interested in the entertainment business as early as 12 years old and very excited about the summer with NOVAC as she continues her very cheap viagra education.

 

 

NEW ORLEANS

 

ANDREA CLAIRE MORNINGSTAR

Andrea Claire Morningstar is a filmmaker living and working in both New Orleans, LA and Detroit, MI. She is currently in production on a feature length documentary film titled about a unique school in urban Detroit where the neighborhood is the classroom. In 2015, the youth led documentary web series she produced titled “Excellent News” about education in Detroit won two Emmy awards, and in 2016 she received an Emmy nomination for the branded content piece she directed and produced titled Motorcity Horseman. The feature length story she wrote and produced for This American Life titled My Pen Pal about a American girl’s friendship with Panamanian Dictator Good for health like this one the best.. If you get a new prescription and need it filled that day, you can walk into a pharmacy and get it taken care of. Manuel Noriega has been hailed as a classic by TAL staff and listeners for over a decade. Andrea holds a BFA in New Genres from the University of Michigan, Ann https://adsoncoach.com.br/what-is-better-viagra-or-levitra/ Arbor where she was awarded a Martin Luther King Student Leadership Award and an MFA in Filmmaking from University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee where she was awarded a Graduate Excellence Fellowship. In 2014 She founded price of levitra Final Girls, a collective for women filmmakers in Detroit, which won a Knight Foundation grant in 2016. In her life and in her work Andrea is interested cheapest viagra anywhere in unlikely intimacies that lead to transformative experiences; between people and other people, between people and the work they do, between people and the places they find themselves in.

 

QING YU

Qing Yu is a graduate buy generic levitra from uk student studying film production at the University of New Orleans. She graduated from Tulane University in 2016 with a bachelor degree in communication and digital media production. Her capstone film, Abigail, has been shown in international film festivals. She is also a videographer for the number one channel on YouTube for dog training: Zak George’s Dog Training Revolution.

 

ASLI OZYENGINER

Asli Ozyenginer is a filmmaker/writer born in 1992, Turkey. She studied English at Bogazici University and Comparative Literature & Cinema at Dartmouth College. Her first experimental film Safe Distance was exhibited in Black Family Visual Arts Center in 2016, while she was still a graduate student at Dartmouth. She started pursuing her career in filmmaking in Istanbul with the Turkish director Alphan Eseli as her mentor. She worked on his short films, screenplays and his first Internet series, which is now in production. In 2017, she was admitted to the New Orleans Film Festival’s Emerging Voices Program with her new short documentary The Taxidermist. In April 2018 she was a part of MAMUT Art Project, Turkey’s unique art event dedicated to engaging emerging artists, with her video-art installation Words on Water. Although Asli focuses primarily on directing and writing, she also produces photography, video-art and installation projects.

 

ADAM SEKULER

Adam Sekuler is a filmmaker, curator, educator and editor based in New Orleans whose work viagra usa pharmacy has screened in forums and film festivals throughout the US and internationally. In addition to his own work, which strikes a delicate balance between stylization and naturalism, creating a poetic and lyrical form of visual storytelling, he’s produced short films for Barry Jenkins, Lisandro Alonso, Josh and Benny Safdie, Valerie Massadian, Amie Siegel, and Joe Swanberg. He holds an MFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder, is founder and programmer of Radar: Exchanges in Dance Film Frequencies, Associate Director of Zeitgeist Multi-disciplinary Arts Center and was Program Director for Northwest Film Forum (Seattle).

 

ASHLEY CLAY

Ashley Clay teaches Kindergarten cheap viagra discount in New Orleans, LA. She holds an M.A. in Art History from UNC, Chapel Hill, where she focused on contemporary American art with emphasis on themes of gender, race, and place. She has been teaching kids of all ages about art and creative expression for over a decade.

TELL ME YOUR SECRETS Internship Program 2018

NOVAC is proud to announce a partnership with the TNT production TELL ME YOUR SECRETS – a suspenseful, morally complex thriller following three characters and their mysterious pasts – starring Lily Rabe (American Horror Story), Hamish Linklater (The Newsroom) and Amy Brenneman (The Leftovers), executive produced by Harriet Warner (Call the Midwife) and Bruno Papandrea (Big Little Lies). 

Beginning May 30, 2018, NOVAC will be accepting applications for this three-week, paid internship program, which will place three interns in one of the following multi-department tracks based on their preference and fit, one intern per track:

  • Assistant Direction/Production Office Coordinator / Accounting Track
  • Camera / Grip / Electric Track
  • Costume / Art Dept / Set Decoration Track

 

The internship will be in New Orleans this July, and will be five days a week, 8 hours/day for the entire three weeks. Participants will be paid buy cheap levitra minimum wage for the run of the internship.

Previous experience on set is not a requirement, however, priority will be given to applicants with demonstrated desire to work in one of the listed department tracks. Students at regional trade and community colleges are encouraged to apply.

 

TIMELINE

  • May 30-June 15: Applications accepted
  • June 15-July 3: Interviews scheduled and conducted
  • July 3-5: Accepted candidates notified
  • July: Internship on the Tell Me Your Secrets set begins

 

Applications due by June 15, 2018!

APPLY HERE!

 

Visionmaker Summer Camp 2018

This summer, NOVAC is partnering with the UHN to host a free summer camp for young adults, ages 14-20, who are interested in creative digital media as a means to tell the stories of indigenous perspectives in Southeast Louisiana. In this three-week program, students will learn the basics of video storytelling while exploring identity and coastal community.

Who: Young adults, ages 14-20

Where: Multiple Locations (see below)

When: June 25 – July 20

Apply Here

Program Breakdown:

10am – 3pm each day

June 25-29 @ Docville Farm: Storytelling Basics, with guest artists & activists

July 9 – 13 @ Tulane/NOVAC/NOCCA: Climate Change, Land Loss and Conservation

July 16 – 20 @ Docville Farm: Final Project Week

 

Instructor ADAM SEKULER

Adam Sekuler is a filmmaker, curator, educator and editor based in New Orleans whose work has screened in forums and film festivals throughout the US and internationally. In addition to his own work, which strikes a delicate balance between stylization and naturalism, creating a poetic and lyrical form of visual storytelling, he’s produced short films for Barry Jenkins, Lisandro Alonso, Josh and Benny Safdie, Valerie Massadian, Amie Siegel, and Joe Swanberg. He holds an MFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder, is founder and programmer of Radar: Exchanges in Dance Film Frequencies, Associate Director of Zeitgeist Multi-disciplinary Arts Center and was Program Director for Northwest Film Forum (Seattle)

 

Instructor ANDREA CLAIRE MORNINGSTAR

Andrea Claire Morningstar is a filmmaker living and working in both New Orleans, LA and Detroit, MI. She is currently in production on a feature length documentary film titled about a unique school in urban Detroit where the neighborhood is the classroom. In 2015, the youth led documentary web series she produced titled “Excellent News” about education in Detroit won two Emmy awards, and in 2016 she received an Emmy nomination for the branded content piece she directed and produced titled Motorcity Horseman. The feature length story she wrote and produced for This American Life titled My Pen Pal about a American girl’s friendship with Panamanian Dictator Manuel Noriega has been hailed as a classic by TAL staff and listeners for over a decade. Andrea holds a BFA in New Genres from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor where she was awarded a Martin Luther King Student Leadership Award and an MFA in Filmmaking from University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee where she was awarded a Graduate Excellence Fellowship. In 2014 She founded Final Girls, a collective for women filmmakers in Detroit, which won a Knight Foundation grant in 2016. In her life and in her work Andrea is interested in unlikely intimacies that lead to transformative experiences; between people and other people, between people and the work they do, between people and the places they find themselves in.

 

 

After Effects with Jennifer Ledet

Step into the world of Adobe After Effects with this introductory workshop! Adobe After Effects is the industry-standard tool for video compositing, motion graphics design, and animation. Students in this class will create projects designed to learn the basics of text and graphic animation, compositing, and visual effects.

Jennifer Ledet is a New Orleans Filmmaker with an MFA in Film Production from UNO, where she taught Beginning Film Production and Introduction to Cinema Techniques, in addition to training students on editing software and equipment. Ledet specializes in computer education and postproduction software. Her film credits include the recent, local production Lost Bayou.

Where: NOVAC’s Bywater Office @ 532 Louisa St.

When: May 26-27, 10am-4pm both days.

 

Tickets are $300 for members and $350 for new members.

Buy Tickets Here

NOVAC + LWC Seek a Regional Film Industry Training Cohort

2018 Film Industry Job Training with River Parishes LWC!

Take the first step towards starting your career in the film industry by joining NOVAC and the Louisiana Workforce Commission, River Parishes Region, for one of our FREE upcoming workshops!

NOVAC is partnering with the Louisiana Workforce Commission to offer free film industry job training for residents of the Greater New Orleans Metro area.  After an initial set of info sessions in Luling, in January 2018, the LWC is seeking to develop a cohort of 30 residents who are interested in receiving free job training for jobs in the film industry.  These residents will be part of a cohort of folks going through a variety of film industry trainings throughout 2018, with workshops, trainings, internships and job placement support.

WHO:  Residents of Orleans, Jefferson, St. Bernard, St. Tammany, Plaquemines, Lafourche, Terrebonne, St. John the Baptist, St. James, St. Charles and Tangipahoa parishes.

NEXT STEPS: Complete the eligibility packet, downloadable here, and return to your regional LWC office.  You can find the addresses of those offices here.  Make sure they know you’re interested in the Film Industry Training Cohort!

WHEN: Deadline extended- Please complete your eligibility packet and return to a LWC office as soon as possible.  Trainings in Spring 2018 will be scheduled once a cohort of 30 has been established!

 


KEEPERS OF THE MOUND

Ceremonial site, burial ground, midden, gateway, lighthouse, high ground: there are countless theories and explanations for the purpose of mounds, earthen structures built by native peoples of the United States.  Mounds hold more than just fragments of ancient life, they can teach us how ancient peoples settled, inhabited, and adapted to a rapidly evolving landscape.  For the Native American descendants of tribes that inhabited the delta, these spaces also are spiritual centers.  Hundreds of these ancient sites dot Louisiana’s coastline, and yet with rising sea levels, Louisiana is at risk of losing more and more mounds each year, and the wisdom they possess.  But cultural heritage is not a renewable resource.

Bayou Grand Caillou is one such mound at risk.  A giant mound on private property in Dulac, Louisiana, the mound at Bayou Grand Caillou is part of a rapidly changing ecosystem that is at risk of being washed away.  Today, this mound sits on property owned by several local lawyers and developers, not by the United Houma Nation or the local Dulac community.  Carla Solet, a member of the Houma and a Dulac local who lives next door to this mound, wants the mound protected from coastal land loss, but she also wants (legal) access to this sacred space.  For now, Carla and her family visit the site without permission, collecting palms to make baskets and spending time on land that holds deep meaning to their identity.  We follow the Solet family as they explore the meaning of the mounds in terms of their cultural heritage and reclaim the mound in a clandestine flag-planting ceremony.

Mounds were gathering sites for ancient peoples, a place to share knowledge and stories, and today they are a symbol for something that is in danger of being lost, both literally and figuratively, as Louisiana’s coast continues to dissolve.  As land disappears coastal communities rich in culture lose spaces and rituals, opportunities for people to come together, share and collect stories and artifacts to honor the land and its people’s history.  

KEEPERS OF THE MOUND was created with direct support from the Foundation from Louisiana and the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Water/Ways program.  Directed by Katie Mathews, Camera by Justin Zweifach, Sound by Lukas Gonzales, Edit Paavo Hanninen.  Executive Producer Darcy McKinnon, Producer for LEH John Richie, for LEH Brian Boyles.

REFUGE

Phan Plork emigrated to Buras, Louisiana, in the early 1980s to escape the brutal regime of the Khmer Rouge.  He now is part of a vibrant community of over 30 families of Cambodian descent in the heart of Plaquemines Parish.  He and other Cambodian and Vietnames fishermen are active parts of their community, but struggle to be engaged in the process of coastal restoration planning, due to cultural and language barriers.  As he looks towards the possibility of needing to move his family and community, becoming a refugee twice in his life, he wonders if his personal resilience will be enough to see his family, home and livelihood through.  REFUGE premiered at the 2017 New Orleans Film Festival.

REFUGE, featuring Phan Plork and Sandy Ngyuen.

Directed and produced by Katie Mathews

Camera by Biliana Grozdanova and Alex Glustrom

Edit by James Page

MONIQUE VERDIN: signals::doc

Antenna::Signals-docs presented in partnership with NOVAC

As part of a series of short documentaries about local artists and activists who have participated in Antenna’s Signals live magazine events, NOVAC produced this short documentary portrait of the current work of Monique Verdin, St. Bernard native, citizen of the United Houma Nation and artistic activist whose works focus on her indigenous heritage, her relationship to place, and the impacts of environmental change and pollution on southern Louisiana.

Directed by Katie Mathews and Ikeem George, Camera by Justin Zweifach, Edit by Cameron Wheeless and Ikeem George.

NOVAC <3 NOFF17

Once again, we are thrilled to partner with our friends at the New Orleans Film Society, as they present the 28th Annual New Orleans Film Festival.  We are excited this year to be at the festival in new ways – this year, not only as a partner throwing the Filmmaker Welcome Party for the 4th year in a row, but also as filmmakers!  Check out our NOFF events here:

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12: Filmmaker Welcome Party!

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14:  Premiere of REFUGE at the PRYTANIA, 5PM!

REFUGE is a portrait of Phan, a Cambodian fisherman who escaped the Khmer Rouge Killing Fields as a child to resettle along the coast in Buras, Louisiana. Today, Phan and his community are faced with the possibility of becoming refugees again, this time from coastal erosion, rising sea levels, and state restoration programs that struggle to engage with affected communities. REFUGE is screening at the New Orleans Film Festival at the Pyrtania Theater on October 14th at 5 PM.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18: Premiere of KEEPERS OF THE MOUND, at the Advocate Headquarters, 8PM!

KEEPERS OF THE MOUND is a short documentary film about a Native American family who cares for one of the many ancient earthen mounds threatened by the rapid disintegration of the Louisiana coastline.  With the threat of land loss looming and limited resources available for coastal restoration and protection, KEEPERS OF THE MOUND highlights indigenous communities’ fight to be considered in the cost-benefit-ratio of coastal protection. KEEPERS OF THE MOUND is screening at the New Orleans Film Festival at the Advocate Headquarters, October 18th at 8 PM.

Sync Up Cinema 2017

It’s festival time y’all, and NOVAC is pleased once again to partner with the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation to bring you Sync Up Cinema – three days of free films, panels and fun at the Jazz and Heritage Center! Kicking off with the Sync Up music industry conference, Sync Up Cinema brings industry leaders and Louisiana filmmakers directly to you.  This year’s schedule is better than ever, with some awesome highlights below – join us at Sync Up Cinema this year!

 

KEYNOTE CONVO: HANNAH BEACHLER

Meet the über talented production designer from MOONLIGHT, CREED, Beyoncé’s LEMONADE and the upcoming BLACK PANTHERS.

THE REVOLUTION WILL BE TELEVISED: Filmmaking in the Trump Era

presented by Firelight Media and Field of Vision, with local films Aloné by Garrett Bradley and selections from NOVAC’s BetteR series.

BURNING SANDS + DIRECTOR GERARD McMURRAY

the Sundance premiere by New Orleans native Gerard McMurray tackles hazing at HBCU fraternities, and the director will be in attendance to discuss his rise from the 7th ward to producing and directing.

JOE INCAPRERA: FROM PA TO PRODUCER

New Orleans-based producer Joe Incaprera fell in love with the Crescent City when he worked on HBO’s Tremé. He moved his family here and produced and production managed hit television shows including American Horror Story, Quarry, and most recently, 13 Reasons Why, which is currently the most watched television show in history.  Now he’s shepherding a new and innovatively produced project right here in New Orleans.  Joe talks with indie producer Angela Tucker about his path from Baltimore PA to NOLA Producer to Hollywood Powerhouse in the new golden age of television.

Musician’s Clinic Birthday celebration & screening of ONE NOTE AT A TIME

A special screening of Renee Edwards’ ONE NOTE AT A TIME in celebration of the 19th birthday of the New Orleans Musician’s Assistance Foundation and Clinic.  And, the happy hour celebrating the clinic’s 19th anniversary!

CUBA, CONTIGO!

A short exploration into Cuban cinema expression, from the documentary CODIGO COLOR, about the legacy of colorism and racism in Cuba, to a partnership of youth media between Baton Rouge and rural Cuban media makers, to a special sneak preview of a high profile upcoming documentary featuring a legendary group of New Orleans musicians as they explore and meet their Cuban musical heritage dopplegängers.  SPECIAL GUESTS!

And loads more local films, music films and panels and parties – all FREE thanks to the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation and the City of New Orleans Mayor’s Office of Cultural Economy.

Download a FULL SCHEDULE HERE!!