Director/producer Ellen Frankenstein in attendance, will conduct workshop on documentary filmmaking.
REEL WOMEN, a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to offering education, mentoring, networking and screenings supporting women (and men) in the film industry, is sponsoring a workshop and screening of the documentary “EATING ALASKA” on Sunday, December 6. The workshop will be held from 1:00-3:00pm, and the screening starts at 3:30pm. The events will be held at THE INDEPENDENT, a screening facility located at 501 Brushy (at East 5th Street, just east of IH-35). Q&A with the filmmakers will follow screening. Snacks will be provided by WHOLE FOODS MARKET, and The Independent offers a cash bar.
Directed by ELLEN FRANKENSTEIN, “Eating Alaska” is an exploration of what happens when a vegetarian encounters the “last frontier” and subsequently falls in love with a hunter/fisherman … and the land. It is a serious and humorous film about connecting to where you live and eating locally; about trying to break away from the industrial food system when that means not only buying fresh seasonal food from local farmers, but also taking part in a world of hunting and gathering. Made by a former city dweller now living in a small town in Alaska and married to a fisherman and deer hunter, it is a journey into regional food traditions, our connection to the wilderness, and to what we put into our mouths.
The film portrays a wry quest for safe, healthy, meaningful and sustainable food that leads to climbing mountains with women hunters, scrutinizing food labels with kids, talking moose meat with teens in a village public school and exploring how Alaska natives and non-natives are eating.
Director Frankenstein and producer SHIRLEY THOMPSON will lead the workshop and have named it “Chicks, Start Your Doc: Turn Your Idea Into A Film”. They will talk about launching a project, thinking about which ideas work for films and for funding, show fundraising clips, talk about their process on “Eating Alaska” and other films. Also covered: collaborations, thinking about outreach, distribution. They are both part of New Day Films, the national self-distribution co-op of social issue filmmakers.
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A portion of the proceeds from the screening will be donated to Youth Launch’s URBAN ROOTS, a youth development program that uses sustainable agriculture as means to affect lasting change for youth participants, and to nourish East Austin residents who currently have limited access to healthy foods. On a 2.5 acre urban organic farm, the project provides employment, life and job skills and service opportunities to under-served youth aged 14-18 in East Austin.
REEL WOMEN will provide complimentary tickets to youth involved in the Urban Roots program and also to middle-school girls that participate in the Morning Star Rising program at Fulmore Middle School.
COSTS:
Workshop Only: $30 / $20 RW Members.
Screening Only: $10 / $8 RW Members.
Workshop AND Screening: $35 / $25 RW Members.
New Member Deal: Workshop/Screening/Membership for just $60!
For more information, please contact reelwomen@reelwomen.org, visit www.reelwomen.org or call 512-971-1663.
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