A case study on digital feature production with a focus on Enter Fleeing, starring Parker Posey, Kyra Sedgwick and Fairuza Balk. Moderated by Gary Winick of InDigEnt, with writer/director Rebecca Miller (Angela); Goldheart Pictures producer Lemore Syvan (Maze, Walking To The Waterline); director of photography Ellen Kuras (Blow, Summer Of Sam) and editor Sabine Hoffman (Harlem Aria, Last Party 2000, Hurricane Streets).

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Who are the filmmakers that focus on musicians and/or concerts? What are the challenges that face them? What are the rewards? With D. A. Pennebaker & Chris Hegedus (Monterrey Pop, Moon Over Broadway, Down from the Mountain) Albert Maysles (Gimme Shelter, Grey Gardens), and Leon Gast (When We Were Kings, The Grateful Dead Movie). Moderated by Betsy McLane, director emeritus of the International Documentary Association (IDA).

SOUND & VISION  (Experience the power of music on film)

Have you ever wondered what makes you ride an emotional roller coaster at the movies?  Have you ever watched a great film and been unaware of the huge role music was playing?  We decided to take 2 very short films: Elliot
Landy's "Paris Lifescapes" and Neal Livingston's "Snow On The Lake" and give  them to established film composers:  Karl Berger, Jim Farmer, John Hodian, David Torn & Peter Wetzler to score and see how the exact same imagery feels different under contrasting scores.

The audience will engage in a follow-up discussion with the panel of the composers and filmmakers, led by BMI's Doreen Ringer Ross. An insightful "immersion" event for filmmakers, composers and audience members, alike!

Panelists:

FILMMAKER'S

ELLIOTT LANDY "Paris Lifescapes" has been doing providing interactive music  visual work, through motion and kaleidoscopic photography in both still and film formats, for over 30 years.  He has published Woodstock Vision, The Spirit of A Generation, in book and CD-ROM format, and authored the book  Woodstock 69, The First Festival. He is currently publishing a series of limited edition lithographs of his classic rock photographs, and producing a
feature film based on the life of Janis Joplin.

NEAL LIVINGSTON "Snow On The Lake" is a filmmaker/environmental activist from Cape Breton, Novia Scotia. In addition to his numerous political documentaries including Budworks, Herbicide Trials, Cape Breton Endangered
Spaces and Toxic Partners he has produced a sheaf of original and humorous films such as Off to Work (1988), Trees and Elevators (1991), Licking the Window (1995). Michel in a Suête (1998), Suêtes, (1999) and Snow on the Lake (2000).


COMPOSERS:

KARL BERGER, world-renowned composer since 1961, with over 100 compositions and arrangements for classical ensembles, jazz groups, fusion groups, big band, symphony, and commercial recordings.  Karl has been the Winner of 6 Downbeat Critics Polls as a jazz soloist, and the SWF Award for his compositions.  His recent discography includes 3 CDs , "Crystal Fire" "Conversations" and "Karl Berger + Paul Shigihara". Karl has provided string arrangement & orchestration for many major record companies, European Radio + TV Networks, and for artists such as Natalie Merchant, Jeff Buckley, The Cardigans, Better than Ezra a.o., and producers Bill Laswell, Alan Douglas, Peter Collins, Malcolm Burn, Andy Wallace and others.

JIM FARMER, a film and theater composer who lives and works in New York City  and recently New Paltz, scored the music to Tom DiCillo's JOHNNY SUEDE Living in Oblivion, Box of Moonlight, Red White and Yellow, The Real Blonde, The Waiting Game, and most recently Double Whammy. He has composed and sound designed various dance and off Broadway theater projects including the Obie-winning The Ridge Theater. Farmer has also written, directed and composed music for four plays: "Frontier Halloween" (1992), "Pistols & Stamens" (1993), "The Savage Routine of Living" (1993), and "We Never Learn" (1994).

JOHN HODIAN is an Emmy award winning composer, conductor and pianist who written over 250 documentaries in addition to feature films and music-theater . Hodian's large scale music theater piece "Spirits" was the winner of The Frederick Lowe award and is slated for a workshop in March of 2001. Hodian's inventive solo c.d., Available Forms, has been praised as "pure musical genius"(Applause Magazine) and, along with Bet Williams, is the leader of Epiphany project.

DAVID TORN is a texturalist/guitarist (winner of Guitar Player Magazine's Readers' Poll Award, Experimental category: 1994 & 1997), composer, multi-instrumentalist (live looping, oud, saz, kikuyae, kotar, MacOS,
samplers, programming, mandolin, optigan, etc.), producer, writer, singer & consultant. He has been featured as the primary texturalist and/or soloist on films scored by composers Carter Burwell, Mark Isham, Ryuichi Sakamoto,
Lisa Gerrard, Patrick O'Hearn, Michael Shrieve, and others., in addition to having begun scoring for films, himself. His work has been featured on countless amounts of films, has 5 solo CDs, 6 group CDs, and has been the
instrumentalist and/or producer on over 55 additional CDs. Jazz Times has quoted Torn's work as "Twisted Brilliance" and L.A. Times boasts "Torn is a true wizard, someone who finds mystical potential in every sound."

PETER WETZLER  is a concert pianist who started his composing career writing and touring with postmodern choreographers such as Laura Dean, David Dorfman and Bill T. Jones. From the New York downtown experimental music scene he moved into film and television scoring the Canadian Feature "Warboy" and numerous films for PBS's "Great Performances" including Vaclav Havel's "Largo Desolato" and George Wolfe's "Coloured Museum". He is currently producing a solo piano album and his band "The Repeatos" as well as this "Sound and Image" event with Sarah Chianese.

Moderator:  DOREEN RINGER-ROSS

As Vice President, Film/TV Relations, Doreen Ringer Ross oversees all activity from the Los Angeles based department serving film and television composers. She joined BMI in 1985 as an executive in the Film/TV department, and has held the positions of Senior Director and Assistant Vice President prior to being named Vice President in 2000. Prior to BMI, Ringer Ross held artist development positions at A&M Records, ABC Records and MCA Records, and also worked in television production as a producer for a wide array of television programs.