PITCHING THE STORY
Date	Time	Location	Program #
SATURDAY, JULY 10	12:00PM	VILLAGE	9
You have a great idea for a movie and get your chance to "pitch" your story. How do you convey to a film executive, in just a few minutes, that your idea is the one he/she is looking for? The art of the story pitch is the focus of this seminar featuring Hollywood professionals who will share their insights into the do's and don'ts of pitching. Selected audience members will then get the opportunity to pitch their ideas to the panelists, who will offer their feedback and advice. NOTE: If you are interested in pitching your story, you must sign up beginning a half hour before the session. Names will be drawn at random during the session. Participants must limit their pitch to two minutes. Moderator: John Cooper, Associate Director of Programming, Sundance Institute Panelists: Dana Goldberg, VP Production, Village Roadshow Pictures Tajamika Paxton, VP Production, Spirit Dance Productions Devra Lieb, Literary Agent, Hohman, Maybank, Lieb Steve Rabiner, Senior Vice President of Production, Castle Rock Jonathon King, President, Lawrence Mark Productions

THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION Digital Filmmaking and Exhibition
Date	Time	Location	Program #
SATURDAY, JULY 10	2:15PM	DGA 2	14
This summer, George Lucas' THE PHANTOM MENACE will be exhibited in New York and Los Angeles using both digital and analog electronic video projection. The success of films like THE CELEBRATION are inspiring a rapidly growing number of veteran and new directors to shoot fiction and nonfiction features on digital video, posting them digitally, and transferring them to 35mm for theatrical distribution. How can directors use digital tools to make films less expensively and with greater creative control? What impact is digital filmmaking having on the exhibition of films theatrically and over the internet? This seminar will offer an overview of current trends in digital exhibition and filmmaking with an opportunity to view clips from new digitally made films. Attend this seminar to gain insight into one of the most important and exciting new trends in the movie industry. Presented by Next Wave Films.

DIRECTING THE SCENE
Date	Time	Location	Program #
SATURDAY, JULY 17	2:00PM	VILLAGE	112
How does a director bring his/her own style to a scene? What challenges do he/she face when directing the actors? This seminar will give you the opportunity to learn from directors themselves as they demonstrate how they interpret a specific scene. Learn about the art and technique of directing as you watch three top film and television directors put a gay twist on a familiar moment from a classical film and discuss their own unique approach to working with actors and the camera. Moderator: David Schmoeller, The Directors' Workshop Directors: Paris Barclay (NYPD Blue) and Tommy O'Haver (Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss) and Rose Troche (BEDROOMS AND HALLWAYS)

THE "F" WORD
Date	Time	Location	Program #
SATURDAY, JULY 11	6:15PM	DGA 2	FREE
Some of the hottest lesbian fare this year has been made by men. Some of the hottest gay boy films have been made by lesbian filmmakers. In the rapidly evolving world of lesbian cinema, what role does feminism play? Has feminism, which for many years has been an integral part of lesbian representation on the screen, become the new taboo of queer cinema? Or is feminism being renewed and redefined by a new breed of stylish, populist lesbian films? For that matter, what is a lesbian film anyway? Following the screening of WOMEN OF VISION, B. Ruby Rich and a panel of filmmakers, critics and scholars will discuss the state of lesbian filmmaking and what, if any, place there is for "the F word" in queer cinema. B. RUBY RICH is a cultural critic and journalist and author of CHICK FLICKS: THEORIES AND MEMORIES OF THE FEMINIST FILM MOVEMENT.