2013
(*)Orval Thomas Student Moviemakers Symposium

(*) https://www.facebook.com/JohnOrvalThomas?fref=ts

Saturday, January 12th, at Waymack
and Crew Studio

1523
South Bowman Road, Suite H, Little Rock, AR  72211 (501.375.8001)

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10 a.m. Christopher Crane, Arkansas
Film Commission    http://www.arkansasproduction.com

Christopher is a native Arkansan born in Hot
Springs.  After graduating with a
bachelor’s degree in speech and theatre arts, Christopher worked as a
professional actor and technician in theatre, film, television and music.  He served on staff for Senator Dale
Bumpers and taught film and theater for eight years at the Parkview Arts and
Science Magnet High School in Little Rock.

Since August 2007, Christopher Crane has served
Arkansas as the State Film Commissioner where he oversees the promotion,
recruitment and development of the state’s film industry by marketing Arkansas
to a national and international film clientele.

His primary responsibilities as Film Commissioner
include overseeing the statewide Digital Product and Motion Picture Incentive
Program; establishing and maintaining personal contacts with film industry
representatives; scouting and marketing of locations; handling prospect
requests for location and production assistance; and maintaining current information
on Arkansas’s available   production
service resources through arfilm.

10:30 a.m. Casey
Sanders

AETN and “Student Selects” competition             http://www.aetn.org/studentselects

11:00 a.m. James Bobo -- Waymack and Crew          http://www.waymackandcrew.com

Waymack and Crew Studio/Edit
Suite & Grip Truck tour

11:45 a.m. Kelly Griffin—P. Allen Smith  http://www.pallensmith.com

Kelly is a producer / shooter / editor for P.
Allen Smith and Hortus Ltd. He is also very active in the local film scene. He
shot and directed “Anyone” in 2009, a comedy that went on to win the narrative
feature prize at Indie Jamfest in Hammond, Louisiana in 2010. He has also acted
in 4 features including “45 R.P.M”, a local  film that was funded by a
grant from the Indie Film Initiative and the Ozark Foothills Film Festival.

Kelly is the main editor for The Garden Home Challenge,
an online series about constructing a new home in a green manner in a short
amount of time for a budget of $150,000. The DIY show is part of eHOW Home on
youtube, which has almost 50,000 subscribers and 11.5 million views. Kelly also
shoots and    works post production for P. Allen Smith’s 3
television shows, Garden Style, Garden to Table and Garden Home currently
running on PBS and in syndication across the US.

12:30 p.m--Lunch (soft drinks provided by Waymack and Crew/pizza by Jones
Film Video)

1:00  p.m. Chris
Cranford -- Jones Film Video—taped
presentation          http://jonesfilmvideo.com

Chris joined Jones
Productions in early 2007 as Creative Director. His first production
experience, however, was working as an intern at Jones Productions in 1990. In
1994 he graduated from the University of Southern California’s School of
Cinema-Television and returned home to Little Rock to direct his own
independent feature film, Sagittarius, in 1997.  He’s also directed and produced two independent feature
documentaries. Chris has worked for clients in Los Angeles, New York, and
Chicago, on projects for Kellogg’s, McDonald’s, A & E Network, The History
Channel, and Walmart. Over the past ten years he has edited and directed many
award-winning commercials. In his spare time, he won Best Director four years
in a row in the Little Rock 48 Hour Film Project competition.

2:15 p.m. Mark Maness—Gopher Broke Productions—Steadicam
demo; outdoor series production. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0542005/

3:00 p.m. Tim Treischmann – The Shot Above demonstrate RC aerial     cinematography

https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Shot-Above-LLC/123384451048807

Tim is the owner
of The Shot Above, which specializes in aerial video productions using remote
controlled aircrafts.  Going into its fourth year, The Shot Above first
started its business supporting the real estate markets with aerial photos.
The company has spent the last year transitioning its services to accommodate
the demand for high definition video for film,TV, and the internet.

Tim has worked part-time as a landscape
photographer and spent a great deal of time photographing homes for local real
estate agents.  He has developed tv commercials for local Little Rock
businesses which have been shown on ESPN and Comcast and recently filmed the
new, currently running promo commercial for KTHV channel 11.
Additionally, Tim has provided photography for the Deltic Timber Corporation
and Chenal Properties in many of their magazine and billboard photos.
Tim's unique business has been featured in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette
and was the first business established in Arkansas to use remote controlled
aircrafts for professional aerial photography and video production.

3:45 p.m. Joe Dull--daringly Dull productions--location
audio demonstration         http://www.daringlydullproductions.com

Joe Dull has been making films and
teaching production for 15 years in California, New York, and now Arkansas. His
award-winning feature length film “Table at Luigi’s” recently ended its run at
theaters and film festivals around the country. He’s currently in
post-production on his next feature “Sympathy Pains,” a semi-autobiographical
film about on a man who finds out his wife is pregnant and can’t stop his own
morning sickness.

Joe is an associate professor and
coordinator of undergraduate studies in the digital filmmaking program at the
University of Central Arkansas. His goal is to make filmmaking available to
anyone with the desire and discipline.

4:30 p.m. Levi Agee--“Rapture US” and Crowd-source
Funding

http://www.usaprojects.org/project/rapture_us

Levi Agee is a filmmaker and writer from Little
Rock. He graduated in 2008 from the University of Central AR with a degree in
Digital Filmmaking and after a year in grad school he took a job as a Video
Editor and Motion Graphics animator for Stone Ward advertising agency in
downtown Little Rock. In addition to editing, 2D and 3D animation, he is the
features programmer for the Little Rock Film Festival and writes columns about
film for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and Oxford American website. Currently Levi is writing, directing and starring in a short
film entitled Rapture Us that he
hopes to have finished by the spring of next      year.
He and his wife Jennifer are expecting their first child in March.

5:15 p.m. Courtney Pledger--Arkansas Motion Picture Institute and the
Film Festivals of Arkansas      http://www.littlerockfilmfestival.org

Courtney Pledger is the first executive
director of the Arkansas Motion Picture Institute (AMPI), a nonprofit
organization founded in 2011 to support the growth of film, television and
digital media in the state as well as to promote the expansion of film
education in Arkansas. AMPI will work closely with the state's three major film
festivals - the Little Rock Film Festival, the Hot Springs Documentary Film
Festival and the Ozark Foothills Film Festival. She served as the director of
last year's Hot  Springs Documentary Film Festival. Also a producer of
both film and television, Pledger is currently in pre-production on DreamWorks
Animation's B.O.O.: Bureau of
Otherworldly Operations starring Seth Rogen. She will produce the
upcoming Flanimals for
Universal based on Ricky Gervais' book series and Cherub for BBC Films. She executive produced Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant featuring Academy Award Nominee John C.
Reilly. Pledger is a
native of Little Rock.