WORKSHOP LEADERS

Profile

Samantha Farinella is director and producer of LEFT LANE, a documentary chronicling a year on the road with folk poet Alix Olson. Samantha is a New York City-based queer feminist filmmaker and founder of One Angry Woman Productions. She has produced and directed five documentaries and four narrative shorts that have been featured in both national and international film festivals. Farinella was recently commissioned to photograph political graffiti art throughout Chile with a grant from Yale University. Her photography can also be seen as part of Here is New York, a "Democracy of Photographs" in response to the World Trade Center tragedy.

Farinella produced IDIOTEQUE with Spidercat Productions, a company that challenges the current cultural and political climate to move beyond immediate gratification and entertainment by creating film, video, and new media that fills a void, communicates truth, and raises consciousness. IDIOTEQUE is a six-minute digital video that has been featured in: Ladyfest Outwest 2003; Ladyfest Lansing 2003; Ladyfest East 2003; Ladyfest South 2003; Girlfest Hawaii 2004 ; and at the Art Market Gallery's exhibition "Church and State" in Botston, MA, 2004. She also produced SOMEWHERE ALONG THE WAY, which received fiscal sponsorship from Women Make Movies in 2000. The film was a finalist at the Sundance Director's Lab 2000. The film was screened at several festivals including the London Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 2000, Outfest L.A. Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 1999 and Ladyfest East 2003.

In addition, Farinella's previous works have been screened by: New York Gay and Lesbian Film Festival; Washington DC Gay and Lesbian Film Festival; Boston Gay and Lesbian Film Festival; Honolulu Gay and Lesbian Film Festival; HERE Art Gallery, NYC; Phat Shorts Festival, NYC; Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition Festival; Hunter College Film Festival; The Guggenheim, NYC.

Workshop: The Nuts & Bolts of Filmmaking

Samantha will talk about how to make an independent film for people who are curious about it. This will not be a technical workshop (i.e., how to work a video camera), but rather an informational workshop about what making a film entails and how to go about doing it cheaply.