The task of making a film on celluloid can seem overwhelming and intimidating, given the amount of equipment to master, along with high lab costs. Cineworks’s 16mm Bolex Orientation + Dogma Workshop is an opportunity to make a short film on the very cheap. While allowing first-time filmmakers to try their hand at filmmaking at an affordable cost, this orientation workshop will also challenge experienced filmmakers by taking away some of their favourite tools [post-production editing and effects, for instance], while introducing them to new tools [the medium of celluloid and film cameras]. This is a chance to participate in a creative activity with a community of filmmakers where the expansion of your practice is key. This workshop fulfills both Cineworks’s mandates regarding our education program: to teach our membership how to use the gear and resources we offer, while also stoking your creativity as a filmmaker.

Participants will be oriented to use the 16mm Bolex camera and will then be provided with a roll of 16mm film, a Bolex camera and a light meter and will have 24 hours to shoot a film. The film will be developed and presented as part of a group screening of works produced through the workshop.

RULES

• You must complete and submit to the Cineworks office the 16mm Bolex Orientation and Dogma Workshop application form when you register for the workshop with our Office Manager + Member Services Coordinator Leanne. The Cineworks office is open Monday-Friday, Noon-6pm.
• If you are unable to register in person, please contact Programs Manager + Curator cheyanne turions at cheyanne(at)cineworks.ca for an electronic copy of the application form. The completed application form and registration can be submitted to Leanne electronically at info(at)cineworks.ca or by phone at 604.685.3841.
• The workshop will take place on Saturday, 24 April, 10am-6pm.
• The available shooting dates are 01-30 May 2010.
• The exact date of your shoot will be your choice, subject to availability of equipment. You must book the equipment with Jurgen, Cineworks’s Equipment Coordinator, at equipment(at)cineworks.ca or 604.685.2209. Please note that the booking is not confirmed until you have heard back from Jurgen. Please also clearly indicate that you are participating in the Dogma Workshop.
• You will get the following equipment and materials:
  1. One Bolex 16mm camera
  2. One Sekonic incident light metre
  3. One 100 foot roll of 16mm colour 500 daylight film stock
• You have this equipment for 24 hours, after which you must return the equipment and hand in the roll of film for processing.
• According the original Dogma 95 rules:
  1. Shooting must be done on location. Props and sets are not permitted. If a certain prop is needed, then the location of the shoot has to be where the prop would naturally be.
  2. The camera must be hand-held at all times.
  3. You may only use available light.
  4. You may only do in-camera editing.
  5. You may not do any post-production work whatsoever [no editing, no sound, no cuts, no dissolves et cetera].
  6. The film must not contain superficial action, ie: murder and use of weapons is not allowed.
  7. The film must take place in the present.
• Unlike, the original Dogma 95 rules:
  1. Please note that these films will be silent.
  2. Genre films are acceptable.
  3. The film format will be 16mm.
  4. The director can be credited.
• You must show the following credits at some point in your film: a] the words: Produced with the generous support of Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society and the National Film Board of Canada, b] your name, c] the film title.
• You must agree to have the film shown as part of a special screening [date to be determined]. You cannot see the film between it’s completion and its screening. The workprint and negative will be returned to you after the screening.
• Prior to the screening, the film will not be shown to anybody other than cheyanne turions, Programs Manager + Curator. She will view it only for the purposes of preparing a program for the screening. If there are serious problems [ie: the majority of the film is significantly wrongly exposed and/or out of focus and/or the roll was loaded wrongly, causing significant registration problems], you will be notified of this problem, and are allowed the option to not have it screened.
• If you have any questions, please contact cheyanne at cheyanne(at)cineworks.ca or 604.685.3841.

16MM ORIENTATION + DOGMA WORKSHOP
24 April 2010, 10am-5pm
Cineworks Studio [1131 Howe, back lane entrance]
Cost is $125 for members, $200 for non-members

Registration Deadline: 19 April 2010

Registration: Please contact Leanne at info(at)cineworks.ca or 604.685.3841

Instructor: KATHLEEN HEPBURN, founding member of the non-profit collective The Suspension of Disbelief Film Society and chair of the Cineworks board of directors, is an independent filmmaker and photographer from Vancouver, BC. She is currently hard at work on numerous projects, including a dramatic narrative based on her travels through Asia, a feature length documentary on the world of show ponies, and a feature length dramatic script about the great Canadian North.

This workshop is a co-production with the National Film Board. Check out all their amazing activities + films + history at http://www.nfb.ca.