Move Your Art Forward - mentoring at the Festival

Being a young artist can be daunting!  Move yourself forward by learning from those who have gone before you!  Our Festival has a range of opportunities for learning.

One such special opportunity is our Young Filmmakers' discussion with Chris Chan Roberson (NYU Tisch), at 2:15pm.

Besides recruiting talent for NYU Tisch, Chris has won a Telly Award for his editing work while at Robert Small Entertainment and was an editor for television shows on Comedy Central, The Biography Channel, and TV Land.  Chris has also worked on a number of projects with the Narrative Trust, a company that focuses on oral history. Independently he has edited internet-based projects for Christian McBride, Sting, and Sony Music, as well as internet episodes for The Burg, The All-For-Nots and All's Faire.  At NYU, Chris teaches Digital Frame & Sequence, Visual Colloquium, Urban Ensemble, Future Filmmakers Workshop and Summer Filmmakers Workshop.

Other mentoring workshops:
1pm  Auditioning - led by Rosemary Quinn and Patricia Decker of NYU Tisch School of the Arts
1pm  Portfolio review - by renowned photographer Sean Hemmerle and art curator Joyce Manalo (email info@downtownart.org for appointment)
2:15pm  Young Filmmakers discussion with Chris Chan Roberson, NYU Tisch
4pm  Young Playwrights, a discussion with Elizabeth Bojsza, Literary Manager for Young Playwrights, Inc., and two working playwrights - Fernanda Coppel and Eljon Wardally
4:30pm  Young Fashion Designers discussion with Annica Paganakis and James Ott of 'The Row', a design firm headed by the Olsen twins.