Panels

FIFTH ANNUAL OXFORD FILM FESTIVAL (2008) PANELS:
For more information – including days and times – please refer to our schedule and printed publication.

Experimental Panel:
Attending experimental filmmakers discuss their films with moderator Brooke White (Univ. of Mississippi, Dept. of Art) 

Talent and Casting Workshop:
Casting agents Mary Gail Artz and Beth Blanks with actors Tate Ellington, Johnny McPhail, and Scott Prendergast.

Fund Your Film!
Writer-director-producer Stu Pollard discusses the necessary steps for successfully funding independent projects.

Children’s Filmmaking Workshops
Two workshop for children, one for ages 6-11 and one for ages 12-18, will focus on telling a story through film.  Led by the members of Laff Co., Oxford’s sketch improv and comedy troupe.  Advanced registration is required.

Mississippi Bar Association, Intellectual Property section (annual meeting and CLE on Intellectual Property)

Film and the New Media: Writing about Film in Print and for the Blogosphere – Jen Yamato, Godfrey Cheshire, Kim Yoynar, Scott Weinberg, Gary Myers


FOURTH ANNUAL OXFORD FILM FESTIVAL (2007) PANELS:


Talent and Casting Panel:
Micah Ginn and Rhes Low discuss their experiences working with the Artz & Cohen Casting Agency. (Unfortunately, our scheduled panelist, Mary Gail Artz, had to cancel.)

Filmmaking 101 Panel:
Jeff Scheftel (TV Junkie), Tom Huckabee (The Greatest Game Ever Played), Joey Lauren Adams (Come Early Morning, Chasing Amy, Dazed and Confused)

Experimental Panel:
Ivan Cortazar, Terry Glispin, April Grayson, Anne Haydock, Greg Pond, Jill Wissmiller, and Vanessa Woods discuss their experimental films and their filmmaking experiences with moderator Brooke White (Univ. of Mississippi, Dept. of Art)

 

THIRD ANNUAL OXFORD FILM FESTIVAL (2005) PANELS:


Talent and Casting Panel:
Casting: Jeffrey Nightbyrd (Acclaim Talent, Austin TX) and Mary Gail Artz (Artz & Cohen Casting, Los Angeles, CA)

Talent: James Best (Dukes of Hazzard, Ode to Billy Joe), Coleman McClary (Bar Noise, Herstory, Hot Java), Carlisle Forrester (Rufus, Cain and Abel), and Rhes Low (The Good Fight, October).

Documentary Panel:
Jeff Scheftel (History Channel, A&E, HBO) Kent Moorehead (The Most Segregated Hour, Brice’s Crossroads)

Producers’ Panel: Deborah Liebling (Dodgeball, Stuck on You, South Park: The Movie) Jesse Scolaro (Deprivation, Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story) Tom Huckabee (Frailty, Traveller)

SECOND ANNUAL OXFORD FILM FESTIVAL (2004) PANELS:


Press Panel:
Moderator:
Curtis Wilkie, Chair, University of Mississippi Department of Journalism (formerly of the Boston Globe) Dennis Moore (USA Today) Annabelle Robertson (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) Anita Modak-Truran (The Clarion-Ledger) Tim Porter (Paste Magazine)

Producers’ Panel:
Andy Sacks (Two Soldiers, Winner of 2004 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short) Tom Huckabee (Frailty) Stu Pollard (Nice Guys Sleep Alone) Kerry David (My Date with Drew)

Documentary Panel:
Jeff Scheftel, (The Blues, Sounds of Memphis, Welcome to Death Row, One Love: The Bob Marley All Star Tribute, Mahalia Jackson Sings, Intimate Portrait: Yoko Ono and the Biography television series)

Screenwriting Panel:
Patrick McGrath, (Spider, Asylum)

Mississippi Bar Association, Intellectual Property section (annual meeting and CLE on Intellectual Property)

FIRST ANNUAL OXFORD FILM FESTIVAL (2003) PANELS AND LECTURES:


Crash Course in Screenwriting 101 (3 hours)
Moderated by Tor Valenza, (screen and television writer who has written for Warner Bros., Tri-Star, Castle Rock, MGM, plus the series Stargate SG-1, Dharma & Greg, and The Dead Zone)

A Brief History of the Vertigo Shot
Jack Barbera, University of Mississippi, Department of English

Legal Issues
Panel Moderated by Anne Pitts (Fergusson Pitts LLC)

Animation Workshop
with Helen Hill

Documentary Panel
Jeff Scheftel

Screenwriting Panel
David Hayter, (X-Men, X-Men II, The Hulk) David Sheffield, (Coming to America, The Nutty Professor) Anne Rapp, (Cookie’s Fortune, Dr. T & the Women)