Join writer, director, and producer Cecilia Araneda for a masterclass on how to get your first feature film off the ground while working outside of the major film cities.
Crafted as a case study on her experience producing her first feature film, Intersection, in Winnipeg, Araneda will provide insight on factors such as: script development; developing a director vision and aesthetic framing; navigating different funding systems; locations and their impact on production feasibility; budgeting; casting and working with actors; cultivating local resources and teams; and distribution goals and strategies.
This in-person masterclass will include a one-hour case study presentation, followed by the opportunity for questions and general discussion.
Registration
Single Session: Friday, March 3rd, 6pm-8pm
Instructor
Winnipeg-based Chilean-Canadian filmmaker and curator Cecilia Araneda came to Canada as a child as a refugee together with her family, after they escaped Chile’s military dictatorship. This experience and its aftermath play a large role in her artistic work. Aesthetically, Araneda’s art practice is strongly rooted in the examination of private and public memory as it connects to identity, consciously working against the idea of the fully controlled image. Most well-known her work in analogue film, Araneda works in experimental, documentary and fiction forms. Araneda has completed 16 short films to date, which have screened at venues such as Visions du Réel, Ann Arbor, Images Festival, TIFF Wavelengths, RIDM and others. Her first feature film, Intersection, was released in fall 2022. Araneda holds an MFA in screenplay writing from UBC and is a three-time alumna of the Film Farm. She is additionally a nationally-recognized media art curator and a past recipient of the Canada Council’s Joan Lowndes Prize.
