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Upcoming Events!

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Black Film Series:
Idea Generation Workshop:

How to Make Your Short Film Personal

Thursday, August 28th 6:30-9p
The Oakstop
Oakland, CA

6:30pm Introductions and Preview:

             The book The Short

6:45p Short Films, The Personal and Emotional Realities

6:55p Personal Themes

7:15p Personal Themes workshopping: The Ten Lists

7:30p Break

7:40p The Excavation Journey or How to look?

To Imagine, examine, inquire, discover, report, review and conceive

8p Exercises: The First and the Lasts, Totems, Muscle Memory, Inspired Media

8:20p Problems of the Idea: Movement, Decisions, and Detail

8:30p The Logline Return

8:45p Workshop survey and feedback

Want to learn more about workshops with Rae Shaw and The Short? Take our workshop survey and sign up here.

The Full Story

 

Social Visionaries:

the Feminine Eye in THE SHORT

A conversation with

Rae Shaw and Julietta Hua

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6pm June 24th, 2025, Clios Books - 353 Grand Ave, Oakland, CA 94610

These films will be discussed on June 24th at Social Visionaries: The Feminine Eye in the SHORT, at Clio's Books in Oakland California.

Cipka/Pussy - Renata Gasiorowska, 2016

Entre Mamushkas - Maribel Vásquez, 2020

Hair Wolf - Mariama Diallo, 2018

Hoverboard - Sydney Freeland, 2012

Love, Dad - Diana Cam Van Nguyen, 2021

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