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9TH ANNUAL NACOGDOCHES FILM FESTIVAL 2 0 2 0 FEBRUARY 20-22, 2020 FREDONIA HOTEL | NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS NacFilmFest NACOGDOCHESFILMFESTIVAL.COM NACOGDOCHES FILM FESTIVAL Nacogdoches Art Alliance The Nacogdoches Art Alliance, also known as the Nacogdoches Film Festival, is an IRS-approved 501(c)3 non-profit organization whose goal is to raise scholarship money for film students attending Stephen F. Austin State University, as well as to provide financial support for the SFA Film program’s annual Summer Feature Film project, where SFA students experience firsthand the making of a full-length feature film. All members of the Nacogdoches Art Alliance and the Film Festival are volunteers who receive no financial compensation for their efforts. All proceeds, after festival expenses, go toward scholarships and the annual student feature film project. History of Nacogdoches Film Festival The Nacogdoches Film Festival traces its origins way back to 2010, when a small group of individuals from throughout the Nacogdoches community got together for the express purpose of celebrating films made by, or about, Texans. Our very first film festival was held in April 2012 at the Hotel Fredonia in downtown Nacogdoches and has been held every year since then, shifting to a February timeslot back in 2014 in order to work around scheduling conflicts with the Texas National art competition and exposition. The 2020 Nacogdoches Film Festival is our ninth annual event. An important element of the Film Festival has been the Short Film competition, in which hundreds of filmmakers have submitted entries through our FilmFreeway portal. We now offer five separate competition categories: one for Short Films, one for Independent Feature Films, one for Documentary Films, one for Music Videos, and one for budding High School filmmakers. Panel Sessions Schedule Friday, February 21, 2020 12:00pm — Acting in Hollywood — Brad Maule will talk about acting in Hollywood. 1:00pm — Music in Film — Christopher North will cover his process of composing and scoring for film. 2:00pm — Working in Hollywood — Ben Idom will go over how to find work in Hollywood. 3:00pm — Documentary Panel — Hansi Oppenheimer, the director of All Hail the Popcorn King, will discuss the process of making documentaries. 4:00pm — Different Filmmaking Styles — Derek Wayne Johnson and Herbert Midgley will cover how they approach filmmaking. Saturday, February 22, 2020 11:00am — Making a Feature Film in Nacogdoches — Buddy Ketelle and Herbert Midgley will cover how they made feature films in Nacogdoches Texas. 12:00pm — Acting Panel — Joey Oglesby will talk about acting in this engaging panel. 1:00pm — Independent Film Panel — Josh Jordan, director of This World Won’t Break, will talk about the process of completing an independent film in Texas. 2:00pm — Entertainment Law — Larry Waks and Dave Brichler will cover the law as it concerns to filmmaking. Come ask your legal questions about your film projects. 3:00pm — Screenwriting Panel — Joe Lansdale will talk about writing in this panel. Special Guests MINDY BLEDSOE — director, producer, screenwriter, actress, SFA graduate, and occasional actress, she is one half of Bledska Works with her partner, Rob Senska. Collectively, she has five award winning short films and is currently on the festival circuit with her feature film debut, The In-Between, which will be showing on Saturday evening. DAVE BRICHLER — currently a Corporate Paralegal for the firm, Foley & Lardner LLP, working since 2017 alongside his longtime colleague, Larry Waks, in the firm’s Austin office. He specializes in entertainment law and copyright and trademark matters based on his music business history. RUTH BUZZI — legendary comedienne and Emmy-Award winning actress, she is best known for her performances on the comedy-variety show Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In from 1968–73, for which she won a Golden Globe Award and received five Emmy nominations. Over the years, Ruth has appeared in dozens of movies and hundreds of television shows. Most recently, she has appeared in the 2017 SFA summer student film production,Glenn’s Gotta Go, which will be shown at this year’s Nacogdoches Film Festival. GEORGE FOREMAN — Olympic Gold Medalist, former World Heavyweight Champion, businessman, entrepreneur and minister, George was born in Marshall, Texas and currently lives in Houston with his family. “There was a big element of patriotism in what I did; being in the Olympics, you couldn’t help but love your country more than before,” Foreman said in his autobiography, BY GEORGE. “But I meant it in a way that was much bigger than ordinary patriotism. It was about identity. An American—that’s who I was. I was waving the flag as much for myself as for the country. I was letting everyone know who I was and, at the same time, saying that I was proud to be an American.” DEREK WAYNE JOHNSON — film director, screenwriter, producer and SFA graduate, Derek was born in Carthage, Texas and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. In 2017, Johnson directed and produced John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs, a documentary about Academy Award-winning director John G. Avildsen, whose credits include Rocky and The Karate Kid. Sylvester Stallone handpicked Johnson to direct and produce 40 Years of Rocky: The Birth of a Classic, a documentary featuring Stallone narrating behind-the-scenes footage from the making of the original film. JOSH JORDAN — filmmaker, director, actor, artist, Josh started off as an actor, appearing in several feature films, as well as the sitcom, SCRUBS. Josh began to slowly transition himself to behind the lens, working on MTV featured music videos for the Polyphonic Spree, Rhett Miller of the Old 97’s and many more. After premiering his short film,SAM AND GUS, and winning several film festival awards, along with audience awards, he decided to write and direct his first full length feature film, THIS WORLD WON’T BREAK, which will be shown at the 2020 Nacogdoches Film Festival. Special Guests BUDDY KETELLE — independent filmmaker, director, screenwriter and SFA graduate, Buddy directed his feature debut, Let’s Kill Mom, as part of SFA’s Summer Feature program. Since graduating with his Master of Fine Arts in Cinematography, Buddy works full time as a freelancer in the film industry in Texas. In his spare time, he co-hosts the movie podcast, “I Guess We’re Watching...,” alongside fellow SFA film alumni Ethan Cartwright. JOE R. LANSDALE — award-winning author and screenwriter, Joe is the author of over 40 novels and numerous short stories. He has written for comics, television, film, newspapers and Internet sites. Joe is the subject of the just-released documentary film, All Hail the Popcorn King, which will be shown at this year’s Nacogdoches Film Festival. His Hap and Leonard novels are the inspiration for Sundance Television’s series, Hap and Leonard, which ran for three seasons. He has received the Edgar Award, eight Bram Stoker Awards, the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Grinzani Cavour Prize for Literature, the Herodotus Historical Fiction Award, the Inkpot Award for Contributions to Science Fiction and Fantasy, and many others. BRAD MAULE — award-winning actor, director, screenwriter, musician, singer, SFA graduate, Brad is best known for his long-running role as Dr. Tony Jones on the television serial, General Hospital, a role he played from 1984 to 2006, and his three years as Ashlee Simpson’s father, George, on the WB network’s 7th Heaven. His other television credits include guest starring roles in The White Shadow, Three’s Company, Too Close for Comfort, Charlie’s Angels, and the ABC miniseries, Malibu. Brad is currently a lecturer in the theatre and the film programs at Stephen F. Austin State University. He also wrote the screenplay for Glenn’s Gotta Go, the 2017 SFA Student Summer Feature Film that will be showing at the 2020 Nacogdoches Film Festival. HERBERT MIDGLEY — filmmaker, screenwriter, composer, actor, musician and SFA graduate, Herb has worked as a director, unit production manager, assistant director, camera, editor, sound design, sound mixer, boom, grip, production assistant, screenwriter, and composer. He has worked on ten feature films and fifty-plus short films. Also, Herbert has made many narrative and art films and is an active photographer. He is in demand as a producer, composer and assistant director for independent films. Last year he wrote two feature film screenplays and made various indie films and music videos. CHRISTOPHER NORTH — Dallas-born, Grammy-nominated composer for film, television/original series, theater, dance and various ensembles, Christopher is also a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumental musician, having performed at Carnegie Hall and on Grammy award-winning recordings, with 20 albums, scores to over 50 films distributed around the world (many award winning) and a growing opus of chamber/symphonic music. He is an assistant professor in the Songwriting Department of Boston’s Berklee College of Music. He has played bass for Quincy Jones, with The Dixie Chicks and Rosanne Cash, and in orchestras as well as on Broadway. Special Guests JOEY OGLESBY — was born in Plano, Texas, and, after attending Baylor University and studying Theatre Arts, he moved to New York for acting. He then moved back to Dallas, where he landed a role as Guy Raston in the acclaimed NBC series, Friday Night Lights. Following that, he moved to Los Angeles and worked as the villainous Cale in the Ryan Coogler film,Fruitvale Station, which starred Michael B. Jordan. Along with film, television and commercial credits, Joey is widely considered to be satirical internet phenomenon, Donnie Davies. HANSI OPPENHEIMER — independent documentary filmmaker and director from New York City, she has been making low to no budget documentaries for almost twenty years, including the feature, Color Me Obsessed: A Film About The Replacements.