Join us for this in-person workshop with director Andy Sarjahani on Wednesday March 15th from 6-9 PM at NOVAC.

We'll be covering:

  • The value of shorts in refining your creative vision

  • Making a short as a proof of concept for the feature

  • Differentiating the short from the feature when you plan an iterative work

  • Demystifying relevant financial aspects of the indie filmmaking hustlfilm

Instructor

Andy Sarjahani

Andy Sarjahani is an Iranian-American documentary filmmaker and cinematographer raised in a working class community outside the Arkansas Ozarks. He is interested in people, our relationship to place and how that shapes our worldview. His current work focuses on masculinity, nuance within the American South, the Iranian uprising, and climate change adaptation. He holds an MS in Sustainable Agriculture/Food Systems and left academia in 2012 to tell stories with a camera. He worked on the critically acclaimed documentary Tower (dir Keith Maitland, 2016) and has worked as a documentary cinematographer for VICE, Al Jazeera, Story Syndicate, Storyville Productions, and Arkansas PBS. His personal work has been supported by The New Yorker, ITVS, DOC NYC, New Orleans Film Society, Southern Documentary Fund, Reel South, Arkansas PBS, Arkansas Humanities Council, Asian Doc Network, Video Consortium, and Antenna. He regularly watches Thelma and Louise with his devil hound, June.

Purchase workshop here

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