SECRETS TO PRODUCING A SUCCESSFUL FILM INTENSIVE: A-Z’s on shooting the short and feature film

SECRETS TO PRODUCING A SUCCESSFUL FILM INTENSIVE: A-Z’s on shooting the short and feature film

Join Josefina Lopez and Yelyna De Leon at Boyle Heights City Hall for an exclusive event where you'll learn everything from pre-production to post-production in the film industry. Our experts will share their secrets on how to produce a successful film, whether it's a short or a feature film. Don't miss out on this opportunity to gain valuable insights and network with like-minded individuals.

Taught by Yelyna De Leon, Director/Producer - M.F.A. in Production from USC &

Josefina Lopez, Screenwriter/Producer - M.F.A. in Screenwriting from UCLA (credits below)

PARTICIPANTS MUST BE: BIPOC, Chicanx, Latinx, WOC

Non-Boyle Heights residents : $200

Boyle Heights residents : $150 (GO TO ADD ON SECTION, MUST PROVIDE ID with BH address)

Students, Single Moms, Veterans.$100 (GO TO ADD ON SECTION, must provide student/military ID or be a single parent)

One Scholarship is available. Please message us with your bio and tell us about the type of films you hope to make and how you feel this workshop would help you achieve one of your goals.

DAY 1

Pitch and pitch deck/mood board - What is it and how do you do it?

Logline - Writing catchy loglines

Synopsis - How to write one concisely

Character Breakdown - writing great descriptions that actor’s will love.

Working with Unions

Breakdown of the Script

Crew Descriptions & Responsibilities

LUNCH TIME (BRING YOUR OWN LUNCH)

Casting

Table read

Scheduling

Budgeting

Raising funds, investors, crowdfunding.

Day 2 SHOOT DAY

Crew up - Finding the perfect team

Shoot a scene

LUNCH TIME (BRING YOUR OWN LUNCH)

Now what?

Film Festivals

Distribution & Deliverables

Social Media

Q/A

Josefina López (Writer/Producer) is best known for authoring the play and co-authoring the 2002 SUNDANCE AUDIENCE AWARD WINNING film Real Women Have Curves. Josefina started her writing career at 17 and has had over 150 productions of her many plays throughout the country. Josefina has been working as a professional screenwriter in Hollywood for over 30 years with countless development deals and screenplay assignments. Born in San Luis Potosi, Mexico in 1969, Josefina Lopez was five years old when she and her family migrated to the United States and settled in the East Los Angeles neighborhood of Boyle Heights. Josefina was undocumented for thirteen years before she received Amnesty in 1987 and eventually became a U.S. Citizen in 1995. Josefina is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago, has an MFA in Screenwriting from UCLA’s School of Theater, Film & Television. Josefina is the Founding Artistic Director of Casa 0101 Theater and has produced over 200 plays celebrating Latinos, immigrants, and the LGBT and BIPOC communities. The musical Real Women Have Curves is Broadway bound and had it’s world premiere at American Repertory Theater at Harvard. She is currently writing a play about the former Supervisor and trailblazer Gloria Molina titled A Woman Named Gloria which will premiere at Casa 0101 Theater on August 29th. Check out www.Josefinalopez.biz & www.CASA0101.org for more information. Josefina's next feature film "20 Pounds to Happiness," is in pre-production and will be shot this summer in Boyle Heights.

Yelyna De Leon has been seen on TV shows Will and Grace, Snowfall, Ray Donovan and Shameless and the academy award nominated film A Better Life, the rom-com Bride Plus One and the GLAAD award winning film East Side Story to name a few. She has been in numerous plays on the stage since being a musical theater major in H.S. in Chicago. She has worked on over 100 short films and as a director has been working directing film and theater for the past two decades. She received her B.A. in film/TV/Chicano studies at (UCLA) and MFA in film/TV (USC) and has taught writing/acting/production MFA students and underserved youth all over the U.S., Mexico and Africa.

Her film M**der in the Woods which she wrote, produced and acted in is out now on all platforms after being successfully released in over 200 drive in and theaters around the world during the pandemic. She is currently in pre-production for her next film "20 Pounds to Happiness," which will shoot in Boyle Heights, CA this summer.

Host or Publisher Josefina and Yely