popcorn tonight i will be moderator of marilyn campbell and with me tonight our three guests from the area who are involved in filmmaking and film showing in the area jeff stewart passthrough clark and amy frere and i'm going to have each one of them say a little bit about what they do and what their their background is jeff why don't we start with you what pressure  i currently live in philadelphia but i've also lived in france then so i have ties to both areas i'm currently working on a new project called waste to look at the moon and i'm also the co founder of pop and which is a screening series that takes place at different venue throughout the area so audiences and filmmakers can interact and amy i'm a filmmaker from philadelphia i also work in talk a little bit about the concept of popping up yeah i mean we started off just being a group of filmmakers who wanted to place a screen and on time we didn't have a screening place you know we didn't have a theater that you know iowa and then operated then we could just screen our work there so we reached out to different organizations and the area and you know we've been popping up at different places since then so one of them is our works which jeff is affiliated with  and then some others we're trying to film society those are the two primary ones we screen with a lot of the times so how many people have been involved in this and how how many filmmakers are there in the area but i would say maybe we have forty filmmakers there all on our website that have screened in the past two years but you know lately we've been getting a lot of submissions before we were reaching out to people and inviting them and now people are coming to us and i'm seeing that there's a lot more filmmakers in the area who want to be involved so what is there seen in the p why when i first started making movies in the primary i thought i was the only one and as we kind of as i kind of progressed i found other filmmakers and they also thought they were the only ones so there's actually you know there's a growing just by brant community of filmmakers in the area they're just all connecting now we all thought we were our or our own island and because of things like pop up in policy and other just institutions we're kind of networking and we're becoming like this huge cohesive kind of group of interchangeable talents  creatives so if you started working with other people within that the group now that you make contact yeah yeah i mean that collaborative project going on yeah i mean one of my one of my closest collaborat tony twenty goggles he's out a trend he's a he's a wonderful filmmaker he's working about done two features with them now me and my producing partner chris k s are like we linked up with him just because we were all doing the same thing in the same area and we were just kind of we linked up a dream cologne who is a brilliant writer and comedian and we've started working i believe i've worked on a couple of projects with him  so yeah i've definitely connected to others through pop up and you know other other things going on and i just see so many people with such  ways that people see the world and how that can create conflict some time but in the end everybody really desires to connect so it's a concept where exploring through a short film together and he's also margo and different in addition to films that i've seen that you did i forget the name of it but it but it was screened at the tretton film festival about reactors in philadelphia from the colonial period except that time of festival so what are you working on now besides this believe working on the thing as an actress as an actress i do theater in philadelphia so i just finished a project and i have a play coming up in the spring with and you know a theater company which is a play that does new plays from great britain ireland scotland the british isles and i also have another short film that i'll be hopefully making at some time in the next year and we're production minging two films right now so just a lot of the organizing and things like that well let's talk a little bit about money because it's the unavoidable project how do you raise money for this kind of project about there's no easy way my solution right now is through platforms like kickstarter where it's crowdfunding and you really just use social media and e mails and the people you know to help spread the word you know there's also grant that sometimes people ask for usually that much longer process but if you wake up one day and say i need to make this film like you know in the next month crowdfunding is usually the way to do it or you just make it for no budget production which is difficult because nobody's getting compensated for their work at that point so there's a lot of ways you know if any of them are really the best ways to do it  are currently in the middle of a fund raising campaign all kickstarter right now for our film trying to raise ten thousand dollars to make sure all the artists that are involved can get paid for their time and that can be made little bit about the whole sense of place because in your films in me there's a very specific sense of place here for fish to mean you said these films in fishtown or other parts of philadelphia  movies old city i was spending a lot of time in because at the time i was working as a tour guide and historical costume around the neighborhood so you know it's easy to walk down certain blocks and the neighborhood and feel like you're in another time and to wonder what it would be like if you were to step back then there to someone this is that by that time and come into modern times and so that was time travel came very easily around there and yeah i spent and fishtown which is where i live in philadelphia being that close to the river and getting to know my neighbors  ideas your creative process i do everything i write i write to be shot in trenton but one thing i just i love the city for another thing it's it's easier to shoot in this area than it would be in a major city like philly or new york because it doesn't happen here all that often or it's it's wasn't happening here as often a lot of it is that there are still magic in the movie making process here in this area you know when you set up a camera and you know the actors are there and you're on the street or  in a business people still get excited about it and that sort of energizing and that makes you want to do better because you know everyone's excited is like yeah we're making a movie like they're making a movie everybody be quiet be quiet they're acting you know it's so it's this whole entire synergy thing that goes on and you know the city has been very very responsive and very very accommodating so do you get permits and everything are you  doesn't accommodate for that i mean we always make sure that everyone knows what's going on i like i said it's it's not it's more of a community people don't give you as much go because they're all sort of if it's good for trent if it's good for you it's good for trent if it's good for trenton then it's amazing so yeah that's that's pretty much i love i love the city i mean if you gave me a million dollars i'd try to spend a million dollars and try to have you done any documentary interest i have not done any documentary films myself but i am working with i don't know if you know brad ma put point him in the right directions to people he needs to talk to to get the full story of how amazing the city actually is you know i mean we get a lot of bad press like any city but underneath that there is just so much positivity going on that i'm glad that someone from the outside it's coming and i can see that you know i'm glad i'm glad pop up has kind of made a home  williamsburg like we're on the cusp of that so yeah yeah yeah i think you talk a little bit about the the things that are going on in trenton are hard all night and yet the pop up and various other festivals that go on know there's there's a lot going on all the time it seems and i was just going off of what jeff says i mean trend has been so irresponsible to the group of filmmakers that you know we keep getting invited back there and we keep getting a new audience there because people are really engaged with with what people are saying and what people have to say and have been so welcoming to film and new kinds of film to we've screened a lot of crazy experimental things and people are still come  out to see it and to think about it and to talk about it so it's been a really wonderful experience to to have our home base in trenton so yeah i hope it catches on to i mean there's there's no reason why it shouldn't   no have chairs and have have the screen set up but we've also been and you know hair salon art gallery we've been at a nature conservatories so different places that people won't necessarily connect i'm going to see a film here you know to bring people in there and to raise awareness for that business or that organization so you know you have the interaction between the audience and the filmmakers but you also have this new place that you're interacting with to spend a component of it you find that that sort of breaks down or begins being just passive as opposed to to being in a different place where they're not used to seeing  i think so i think it adds a layer of excitement to it and you know like oh we're all like new in this space you know there's not that boundary because yeah i don't know what it is but i think people you know it brings people out of you know their comfort zones a little bit i mean when you show your films in places where you get feedback from the audience what kind of feedback do you get him do you enjoy it or you learn from it i like to hear people laugh and especially i don't know coming from a theatre background it's just so much better to watch things with other people all around and yeah i think there's stuff like questions that come out of my showing films that in places where you get back home you really well if i had from seeing all the mistakes you made during production you know you really see what people enjoy and what catches on and you know maybe you see your film in a totally different way but somebody will have a comment and it's something you've never thought of before and it's like oh that actually totally applies i totally see where you're coming from and i've spent two years with this film and i never thought of it that way so you on the film because you're so when you're making it and when you're writing it and when you know whatever part of the process and you're so focused on your own kind of business and when you release it and you get this feedback and people are like oh wow i didn't i didn't i didn't see it that way i don't tell them that i tell them like oh yeah i totally meant one hundred percent there are mistakes that i've made like in the movie and people have point them out to me as like yeah i really liked what you did with that like it's real weird in the abstract is like yeah because i'm an artist but i don't take it out i know keep me on the heads like everybody hates everything i do so i got to keep on doing it better next time you know but it's adulations always always good you know like you can't let it own because of the people who are making it everyone brings their own sort of history to it in their own sort of experience to it you know so if i bring a director of photography on he may see a shot or a scene totally different than i do than i would of and because of that because like how collaboration that film becomes better you know i like to you know i write a lot of my own things but when i'm directing something that someone else has written i mean i try to get the input from the writer to see how i want to tailor that narrative like how i want to things that i didn't see when i read it when i get there there are there of their thought process is like ok maybe we can go this way maybe maybe the two halves could make a better whole the last film i saw a new neighbor is that  of collaboration is just one actor yeah doing a kind of a monologue and you're just the camera's just sitting there yeah yeah i mean craig kelly is a local actor like us so there's a lot of talent around around the area you know in new jersey and philly area but craig kelly is my go to for a lot of things he's brilliant and he's really he's he's really good at getting to the heart of the character and improv so pretty much with the ballad of craig kelly i set up this sort of changeable lighting setup and i stuck the camera in front of him and i changed the color on is skin according to like what mood i think you should be going through so it's sort of like a stream of consciousness sort of deal so when it turned red i want to him to be angry and want to turn blue i want to be contemplated and sad and he played it all on his on his face but then we went back and we did a dialogue track is internal my monologue and he took pieces from his own life and we did it bar having a beer just just amazing well now we have a few more minutes i want to give everybody a chance to tell people what they're working on and how people can see their work to start october twelfth october taught us the last days you know when you can quickly find our facebook at was to look at the moon at the link will be there and then you can also just keep track of how production is going and it's going to be such an exam project with  film people and actors and artists all from philly and the area and how else would we find out what your doing say so you can visit my website any fair dot com you can also follow me on faceb ok yeah all right catherine how about you my last film actually is screening at the philadelphia named film festival on october first which is another star gazing kind of film with a different kind of twist p the next one is october twentieth at artworks trend ok that's great and you know about artworks yeah yeah i know people how to find out what's happening at our m a board member of our works trends so you can find out all out all about us at our worst trend dot org we have a lot of great things going on with other pop up going on in a couple of weeks we've got out all day which is where we turn the entire city into like in our gallery like we have will have satellite installations all throughout the city trolley rides bike tours is actually a really really amazing experience that's on my that's tier actors but after that after this week after i'm done shooting that i go straight into to create production on my magnum opus which i wrote which i wrote with with one of my best friends and also my producing partner chris kaye is our it's called king of nowhere and i look out for it you can find king nowhere dot com we're still looking for money so if you want to give us money that became the news or 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