A two-day independent filmmaking event that has previously helped guide creative careers is to be hosted by the University of Cumbria.
The Guerilla Filmmakers Masterclass will be held at the university’s Lancaster campus on Saturday June 27 and Sunday June 28.
The masterclass is led by filmmaker and author Chris Jones who has spent his career at every level of the film industry.
He began making feature films going on to achieve a cinema release, agent representation and Hollywood deals.
He is the founder and director of the London Screenwriters Festival, the world’s biggest screenwriting event, which has served over 10,000 creatives since launch in 2010.
His film Gone Fishing was Oscar nominated and tells the story of a boy and old man coming to terms with bereavement through their shared love of fishing, and the legend of Goliath, the biggest pike ever caugh and is in part autobiographical.
While growing up, Chris and his friends would often attempt to catch the legendary Oscar the pike, a fish that according to local myth terrorised the lake at the end of his road.
Produced as a specific attempt to win the Oscar for best short film, Gone Fishing was shortlisted to the final ten films from which the five nominees are drawn in 2009 and has gone on to win over 40 international awards, including the prestigious Producers Guild Of America Producer Challenge in 2009.
The event in Lancaster is organised in association with The Bay International Film Festival and Bay Education and Creative Hub and aims to bring together filmmakers, screenwriters, producers, directors and actors.
The two days cover the film-making process from idea to screen to sales.
During the programme, delegates work through the complete filmmaking process from story development and screenwriting through to budgeting, fundraising, casting, production, directing, camera and sound, post-production, sales, distribution, film festivals and what to do when Hollywood comes calling.
