Passionate about film? Outgoing, friendly, and hard-working?
If so, the Flyway Film Festival (FFF) needs you for a variety of exciting roles as a FFF volunteer!
Volunteers enjoy the Festival Lounge with filmmakers and guests
The 4th Annual Flyway Film Festival (Pepin and Stockholm, WI), a premier destination festival for regional, domestic U.S. and international emerging and independent filmmakers, is now seeking dedicated volunteers of all abilities for a variety of technical, box office and hospitality positions for October 20-23, 2011. Flyway, a 90-minute drive from Mpls/St. Paul, is located in beautiful Wisconsin bluff country. First come-first serve cabin-style group housing is available, as well as tiered perks, including complimentary festival merchandise and screening access based on number of volunteer shifts committed to. In addition, a volunteer party with great food and prizes will be announced for mid-November.
Volunteer Erica Svoboda tends bar at the 2010 Opening Night Party
For More Information
If you have additional questions or are interested in being a FFF volunteer, please submit your info into our “Volunteer Application.” Our volunteer coordinator will contact you to discuss opportunities based on your preferred role and schedule.
On October 20–21, 2011, the Flyway Film Festival will welcome director/author Jon Reiss, who will present his widely-acclaimed two-day workshop for filmmakers. This workshop, focused on introducing participants to the world of hybrid distribution and marketing, will cover a spectrum of topics from state of the industry to creating a comprehensive plan and unique marketing strategy for your film.
Reiss, named one of “10 Digital Directors to Watch” by Daily Variety, will also deliver the Flyway Film Festival Keynote Address during opening night celebrations at the Lake Pepin Art & Design Center on the evening of October 20.
We are pleased to announce that the Second Saturday Film screening for August will be Lixin Fan’s multi-award winning documentary LAST TRAIN HOME. Saturday August 13,2011 at 8pm at the Lake Pepin Art & Design Center.
Every spring, China’s cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year’s holiday. This mass exodus is the world’s largest human migration-an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught between its rural past and industrial future. Working over several years in classic verité style Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Lixin Fan (with the producers of the award-winning hit documentary Up the Yangtze) travels with one couple who have embarked on this annual trek for almost two decades. Like so many of China’s rural poor, Changhua and Sugin Zhang left behind their two infant children for grueling factory jobs. Their daughter Qin-now a restless and rebellious teenager-both bitterly resents their absence and longs for her own freedom away from school, much to the utter devastation of her parents. Emotionally engaging and starkly beautiful, Last Train Home’s intimate observation of one fractured family sheds light on the human cost of China’s ascendance as an economic superpower.
– (C) Zeitgeist Films
Nope. It’s @TWEAK!
Thanks to Jeremy Wilker for the design and Leslie Stewart and Peter Seitz for the execution.
I’m not entirely sure where the rumor originated that I wouldn’t take A Year Without Rent to Los Angeles. Sure, one of the project’s primary goals is to see indie film outside of the major hot spots, but who’s to say that you can’t be outside of a major hot spot, but right in their neighborhood? It seems obvious to me that some really interesting indie filmmakers would exist in Los Angeles. It’d be pretty impossible for them not to.
Also, I know a lot of people in LA. And the weather is nice.
Thanks to Phil Roberts and Paul Jurgensen for covering the Flyway Jem Grant Presentation and 2011 Poster unveiling.
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