In collaboration with Barefoot Workshops, the

Mississippi Film Office and guest filmmakers,

this day long workshop will bring together a

wealth of resources, open Q&A sessions, and

training to support artists who are considering

applying for the MAC Artist Fellowship in the

category of Filmmaking (deadline: March 3,

2014).

Topics will include:

• Ten Tips for submitting a successful application

to MAC Artist Fellowship (up to $5000)

• Writing an artist's statement - Do's and Don'ts

• Selecting your team

• Crafting a log line for narrative and

documentary genres

• Mastering the art of visual storytelling across

genres (e.g. Photography, Documentary,

Narrative, Experimental)

• Understanding story structure

• Screening: "Drawing On A Dream" (TRT: 10

min.) / Q&A with guest filmmakers

Overall, the workshop will focus on empowering

applicants with tools and information to craft

compelling stories across diverse genres, and to

produce successful grant applications. Beginner

through advanced filmmakers welcome. Space is

limited.

MISSISSIPPI ARTS COMMISSION PRESENTS

Crafting the Visual Story a filmmaker’s workshop

Wilma E. Mosley Clopton, Ph.D. is a Mississippi native, independent filmmaker and author whose works highlight the continued significant contributions of Mississippi African-Americans. Her most recent work “Did Johnny Come Marching Home?” explores the role of people of color in the Civil War here in Mississippi. She is a graduate of 2012 Barefoot Filmmakers Workshop and the 10th Annual Ole Miss Filmmaking Workshop at the University of Mississippi. Dr. Clopton’s films were regularly featured on the former FOX 35 network and showcased on Comcast 14. She was recognized in 2013 as one of Mississippi’s Top 10 Business Women of the Year. Most recently the Mississippi Department of Archives and History included her film “In Spite of it All: The Ollye Shirley Story” as part of its “History is Lunch Series”.

Instructors:

Alison Fast is a bi-coastal, award-winning Television Producer who has worked for networks such as NBC/Universal, BBC

Worldwide and MTV Networks. In 2007, she won a Peabody Award for the one-hour documentary, "For My Country? Latinos

In The Military", which she shot, produced, directed, and edited for mun2. She also worked as a Field Producer for "Dancing

With the Stars" (ABC) and Que Viva (XIX Entertainment). She has documented National Audubon Society's response to the

Gulf Coast oil spill, grassroots uses of media in the favelas of Brazil, water user issues on the Mara River in Kenya and

Tanzania, and vignettes of women's leadership across the United States for Odyssey Network. Since 2006, she has worked

as a Program Director for Barefoot Workshops, training more than sixty organizations in the United States, South Africa and

The Middle East. Her goal is to use media to create positive social change and to give communities a voice. She graduated

in 1998 with a degree in Journalism from Boston University College of Communication.

Chandler Griffin is a NYC-based, documentary filmmaker, educator and the Founding Director of Barefoot Workshops with

over ten years of experience instructing over eighty media workshops, starting out at the Maine Media Workshops. His

projects have taken him throughout the USA, Europe, Latin America, Africa, India, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. He

has produced and taught educational programs in Mississippi since 2004. Chandler has collaborated with clients as diverse

as: PBS, The American Cancer Society, FXB International, The Ford Foundation, Academy for Educational Development,

Global Nomads Group, RFK Center for Human Rights, UNESCO, UNAIDS/UNDP, the Department of State Middle East

Partnership Initiative (MEPI), Creative Associates International and the President's Digital Freedom Initiative. As a

Cinematographer, he has earned a CINE Golden Eagle Award and Oscar Finalist/Student Academy Awards. He holds a BFA

in Photography and a BFA in Video/Film from the Savannah College of Art & Design and lectures regularly in New York City

at B&H and Tekserve.

Guest Filmmakers:

Wilma E. Mosley Clopton, Ph.D. is a Mississippi native, independent filmmaker and author whose works highlight the

continued significant contributions of Mississippi African-Americans. Her most recent work “Did Johnny Come Marching

Home?” explores the role of people of color in the Civil War here in Mississippi. She is a graduate of 2012 Barefoot

Filmmakers Workshop and the 10th Annual Ole Miss Filmmaking Workshop at the University of Mississippi. Dr. Clopton’s

films were regularly featured on the former FOX 35 network and showcased on Comcast 14. She was recognized in 2013 as

one of Mississippi’s Top 10 Business Women of the Year. Most recently the Mississippi Department of Archives and History

included her film “In Spite of it All: The Ollye Shirley Story” as part of its “History is Lunch Series.”

Susan Liles is Public Relations Director for the Mississippi Arts Commission and participated in Barefoot Workshops training

in the fall of 2011. Along with her partner, David Rae Morris, they created “Drawing on a Dream,” a documentary film about

the late Mississippi artist and musician, Duff Dorrough.