Central Skagit Library District

Oscar-winner Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona) stars as the famous movie star Macarena Granada, who flees the glitz and glamour of 1950s Hollywood to return to her roots in Spain where she has signed on to star in an epic film as Queen Isabella of Spain.

A 20-minute film by Blank featuring Herzog fulfilling a bet.

Long treated with indifference by critics and historians , British silent cinema has only recently undergone the reevaluation it has long deserved. A cottage on Dartmoor is perhaps the most significant rediscovery. A tense, shocking thriller that stylistically evokes the early films of Alfred Hitchcock and the masterworks of Russian and German silent cinema. This film also contains Silent Britain, a new feature-length documentary that celebrates this...

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Chuck Workman's documentary WHAT IS CINEMA? tackles the question of its title through over 100 clips and new interviews with filmmakers such as Mike Leigh, Jonas Mekas, David Lynch, Robert Altman, Kelly Reichardt, Costa-Gavras, and Michael Moore. Featuring archival interviews from Robert Bresson, Alfred Hitchcock, Chantal Akerman, Akira Kurosawa, Abbas Kiarostami, and more. Featuring commissioned sequences from experimental...

Special effects supervisor: also known as the special effects coordinator, the sfx supervisor is the head of the department and designs and directs all the special effects needed on the job. This position requires special skills in pyrotechnics, rigging, engineering and safety. Construction coordinator: The head of the crew responsible for constructing all the sets in a production. Locations manager (LM): The head of the department responsible for...

Art director: reports to the production designer. The person responsible for designing and supervising the construction of all sets and scenery, overseeing the painting and dressing of all sets, and coordinating much of the logistical elements for the art department. --Set decorator: responsible for overseeing research, acquisition and allocation of items required to dress the various sets. --Gaffer: the head of the lighting and electrical departments...

Head (or key) hair stylist: styles the hair on all on-camera talent. Also supervises the fitting of any wigs or mustaches, as well as hair tinting. Head of department. production coordinator: Provides organizational, logistical and clerical support to the production. Responsible for setting up and managing the office, arranging for travel and permits, creating and distributing paperwork such as scripts, script changes, call sheets, schedules and location...

Props Master: head of the props department. Responsible for obtaining and providing all items that a performer picks up and uses during a production. --1st assistant director: The person in charge of creating the schedule, running the set and keeping a certain pace during shooting. As the directors right hand, the 1st AD operates as the conduit between the crew and the director. --Script supervisor: The person in charge of making sure that continuity...

This module will teach you lighting to post, how to set the height and angle of the background camera, match it to the foreground camera; teaches matching the colour, direction and intensity of the subject's instruments with the background natural light; delves deeper with an action scene that teaches you how to blend action elements with proper direction for actor eyelines. The final part of the module teaches post production compositing and also...

"Rich, provocative and essential viewing for anyone who values Australian stories” - Steve Dow, The Guardian. Advance Australian Film is an investigative, thought-provoking documentary that explores the inner-workings of the Australian film industry, celebrating some of our key successes and examining the changes occurring across the global filmmaking landscape - with crowdfunding social media marketing and video-on-demand platforms empowering filmmakers...