[ September 7, 2010; 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Upstate Independents’ September 7th, 2010

Meeting Line-Up

I.  Announcements Presented by UI Secretary, Rosemary Thomas

II.  Guest Speaker – Line Producer, Production Manager & Asbury Shorts NYC Founder Doug LeClaire.
Doug LeClaire is a Clio Award-winning television commercial and cable network promo Line Producer and Production Manager.  He has worked in the NYC film/video industry since 1980.  Doug was [...]

[ June 1, 2010; 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm. ] I.    Announcements

II.    Film Screening with Q & A:

III.   A 15-minute Networking Break

IV.   Guest Speaker-of-the-Month:   Anne Nelson

Anne Nelson’s career spans the fields of writing, human rights, and international affairs.  Nelson, a native of Stillwater, Oklahoma, graduated from Yale University.  As a young journalist she covered the wars in El Salvador and Guatemala.  Her work appeared in [...]

[ May 4, 2010; 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm. ] I.      Announcements

II.   Film Screening with Q & A:

A.)    “Confinement”: 30 minutes

Written, directed, and edited by upstate NY filmmaker John McCarty

Confinement is a modern re-telling of the classic macabre, feminist short story The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935). It is about a woman whose physician husband has determined she is suffering from depression following [...]

[ April 6, 2010; 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm. ] I.   Announcements

II.  Film Screening with Q & A:

A. Rich Lounello will be screening his short, “The Loop.” (13 minutes)  Destiny has a way of following you.”   Rich has been a professional actor for over 15 years. He is a member in good standing with all 3 unions, SAG, AFTRA, & Equity. This marks his directorial [...]

[ October 6, 2009; 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ] I. Film Screenings for the Month of October

OUTCOMES, LGBTQ Stories from the Hudson Valley…
…features a series of 5 documentary shorts drawn from interviews with an array LGBTQ people who have come out of the closet, putting a human face on a highly politicized subject.

October 6th’s  screening will be  followed by a Q&A session will be [...]