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Press Release October 23, 2006 THE 31st ANNUAL AMERICAN INDIAN FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES TWO FILM WORKSHOPS San Francisco, CA - The American Indian Film Festival is pleased to announce details regarding this year's two film festival workshops which will take place during the Festival, November 3-11, 2006 in San Francisco. The workshops are developed to foster and promote filmmaking and will be held at the Radisson Hotel Fisherman's Wharf @ 250 Beach Street on Wednesday and Friday at 10 a.m. The Festival workshops will be bringing award-winning, industry professionals to San Francisco to teach, inspire and share their knowledge with the next generation of filmmakers. The topics will include film musical composition, moderated by well-known film composer Brent Michael Davids, as well as legality issues in the film industry moderated by Richard Trudell, Executive Director of the American Indian Resource Institute, joined by Chad Burris, attorney/producer and owner of Indion Entertainment Group, and Harris Tulchin attorney/producer and leading partner of International Entertainment, Multimedia & Intellectual Property Law & Business Network™. A panel of expert filmmakers will also be in attendance. Both workshops are FREE of charge. Listed below is the workshop schedule and the biographies of the workshop presenters: The Radisson Hotel Fisherman's Wharf
Brett Michael Davids Brent Michael Davids (Stockbridge Mohican) is one of America's most celebrated American Indian composers, whose career spans thirty years with features on ABC, NBC, CBS, NPR, PBS and NAPT. Chad Burris Chad Burris belongs to the Chickasaw Nation and is a native of Oklahoma. He produced the short film Goodnight Irene which screened at the Sundance Film Festival, Berlin, Tribeca, Los Angeles Film Festival, and Aspen Short Fest, as well as many other notable festivals around the world. Chad produced the feature length film, Four Sheets to the Wind by writer/director Sterlin Harjo. The project was a participant in both the Sundance writers and directors labs, was nominated for the NHK award, and was the recipient of the Annenburg Award. He and Harjo are also in development in a second feature, Before the Beast Returns, that won best screenplay at this years Tribeca All Access. Chad is also producing a feature from award winning filmmaker Blackhorse Lowe that is set to shoot in the winter of 2006-2007. The feature, titled The Left Handed Path, was a participant in the 2006 Sundance writers lab. Chad is a graduate of the University of Tulsa Law School, where he received his J.D. with an emphasis in Indian Law. Chad has spent his time in law school developing programs that would attract film production to Indian country. Chad is co-owner of the production company, Indion Film, which facilitates financing and production for projects to shoot in Oklahoma and also produces its own projects for Oklahoma. Chad is also co-owner of 46 Red, a commercial and video production company.
Chad is the president of the Oklahoma Territory Film Council and serves as a director for the non-profit organization Yuwita, whose aim is to develop and support media initiatives to increase cultural tolerance and understanding, and to defend equality. Harris E. Tulchin Harris E. Tulchin is a graduate of Cornell University and Hastings Law School, and has practiced law since 1978. He has lectured extensively at forums such as UCLA, AFI, IFP, and USC, and brings a wealth of studio and private practice experience to the firm. He has served as Senior Vice President of Business Affairs and General Counsel for Cinema Group; General Counsel and Head of Business Affairs for KCET Television; Senior Counsel for United Artists; Director of Business Affairs at MGM Television; and Counsel for American International Pictures and Filmways Pictures (now Orion Pictures). As a private practitioner, his clients have included, among others: SONY, Vestron, Ed Pressman, ICE CUBE, Sid Caesar, David Lynch/Kino Link, Gary Lucchesi / Tom Barad / Toys 'R Us, Richard Leakey, Chris / Rose Productions / MCA Universal, Showtime, Cineville / HBO, Palace Group, (U.K.), KCET Television, Cinema Group, Strand Releasing, Independent Entertainment Group, Galaxy International Releasing, TTL Films (Moscow), SC Entertainment, HMD Distribution, New Horizons, Julie Corman / Ezio Greggio, Matt Salinger, Kevin Yagher, Jones-Reiker, Ink., Hills Entertainment, Jorge Rivero, Teleline, Destination Cinema, Esco-Mex, Gibraltar Releasing, Crawford / Lane, Paul Ryan Productions, Ultra Studios, Flint Dille, Cineville Interactive, and numerous independent producers, writers, directors and actors. In addition, Mr. Tulchin has served as Executive Producer of several feature films, including the critically acclaimed To Sleep With Anger which was awarded the Special Jury Prize at the 1990 Sundance / U.S. Film Festival, had its international premiere at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival as one of the official selections for the Directors' Fortnight, and won four Independent Spirit Awards in the Spring of 1991, as well as the recently completed Mona Must Die, starring Marianne Sagebrecht, Uwe Ochsenknecht and Sheila Kelley, and directed by Donald Reiker. Richard Trudell Richard Trudell is the Executive Director and principal founder of the American Indian Lawyer Training Program, Inc. (AILTP), and its American Indian Resources Institute (AIRI). He has served as a special advisor to the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation. In 1993, he served as chairman of the search committee for the Director of the Indian Health Service, a branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Mr. Trudell received a B.S. degree from San Jose State University in 1969 and a J.D. degree from Catholic University in 1972. "Composing Music for Film" flyer (.PDF) "Entertainment Law" flyer (.PDF)
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