Workshops and Parties
All the paradigm shifting workshops and memory making parties from last year's festival are listed below. The official schedule of workshops and parties for the 16th annual Cucalorus Film Festival will be announced in early October 2010.
Special Events
 | Blue Velvet Tour | 90:00 Tour conducted by: Benedict R. Fancy Step into the strange world of David Lynch's cult classic Blue Velvet with an informative and detai...Read More |
 | Global Perspectives: Fest Shorts For High Schoolers | A savvy selection of shorts collected especially for area high school students. Teens have a chance to ask questions to the filmmakers who brought the...Read More |
 | Kickoff Party @ The Soapbox | To start things off right, we'll screen a selection of innovative music videos at one of downtown's coolest spots. There'll also be performances by ba...Read More |
 | Kids-a-lorus | KIDS-A-LORUS! - a family friendly event geared toward the younger set... Saturday, November 14, 2009 Doors open at 9:00AM! 9:3...Read More |
 | Media Literacy for Elementary Schoolers | 120:00 Our annual media literacy screenings introduce area youth to the art of film with special appearances by North Carolina filmmakers. The event for elem...Read More |
 | Midnight Brunch @ The Dixie Grill | This traditional Southern brunch satisfies late-night munchies after days of intense movie watching. It closes the festival and hits the spot. Open mi...Read More |
 | State of the State | A discussion with leaders from the North Carolina film-making industry. The panel includes Senator Julia Boseman, Johnny Griffin (Wilmington Regional ...Read More |
Experimental Event
 | Dance-a-lorus | The Dance Cooperative does Cucalorus. One of the festival's most popular traditions is a communion of dance and film. Filmmakers pair with ...Read More |
Workshop
 | 3D Camera Demo | 60:00 Silicon Imaging, the company that enabled the digital shooting of Slumdog Millionaire, is changing the face of stereo production with SI-3D. SI-3D is ...Read More |
 | Cameraless Film | Cameraless filmmaking, or direct film manipulation, involves using the physical filmstrip as a canvas on which to draw, paint, paste objects, etc. In ...Read More |
 | Dealing With Real Sound | 60:00 Alexander Markowski uses two films, Roller Girls and Two Hours in the Dark, as examples of documentary and narrative sound design. There are many ways...Read More |
 | Distribution Solutions | 60:00 You finished your feature--now what? This informal workshop demystifies the process of independent film distribution. What does a distributor do? How...Read More |
 | Don't Quit Your Day Job | 120:00 Keeping a day job may be the best way to make real art and pay the rent. In this age of dwindling arts funding, filmmakers who can fund their own proj...Read More |
 | Legal Tool Kit | Now that you’ve made a film, is your intellectual property protected? Thom Goolsby, a sought-after trial lawyer and professor of Entertainment Law, wi...Read More |
 | Resources for Social Change | 120:00 Inspired by Francine DeCoursey’s in progress documentary on the ‘Wilmington 10’ about members of a non-violent movement being unjustly jailed, and Pau...Read More |
 | Stop By. Shoot Film. | 90:00 Anyone interested in discovering how to use motion picture film should Stop By & Shoot Film. Work with a top cinematographer and learn how to use a 16...Read More |
| The Anatomy of a VFX Shot | 60:00 Did you ever watch a movie and wonder, How did they do that?!? Special effects wizard, Rajeev Dassani dismantles common VFX shots, revealing how they ...Read More |