5/26/2015

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Lineup: order + Awards names
Suggestions:

Pravda-Ecstatic: Best Ode to the Bay Area

Dream: Best life story music video

The Real Bogeyman: Best Protest Video

Showdown at Highway: Best documentary about the Indigenous struggle

Pueblote :

Aunti Frances Loves Mission Self-Help Hunger Program: Best character in a documentary / ...

Afrikatown and Quilombo: Best ...

Safi: Best personal movie about Islam

Consequences of War: Best war movie

The Choice: Best portrait of Patriarchy

Pressure: Best Teenage movie

La Petite Salon: Best love story

Chainwheel:

Ballad of a Green Beret

Fat-shamed Into Self Love: Best film on self acceptance

Khombo, by Bluu, 1 minute: best commercial break / Best action movie

Checkmate: Best film about dissenting from school

You missed Black Skin White Tee. [Another lineup is presented further down]

Evening Schedule and logistics
4:00 PM Meet in Ballroom to set up the room.

7:00 - 7:30: Serve food and drinks: Angel and Jabari

Pop Corn Anthony

7:25 Introduce Optikallusions. Explain: use your program to vote. and the Festival

Use the ranking system; explain to people to vote for their 1st 2nd and 3rd favorite.

7:30 Show the films

9:15 Speech of 5 minutes while we tally votes: Jabari = stay for the movie Stay for the awards dragon fundraiser speech Group photo of filmmakers

9:30 - 10:30 Awards

Q&A about the audience favorite at the end

=> Make a program/ballot: Noemie pens

=> List of awards: Noemie

=> Coupon for the food. 2 separate tickets: Noemie

=> Signup sheet: announce (ask if they want to do a monthly donation)

=> Flyers and ginger juice

=> noemie: send themes for speech. Bring Mac adapter

=> Lanyards and name cards - Liz

=> Liz is doing cards for directors the tech.

Noemie: send the list

Entrance tickets and ushering: Noemie/ Anka

Serving food and drinks: Angel and Jabari

Tech: Liz

Preparing room

Ushering

Food + Drinks + Pop Corn (where?) [the bar in the ballroom] WE GOTTA TEST THAT POPCORN MACHINE :D IT WEEERRRRKKSSS

Intro about OpAl and Festival

Break

Food + Drinks

Awards (which ones and how to design them?)

How much time per film (Q&A?)

Donations: reminder to give money and why

Local collective that films stuff in the activist community
 * We are a video collective/ Community media project
 * We do peer learning/ SHaring Skills and resources
 * We believe that there is a strong need for independent media, sharing resources so that the voice of the unheard will be heard.
 * Sharing stories that are not reported by mainstream media, or not well reported
 * We think everyone is capable of making good films
 * We do activist media but not only; We'd like to allow for folks to tell stories from their unique points of view
 * Nothing is more subversive than your imagination, so we believe that our project is revolutionary
 * What we've done so far: Videos for the Omni (crowdfunding one shot walkthrough of the omni) / Protests, working with OGC + Documentary on gentrification, Pedie video
 * We are renting a room dedicated to media post production
 * Why this event:
 * we want you to join/ signup sheet [optikallusionsannounce]
 * We are raising money for more production and post production equipment, renting room, etc.

Finances
We owe rent, not a sustainable situation We can install same thing as sudo humans so we don't need to collect money every month We need a bank account ASAP

Working Groups
List of small discrete tasks that need to get done. Look at it and see if there is something you can do.