RIFF Master Class with Brooke Berman

Make Your Movie! (how to do it now for less) 

The entertainment industry has been in crisis for some time. The good news is: it's a great time to make your own work. As indie filmmaker Naomi McDougall Jones says, "Make the weirdest shit you can." Filmmaker Brooke Berman can walk you through the ins and outs of putting your feature project together on a microbudget. If you have been waiting for permission -- a green light, a movie star, an agent, a sign from the Heavens -- and are ready to get up and make your film, this is the master class for you.

Brooke Berman is an award-winning playwright, filmmaker, and memoirist. She wrote and directed Ramona at Midlife which premiered at Geena Davis’s esteemed Bentonville Film Festival, screened at RIFF last year, and is now streaming on Apple+ and other streaming platforms. Brooke’s short U4G premiered at the Aspen International ShortsFest where it won Audience Special Recognition. All Saints Day, a short film she wrote, directed by Will Frears, won Best Narrative Short at the Savannah Film Festival and played at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Brooke adapted her play Smashing for Natalie Portman and has written features for The Mark Gordon Company, Vox Films, Red Crown, and Fugitive.

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