microWAVE Microbudget Filmmaking Symposium 2013

Overview

Nowadays, glamorous Hollywood productions aren't the only ones to find an audience; independent directors creating movies on a next-to-nothing budget and embracing new technologies and methodologies have more of an opportunity than ever to get their work seen. An idea, a DSLR, a Pozible campaign, a screening party et voila! Cult cinema star status is at your fingertips.

With that in mind, UTS presents microWAVE 2013 — a celebration of micro-budget filmmaking. The symposium spans three days of talks from academics, filmmakers and showbiz insiders who show aspiring directors that art can be achieved without the monstrous budget. Also on the program are screenings of films created without stacks of cash.

microWAVE kicks off with writer Jack Sargent on the history of underground film, followed by a screening of Robert Byington’s Somebody Up There Likes Me, starring the insanely hilarious Nick Offerman. Nick Buchner will also speak on the endless possibilities of a micro budget.

So if you see yourself as the next Lena Dunham, Shane Carruth or Duplass brother, take a lesson from the book of microWAVE.

microWAVE 2013 is hosted at UTS in the Bon Marche Studio and The Level 2 Studio.