Join us on Friday, June 4th at 2pm PT for an interactive workshop about Going Paperless with Film Fatales member Valerie Weiss (Director of Mixtape, Outer Banks and Prodigal Son).
Valerie Weiss discusses how Scriptation can empower you to navigate the new world of digital scripts, shorter work days, remote collaboration, and social distancing without compromising your production workflow. Through a demonstration of the app's tools like Note Transfer, Script Annotation, Bookmarking, and Facing pages, Valerie shows you how she uses Scriptation successfully on set. Gain insight into her process and see how she works within the new production safety guidelines. Workshop participants will receive one month complimentary access to Scriptation.
Valerie first started using Scriptation four years ago when she was introduced to it by the cast of Scandal who were fans of the program because of its almost instantaneous notes transfer when new drafts of episodes arrived. Valerie adopted it immediately because of its vast functionality (annotating, adding photo references, and more), the positive effect on the environment by going paperless, and the powerful way it increased communication with her department heads. Once the pandemic hit, Valerie knew that Scriptation would be even more essential because of diminished physical contact in prep and production. Valerie has taught seminars on Scriptation to the Directors Guild of America, the NBC Female Forward Program, NYC Women Filmmakers and to the LA-based Saturday Sessions as well as industry-wide events for Scriptation. She will share the signature way she uses the app to direct her films and television episodes with enhanced creativity and productivity.
All participants will receive one complimentary month of Scriptation following the workshop.
This event is open to the public and will be accessible with live captioning.
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Award-winning filmmaker and scientist, Valerie Weiss, has directed four feature films including the recently wrapped Mixtape for Netflix starring Gemma Allen and Julie Bowen. She has also directed twenty episodes of television including three episodes of Outer Banks (Netflix), an episode of Why Women Kill (CBS All Access), Maryellen: An American Girl Special (Amazon), multiple episodes for Dick Wolf Productions (NBC), Shondaland (ABC), and the mid-season finale of Berlanti's Prodigal Son (Fox).
With a Ph.D. in X-ray Crystallography from Harvard University, Valerie has spent her career both as a scientist and a filmmaker transforming abstract material into compelling visual stories. Her work has been called "daringly light" for the way it embraces controversial topics in an enchanting way and spans the genres of action, thriller, drama, sci-fi and comedy. RogerEbert.com calls her second feature, A Light Beneath Their Feet, "Emotionally raw and uncommonly observant...By turns endearing, unsettling, and ultimately moving, [it] is a triumph of empathetic filmmaking." Valerie's third feature, The Archer, premiered at SXSW in 2017 is a feminist coming-of-age action film best described as Thelma and Louise meets First Blood.
Valerie is a member of the Directors Guild of America, an alumnus of the AFI Directing Workshop for Women (DWW) Program. She participated in the WeForShe DirectHer Program, and the DGA Director Development Initiative. In 2018, Valerie won the top honors in the Fox Filmmaking Lab and was commissioned to direct a short film based on her pitch of a female-centric sequel in the Maze Runner franchise called True Maze. She is a mother of two tween girls and a goldendoodle. She is repped by CAA, John Bauman Management and Ziffren Brittenham LLP.