Seniors Resource Day: Creating Your Own Digital Content (Also Livestreamed)

SAG-AFTRA Foundation Room – Mezzanine Level
5757 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Parking will be validated.

If you are unable to attend in person, click here to watch it live. 

This educational series will address topics important to 55+ and senior SAG-AFTRA members through game-changing panels and workshops focusing on how to keep up with the changing technology of the industry and creating your own new media content. We are excited to announce, that if you can’t make the event, you can still watch it in real time! We will be live streaming the event and you can access it by clicking here. The live stream link will have a one-hour intermission during lunch break.

Presented by the SAG-AFTRA National and Los Angeles Local Seniors Committee, SAG-AFTRA National and Los Angeles Ethnic Employment Opportunities Committee and the SAG-AFTRA Los Angeles NextGen Performers Subcommittee.

Networking lunch included. RSVP required for in-person attendance.
 
Senior Resource Day Program
 
1. Nuts & Bolts with Creators (11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.) - Click here to watch event online.

• Digital content creators, including actors who made the leap to filmmaking, discuss their journey to make their own digital content. Panel includes filmmakers, pod cast creators and cast members from the webseries Carbon Dating and Boomers.
• Panelists include:
  • Michael Gross (actor, producer, Carbon Dating, Family Ties)
  • Amanda Serra (actor, producer-director, Carbon Dating)
  • Nancy Hendrickson (producer-writer, Boomers)
  • Elester Latham (actor, producer, Blended Family)
  • Dan Bowser (National Director, Entertainment Contracts SAG-AFTRA)
  • SAG-AFTRA National Board member Ellen Crawford (moderator)

2. Networking Lunch Break (1 – 2 p.m.)
The live stream will have a 1 hour intermission during the lunch break.

3. Learn by Doing with Foley-Marra Casting (2 – 3:30 p.m.) - Click here to watch event online.

• Casting directors Chuck Marra and Megan Foley Marra present their popular and dynamic seminar on writing and producing your own content.
• Panelists include:
  • Chuck Marra, Casting Director (Founder, The Foley Marra Project)
  • Megan Foley Marra (Casting Director and Founder, The Foley Marra Project)

4.    Mobile Filmmaking and Equipment Made Easy (3:35 – 4:30 p.m.) - Click here to watch event online.

• Learn how to make low-cost, high quality content by using easy-to-use equipment and devices that attach to your mobile phones.
• Panelists include:
  • Aubrey Mozino (NextGen Performers Subcommittee Vice Chair and We Make Movies Co-Founder)
  • Sam Mestman (CEO and Founder, We Make Movies)

Please RSVP only if you are committed to coming to the entire event – if you are unsure, please allow the space to a member who can come. Due to provided lunches, we have limited the headcount. If you need to cancel, please do so at minimum 24 hours before the event. A cancellation link will be provided with a notice sent after your RSVP – this will make the space available for a member on the waitlist.

If you can’t make the event, click here to watch it in real time via live stream.

You must RSVP to attend. Spaces are limited and not guaranteed once the room reaches capacity.

Questions? Contact the EEO & Diversity Department at (323) 549-6644.
 
This workshop is only open to paid-up SAG-AFTRA members in good standing. Unfortunately, no guests allowed. Parents/guardians of performers under 18 years old are welcome. All performers under the age of 18 must be accompanied by their parent or legal guardian. SAG-AFTRA members, PLEASE BRING YOUR MEMBERSHIP CARD OR DIGITAL CARD ON YOUR APP (paid through April 30, 2019) FOR ADMITTANCE. This workshop is not intended to imply an endorsement of any individual or company by SAG-AFTRA. The information provided through the workshop is given for informational purposes and may not be a suitable substitute for the advice of other industry professionals. You should not act or refrain from acting based solely on information provided at the workshop. Panelists subject to change.