CASS WARNER’S
INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING SEMINAR
“It is not the challenge of dollars, it is the challenge of ideals and ideas. If the producers
of pictures see only the dollar, I will believe, those production efforts will fail.”
Harry Warner, Founder, President of Warner Bros. Studios
afilm presents Writer, Director, Producer Cass Warner’s seminar on Independent Documentary Filmmaking. A third generation filmmaker, Cass is the daughter of twice Oscar-nominated writer/producer Milton Sperling and the granddaughter of Harry Warner, the President and one of the Founders of Warner Bros. studios. Founder of her own independent production company, Warner Sisters, Cass carries on the original Warner Bros. motto- making films that "educate, entertain and enlighten." www.warnersisters.com
“THE BROTHERS WARNER” – www.thebrotherswarner.com
Cass has authored the definitive story of the Warner family entitled, "Hollywood Be Thy Name: The Warner Brothers Story" now in its 8th printing and newly titled, "The Brothers Warner". Her feature documentary, THE BROTHERS WARNER, which she wrote, directed, and produced, has won the prestigious HBO Films Producer Award.
“The Brothers Warner” is the intimate portrait and saga of the four Hollywood pioneers: the strategic general, Harry Warner; honest Abe; visionary Sam; and volatile Jack- the original independent Hollywood filmmakers. It’s the definitive story of a family who rose from immigrant poverty through personal tragedies, persevering to create a major studio with a social conscience, using mass media to “educate, entertain and enlighten” while being commercially successful.
The Seminar will include the film screening, a six hour seminar on how the project was developed, how the doc was shot, how the book was published, how and why to set up an independent production company and the adventure in general (as an independent documentary filmmaker's vision realized), as well as first-hand recommendations on how to survive as an indie doc filmmaker.
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