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Directing feature films

November 23 – December 6, 2005
April 6 – 18, 2006 (repeat of the course)

DIRECTING FEATURE FILM
Teacher: Mark Travis
10 days, Kiev
Language: Russian (through an interpreter)

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Techer:
“Mark Travis is the only practical teacher of directing I've ever met -- and simply the best. I learned more from him than I did in four years of film school!”
- Cyrus Nowrasteh, writer/director
THE DAY REAGAN WAS SHOT; NORMA JEAN, JACK AND ME

Mark Travis,
Dean of Education at Hollywood School in Ukraine,
Teacher, Director,
Screenwriter, Producer

Mark Travis is an award winning director, one of the most famous Hollywood teachers, acclaimed as the director of directors.

Mark is the author of the Number-One Best Seller (L.A. Times), THE DIRECTOR'S JOURNEY: the Creative Collaboration between Directors, Writers and Actors. His second book on directing, DIRECTING FEATURE FILMS (published in April of 2002) is currently used as required text in film schools worldwide.
Since 1992 Mark has been sharing his techniques on writing, acting and directing not only in the USA, but worldwide: Japan, Germany, Poland, England, France, Netherlands, and, finally, in November 2005, in Ukraine, at Hollywood School in Ukraine, where he taught his legendary course “Directing Feature Film”. The course created quite a stir in the media and received an enthusiastic response from the students - well-known professionals and beginners alike.
Mark's students include many famous producers, directors, screenwriters and actors as well as cinematographers and editors. Here are only some of the people who he taught or intensively worked with or has influenced through his work: Richard Dreyfuss, Holland Taylor, Robert De Niro, Charlise Theron, Bill Pullman, Cuba Gooding Jr…

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Course program:
Ten days that will stimulate your imagination, challenge your talent and reshape your perceptions of the filmmaking process.  Whether actor, director, writer or producer – we are all filmmakers, we are storytellers.  We have all elected to participate in a storytelling process (film) that calls for deep commitments, collaboration and trust.

In THE DIRECTOR’S JOURNEY module (3 days) we will explore the film making process from script to completion.  We will be examining the role of the director in this process and how he/she designs and defines a ‘vision’ for the story – and how he/she manages to bring that vision to the screen.
We will be using the script from AS GOOD AS IT GETS as a model during our investigation of the film directing process. 

In THE THREE MASTER CLASSES (3 days – Rehearsal, Staging, Derector and Camera)  we will now begin to explore more specific ways of directing. 

THE DIRECTORS’ WORKSHOP is four days dedicated to giving sixteen directors an opportunity to work with text and actors under my guidance and supervision. The remaining directors will have the opportunity to observe this work and be involved in the on-going dialogue about the directing process. 

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