The Filmmobile fulfills its programming mission to provide free community access to film/video education and resources through three different avenues: local screenings, community workshops, and tours. Here are some highlights of some past and present programs.
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2012 - 4th ANNUAL FILMMOBILE SUMMER SCREENING SERIES:
A SALUTE TO SENNETT
Angelenos are invited to discover and explore their changing urban landscape when the Filmmobile projects an array of classic films at (actual or implied) cinematic locations across the city. In honor of the 100th anniversary of the establishment of Keystone Studios in Edendale, this year’s series is devoted to the silent films of Keystone and its founder Mack Sennett, the inventor of slapstick and known as “The King of Comedy.”
**All shows begin at 8 pm and are free of charge. Locations are announced the day before the show via twitter @EPFCFilmmobile (you can also call 213.484.8846 or email info@echoparkfilmcenter.org for directions)**
Special support provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Friday, July 27 – SALUTE TO SENNETT SERIES KICKOFF with special guest Brent E. Walker, author of Mack Sennett’s Fun Factory and featuring The Hollywood Kid (1924), Mabel’s Dramatic Career (1913), Barney Oldfield’s Race For A Life (1913) and Edendale Follies (2007).
Friday, August 3 – HERE COME THE COPS – a program of wacky antics by Sennett’s Keystone Kops, with special guest film historian Robert Birchard and live musical accompaniment by Heather Lockie.
Friday, August 10 – TILLIE’S PUNCTURED ROMANCE, the first feature-length silent comedy, with special guest Ross Lipman, filmmaker and restorationist at the UCLA Film and Television Archives.
Friday, August 17 – KIDS AND DOGS – films featuring toddling tots and canny canines, with live musical accompaniment by Cosmo Segurson and Scooter Chamness.
Friday, August 24 – BEAUTIES – Gloria Swanson, Mabel Normand, Carole Lombard and a full array of Sennett’s Bathing Beauties will join special guest Karie Bible of Film Radar and live musical accompaniment by Casey Anderson and Scott Cazan.
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Angelenos are invited to discover and explore their changing urban landscape when the Filmmobile projects an array of classic films at (actual or implied) cinematic locations across the city. Film historians and filmmakers provide introductions and context.
2011 Summer Screening SchedulePDF
June 3: What Price Hollywood (1932, 88 minutes)
June 10: Hito Hata: Raise The Banner (1980; 90 minutes)
June 17: Meshes of the Afternoon (1943; 14 minutes)
June 24: College (1927; 66 minutes)
August 5: Riot On Sunset Strip (1967; 87 minutes)
August 12: The Films of Charles and Ray Eames
August 19: Pizza Pizza Daddy-O (1967; 18 minutes) and more!
August 26: Robot Monster (1953; 66 minutes)
2010 Haunted Films Series
Join us for a month of Spooky Sundays as the Filmmobile teams up with the Ghost Hunters of Urban Los Angeles (GHOULA) to present Haunted Films In Haunted Places.
October 3: Haunted Honeymoon, in the shadow of the Hollywood sign
October 10: The Haunted Castle at Castle Park, Sherman Oaks
October 17: House On Haunted Hill (1999 version) at Linda Vista Hospital
October 24: House on Haunted Hill (1959 version) in Griffith Park
October 31: The Man From Beyond in Laurel Canyon
2010 Summer Screening Schedule
June 11 – The Decay of Fiction (Pat O’Neill, 2002, 73 min.)
Introduction by filmmaker Pat O’Neill.
June 18 – King Kong (M. C. Cooper/E. B. Schoedsack, 1933, 105 min.) Introduction by Hillsman Wright, LA Historic Theater Foundation.
June 25 – Lady Sings The Blues (Sidney J. Furie, 1972, 141 min.)
Introduction by actor George Wyner.
July 2 – The Savage Eye (B. Maddow, S. Meyers, J. Strick, 1959, 68 min.)
Introduction by Professor David E. James, USC School of Cinematic Arts.
August 6 – Mi Vida Loca (Allison Anders, 1994, 92 min.)
Introduction by director Allison Anders.
August 13 – Roller Boogie (Mark L. Lester, 1979, 103 min.)
Introduction by archivist Dino Everett.
August 20 – Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett, 1977, 81 min.)
Introduction by filmmaker Ben Caldwell.
August 27 - Intolerance (D.W. Griffith, 1916, 175 min.)
Introduction by film historian Robert Birchard. Live music!
Free! Everyone welcome! Call 213.484.8846, email info@echoparkfilmcenter.org or follow @EPFCFILMMOBILE on Twitter for locations!
Support for the 2010 Filmmobile Summer Screening Series generously provided by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, The Annenberg Foundation and Epson America.
Click here for a pdf of the 2010 summer screening schedule.
2009 Summer Screening Schedule Schedule
June 13, 2009 – Them (adjacent to LA RIVER @ Santa Fe & 6th Street)
June 20, 2009 – Sunset Boulevard (Across from Paramount Studios)
July 3, 2009 – Safety Last! (Olive & 7th Street, Downtown LA)
July 12, 2009 – Echo Park (rooftop screening @ eighteen-thirty collective)
July 25, 2009 – A Salute To Edendale: Keystone Kops, Charlie Chaplin, Tom Mix and More (north end of Echo Park, beside the lake)
July 31, 2009 – The Music Box and other Laurel & Hardy Shorts (Vendome Street – Silverlake)
August 7, 2009 – The Exiles (Los Angeles, Hill Street between 3rd and 4th)
Filmmobile community workshops invite filmmakers of all ages to work together on projects that explore the history of cinema, direct animation and community stories.
Current Filmmobile Workshop Partners
Alisal Center for the Fine Arts, Salinas, CA
Burbank Senior Artists Colony, Burbank, CA
Casa del Tunel Art Center, Tijuana, Mexico
Central American Resource Center, Los Angeles, CA
Central High School at Mar Vista Gardens, Los Angeles, CA
Community Partnership for Youth, Seaside, CA
Dolores Mission Elementary School, Los Angeles, CA
Echo Park Community Art Project, Los Angeles, CA
Echo Park Community Festival, Los Angeles, CA
Echo Park Public Library, Los Angeles, CA
Echo Park Recreation Center, Los Angeles, CA
Edison Elementary, Burbank, CA
El Camino Real Library, Whittier, CA
Friendship City Collective, Bellingham, WA
Good Shepherd Shelter, Los Angeles, CA
Hoover High Spring Block Party, Glendale, CA
I Have A Dream Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Jefferson Adult School, South Central Los Angeles, CA
Jeff Griffith Center, Los Angeles, CA
KAOS Network, Los Angeles, CA
Kermes Community Festival, Los Angeles, CA
Lakeside School, Bakersfield, CA
Mary Magdalene Project, Van Nuys, CA
Mexicali Rose Art Center, Mexicali, CA
Morton Gardens Housing, Los Angeles, CA
Pilgrim School, Los Angeles, CA
Pitzer College, Claremont, CA
Purple Thistle Center, Vancouver, Canada
School of Arts & Enterprise, Pomona, CA
Sojourner Truth Continuation High School, Los Angeles, CA
Sorensen Library, Whittier, CA
Summer Light Nights ’09, Baldwin Hills, CA
Thomas Starr King Middle School, Los Angeles, CA
Topanga State Park, Topanga, CA
UCLA Department of World Arts & Cultures
Valle Del Oro Community Festival, Newhall, CA
Venice Youth Build, Venice, CA
Vista Hermosa State Park, Los Angeles, CA
VMH Care, Glendale, CA
Watts House Project, Watts, CA
Women Organizing Resources Knowledge & Services (W.O.R.K.S.), Los Angeles, CA
Youth Arts Collective, Monterey, CA
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2009
May 2, 2009 – a two-hour direct animation workshop for children as part of the Valle del Oro Community Festival in Newhall.
May 2 & 3, 2009 - a two-day family documentary workshop in conjunction with the Watts House Project and Big Sunday.
June 21, 2009 - a day-long direct animation workshop as part of the Kermes street fair in Echo Park, organized by ARTScorpsLA.
2008
September – October 2008: Youth Film Workshop - Mar Vista Gardens, Culver City (8 weeks)
The first Filmmobile Youth Film Workshop took place during the fall of 2008 at Central High Continuation School in the Mar Vista Gardens Housing Project. Nine first-time filmmakers created powerful short films on the realities of life in a challenging urban environment. Films created in this workshop were official entries in the 2009 San Diego Latino Film Festival and the 2009 Reel Rasquaache Film Festival.
March – April 2009: Youth Film Workshop – Crenshaw Area (8 weeks)
Films From Sojourner Truth, the second Filmmobile Youth Film Workshop, was completed in April at the Central High Continuation School Sojourner Truth Campus in LA’s West Adams District. With help from project instructors Paolo Davanzo, Alex Marin, Lisa Marr and Sharmaine Starks, fifteen first-time filmmakers created short documentaries about what goes on in and outside of the classroom.
2011 Tour
Coming Soon
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July 2008: West Coast Tour (4 weeks)
Summer 2008 marked the launch of the new Filmmobile as we took our maiden voyage through the backroads and byways of America from Los Angeles to Vancouver, Canada and back again. The mission was simple: conduct free community film and video-making workshops during the day and present free film screenings at night. Participants and audience members ranged in age from 3 to 73; programs were held in schools, parks, community centers, yards and a mountaintop farm.
Please e-mail us if you wish to set up a workshop in your town. We are completely self-contained and can teach up 15 students (ages 13 - 19) in any school, church basement, community center, town hall, or backyard.
| Date | Venue | City |
| July 2 | Youth Arts Collective | Monterey, CA |
| July 3 | Community Partnership for Youth | Seaside, CA |
| July 3 | Alisal Center for the Arts | Salinas, CA |
| July 6 | Stonelake Family Farm | Buck Mountain, CA |
| July 9 | Beachside State Park | Florence, OR |
| July14 | Department of Safety | Anacortes, WA |
| July 15 | Friendship City Collective | Bellingham, WA |
| July 19 | Commercial Drive | Vancouver, Canada |
| July 22 | Purple Thistle Center | Vancouver, Canada |
| July 24 | Punch & Judy Cinema | Eugene, OR |
| July 28 | CSSA - Cal Arts | Valencia, CA |
2008 Films
World on Wheel - Here and Now
Hole or Space - Caroline Koebel
Song for the City with Music in its Bones - Amy Lynn Kazymerchyk
Transversals - Tiina Liimu
The Pink Fairy Meets Kali - Julie Saragosa
A Ukrainian Moment - Paolo Davanzo, Lisa Marr, Naomi Uman
Count Backwards from Five - Tony Gault
Going through the Motions - Angela Gleeson
How to Make a Self-Watering Container - Survive LA
The Fridge - Lucie Stamfestova
You Can't Compost Concrete - Elon Schoenholz
The Humanure Cycle - Melinda Stone
Dreams of the Hydra - Leigh Goldstein
Butterfly - Duncan Martinez
Flying Rat - Mark Segurson
Workshops
Filmmobile workshops are offered free of charge, with all equipment and materials provided. Everyone welcome! No experience necessary.
DIRECT ANIMATION
Learn how to make a movie without using a camera. Fun for the whole family!
PHOTOBOOTH OF CHANGE
Explore the basics of digital animation and share ideas on how we can make our world a better place.
COMMUNITY STORIES PROJECT
Create a short digital documentary about family and community history.
SUPER 8 SECRETS
Discover the magic of the moving image at 18 frames per second.