Next lacpug Meet is Thursday, February 20, 2025
beginning at 6:45PM - till we drop at the Gallery Theatre in Hollywood Ca.
Lacpug is sponsored by
Special Screening of "Her Name was Moviola"
with appearance, (via zoom) by Walter Murch
The next lacpug meet is Thursday, February 20, back at the Gallery Theatre in Hollywood.
Join us for a special screening of the love letter to the Moviola, "Her Name was Moviola." Written by Walter Murch and directed by Howard Berry the film is about film editing, the way it used to be done. Watch the trailer.
Walter Murch will appear via zoom for a Q and A after the screening so bring your questions.
Registration will go live on Friday, February 7 at 8:30AM
This event will not be live streamed. Register ONLY if planning to attend.
NOTE: lacpug generally meets every 4th Wednesday of the Month. Meetings are open to public and ALL, beginning through advanced Digital Story Tellers are welcome. Digital projection made possible through the generous sponsorship of Adobe Systems, DVCreators, DigitalFilm Tree, OWC, VES and members like you. lacpug meetings are presented in association with the Barnsdall Gallery Theater, a facility of the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.
Agenda (subject to change and availability of artists) -
6:45- 7:05PM - Stump the Gurus
An abbrivated Stump the Gurus this month. Only 20 minutes. Join guest Gurus Michael Kammes John Knowles, Monica Daniel and Sven Pape as they will attempt to answer all of your questions and solve all of your problems concerning Resolve, FCPX, Avid, Premiere Pro, getting a job and Networking. And anything else you can think of. If they can't solve your problem or answer your question, then you go home with a problem, but you still got out of the house, so that's not a bad thing.
7:05PM - 8:15PM - "Her Name was Moviola" Screening
Her Name was Moviola is a film about editing, the way it used to be done. Written by Walter Murch and directed by Howard Berry it is a love letter to film editing on the Moviola editing machine, where a bin is physically a bin, where a splice is physically a splice and you have to physically rewind using muscle power to get from the end of the reel and back to the beginning.
8:15PM- 8:35PM - Break
This is the most important part of the show. It's networking time. This is a great opportunity to not only ask questions and get problems solved, but to meet people that just might change your life. Special thanks to Cornelius Miller for donating snacks and drinks.
8:35PM-9:30PM - Q and A with Walter Murch (via zoom) - Walter Murch
Honored to have Walter Murch join us for a Q and A via zoom from his home in beautiful Bolinas CA. You will have the opportunity to ask Walter about his involvement with the Moviola, or anything topic you wish.
This will be a rare opportunity to get face to screen with one of films most celebrated and innovative artists. Bring your questions.
About Walter Murch
Murch's six decades in cinema as film editor, sound mixer, writer and di-rector stretches back to 1969 and Francis Coppola’s THE RAIN PEOPLE. It includes work on THX-1138, THE GODFATHER I, II, and III, AMERICAN GRAFFITI, The CONVERSATION, APOCALYPSE NOW, The ENGLISH PA-TIENT, TOUCH OF EVIL, The TALENTED MR.RIPLEY, COLD MOUNTAIN, and many other films with directors such as George Lucas, Fred Zinne-mann, Philip Kaufman, Anthony Minghella, Kathryn Bigelow, Sam Mendes and Brad Bird.
Murch's pioneering achievements in sound were acknowledged by Coppola when he granted the screen credit of Sound Designer to Murch for Apoca-lypse Now. Over a thirty-year period, Murch has been nominated for nine Academy Awards (six for editing picture and three for sound mixing) and has won three Oscars: for best sound on Apocalypse Now and for Best Film Editing and Best Sound for his work on The English Patient. He has also received nine BAFTA nominations resulting in three BAFTA wins: for best film editing and best sound on The Conversation; and best film edit-ing on The English Patient.
Murch has also recently edited and co-written two feature-length docu-mentaries: PARTICLE FEVER (2013), directed by Mark Levinson, on the search for the Higgs Boson (winner of the Grierson Award, and the Steven Hawking Medal for Science Communication); and COUP 53 (2020), di-rected by Taghi Amirani, on the history and consequences of British and American interference in the politics of Iran. Coup 53 had its world premi-ere at the 2019 Telluride Film Festival, and won Best Documentary at the Fajr Film Festival in Tehran in 2021.
Coup 53 was released in 2020 as video on demand, in conjunction with 118 theaters in the UK, USA, Canada, and Ireland. It is available for streaming through coup53.com and vimeo.com . It currently has a 100% Certified Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, from 45 main-stream reviews, a distinction it shares with only 110 other films in the history of cinema.
Just completed and premiered at Sheffield DocFest 2024 is HER NAME WAS MOVIOLA (2024), an hour-long documentary on the process of edit-ing film on the traditional upright Moviola editing machine. Written by Murch, and featuring him, assistant Dan Farrell, and director Mike Leigh, the film was produced, directed, and edited by Howard Berry, head of post-production at the University of Hertfordshire. The film subsequently had its North American premiere at the Telluride Film Festival 2024. Her Name Was Moviola has been nominated for Best Documentary at the American Cinema Editors Eddies ceremony.
Murch was also supervising editor on the nine-episode series NATURAL HISTORY OF THE STUDIO (2024) created by artist William Kentridge. It premiered at this year’s Venice Biennale and started streaming on MUBI in October 2024.
On March 3, 2024, Murch was granted the Career Achievement Award by the American Cinema Editors (ACE). Murch’s new book on film, Suddenly Something Clicked, will be published in the USA by Faber&Faber on 15 July 2025.
9:30PM - World Famous Raffle (subject to change)
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