Workshops

Kelley has five different workshops that he teaches.

Workshops: Sound Design for Independent Features; Making the Personal Short Film; Making the Extremely Low Budget Feature; Pre-Production for Low Budget Features; and Guerilla Marketing and Distribution.

Each workshop lasts anywhere from 3 hours to all day, depending on how in depth you want me to get. Contact me for work shop information.

Screening Programs

Kelley has five different workshops that he teaches.

            The Angry Filmmaker’s 2008 WORKSHOPS

Making the Extremely Low Budget Feature - - In 2000 Kelley Baker set out to make a full length feature film for the sum of $1000.  He failed miserably.  His budget ballooned up to $4000, (he forgot he had to feed cast and crew), but when the dust finally settled he had completed THE GAS CAFE, a 90 minute DV feature.  Along the way he set up a website, shot behind the scenes footage (for a documentary), and made the movie that he wanted to.  What's wrong with this guy?  In 2002 Kelley sent 100 letters to 100 Friends asking for $100 to fund Kicking Bird.  He raised $5000 and shot for 18 days.  Kelley is currently touring the country with Kicking Bird.  In this workshop Kelley will walk participants through the entire process from scripting through post production.  How to get the most for very limited resources, asking the right questions to get free stuff, and working in an atmosphere where people share your vision and put in very long hours for no money, and enjoy it!

Guerilla Marketing and Self Distribution of Your Film - - Independent filmmaking is alive and well, it's independent distribution that is dead.  At a time when "independent" films have to have a star and at least a couple million dollar budget, how do you get your films seen?   Forget Sundance, Miramax, and PBS. These places get hundreds of submissions a year. From wooden nickels to websites, to press kits and reviews Kelley Baker walks you though different ways to get an audience to turn out for your screenings.   He challenges you to assess the real market for your film and provides examples of other filmmakers getting their work out, after their films were turned down by traditional distributors.  You've already made the thing, what good is it doing sitting on your shelf?

Sound Design on Independent Features - - As the Sound Designer on Gus Van Sant's films, as well as animated features,  network television specials and his own features,  Kelley Baker has a unique approach to the Art of Sound Design.  Whether you're working with a huge budget, or a non-existent one, sound is the one area of filmmaking that always gets little attention, until the very end.  "We'll fix it in the mix..." is an often heard expression, but what does that mean?  As a sound designer it usually means you're in trouble.  There's never enough money or time to do sound right.  So what do you do?  Do you mix in digital?  Dolby?  How many formats are there and which one is going to give you the most options?  Kelley will share his insights, and show you creative solutions to many sound problems.  He'll also discuss what to do when you have no budget, and how to blow a lot of money when you do have it.

Pre-Production on Extreme Low Budget Features is a 3 hour work shop where Kelley Baker will walk you through the ins and outs of everything you need to do before you get to the set.  From staged readings and actor rehearsals, to script break downs and securing lots of free stuff Kelley has seen and done it all.  How do you know if you've hired the right crew?  What kind of insurance should you have, and how much?  What happens if one of your locations falls through at the last minute?   Do you have location releases, actor releases?  Who gets a certificate of insurance?  How long should Pre-production even last?  I believe that your movie is made before you ever step on the set.  If you get Pre-production right then the rest of your schedule should go smooth, and when it doesn't you need to know what to do to get it back on track.

The Personal Documentary - - In 1992 Kelley Baker had his first child so he decided to make a fun little film about it.  The result, YOU'LL CHANGE (3 min), has been seen all over the world.  Not bad for a little movie shot on short ends for less than $1000.  He has now made 8 personal short films which have won numerous awards in film festivals around the world.   Kelley will discuss how he takes the little moments in his life and makes award winning films out of  them for fun and profit.

Contact me for program information. angryfilminfo@aol.com.

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Fall Tour Dates

Among the places I will be stopping are:

August 18th - September 5th Masters Film Class in Franklin, Indiana check out www.independentcinema.net for more info

September 9th - Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD Short Films

September 10th - Creative Alliance - Guerilla Marketing Workshop

September 12th & 13th DC Shorts Film Festival, Washington, DC

October 2-4 Nashville TBD

October 12th - Father Daughter/Dance in PDX

October 18th - 20th - Workshops in Madison, WI

Nov. 1st - SWAMP, Houston, TX Pre-Production Workshop

There are still a lot of other places that I am waiting to hear from.  I will be updating thru out the tour...

Where in the Hell has Kelley been?

Past Tours...

2007 - The Grass Roots, Brass Knuckles Tour

2006 - Unnamed Tour

2005 - The Angry Filmmaker's IRS Tour

2003's The Angry Filmmaker's Pissed Off in America Tour
2004's The Angry Filmmaker's Kicking & Screaming Tour

Below is a partial list of places that Kelley has played the last few years, many of these places more than once...

USC Cinema, Emerson College, Bowling Green State University, DePaul, Colorado State University (Boulder), Michigan State University, Dublin Institute of Technology, University College Dublin, Macrobert Art Centre, Stirling University, (Stirling Scotland), West Virginia State University, Columbia College (Chicago), University of California (Santa Barbara), University of Nebraska (Lincoln), WARBURG COLLEGE, (Iowa), MIAMI OF OHIO, (Ohio), 911 MEDIA ARTS CENTER, (Seattle), BLINDING LIGHT CINEMA, (Vancouver, B.C.), EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE, (Olympia), UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, (Austin), NIGHTENGALE THEATER, (Tulsa), REEL WOMEN, (Austin), CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS, (Santa Fe), MONTE DEL SOL CHARTER SCHOOL, (Santa Fe), DESERT REEL FILM FESTIVAL, (Midland, Texas), BELCOURT THEATRE,(Nashville), MEDIA COOP, (Memphis), ZEITGEIST MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTS CENTER, (New Orleans), CAPRI THEATRE, (Montgomery, Alabama), ARTSFEST FILM FESTIVAL, (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania - Kelley was the key note speaker), PITTSBURGH FILMMAKERS, (Pennsylvania), PHILADELPHIA INDEPENDENT FILM AND VIDEO ASSOCIATION, (Pennsylvania), ROXY THEATRE, (Northampton, Pennsylvania), WEST VIRGINIA FILMMAKERS GUILD, MADLAB THEATRE, (Columbus, Ohio), CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART, (Ohio), WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY, (Kansas), SCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY COLLEGE (Scottsdale, AZ), NW FILM CENTER, (Portland, OR), and THE GUILD THEATER (Albuquerque, NM).