BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//LA Skins Fest - ECPv5.16.4.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:LA Skins Fest X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://laskinsfest.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for LA Skins Fest BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20090308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20091101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20100314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20101107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20110313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20111106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20120311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20121104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20130310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20131103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20140309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20141102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20150308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20151101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20160313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20090608T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221120T170000 DTSTAMP:20260502T224647 CREATED:20220808T235323Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240730T195015Z UID:10783-1244448000-1668963600@laskinsfest.com SUMMARY:Youth Media and Tech Workshop Overview DESCRIPTION: \n     Since 2009\, the Native American Youth Media and Tech Workshop has travelled to reservations and urban centers across the world to provide an expansive and comprehensive program that provides new access for our community. Every year\, we expand the workshop to include new curriculum\, new technology and new equipment. \nOur multimedia curriculum includes short film production that reflect the community and current issues effecting the youth participants. This entails the development and creation of documentaries\, scripted narratives and PSA’s produced entirely by the young filmmakers. Curriculum includes learning proper camera operation\, on-set sound recording\, directing actors\, lighting scenes\, editing and music composition. The youth present their final pieces to their community at the conclusion of the workshop. \n\n    In 2019\, we launched the Native Youth Animation Workshop. This program offers hands on instruction in 3-D animation software\, 2-D animation drawn by hand and stop-motion animation. The workshop also provides tours of animation and visual effects studios. This initiative is meant to provide Native youth with the inspiration to explore animation as a viable opportunity and career path. This program has partnered with numerous studios and networks to offer genuine access. \n\nIn 2021\, we created the Native Youth Virtual Reality Workshop. This program introduces cutting edge virtual reality applications and video production to Native youth. The workshop teaches new technology to Native youth so they can have every opportunity available in new technology. This program provides an in-depth look into the possibilities virtual reality provides our community. Our organization has partnered with the most high profile tech companies to provide this program. Check out some stills and vids here! \n\nThe entire program culminates with the Native Youth Multimedia Weekend in November. This has youth from all of our programs attend our annual film festival at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood. This initiative has youth participants from several reservations and communities attend studio tours\, production workshops\, film screenings and attendance to the Native American Media Awards. \nCheck Out Our Past and Current Workshops! \n2023\n2022\n2021\n2020\n2019\n2018\n2017\n2016\n2015\n2014\n2013\n2012\n2011\n2010\n2009 \n  \nSponsors: \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n View Image\n \n Meta\n \n \n \n \n \n View Image\n \n National Endowment for the Arts\n \n \n \n \n \n View Image\n \n Los Angeles County Arts & Culture\n \n \n \n \n \n View Image\n \n San Manuel Band of Mission Indians\n \n \n \n \n \n View Image\n \n United Talent Agency\n \n \n \n \n \n View Image\n \n Comcast NBCUniversal\n \n \n \n \n \n View Image\n \n Sony Pictures Entertainment\n \n \n \n \n \n View Image\n \n Sony Electronics\n \n \n \n \n \n View Image\n \n Verizon\n \n \n \n \n \n View Image\n \n California Humanities\n \n \n \n \n \n View Image\n \n Union Bank\n \n \n \n\n\n  URL:https://laskinsfest.com/event/youth-media-and-tech-workshop-overview/ CATEGORIES:Youth Workshop END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20090628T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220510T170000 DTSTAMP:20260502T224647 CREATED:20220510T030927Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220529T013900Z UID:10826-1246176000-1652202000@laskinsfest.com SUMMARY:2009 Native Youth Media and Tech Workshops DESCRIPTION:Since 2009\, we have taught film workshops to youth at reservations and Native American urban centers throughout the United States and Canada. The participating youth learn about writing\, directing\, shooting and editing their own movies.  Equally important\, the youth present these films to their tribal communities and speak before an audience. Check out images from our first Native youth cohort: \n \nIn 2009\, we collaborated with Central High\, a federally funded Native American High School located in downtown Los Angeles.  We worked with over a dozen Native American youth who reside in Los Angeles.  For the entire eight-day workshop\, we brought the participating youth to the University of Southern California’s George Lucas School of Cinematic Arts. This was one of our sponsoring organizations that provided classrooms\, computer labs\, and production equipment.  The youth produced  narrative films and presented them at the Pechanga Indian Reservation in Riverside\, California. Check out one of the films they produced during the week: URL:https://laskinsfest.com/event/2009-native-youth-media-and-tech-workshops/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201118T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211118T170000 DTSTAMP:20260502T224647 CREATED:20200409T225754Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250412T180702Z UID:7778-1605686400-1637254800@laskinsfest.com SUMMARY:Showrunner Program DESCRIPTION:   The Native American Showrunner program is a multi-month intensive designed to address the lack of Native American executive producers in television. The overall goal is to provide experienced Native American writers an opportunity to gain new skills and elevate their opportunities in the television writing industry. \n     This program will have selected Native American writers receive mentorship from a television executive producer throughout the year. The goal is to have each participant learn the path to producing a television series. The schedule will have each participant meet with their mentor several times a month to gain experience and receive creative feedback\, career advice and potential referrals. \n     In addition\, participants will author a new pilot and series bible with the artistic support of their respective mentors. Participants will also have group meetings with their fellows participants and showrunners from other television series. These components offer additional creative and business oriented opportunities. \nParticipants will also receive a small stipend\, writing software and additional resources to help bolster their career. \nCheck out our inaugural and current fellows: \n2020 Native American Showrunner Program Fellows \n2021 Native American Showrunner Program Fellows \n2022 Native American Showrunner Program Fellows \n2023 Native American Showrunner Program Fellows \n2024 Native American Showrunner Program Fellows \nThe inaugural Native American Showrunner Program was sponsored by Bad Robot\, Comcast NBCUniversal\, Topple Productions\, Google American Indian Network\, and Walt Disney Television. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n View Image\n \n Bad Robot\n \n \n \n \n \n View Image\n \n Comcast NBCUniversal\n \n \n \n \n \n View Image\n \n Topple Productions\n \n \n \n \n \n View Image\n \n Google American Indian Network\n \n \n \n \n \n View Image\n \n Walt Disney Television\n \n \n \n\n\n  URL:https://laskinsfest.com/event/native-american-showrunner-program/ CATEGORIES:Writer's Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laskinsfest.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Showrunner-Slider-patty-final.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210518 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220102 DTSTAMP:20260502T224647 CREATED:20210511T134319Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210611T032010Z UID:9462-1621296000-1641081599@laskinsfest.com SUMMARY:2nd Annual Native American Showrunner Program - Fellows Selected DESCRIPTION:The Native American Media Alliance announced its selections for the 2nd Annual Native American Showrunner Program\, sponsored by WarnerMedia\, Bad Robot\, Comcast NBCUniversal and the Cherokee Nation Film Office\, in partnership with Kung Fu Monkey Productions. \n“We are so proud to be supporting the Native American Media Alliance with this incredible program\,” said Karen Horne\, Senior Vice President\, Equity and Inclusion\, WarnerMedia. “Amplifying underrepresented voices is a major priority for our company\, and the implementation of the Native American Showrunner Program is a key effort toward achieving that goal.” \n     The Native American Showrunner Program is a nine-month intensive that offers mentorship from television showrunners and series creators to experienced Native American writers. Program fellows take part in meetings with assigned showrunners who will offer guidance on furthering the fellows’ writing careers and to provide creative feedback on current projects. The program consists of one-on-one mentoring to develop the writers’ abilities\, offer advice as it pertains to producing for television and overall insight into running a television series. \n     The Native American Showrunner Program is a unique initiative designed to propel experienced Native American writers to higher levels of television. This initiative continues the Native American MedIa Alliance’s drive for inclusion and focuses on new points of access for the Native American community. The fellowship is a direct extension of the Native American TV Writers Lab as it equips the next generation of Native American writers with the skills and professional network to break into the television producing positions. \nThe 2021 Native American Showrunner Program fellows: \nDoane Tulugaq Avery \nJason Marcus \nCarlee Malemute \n     The Native American Showrunner Program was created to expand the number of Native Americans working behind the camera to increase fair and accurate portrayals of Native Americans on television. Native Americans continue to maintain the lowest representation of writers on current television series. \n     In addition\, participants will author a new pilot and series bible with the artistic support of their respective mentors. Participants will also have group meetings with their fellows participants and showrunners from other television series. These components offer additional creative and business oriented opportunities. Participants will also receive a small stipend\, writing software and additional resources to help bolster their career. \nSponsored by \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n View Image\n \n WarnerMedia\n \n \n \n \n \n View Image\n \n Comcast NBCUniversal\n \n \n \n \n \n View Image\n \n Bad Robot\n \n \n \n \n \n View Image\n \n \n \n \n View Image\n \n \n\n\n  URL:https://laskinsfest.com/event/2nd-annual-native-american-showrunner-program-fellows-selected/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laskinsfest.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/LASF-Showrunner-Slider.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211011T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211011T210000 DTSTAMP:20260502T224647 CREATED:20210920T195525Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210929T211735Z UID:9791-1633978800-1633986000@laskinsfest.com SUMMARY:Native American USC Graduates Return DESCRIPTION:Native American USC Graduates Return\nDATE: Monday\, October 11\, 2021 at 7 p.m. \nLOCATION:Virtual Event \nADMISSION:\nAdmission is free. Registration is available here. \n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\nThe LA SKINS FEST has hosted many Native American USC graduates through its labs\, festival\, and other programs. Presented on Indigenous Peoples’ Day\, this panel of writers\, actors\, directors\, and producers will recall their time at USC and experiences with the LA SKINS FEST\, and discuss how the entities work together to develop and promote indigenous voices in the arts. \nThe LA SKINS FEST is a film festival that provides opportunities for Native American filmmakers and offers additional programming to encourage them\, including a monthly writers group\, monthly directors workshop\, and youth multimedia workshops. \nAbout the panelists: \nLucas Brown Eyes is an Oglala Lakota from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation who graduated from USC with a B.A. in Cinema-Television Production. He was accepted into the ABC Disney Writing Program in 2014. Since then\, he has sold pilots to Fox and PBS and staffed on over 100 episodes of television for Netflix\, Fox\, Freeform\, Disney\, PBS\, and\, most recently\, Duster for HBO Max. \nYelyna Deleon is an award-winning filmmaker\, writer\, and actor from the South Side of Chicago. She received her MFA in Film and Television Production with a concentration in Writing from USC and her  B.A. in Chicano Studies and Film and Television from UCLA\, and teaches at Cal State Los Angele. The NHMC writing fellow graduate and NALIP Televisa/Univision Writing Fellow wrote and produced Murder in the Woods\, a slasher movie\, and is currently the writer\, director\, and showrunner for The Train\, a sci-fi pilot that is set to premiere later this year. \nMiranda Due is a Pawnee/Cherokee game developer from Mvskoke Territory (Tulsa\, Oklahoma). Miranda graduated from USC in 2016 with degrees in Interactive Entertainment and International Relations and completed the George Washington University Native American Political Leadership program in 2017. In addition to working on the Call of Duty franchise at AAA games\, Miranda is the Inclusion and Impact co-chair of the Women of Cinematic Arts organization\, the chair of the International Game Developers Association (Los Angeles Chapter)\, and a director on the Pawnee Nation Museum board of directors. \nIndependent writer\, producer\, and media consultant Sonya Oberly is an enrolled member of the Nez Perce Tribe and a descendant of the Osage and Comanche Tribes in Oklahoma. In 2009\, she earned her MFA from USC with an emphasis in writing and directing. Her films have screened at the American Indian Film festival in San Francisco\, the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles\, the First Nations Film Festival in Chicago\, the Minneapolis Intermedia Arts Center\, and the Agua Caliente Native FilmFest. She is a fellow of the 2018 Native American TV Writers Lab and 2020 Vision Maker Filmmaker Fellowship. \nMaddox Pennington (moderator) is a nonbinary writer\, professor\, and playwright originally from the Cherokee Nation. They received an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Columbia University\, and their debut bibliomemoir\, A Girl Walks Into a Book: What the Brontes Taught Me About Life\, Love\, and Women’s Work was published by Hachette Books in 2017. Prior to teaching writing at USC Dornsife\, they performed comedy all over DC\, including the DC Drafthouse\, Joe’s Movement Emporium\, DC LGBTQ Comedy Fest\, and almost every Busboys and Poets back room. \nRhiana Yazzie is a 2021 Lanford Wilson and Steinberg award–winning playwright\, director\, and filmmaker. She is also artistic director of New Native Theatre\, which she started in 2009 as a response to the lack of connection and professional opportunities between Twin Cities theaters and the Native community. A Navajo Nation citizen\, she has seen her plays on stages from Alaska to Mexico\, including Carnegie Hall’s collaboration with the American Indian Community House & Eagle Project. \nPresented by the USC School of Cinematic Arts\, Outside the Box (Office)\, Our Voices\, USC Visions and Voices: The Arts and Humanities Initiative\, and the LA SKINS FEST. 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