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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20090608T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221120T170000 DTSTAMP:20260421T150444 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:20220501T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230101T170000 DTSTAMP:20260421T150445 CREATED:20220601T220221Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220609T195223Z UID:10981-1651392000-1672592400@laskinsfest.com SUMMARY:3rd Annual Native American Showrunner Program - Fellows Selected DESCRIPTION:The Native American Media Alliance announced its selections for the inaugural Native American Showrunner Program\, sponsored by Bad Robot\, Comcast NBCUniversal\, National Endowment for the Arts\, Pop Culture Collaboration and A+E Networks\, in partnership with Kung Fu Monkey Productions. \n“We are excited to usher in another year of incredible writers for this unique intensive\,” said Cara Jade Myers (Kiowa/Wichita)\, director of outreach for the Native American Media Alliance. “We look forward to the new work they develop with their showrunner mentors throughout the program.” \nThe 2022 Native American Showrunner Program fellows: \nMaya Dittloff \nJohnTom Knight \nDiego Moreno \n     The Native American Showrunner Program is a multi-month intensive that offers mentorship from television showrunners and series creators to experienced Native American writers. Program fellows take part in one-on-one meetings with assigned showrunners who offer guidance on furthering the fellows’ writing careers and to provide creative feedback on current projects. The program consists of comprehensive mentoring to develop each writer’s abilities\, offer advice as it pertains to producing for television and provide 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 an 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 television producing positions. \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. \nCheck out the past showrunner fellows here: \nInaugural Native American Showrunner Program \n2nd Annual Native American Showrunner Program  \nSponsored by: \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 Pop Culture Collab\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 A+E Networks URL:https://laskinsfest.com/event/3rd-annual-native-american-showrunner-program-fellows-selected/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://laskinsfest.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/1200-x-384.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221010T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221010T210000 DTSTAMP:20260421T150445 CREATED:20220930T150847Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221020T002742Z UID:11177-1665428400-1665435600@laskinsfest.com SUMMARY:Indigenous Peoples Day Screening DESCRIPTION:LA SKINS FEST: Native American Short Film Showcase\n Monday\, October 10 at 7:00pm \n Norris Cinema Theatre (NCT)\n3507 Trousdale Pkwy Los Angeles\, CA 90007 \n\nADMISSION:\nAdmission is free. \nRSVP \nDESCRIPTION:\nCelebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day with a big-screen theatrical showcase of Native American short films\, followed by a conversation with the filmmakers. \nThis event is presented in conjunction with the LA SKINS FEST\, a film festival that provides opportunities and outlets 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 films: \nMy First Native American Boyfriend (Directed by Joey Clift\, 5 minutes)\nJohnny is Emily’s first Native American boyfriend. Now that they’ve been dating for a few months\, she’s going to take this golden opportunity to apologize for every microaggression she has ever made against Native Americans. \nYour Name Isn’t English (Directed by Tazbah Rose Chavez\, 15 minutes)\nAs drivers struggle to pronounce her name\, a Native American passenger offers history lessons from the backseat. It’s a lesson in American history they won’t forget. \nDogwood (Directed by Maya Rose Dittloff\, 16 minutes)\nAfter seeing her aunt come home battered and scared\, Rose Home Gun is sent out into the wilds surrounding their small home on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Her task? To collect the bulb of the white camas. Seemingly simple\, Rose is unknowingly sent out to collect death camas to be used against her aunt’s abuser. While working to protect her sister from this knowledge\, Rose must knowingly acquiesce to the plot against her uncle-in-law in order to save her family. \nIn Our Own Hands (Directed by Jennifer Varenchik\, 11 minutes)\nA group of women plan rescue efforts when one of their own goes missing from their reservation. \nOChiSkwaCho (Directed by Jules Koostachin\, 16 minutes)\nOChiSkwaCho is a sacred being\, known to many Indigenous people as a spiritual messenger. Kokoom\, an elderly (spiritually ailing) two-spirit woman\, has to decide whether to stay with her grandchildren or follow the OChiSkwaCho. \nTwoBears (Directed by Anthony Florez\, Produced by Annika Dawson\, 18 minutes)\nCasey TwoBears is a Marine Corps veteran\, ex-junkie\, and former county inmate. While working as a janitor for a boxing gym\, Casey volunteers be the sparring partner for the local “champ” to prove his worth as a warrior in the ring\, but also to prove himself as the modern warrior that his daughter and granddaughter can depend on. \nBios:­\nTazbah Rose Chavez is a performance poet turned director and television writer. She is currently a co-executive producer/director on FX’s Reservation Dogs and a producer/director on NBCUniversal’s Rutherford Falls (directing 2 episodes for S2). Additionally\, she directed for Sex Lives of College Girls and is a writer/director on Fox’s upcoming new series\, Accused. Before that\, she was a staffer writer for SyFy’s Resident Alien. Raised in Payahuunadu\, Tazbah is a citizen of the Bishop Paiute Tribe and comes from the Nüümü\, Diné\, and San Carlos Apache people. \nJoey Clift is a comedian\, TV writer\, and enrolled Cowlitz Indian Tribal Member. Writing credits include Spirit Rangers on Netflix\, New Looney Tunes on Cartoon Network\, and Molly of Denali on PBS. He was named one of Uproxx’s “26 Native American Comedians to Follow in 2020” and his award-winning short films have screened everywhere from Comedy Central and Just For Laughs to The Smithsonian Museum. Most importantly\, he created the L.A. Underground Cat Network\, which is a 15\,000-member strong Facebook group for Los Angeles comedians to share pictures of their cats. \nAnnika Dawson is a graduate of USC’s prestigious Stark Producing Program who recently completed the highly selective 2020 Women in Film Creative Producing Mentorship Program. Working as a multi-hyphenate across multiple mediums\, she has worked in TV and Film Development at Spyglass Media\, line producing for Emmy-nominated docu-series programs and features  In 2021\, she co-produced a comedy feature starring David Arquette and Snoop Dogg with theatrical distribution\, and a horror feature that has limited theatrical release and available on itunes with XYZ Films. \nMaya Rose Dittloff (ukkayu”kwiyinnimmakii/Many Pipes Woman) is a Mandan\, Hidatsa\, and Blackfeet writer\, director\, and producer. Dittloff has worked as a staff writer for AMC/AMC+\, as well as served as a fellow with the LA Skins Fest Feature Writing Lab\, Native American Media Alliance Showrunner Program\, and the Native American Arts and Culture Foundation LIFT Program. Her other accolades include the 2022 Indigenous List (co-presented by the Black List\, Sundance Institute\, and Illuminative) as well as the 2022 Tribeca Chanel Women’s Filmmaker Program. \nAnthony Florez is a member of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of Northern Nevada. Inspired by the service of his (late) father\, uncles\, and grandfather\, Anthony became a third-generation serviceman when he graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 2008 and was commissioned as an Ensign. Florez achieved the rank of Lieutenant and\, after six years\, he departed the Navy in pursuit of writing and filmmaking. In 2018\, Florez was selected for the 21st Century Fox Writers Lab and was also awarded the Tisch School of Arts Dean’s Fellowship in television writing to study at NYU’s Graduate Dramatic Writing Program. Anthony recently directed TwoBears as a 2020 Vision Maker Media short film fellow and worked as an executive story editor on AMC’s Dark Winds and POWER Book IV: Force at STARZ. \nJules Arita Koostachin is an InNiNew IsKwew (Swampy Cree woman) and a band member of Attawapiskat First Nation. Jules was raised by her Cree-speaking grandparents in Moosonee\, as well as in Ottawa with her mother\, a residential school warrior. She is a graduate of Concordia University’s Theatre program and Ryerson University’s Documentary Media Master’s program. In 2010\, Jules was awarded an Award of Distinction and an Academic Gold Medal for her thesis documentary\, Remembering Inninimowin. Known for her award-winning films\, documentary\, and media projects\, she is DGC\, WGC\, and ACTRA\, Koostachin is also the voice of Layla on the award-winning animated series Molly of Denali. \nJennifer Varenchik (she/her) is a writer and director who started as an actress\, then moved behind the camera to create more accurate depictions of Indigenous people on screen. Jennifer’s theater background includes training from The Groundlings Improv Theater and Stella Adler Academy of Acting. She studied screenwriting at Long Beach City College and has written and directed eight short films to date. Her proof of concept short In Our Own Hands won the Gold Award at the Mindfield Film Festival in Albuquerque\, was nominated for Best Short Film at the American Indian Film Festival (San Francisco\, 2021) and for Best Women Short at Indie Short Fest (Los Angeles\, 2022). Veranchik is a proud member of the Tohono O’odham Nation of Arizona\, and is now working to produce a feature length version of In Our Own Hands. \nShelley Dennis (moderator) was born into a family of Choctaw storytellers in small-town Oklahoma (population 700). A self-proclaimed hillbilly\, she experienced major culture shock when she moved to Milan and made a living being tall and hungry. She then moved to L.A. where she took her modeling stories to the stage and the page. She’s toured alongside Wayne Brady\, doing both standup and improv and acted in everything from soap operas to multicams. In 2020\, Shelley was one of four selected for the Native American Showrunner program. She became a staff writer on Spirit Rangers at Netflix\, was in the 2021 Disney General Entertainment Writing Program\, and is currently writing for her second season as a story editor on The Conners at ABC. \nPresented by the USC School of Cinematic Arts\, Outside the Box (Office)\, USC Visions and Voices\, and the LA SKINS FEST. URL:https://laskinsfest.com/event/indigenous-peoples-day-screening/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laskinsfest.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/LASkinFest_ShortFilmShowcase_1200x384.jpeg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR