GFF Academy and Sisters Creating Content campaign

Mission
Great Fortune Films Academy, in partnership with Sisters Creating Content Inc., seeks to educate, inspire and prepare aspiring filmmakers for successful careers in various fields of the television and film industry.

What is Great Fortune Films? 
Great Fortune Films is a television and film production company; spearheaded by emerging filmmaker, Latisha Fortune. Since 2008, Great Fortune Films has produced over a dozen short films and television pilots, including The Doorpost Film Project award-winning Before I Wake and The Black Cage, both films were finalists in the 2010 BET Lens on Talent Film Contest. Short film Standing Reign was awarded ‘Best Film of Atlanta’ in the 48 Hour Film Festival, ‘Best Short’ in the TOMI Film Festival of New Orleans, ‘Best Narrative Short’ in the International Black Film Festival of Nashville and was also chosen for distribution on the “Best of 48 Hour Film Project 2007” DVD. In 2014, Great Fortune Films produced the short film THE END AGAIN, a pensive portrait of a couple's last day together as they emphatically end their five-year relationship and a prequel to the upcoming feature film, REALLY LOVE (Macro). The End Again screened at the Urbanworld Film Festival, Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival, Black Star Film Festival, and Hollyshorts Film Festival. Doc-reality series, TWIIN (2016), explores the doppelganger theory and aired on CBS Atlanta.
In addition to Great Fortune Films Academy, an intensive training and mentoring initiative for up-and-coming TV and film professionals, Great Fortune Films has
several projects in development for 2020 including the forthcoming web series and feature film, CLOSE TO HOME, and films SYMPHONY OF HER, BARRS and HER IMPERIAL MAJESTY.

What is Sisters Creating Content, Inc? 
Sisters Creating Content is a 501c3 non-profit organization founded by four women, all working full time in the entertainment business. Their mission is to educate and financially support minority women filmmakers with their original content.

What is this workshop with Great Fortune Films Academy about? 
This workshop is designed for aspiring and rising filmmakers, ages 18-25, who are interested in pursuing a career in the film and television industries. Each segment will involve instruction on the macro and microplanning and developing a project for television and/or film, including how to manage day to day operations of working on a television or film set. Participants will be afforded an opportunity to collaborate with established accredited professionals in the industry on a feature film and digital series project, earning professional IMDB credit on a project.

Our Rationale
• The state of Georgia is ranked as the #1 filming location worldwide. This translates to an abundance of opportunities in the Georgia market for those pursuing careers in the television and film industry — and therefore a need for professional training and support.

• While many TV/film workshops provide training in just one area of filmmaking and most new talent to the field primarily focus on the work of the actor, director, writer or producer, not realizing that there are a variety of other positions that contribute toward completing the creative vision. The Great Fortune Films Academy recognizes that filmmaking is a collaborative art and approaches teaching from a holistic curriculum perspective, equipping aspiring and rising pros with a full understanding of all the roles necessary to realize a creative vision successfully.

• Great Fortune Films Academy offers rising filmmakers mentorship and an opportunity to receive IMDB credit toward a production.

Our Objective
• Provide aspiring and rising filmmakers with comprehensive intensive professional training and introduce various career paths in the film and television industry.

• Prepare aspiring and rising filmmakers with practical hands-on training and mentoring support from experienced and accredited professionals.

• Train aspiring and rising filmmakers on how-to set the practice of good set ethics, understanding a call sheet in its full capacity and gaining an understanding of all set departments.

• Create and opportunity for aspiring TV/film professionals to establish professional IMDB credit on a project.

Course Outline
• History of Filmmaking
• How to read a screenplay/Understanding the context within the written lines.
• How to break down a script for locations, budget, and equipment
• Organization of it all-Shooting Schedule
• How to read a Call Sheet
• Departmental Breakdown-Production and AD Dept
• Duties of Art Dept-Production Designer, Prop Master, Set Decorator
• Duties of Hair Makeup, Costumes Depts
• Duties of Camera, Sound, Grip & Electric Depts
• Duties of Transportation, Locations, Crafty and Medic Depts

Academy Schedule (Jan 3 & 4, 2020)
Location: Atlanta, GA 

Academy participants will gather at NuGround Studios for an all-day training intensive covering instruction on 4-5 major components of filmmaking each day.

Shoot Schedule (Jan 6-18, 2020)
Location: Atlanta, Georgia 

Academy participants will be assigned to individual television/film departments to work hand in hand with industry professionals to learn the ins and outs of that respective department.
Mentees will be assigned to individual departments to work hand in hand with industry professionals to learn the ins and outs of that particular department.


What's the money for?
We will need funds to allocate to the following areas:
• Curriculum materials for students partaking in the academy.
• Permit fees for filming locations.
• Camera equipment rental
• Sound equipment rental
• Light and Grip equipment rental
• Wardrobe for cast
• Hair and Makeup expendables 
•  Set decoration and props
• Truck rental to transport cast, crew, and equipment. 
• Catered breakfast and lunch for the duration of program and shoot. 
• Cast accommodation and transportation.
• Music Licensing and Clearances
• Post Production