SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents

Part of our SECRET FILMMAKING WORKSHOP series! Wednesday, September 13, 2023

LOCATION: The Secret Movie Club Theater, 1917 Bay Street, 2nd Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90021

*Please note entrance/parking is actually in the back of the 1917 Bay St building. Our entrance is NOT on Bay Street. You access our entrance from Wilson Street by turning into the street art alleyway/corridor in the back of the building. Look for our signs which are always posted on Wilson and in the corridor to guide the audience.

7:30pm Secret Filmmaking Workshop

INSTRUCTIONS: E-mail community@secretmovieclub.com by September 4th at noon to request a spot. Writers will be confirmed by September 7th; actors by September 8th. Then you can purchase your ticket at the door for $10. Specifics on submissions below!

One Wednesday each month, we're inviting writers and actors to come in to workshop scenes and work with each other at our Secret Movie Club Theater space.

Do you have a script you’d like to hear parts of read aloud? Do you want to work on your acting chops with fellow performers? Do you want the chance to network with folks in front of and behind the camera for your next short, music video, feature, experimental project?

Well now, in a no-stress, no-pressure environment, we want to invite you to bring in your works in progress and/or come ready to do some cold readings and improvs.

Here’s how it works:

IF YOU’RE A WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: submit a scene up to 5 pages long (limit: one scene per team) to community@secretmovieclub.com. We’ll review it. As long as it’s not intentionally mean to any group of folks and devoid of all artistic merit you'll be considered for a spot. Up to 2 people from your team can attend (the writer and the director, the producer and the writer, etc) if confirmed via e-mail.

Please include: A 1-3 sentence logline of the scene. The genre of the piece. And a 1-3 sentence description for each character so we can pair your script with the best performers.

Filmmakers will get confirmed on a first come first serve basis, up to 6 scripts. So if we fill up, we’ll put you on the wait list and/or confirm your place in next month’s workshop.

PLEASE ATTEND the workshop if you get your place confirmed or email us ASAP to free your space. If you confirm and don’t show up, we can’t let you into future workshops. We need dependable folks!

IF YOU’RE AN ACTOR: Please submit your headshot and resume to community@secretmovieclub.com. Once we’ve locked in the scenes, we’ll reach out to performers on a first submitted, first approached basis. If we fill up our actor quota for a month, we’ll put you on the wait list or confirm you for the following month.

PLEASE ATTEND THE WORKSHOP IF YOU’RE CONFIRMED. If you suddenly can’t attend the workshop, please email us ASAP so we can offer your space to another actor.

We will make sure all actors and all writers get to workshop their scene. They’ll get “two” passes at their scene. We anticipate the night will run approximately 2.5 hours including a twenty minute break.

Finally, we ask that each accepted filmmaker and actor pay for the $10 ticket at the door. This will help us cover the basic cost of freeing up the space for a night of workshopping.

What we hope is that filmmakers and actors will connect. Each improve the work of the other. And we’ll get some movies, shorts, great cinematic works made!

So submit now!

If you have any further questions, write us at: community@secretmovieclub.com

Best always,

Craig Hammill

Secret Movie Club Founder.Programmer

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

REFUNDS:

We can offer refunds up to 24 hours before showtime. Please request a refund through Eventbrite and we will process ASAP. After that, no refunds. Sorry.

However if something last minute comes up and you can’t make the screening, for whatever reason, just write to us before showtime: community@secretmovieclub.com and we’ll offer you complimentary tickets to a future screening, good for 90 days. (Disclaimer: Future screening must have available tickets, cannot be a fundraiser, and must be comparably priced)

HELPFUL SECRET MOVIE CLUB (1917 Bay Street, 2nd Floor, LA, CA 90021) THEATER PARKING TIPS:

We recommend that you park just outside our theater. Remember our theater is actually in a beautiful street art alleyway in the back of the 1917 Bay Street building. You get to our entrance by taking a right on Wilson, then a right behind the building. We are the first set of black steps on the right after the big gate.

There is also a parking lot at the corner of Mateo and Violet Street, just 2 blocks from our theater, which costs $7 per car.

HOW CAN WE STAY ON TOP OF NEWLY ANNOUNCED 35MM SCREENINGS, EVENTS, ETC?

You can follow us on Instagram/Twitter: @secretmovieclub or Facebook: @secretmovieclub35mm

You can also subscribe to our weekly email newsletter at secretmovieclub.com or by writing to us at community@secretmovieclub.com and using the header “SUBSCRIBE ME TO NEWSLETTER”.

HOW CAN I CONTACT YOU IF I HAVE OTHER QUESTIONS/RECOMMENDATIONS:

You can always email us at community@secretmovieclub.com with any other questions, concerns, thoughts, recommendations.