How I Made Two Feature Films by Age 21_Masterclass with the american film director Jack Fessenden

© photo by Bahram Foroughi 

8 MARCH 2023 | 17h00 | GRANDE AUDITÓRIO FACULDADE DE BELAS-ARTES

On March 8, 2023, at 5:00 pm, it will be presented the masterclass entitled How I Made Two Feature Films by Age 21, with the american film director Jack Fessenden, by invitation of Prof. Susana de Sousa Dias and Prof. Francisco Queirós.
This event will take place in the grande auditório and is open to students, teachers and public in general.
The masterclass will be given in English.

Free event that does not require registration, subject to room capacity.
This event is likely to be photographed and filmed and subsequently released publicly.

“I have been making movies for as long as I can remember. Over the past few years, I have made a practice of reflecting on my process and taking note of habits that help me succeed. The mission of this masterclass is to demystify the role of the film director by detailing how I make my films from conception to completion, and to do so with full transparency. To be a film director, you must give yourself over to delusion; the delusion that your film will one day get made when the odds are stacked against you. If you force yourself to believe in this, your film will take on a life of its own and you, the director, will become its caretaker. Achieve this relationship with your film, and you are on the path to making the delusion a reality.”

Jack Fessenden

On March 10, at 7:00 pm, at Cinema S. Jorge, the film Foxhole, by Jack Fessenden, will be presented, within the framework of Outsiders – Cycle of Independent American Cinema, organized by FLAD, which will take place from March 7th to 12th, 2023.

FOXHOLE
Fiction, 2021, 95’

Directed by Jack Fessenden
Written by Jack Fessenden
Cinematography by Collin Brazie
Cast James Le Gros, Andi Matichak, Alex Hurt

Woodstock (Ultra Indie award) (2021)
Oldenburg (Official Selection) (2021)
Foxhole, which takes place during roughly 36 hours, in three separate wars — The American Civil War, The First World War and the Iraq War — follows five soldiers confined to a trench and confronted by moral questions, the futility of particular actions and an increasingly volatile combat situation. The War film is reduced to its essence by 21-year old “filmmaker prodigy”, Jack Fessenden.